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12:40 PM ET, December 22, 2014

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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama's ‘propaganda’ pushed people to ‘hate the police,’ Giuliani says  —  President Obama has engaged in “propaganda” encouraging people to “hate the police,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) charged a day after two New York City police officers were shot and killed in their patrol car …
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Howard Safir / TIME:
Anti-Police Rhetoric Unlike Anything I've Seen in 45 Years  —  Howard Safir is the former commissioner of the New York City Police Department (1996-2000) and Chairman and CEO of Vigilant Resources International (VRI).  —  We have seen nothing but police bashing from some of the highest offices in the land.
New York Times:
New York Officers' Killer, Adrift and Ill, Had a Plan  —  Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who had drifted between friends and family members for most of his short life, alienating most of them and failing at almost anything that he tried, decided to come home on Saturday.
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels  —  Any conversation about the murders of two New York City Police officers this weekend must start by acknowledging the ordinary heroism of law enforcement personnel that puts them in harm's way every day.  We should then acknowledge …
Discussion: Roger's Rules, RedState and Ed Driscoll
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Importance of Treating NYPD Officers as Individuals  —  On the outrageous murder of two cops and the faction trying to exploit their deaths for political leverage  —  At 28-years-old, Ismaaiyl Brinsley had been arrested 19 times and served 2 years in prison.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Seizes On NYC Cop Killing To Bash Obama
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses  —  Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Justin McCurry / Guardian:
South Korean nuclear operator hacked amid cyber-attack fears  —  Operator begins two-day exercise after suspected hacker tweets information on KHNP plants and its staff … South Korea's nuclear plant operator has said its computer systems have been breached, raising fears that hackers …
Discussion: Business Insider and The Verge
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Martyn Williams / North Korea Tech:
North Korea's Internet link is flaky today
Discussion: Bloomberg, Vox and The Verge
Gabriel Snyder / The New Republic:
A Letter from the Editor  —  Shortly before the first issue of The New Republic went on sale a little over a century ago, our founding editor Herbert Croly outlined his vision to a reporter from The New York Times: “The magazine, which is to be a weekly review of current political and social events …
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Nixon To China a Bad Move in Rubio's Eyes?  —  Part of what I tuned out over the weekend was Sen. Marco Rubio's domination of the Sunday Shows.  The near-omniscient Brother Benen covered them for us: … I know Rubio is trying very hard to re-establish his credibility with the hard-core …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Rubio dismisses the power of American engagement
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Manu Raju / Politico:
Tea partier braces for primary challenge from the establishment  —  Mike Lee's position back home is turning the GOP civil war on its head.  —  Tea party favorite Mike Lee roiled the GOP establishment four years ago when he knocked off a sitting senator on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Utah.
Discussion: Daily Kos and National Review
Stephen Losey / Home I Military Times I Military News …:
AMERICA'S MILITARY: A conservative institution's uneasy cultural evolution  —  THE FORCE IS CHANGING — OFTEN RELUCTANTLY — ALONGSIDE THE CIVILIAN SOCIETY IT SERVES  —  In this series on:  —  AMERICA'S MILITARY  —  Obama's mark on the military  —  A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR COMMANDER IN CHIEF …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Putin, Neocons and the Great Illusion  —  More than a century has passed since Norman Angell, a British journalist and politician, published “The Great Illusion,” a treatise arguing that the age of conquest was or at least should be over.  He didn't predict an end to warfare …
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
US Corps Claim Billions In Assets In Cuba And Now They'll Want It Back  —  When the Castro regime assumed power in Cuba in 1959, it quickly nationalized the assets of almost every foreign corporation within its borders as the country transitioned to communism.
Discussion: New York Times
Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Cards, gifts cross religious lines  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Christmastime is here and a new poll reveals the cards and gifts that are part of celebrating the holiday are ubiquitous, even among those who don't share the Christian beliefs behind the story of the Magi who gave the first Christmas gifts.
Kimberly Redmond / New Jersey Online:
Man dressed as elf charged with DWI  —  RIVERDALE - A man dressed as one of Santa's little helpers found himself in trouble Friday morning when Riverdale police allegedly discovered him drunkenly passed out in a car.  —  Around 3:30 a.m., Sgt. Pat Harden was dispatched to the parking lot …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
How Obama Took Sony's Crisis From Bad to Worse  —  If there are such a thing as textbooks in the field of crisis management, the Sony Pictures hack might end up in the chapter labeled “Worst Case Scenario.”  —  But as much as Sony seemed to mishandle its sorry situation in recent days …
Discussion: Hot Air
Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Politics:
Native Americans Perplexed by Obama's Latest Marijuana Gift  —  There may be no better friend to Native Americans than President Barack Obama, who has gone out of his way to foster economic development by extending gaming and energy development rights, among many other benefits, to the impoverished community.
Derek Willis / New York Times:
Facebook Says Experiments Prove Ads on Its Site Can Spur Donations  —  Facebook conducted two experiments with Democratic Senate campaigns this year to see if advertisements on its site encouraged people to make political contributions.  —  The company says the results show it did.
 
 
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Ariel Kaminer / New York Times:
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Luke Mullins / Washingtonian:
How David Gregory Lost His Job
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Scott Greer / The Daily Caller:
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Discussion: Vox Popoli and Ed Driscoll
Janet Daley / Telegraph:
If we don't stand up to our enemies, they've already won
Yahoo! News:
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Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Fresh Doubt Over the Bailout of A.I.G.
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Agence France-Presse:
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