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2:40 PM ET, December 23, 2014

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Politico:
De Blasio's nightmare  —  New York's mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that.  —  Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can't do the New Politics if you don't pay attention to the old politics.
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Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal  —  The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers  —  Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria.  That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans …
Bernard B. Kerik / TIME:
Bernie Kerik: War Is Being Waged on Our Homeland
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
O'Reilly Tears Into ‘Villain’ de Blasio: He Needs to Resign Immediately
Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Economy Grows Most Since '03 on U.S. Consumer-Spending Gains  —  The U.S. economy roared into overdrive in the third quarter as consumer and business spending fueled the biggest expansion in more than a decade.  —  Gross domestic product grew at a 5 percent annual rate from July through September …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Third-Quarter GDP Revised Up to 5.0% Growth  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy posted its strongest growth in more than a decade during the third quarter, supported by robust consumer spending and business investment.  —  Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods …
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
GDP grows by 5 percent as US economy picks up strong pace
Discussion: Politico and Prairie Weather
Robert Wilonsky / Pop Culture Blog:
Sony Pictures CEO ‘excited’ to release ‘The Interview’ on Christmas Day  —  Randall Park, center, as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in The Interview, which you could get to see as soon as this week  —  Update at 1:02 p.m. by Britton Peele: The cast and crew behind The Interview …
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John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: 911 operators made ‘anti-police’ remarks, causing quarrel with FDNY dispatchers as 2 NYPD cops were dying, sources say  —  The war of words occurred when news broke that NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot Saturday.  One dispatcher allegedly said the cops ‘deserved it,’ said a law enforcement source.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Joe Reid / The Atlantic Online:
Blue Lives Matter
Discussion: Bloomberg View and New York Times
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Mitch McConnell: Senate 'didn't do squat for years'  —  Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his biggest challenge will be righting the course of Congress, adding — in a swipe at outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid — that his own chamber “basically didn't do squat for years.”
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's New Senate Goal: Turn Republican Dial to Yes
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
BOMBSHELL REPORT: IRS Targeted ‘Icky’ Conservative Groups  —  Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:   The IRS Scandal, Day 593  —  Daily Caller: BOMBSHELL REPORT …
Emily Gosden / Telegraph:
BBC's Quentin Sommerville laughs uncontrollably as he attempts to report on burning drugs  —  Reporter repeatedly collapses into giggles in front of pile of burning narcotics  —  He has braved gunfire to report from some of the world's most treacherous regions.
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Pelosi: Boehner must force Grimm to resign  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is turning the heat up on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), urging him to call for Rep. Michael Grimm's (R-N.Y.) resignation.  —  Grimm is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of tax evasion.
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
How many crimes can you see being committed in this anti-gun ‘public service’ ad?  —  I've gotten several e-mails about this ad, and one reader asked: If a child does what the protagonist did — would the filmmakers be criminally punishable or subject to civil liability?
Politico:
HHS reports 6 million signups so far for Obamacare next year  —  Nearly 2 million people have signed up for health insurance for the first time through HealthCare.gov and close to 6.4 million people were enrolled in the federal marketplace one month into the 2015 enrollment season, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Tuesday.
Michael Brown / TMZ.com:
'AND HE'S DEAD, DEAD MICHAEL BROWN' [VIDEO]  —  The Glendale, CA Elks Lodge is investigating a shocking incident that went down in the club a week ago Monday, when a performer sang a song celebrating the death of Michael Brown ... for an audience that included a number of retired and current cops ... and TMZ has the video.
Jacob Heilbrunn / New York Times:
The Real Threat to Hillary Clinton: Jim Webb  —  WASHINGTON — THE conventional wisdom is that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be almost impossible to dislodge from the Democratic presidential nomination and that even if she does encounter some hiccups, they will come from her left flank on economic policy.
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Power Line and BuzzFeed
Duane D. Stanford / Bloomberg:
Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquarters  —  Forget about leaving a voice mail at Coca-Cola Co.'s (KO) Atlanta headquarters.  Send a text instead.  —  Office voice mail at the world's largest soft-drink maker was shut down “to simplify the way we work and increase productivity,” …
Discussion: Mashable, Corrente and Tech Times
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Giuliani's claim that Obama launched anti-police ‘propaganda’  —  “We've had four months of propaganda, starting with the president, that everybody should hate the police.”  —  Giuliani made headlines after his statement on Fox News, which he repeated the next day on CNN.
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Alyssa Zauderer / New York's PIX11:
Southwest jet gets wing clipped in collision at LaGuardia Airport
Discussion: WTVR-TV and FOX31 Denver
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Anti-Gun PSA Encourages Kids To Steal Parents' Guns And Turn Them In To Teachers [VIDEO]
Associated Press:
Court rejects 2 ozone regulations
Hadas Gold / Politico:
NYT, Vice, Mother Jones top FOIA suits
Discussion: The FOIA Project
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Three Pages Of Rand Paul's Book Were Plagiarized From Think Tanks
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Poll: Support increases for lifting Cuba embargo, travel restrictions
France 24 - Live news:
Algeria kills militant chief behind Frenchman's beheading
Discussion: WGBH News
 Earlier Items: 
Rod Nordland / New York Times:
Taliban Push Into Afghan Districts That U.S. Had Secured
Nealjriley / CBS Boston:
Chicopee Man Faces Charges For ‘Put Wings On Pigs’ Facebook Post
Discussion: TPNN
Sam Hananel / Associated Press:
Judge strikes down wage boost for some home workers
Discussion: The Hill and ThinkProgress
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Supreme Court to hear ObamaCare subsidy challenge in March
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Apple pushes first ever automated security update to Mac users
Agence France-Presse:
Outraging Russia, Ukraine takes big step toward NATO
Discussion: kyivpost.com
Rebecca Leber / The New Republic:
This Is What Our Hellish World Will Look Like After We Hit the Global Warming Tipping Point
David Weigel / Bloomberg.com:
Republicans Block Reappointment of CBO Chief Doug Elmendorf