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9:10 PM ET, January 5, 2015

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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Harvard Ideas On Health Care Hit Home, Hard  —  WASHINGTON — For years, Harvard's experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost.  But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Gohmert warns America: 'It's going to devastate this country' if I'm not elected Speaker of the House  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) warned on Monday that there could be dire consequences for the entire country if Republicans in Congress …
Discussion: Addicting Info and Mediaite
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Chris McDaniel / St. Louis Public Radio:
Grand Juror Sues McCulloch, Says He Mischaracterized The Wilson Case  —  A grand juror is suing St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch in an effort to speak out on what happened in the Darren Wilson case.  Under typical circumstances, grand jurors are prohibited by law from discussing cases they were involved in.
miamiherald:
Jeb Bush on court-ordered gay marriages in Florida: “It ought to be a local decision”  —  As he considers a presidential run, Jeb Bush is not offering encouraging words about same-sex marriages coming to his home state.  —  “It ought be a local decision.  I mean, a state decision,” …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
NYT's James Risen pushes back in hearing on leaks  —  The Obama administration's plan to defuse a First Amendment showdown with a New York Times reporter over his confidential sources was nearly derailed at a court hearing Monday when the journalist rebuffed a series of questions concerning his reporting.
Discussion: ExposeFacts, US News and NPR
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Reporter Takes Witness Stand But Says Little
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Will Chris Christie Regret His Cowboy Hug?  —  Why the New Jersey governor's embrace of Jerry Jones could actually come back to haunt him.  —  Images are important and memes matter—which is why the viral screen capture of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hugging Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is worth noting today.
New York Times:
Drop in New York Police Arrests Continues for a Second Week  —  For a second straight week, New York City police officers sharply cut back on their actions in the street, arresting less than half as many people and writing more than 90 percent fewer summonses than in the same period a year ago.
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Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
Police union pushes for cop killings to be included in federal hate crimes law
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Post:
Son allegedly killed hedge-funder dad after $200 allowance cut  —  Thomas Gilbert Sr.'s body is taken by medical examiners.  —  Police at the scene of the shooting at the Beekman Place apartments on Sunday.  —  Angel Chevrestt Angel Chevrestt Angel Chevrestt  —  Beekman Place is located near the United Nations in Manhattan.
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
White House Turns the Screw on Steve Scalise  —  The White House is not formally taking a position on the fate of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who admitted last month to addressing a white supremacist group twelve years ago while a state legislator, but it's not missing the chance to turn …
Discussion: US News, Washington Post and Daily Kos
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New York Times:
A Pioneering Beauty Queen Who Reigned in Politics  —  Bess Myerson, a New York favorite daughter who basked in the public eye for decades — as Miss America 1945, as a television personality, as a force in public affairs and finally, under a harsher light, as a player in a shattering municipal scandal …
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Billionaire Sex Offender's Phone Book Contained E-Mail Addresses, 21 Phone Numbers For Bill Clinton  —  Now that Prince Andrew has found himself ensnared in the sleazy sex slave story of wealthy degenerate Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton can't be too far behind.
Caity Weaver / Gawker:
Alert, Alert Olivia Pope: Where Did This Malia Obama Selfie Come From?  —  Is this photo, which surfaced mysteriously online Monday and was immediately employed by the Pro Era rap crew to promote their official merchandise on Instagram, in fact a photo of Malia Obama, or just a very very very close doppelgänger?
Discussion: The Verge and New York Magazine
Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Sharyl Attkisson sues administration over computer hacking  —  Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has sued the Justice Department over the hacking of her computers, officially accusing the Obama administration of illegal surveillance while she was reporting on administration scandals.
Travis AndersenGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Boston officer charged with assaulting Uber driver  —  A veteran Boston police officer uttered racial slurs during an alleged assault of an Uber driver in South Boston early Sunday, according to a police report and a statement from the department.  —  Officer Michael Doherty, 40 …
Los Angeles Times:
Owner of St. Louis Rams plans to build NFL stadium in Inglewood  —  The owner of the St. Louis Rams plans to build an NFL stadium in Inglewood, which could pave the way for the league's return to Los Angeles.  —  Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who bought 60 acres adjacent to the Forum a year ago …
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
A Nuclear Plant Leaked Oil Into Lake Michigan For Two Months Straight  —  The Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2.  —  CREDIT: Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Flickr  —  A cooling system attached to a nuclear power plant in southwest Michigan was steadily spilling oil into Lake Michigan …
Discussion: Shakesville
Numbers / Pew Research Center's Religion …:
Faith on the Hill  —  The Religious Composition of the 114th Congress  —  When the new, 114th Congress is sworn in on Jan. 6, 2015, Republicans will control both chambers of the legislative body for the first time since the 109th Congress (2005-2006).  Yet, despite the sea change in party control …
Dave Majumdar / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says  —  Too many missions and too few pilots are threatening the ‘readiness and combat capability’ of America's unmanned Air Force, according to an internal memo.  —  The U.S. Air Force's fleet of drones is being strained to the …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Filibusters by Democrats Are Still Filibusters  —  Please, national media: Call it a filibuster.  —  The New York Times has a perfectly fine curtain-raiser on the 114th Congress today, except for the clunker in this part: … “Procedural obstacles”????  What the article is talking about are (likely) Democratic filibusters.
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Democrats lose the ‘torture’ debate  —  As we begin 2015, we can take solace that the “torture” debate is finally behind us.  But before we close the book on six sordid years of Democratic demagoguery and investigations, let the record show that the opponents of the CIA interrogation program were completely and utterly defeated.
Discussion: Moe Lane
Jeff Guo / Washington Post:
The protesters who are trying to upend the ‘fantasy world’ of economics  —  At a gathering of America's top economists, a small group of students is battling for the soul of economics.  —  There were leaflets, a manifesto, and this warning: “On campus after campus, we will chase you old goats out of power.
Discussion: Power Line and Greg Mankiw's Blog
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
CEO Who Said He'd Probably Have To Fire Employees If Obama Won Is Now Giving Them Raises  —  In the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election, David Siegel, billionaire chief of Florida timeshare company Westgate Resorts, sent an email to all employees.  “Of course, as your employer …
Evan Perez / CNN:
Boston bombing trial lawyers fail to reach plea deal  —  Suspected Boston bomber: How we caught him 02:44  —  Story highlights  —  Washington (CNN)As accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev goes on trial Monday few doubt the outcome of the first phase of the two-phase trial.
 
 
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Wisconsin Governor, Starting Second Term, Resists New Union Battle
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
Syria complains to U.N.: McCain, others illegally entered country
Discussion: Mediaite and LiberalAmerica.org
Rush Limbaugh:
El Rushbo, Back in the Saddle for 2015
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julian Borger / Guardian:
US and Russia in danger of returning to era of nuclear rivalry
Discussion: Addicting Info and Weekly Standard
Jeffrey D. Sachs / Project Syndicate RSS-Feed:
Paul Krugman and the Obama Recovery
San Francisco Chronicle:
IMAGE 1 OF 9  —  San Francisco police officers fatally shot …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
19 Years Later, Article by Kagan Echoes at the Supreme Court
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Ruth Eglash / Washington Post:
Archaeologists find possible site of Jesus's trial in Jerusalem
Discussion: Daily Mail, RT and The PJ Tatler
David Frum / The Atlantic Online:
Does Immigration Harm Working Americans?
Dennis B. Ross / New York Times:
Stop Giving Palestinians a Pass
Discussion: Mondoweiss and The Times of Israel
Bill Scher / Politico:
The Democrats' Donkey in the Room
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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
2014 Was The Hottest Year On Record Globally By Far
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Malcolm Gladwell / New Yorker:
The Bill  —  Steven Brill on how health-care reform went wrong.
Discussion: VodkaPundit and The Glittering Eye
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Privilege of ‘Arrest Without Incident’
 

 
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