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1:10 PM ET, December 29, 2016

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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump His Chump  —  For those of you confused over the latest fight between President Obama and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel, let me make it simple: Barack Obama and John Kerry admire and want to preserve Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the Land of Israel.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Schumer: Kerry ‘emboldened extremists on both sides’  —  Incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer  —  (D-N.Y.) said Secretary of State John Kerry  —  inflamed tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians with his Wednesday speech.  —  Kerry fiercely criticized the Israeli government …
Peter Martin / Sydney Morning Herald:
Julie Bishop backs Israel rather than the US over UN resolution
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard:
John Kerry's Final, Harmful Insult to Israel
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
What's really bugging Trump about Obama  —  Donald Trump can't decide whether he thinks the transition of power is going well or not.  —  But he knows he doesn't like how much attention Barack Obama is getting and is also bothered by what Trump and his closest advisers see as an active effort …
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Sean Spicer On The New Administration And The Press … Sean Spicer joined me this morning.  The incoming White House Director of Communications and Press Secretary and I covered a lot of ground on the new president's plans for communicating his priorities and plans:  —  12-29hhs-spicer
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Law News
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Spicer: President Trump won't be beholden to traditional media practices
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Report: 8 years of Obama vacations cost $85 million
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
GOP Readies Swift Obamacare Repeal With No Replacement in Place  —  Senate will start in early January to repeal health-care law  —  Republicans split over how long to delay replacement plan  —  The first major act of the unified Republican government in 2017 will be a vote in Congress to begin tearing down Obamacare.
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Didn't Fail Because It's Timid
Discussion: New York Magazine and Instapundit
Carmel Dagan / Variety:
Debbie Reynolds, ‘Singin’ in the Rain' Star and Carrie Fisher's Mother, Dies at 84  —  Debbie Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated singer-actress who was the mother of late actress Carrie Fisher, has died at Cedars-Sinai hospital.  She was 84.  —  “She wanted to be with Carrie,” her son Todd Fisher told Variety.
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TMZ.com:
Debbie Reynolds — DEAD AT 84
New York Times:
Syrian Government Announces Truce Backed by Russia and Turkey  —  MOSCOW — The Syrian government and its most important ally, Russia, announced on Thursday that they had reached a cease-fire agreement with Syrian rebels and with Turkey — a potential turning point in a civil war …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Milo Yiannopoulos Strikes $250K Book Deal (Exclusive)  —  “They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off.  Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened,” says Yiannopoulos.  —  Milo Yiannopoulos has parlayed his ban from Twitter — and some controversial appearances on college campuses …
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
DC private schools giving Kellyanne Conway the brush-off  —  MORE FROM:  —  Kellyanne Conway is worried establishment elites in Washington, DC, are so prejudiced against President-elect Trump that she won't be able to get her kids into private school in the nation's capital.
New York Times:
Trump Takes Credit for Sprint Plan to Add 5,000 Jobs in U.S.  —  By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and MICHAEL J. de la MERCEDDecember 28, 2016  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump took credit on Wednesday for a decision by Sprint to add 5,000 jobs in the United States, as he tried to deliver on his promise …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Americans — especially but not exclusively Trump voters — believe crazy, wrong things  —  Many Americans believe a lot of dumb, crazy, destructive, provably wrong stuff.  Lately this is especially (though not exclusively) true of Donald Trump voters, according to a new survey.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump on Russian hacking: ‘Computers have complicated lives very greatly’  —  on Wednesday said he thinks computers have made people's lives much more complex when asked about Russian hacking.  —  “I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly,” the president-elect said Wednesday …
Discussion: alan.com
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Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal:
Nevada's voter-OK'ed gun background checks blocked  —  Final update  —  The expansion of gun background checks approved by Nevada voters last month will not happen as expected, based on an opinion released Wednesday by the Nevada Attorney General's Office.
Discussion: Bearing Arms and Hot Air
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump  —  “Arnold and Tim, if you'd come up, we're going to give you a nice, beautiful check,” Donald Trump said.  He held up an oversize check, the kind they give to people who win golf tournaments.  It was for $100,000.
George Soros / Project Syndicate RSS-Feed:
Open Society Needs Defending  —  Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies - from fascist dictatorships to mafia states - are on the rise.  Because elected leaders failed to meet voters' legitimate expectations and aspirations, electorates have become disenchanted …
Discussion: CNBC, Vox Popoli and Infowars
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The good that could come from a Trump presidency  —  Gloom is a terrible way to ring out the old, and despair is of no help in trying to imagine the new.  —  So let us consider what good might come from the political situation in which we will find ourselves in 2017.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Hawaii restaurant tells Trump voters to eat someplace else  —  Café 8 ½ in Honolulu, Hawaii, is facing harsh criticism for hanging a sign on its front door that tells voters who cast their ballot for President-elect Donald Trump  —  to eat elsewhere.  —  “If you voted for Trump you cannot eat here!
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Bests Trump as Most Admired Man in 2016
David Barboza / New York Times:
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple's Partner
Discussion: Gizmodo
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Obama under pressure to prove Russian interference in election
Discussion: RedState and Daily Kos
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
An obscure E.U. regulation may have saved lives in the Berlin Christmas market attack
Discussion: Mother Jones, RT, Gizmodo and Above the Law
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Weighs Letting Veterans Opt Out of V.A. Medical Care
Discussion: Vox, Hot Air and Politicus USA
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US military could carry out first execution in over 50 years
Discussion: alan.com
 Earlier Items: 
The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu to be investigated for bribery, fraud — report
Discussion: The Week
Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:
Big Growth in Tiny Businesses
Discussion: Instapundit
Fox News:
Steve Martin deletes Twitter tribute to Carrie Fisher after backlash
Russell Begaye / The White House:
How President Obama Has Protected Our Sacred Land for Future Generations
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump makes last-minute push to add Hispanic to Cabinet
Discussion: Mother Jones
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Scam Pastor to Pray With Trump At Inauguration
Discussion: Politicus USA and Raw Story