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2:25 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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Peter Martin / Sydney Morning Herald:
Julie Bishop backs Israel rather than the US over UN resolution
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
How the U.S. came to abstain on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Discussion: Jezebel, Haaretz and Associated Press
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
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Law News
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Spicer: President Trump won't be beholden to traditional media practices
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 …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:   Breitbart editor and alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to publish book
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
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: RedState, CNBC, Vox Popoli and Infowars
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
George Soros: Trump a ‘would-be dictator’
Discussion: Raw Story, alan.com and Zero Hedge
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
A Preview of Obama's Post-Presidency  —  He's grumbling about Fox News and talk radio while feigning that he isn't partisan.  —  In two interviews over the holidays, President Obama signaled how he's likely to conduct himself once out of office: whiny, self-justifying and bursting with excuses.
Discussion: Power Line
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Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Considers Moving VA Toward Privatization  —  Some veterans' advocates oppose moves to privatize Department of Veterans Affairs  —  President-elect Donald Trump is considering moving the Department of Veterans Affairs toward privatization, a transition team official said Wednesday …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Weighs Letting Veterans Opt Out of V.A. Medical Care
Discussion: Vox, Hot Air and Politicus USA
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
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.
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.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Punishes Russia for Election Hacking, Ejecting Operatives  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia's …
Discussion: The Verge and Raw Story
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.
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US military could carry out first execution in over 50 years  —  (CNN)A former US Army soldier who has been on death row since 1988 for raping and murdering several women could now face execution after a judge denied his bid for another stay of execution.  —  Judge J. Thomas Marten …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
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.
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Gun-loving conservative columnist accidentally killed after letting teen boy hold his firearm  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  M.D. Harmon, a conservative columnist who frequently wrote in favor of gun ownership rights for the Portland Press Herald, died this week after being accidentally shot by a teenage boy.
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
What counties that flipped from Romney to Clinton have in common  —  A new analysis of housing prices reveals one way Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's supporters have been living in two economies.  One has benefited from lucrative but erratic progress in global markets …
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Obama under pressure to prove Russian interference in election  —  The Obama administration is under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office.  —  The administration up until now has provided little documentation …
Discussion: RedState, The Point, CNN and Daily Kos
Bristol Palin:
11 A-list artists that refused to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration  —  If Donald Trump were still just a regular old billionaire and threw a party at Trump Tower in New York City, celebrities would be lined up out the door, and the most famous artists would be pining for a chance to perform.
 
 
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Lisa M. Krieger / Mercury News:
Earthquakes close beloved California ghost town of Bodie
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and KTLA
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
With ‘Star,’ Lee Daniels Tries to Expand an Empire
Discussion: Mediaite and Heat Street
New York Times:
A Majority Agreed She Was Raped by a Stanford Football Player. That Wasn't Enough.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Jezebel
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Democrats Have a Religion Problem
Discussion: The Resurgent and Mediaite
Tatiana Sanchez / Mercury News:
DMV licensed 800,000 undocumented immigrants under 2-year-old law
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Barboza / New York Times:
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple's Partner
Discussion: Gizmodo
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
An obscure E.U. regulation may have saved lives in the Berlin Christmas market attack
Discussion: Mother Jones, RT and Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal:
Nevada's voter-OK'ed gun background checks blocked
Discussion: Bearing Arms and Hot Air
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump on Russian hacking: ‘Computers have complicated lives very greatly’
The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu to be investigated for bribery, fraud — report
Discussion: The Week
Fox News:
Steve Martin deletes Twitter tribute to Carrie Fisher after backlash