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4:15 PM ET, January 2, 2017

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Many in U.S. Skeptical Trump Can Handle Presidential Duties  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — As Donald Trump prepares to take the presidential oath on Jan. 20, less than half of Americans are confident in his ability to handle an international crisis (46%), to use military force wisely (47%) …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
America Becomes a Stan  —  In 2015 the city of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, was graced with a new public monument: a giant gold-plated sculpture portraying the country's president on horseback.  This may strike you as a bit excessive.  But cults of personality are actually the norm in the …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Former Chicago police chief blasts Black Lives Matter  —  Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Sunday blamed the Black Lives Matter movement for causing a rise in violent crime around the country.  —  During a radio interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York …
Discussion: Chicagoist and Raw Story
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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Crisis in Chicago  —  Bill Whitaker reports on Chicago's surge …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Infowars
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
The Return of Civil Disobedience
Discussion: Hullabaloo
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Claiming mandate, GOP Congress lays plans to propel sweeping conservative agenda  —  For six years, since they took back the House of Representatives, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House.  In their thwarted agenda, financial regulations were to be unspooled.
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Robert Kuttner / The Huffington Post:
Impeaching Trump  —  The process begins now.  —  Donald Trump is wildly unfit to be president, and he will demonstrate that in ways that break the law and violate the Constitution.  Since the election, there have been three wishful efforts to keep Trump from the presidency …
Discussion: RedState
Mike Rodriguez / Monitor:
State Rep. Martinez shot in head by ‘stray bullet’ while celebrating  —  The District 39 representative says he is doing well  —  NORTH OF WESLACO — State Rep. Armando “Mando” Martinez confirmed Sunday evening that he's now doing well after being shot in the head earlier that morning …
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
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CNN:
‘Stray’ bullet hits Texas legislator in the head at New Year's celebration
Discussion: Mediaite
Bloomberg:
Perdue Is Trump's Lead Pick for Agriculture Secretary  —  Perdue's selection for agriculture post isn't yet final  —  Several other candidates have been interviewed by Trump  —  Sonny Perdue III, the former governor of Georgia, is president-elect Donald Trump's leading candidate …
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Intellectuals for Trump  —  A rogue group of conservative thinkers try to build a governing ideology around a President-elect who disdains ideology.  —  The most cogent argument for electing Donald Trump was made not by Trump, or by his campaign, but by a writer who, unlike Trump …
New York Times:
Why Corporations Are Helping Donald Trump Lie About Jobs  —  President-elect Donald Trump would like everybody to believe that his election is energizing the economy by forcing businesses to create thousands of jobs in the United States.  And companies like Sprint seem perfectly happy …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama could still force Garland onto court during ‘intersession recess’  —  President Obama will have one last chance to force Judge Merrick Garland onto the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday — but it's a legal gamble and one that has so many pitfalls that even those who say he could get away with it believe it isn't worth the fight.
Nick Squires / Telegraph:
Facebook ‘censors’ nude statue of sea god Neptune, a well-known Renaissance symbol of northern Italian city  —  A virile, muscled statue of the sea god Neptune has fallen foul of Facebook's prudish policies on nudity after an Italian art historian was told to remove it from her web page.
Discussion: Raw Story
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
The art of getting to know Trump  —  In the fall of 2006 right after then Sen. Barack Obama announced to Tim Russert on Meet the Press he was seriously considering a run for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, thousands of reporters, journalists, bloggers …
Discussion: neo-neocon
Andrew / Statistical Modeling …:
About that bogus claim that North Carolina is no longer a democracy . . .  Nick Stevenson directed me to a recent op-ed in the Raleigh News & Observer, where political science professor Andrew Reynolds wrote: … So far so good.  But then comes the punchline:
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Black pols plan Trump resistance  —  After eight years of the nation's first African-American president, black lawmakers were in for an adjustment no matter who won the White House.  —  But members of the Congressional Black Caucus say they're bracing for the worst in Donald Trump …
Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
Cuomo vetoes bill that would have required state to fund legal services for the poor  —  ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo vetoed a bill late Saturday that would have required the state to fund legal services for the poor in each county.  —  Cuomo's office in a New Year's Eve statement released …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU):
Governor Rejects Bipartisan Reform of Public Defense System
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Obama Plans Farewell Speech From Chicago  —  HONOLULU — President Obama will give a farewell address next week from Chicago, his hometown, most likely his last chance to defend his legacy directly to the country before Donald J. Trump is sworn in, the White House announced on Monday.
Discussion: The Week
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Allie Malloy / CNN:
Obama to deliver farewell speech in Chicago
 
 
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Reuters:
Islamic State kills 24 in Baghdad blast, cuts road to Mosul
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Daily Mail:
Trump spokesman says there's still ‘zero evidence’ Russia influenced presidential election with alleged hacking spree
Discussion: The Point
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
For Democrats, 2017 Will Be The Year of Living Stupidly
CNN:
Biographer says Trump booted him from golf course
Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
Between 2012 and 2015, 1,565 refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in the United …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A year to protect democracy
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Daily Mail:
‘Kill switches’ could stop lorry massacres: Government investigates methods to interfere …
Paul Rosenberg / Salon:
Conspiracy theory's big comeback: Deep paranoia runs free in the age of Donald Trump
Discussion: alan.com
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Priebus faces daunting task bringing order to White House that will feed off chaos