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Axios:
What should worry Trump most: Republican allies are turning on him  —  Another reason this is a historic week — and what President Trump should really worry about — is that lots of different Republicans have been turning on him over different topics.  —  Why it matters: A former Trump aide …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Maggie Haberman: ‘Disgusted’ Republicans Now Privately Admitting They Regret Supporting Trump  —  New York Times reporter and CNN contributor Maggie Haberman appeared on New Day Friday morning and revealed insight into the current turmoil in Washington D.C.  —  In light of the many issues challenging …
Axios:
Pre-Christmas Trump: Rebuked, rampaging  —  The last member of an informal alliance of top Trump officials with enough swat or stature to stand up to President Trump — the Committee to Save America, as Jim VandeHei and I called these officials 16 months ago — resigned in epic fashion.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump bumps Mar-a-Lago getaway amid shutdown confusion  —  The president was supposed to depart for his resort on Friday, but his vacation plans are now uncertain.  —  With the government careening toward a partial shutdown, President Donald Trump canceled plans to depart on Friday for Mar-a-Lago …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Building a Team of Lackeys to Go to War With Mueller
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and Bloomberg
Ezra Klein / Vox:   Trump endangers America because congressional Republicans let him
Jonathan Andrews / ODNI Newsroom:
DNI Coats Statement on the Resignation of Secretary Mattis
Discussion: Politico
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:   What Does Trump Really Care About? What Ann Coulter Thinks
Associated Press:
Analysis: As advisers leave, Trump's guardrails come off
Discussion: The Week and Politico
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Already Souring on Next Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney Over ‘Terrible Human Being’ Jibe, Says Report
Associated Press:
Trump call with Turkish leader led to US pullout from Syria  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria was made hastily, without consulting his national security team or allies, and over strong objections from virtually everyone involved …
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Reuters:
Kurdish-led Forces Report ‘Huge’ ISIS Assault in Southeast Syria
Discussion: Algemeiner.com
New York Times:
As Markets Tumble, Tech Stocks Hit a Rare and Ominous Milestone  —  When it comes to the stock market, America's technology giants have become a harbinger of more pain to come.  —  If Facebook, Apple or Google looked shaky this year — as investors worried about growth, regulation or mismanagement — the rest of the market felt it.
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Thomas Franck / CNBC:
S&P 500 turns negative as week-long equity rout continues  —  U.S. stocks erased early gains Friday, falling into negative territory as a week-long equity exodus put the major indexes on track for one of their worst weeks of the year.  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average trimmed gains …
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:   U.S. stocks suffer worst week in a decade
Michael Wursthorn / Wall Street Journal:   Stock Rout Puts Nasdaq in Bear Market
Emmie Martin / CNBC:
The budget breakdown of a 25-year-old who makes $100,000 a year and is excellent with money  —  Trevor Klee, he admits, is a “terrible employee.”  But he's great at working for himself — and at taking tests.  —  So the 25-year-old entrepreneur started a thriving business of his own.
Discussion: Mashable and Splinter
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court denies Trump administration request to immediately enforce new asylum rules  —  The Supreme Court on Friday denied the Trump administration's request that it be allowed to immediately enforce a new policy of denying asylum to those who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Revive Trump Policy Limiting Asylum  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday refused to revive a Trump administration initiative barring migrants who enter the country illegally from seeking asylum.  —  The court was closely divided, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining …
CNN:
Supreme Court upholds block on Trump's asylum ban
Discussion: Associated Press and Hit & Run
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Justices rebuff government on asylum ban
Discussion: RedState and ImmigrationProf Blog
NBC News:
Trump warns shutdown could last ‘very long time,’ urges McConnell to go ‘nuclear’ and end filibuster  —  “Mitch, use the Nuclear Option and get it done!  Our Country is counting on you!”  Trump tweeted.  —  President Donald Trump on Friday said the chances of a partial government shutdown were …
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Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Trump doesn't need 60 Senate votes to fix the border and short-circuit a shutdown  —  Last night, Chuck Schumer said at a press conference, “The Trump temper tantrum will shut down the government, but it will not get him his wall.”  The truth is that if McConnell would actually lead and enforce …
Roll Call:
Shutdown Countdown — Here's the Latest
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire megadonor Robert Mercer cuts back on support for GOP after being scrutinized for backing Trump  — Yet people close to Mercer say he's “disappeared” and he's no longer playing as big a role in supporting the Republican Party as he used to.  — “He's out,” said a former associate of Mercer.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Dan Berman / CNN:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes surgery  —  Washington (CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two malignant nodules removed from her left lung Friday at a New York hospital, the Supreme Court announced.  —  There is no evidence of any remaining disease, says a court spokesperson …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Michael Cohen discussed mysterious $1.8 million loan to pool boy that Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife befriended: report  —  Jerry Falwell Jr. confirmed that he loaned $1.8 million to a young pool attendant he and his wife had befriended while staying six years ago at a luxury hotel.
Julia Ioffe / Washington Post:
Please don't wish me ‘Merry Christmas’  —  It's impolite and alienating to assume I follow your religion.  —  'Twas five nights before Christmas, and my Lyft driver was the umpteenth person to wish me a “Merry Christmas” that day.  He probably just meant it the way most people do …
Discussion: Hot Air and twitchy.com
Courier-Journal:
Amy McGrath says she won't run for governor of Kentucky  —  Democrat Amy McGrath, who ran a nationally watched campaign for Congress, said Friday she will not seek her party's nomination for Kentucky governor in 2019.  —  “I am humbled by the encouragement to throw my hat back in the ring right away …
Discussion: Political Wire
Luke O'Neil / gofundme.com:
Build a Giant Escalator Over the Wall  —  $1,658 of $200.0M goal Raised by 105 people in 21 hours  —  The wall is never going to be built but just in case it is we will build a series of giant escalators that are spaced out a half mile along the wall on either side and if that doesn't happen we'll …
Discussion: Washington Times, The Week and Mashable
Mike Pomranz / Food & Wine:
Why Are Hershey's Kisses Suddenly Missing Their Tips?  —  Bakers are perplexed as to why the iconic candy isn't up to snuff this holiday season.  —  Bad kisses sound like a problem you haven't dealt with since your teenage years, but they're a serious concern right now for bakers …
Discussion: Instapundit, WGNO and fox8.com
American Greatness:
In Defense of Philip Anschutz  —  The late William F. Buckley, Jr., published a book several decades ago titled Gratitude, in which, while making a case for mandatory community service, he argued that gratitude is one of the distinctively conservative virtues.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Mattis Always Understood Trump's Severe Defects  —  In the spring of 2016, not long after The Atlantic published an article I had written about President Barack Obama's foreign-policy record, I visited the Hoover Institution, a think tank on the campus of Stanford University …
Caity Weaver / New York Times:
What Is Glitter?  —  A strange journey to the glitter factory.  —  Each December, surrounded by wonderlands of white paper snowflakes, bright red winterberries, and forests of green conifers reclaiming their ancestral territory from inside the nation's living rooms and hotel lobbies …
Stacey Stowe / New York Times:
Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley  —  On a cool October evening, in a Brooklyn studio crowded with canvases, some still wet, Diane Foley stood before an oil painting of two solemn grade-school boys in the Libyan civil war.  One of the boys held aloft a photo of a middle-aged man, a relative, who was missing.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans are responsible for the Trump fiasco  —  Let's put aside for the moment the question of whether President Trump committed crimes in obtaining the presidency (conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws by hush-money payments or receipt of assistance from a foreign power) …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘I Am the Woman Trump Hates’: Meet Sherrod Brown's Louder Half
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
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Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: 18 lessons for the news business from 2018
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Discussion: Breitbart
ProPublica:
In Immigrant Children's Shelters, Sexual Assault Cases Are Open and Shut
Discussion: Splinter and Politico
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump pans Beto 2020 talk: ‘I thought you were supposed to win before you run for president’
Discussion: Political Wire
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Glee in Russia Over Trump's Foreign Policy Largess
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Jihad Watch
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The Departure of Mattis and Engagements in the Middle East
Discussion: Power Line and Washington Post
Larry Celona / New York Post:
Eliot Spitzer snuck me into his apartment in a suitcase: ex-mistress
Jackie Salo / Page Six:
Is Sasha Obama headed to the University of Michigan?
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
Ben Zimmer / The Atlantic:
Why Kirstjen Nielsen Sounds Like the Hulk
Alex Marshall / New York Times:
Barack Obama Joins Lin-Manuel Miranda on a ‘Hamilton’ Remix
Discussion: IJR and The Week
Robert Morrison / The Guardian:
The death of our Siemens factory is the result of another Trump lie
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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