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12:55 PM ET, November 17, 2021

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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure  —  U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure and social spending legislation will not add to inflationary pressures in the U.S. economy, economists and analysts in leading rating agencies told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Timothy B Lee / Full Stack Economics:
No, the real inflation rate isn't 15 percent  —  Jordan Peterson and Jack Dorsey are touting a bogus theory about the inflation rate.  —  Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the official inflation rate had soared to 6.2 percent in October, the highest level in decades.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
What Biden Should — and Shouldn't — Do to Combat Inflation
Discussion: RedState
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Can Biden Whip Inflation Now?
Discussion: NPR
Politico:
Sinema speaks up — and shakes off her critics  —  Watch the Senate floor enough and you'll notice Sen. Kyrsten Sinema regularly chatting with Mitch McConnell and his top deputy John Thune.  Republicans have even tried to recruit her to their conference, and throw the Senate to the GOP.
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) suggested that Republicans may not run anyone to oppose Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) when she comes up for reelection in 2024.  —  Cornyn, who is considered a potential successor …
Discussion: Insider
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Shouldn't Panic.  They Should Go Into Shock.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid …
Jon Kamp / Wall Street Journal:
Drug Overdose Deaths, Fueled by Fentanyl, Hit Record High in U.S.  —  Nation records more than 100,000 fatalities over 12 months for first time  —  The U.S. recorded its highest number of drug-overdose deaths in a 12-month period, eclipsing 100,000 for the first time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as the Pandemic Spread
JONATHAN TURLEY:
The Steele Dossier and the End of Shame In American Politics  —  The famous philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once declared that “the only shame is to have none.”  The problem with shame is that it requires a sense of guilt over one's actions.  In the age of rage …
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Washington Examiner:   Dirty tricks by Clintons shaped liberal opinion and news coverage of Trump for years
Gabriel Schoenfeld / The Bulwark:
Adam Schiff's Insider Account of the Fight to Save Our Democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later  —  The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.  —  Two of the men found guilty of the assassination …
Discussion: Political Wire
Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten:
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know  —  I know I'm two months late here.  Everyone's already made up their mind and moved on to other things.  —  But here's my pitch: this is one of the most carefully-pored-over scientific issues of our time.  Dozens of teams published studies saying ivermectin definitely worked.
Discussion: HotAir
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Voters' doubts rising about Biden's health, mental fitness  —  Voters have increasing doubts about the health and mental fitness of President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever sworn into the White House, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  —  Only 40 percent of voters surveyed agreed …
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
RED SHIFT: How Trump's attempt to let COVID-19 destroy Blue America reversed itself, animated  —  Back in July 2020, Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban wrote a shocking expose which exposed the depths of callousness and cold-hearted political calculation which the Trump Administration used …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis Spokesperson Blames Vaccine Passport on the Rothschilds … The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery written by the czarist secret police more than a century ago, purporting to reveal a lurid international Jewish plot.  The Rothschild family played an outsize role in the imagined conspiracy …
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
FBI raids home of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in election data breach investigation  —  Federal, state and local authorities searched the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and three of her associates on Tuesday as part of an investigation into accusations the elected official was involved …
Washington Post:
Trump's legal strategy tested in fight with Congress over Jan. 6 records  —  As president, Donald Trump stymied lawmakers seeking his financial records and the testimony of a close adviser by employing a legal strategy that worked to his advantage even when he lost in court.
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Politico:
Judge questions why Justice reversed course on Trump taxes
Discussion: Raw Story and Roll Call
Politico:
‘This experience broke a lot of people’: Inside State amid the Afghanistan withdrawal  —  In the days after the Taliban took Kabul in August, a desperate Afghan father pleaded over the phone with a State Department official to help get his family out of harm's way.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
‘Circular firing squad’: Democratic power players are split on the Virginia blame game and how to prepare for the midterms  — Democratic Party officials and donors are split over whom to blame for losses in several state-level races this month  — They're also divided over how the party …
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Juana Summers / NPR:   House Democrats have a new strategy to engage voters of color in the midterm elections
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News host salary is bankrolled by you  —  ‘New front in their war’: Fox News caught deceptively editing Biden speech  —  Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke recently praised Fox News host Tucker Carlson for repeatedly broadcasting on his show the white nationalist-fabricated …
Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse:
Kyle Rittenhouse Isn't a Villain and There Is Nothing Wrong with Open Carry  —  I've known David French for a few years and there are things we agree on and things we do not agree on and this is most definitely the latter.  I feel compelled to respond to this. … Open carry is “menacing?”
Discussion: The Dispatch, Breitbart and RedState
John Bowden / Yahoo News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had a dinner party the day after the Capitol riot, book claims  —  President Donald Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, hosted a fancy dinner party for members of the Trump administration and invited guests just hours …
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Sherrilyn Ifill stepping down from NAACP Legal Defense Fund  —  Longtime second-in-command Janai Nelson will take over one of the country's top civil rights groups this spring, but no official transition date has been set  —  Sherrilyn Ifill was 10 years old when a New York City police officer shot …
Axios:
Unlikely coalition wants women to register for military draft  —  America's young women are on the cusp of a rite of passage that's been reserved for men until now: registering with the Selective Service when they turn 18.  —  Driving the news: Whether allowing women to serve in combat …
Discussion: Breitbart and Instapundit
Scott Bland / Politico:
Liberal ‘dark-money’ behemoth funneled more than $400M in 2020  —  A left-leaning, secret-money group doled out a whopping $410 million in 2020, aiding Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate.  —  The group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, A Capitol Riot ‘Flag-Bearer,’ Sentenced To Prison  —  Jacob Chansley, whom prosecutors called “the public face of the Capitol riot,” received one of the harshest sentences of any Jan. 6 defendant to date.  —  Jacob Chansley, the man federal prosecutors called …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The right-wing culture war just got worse.  Liberals need a better response.  —  With the culture-warring around education and race from Republicans and the right escalating, some Democratic strategists have issued a new call for a more aggressive response.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Guardian:
Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying  —  Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages  —  he Los Angeles police department pursued …
Scott Bauer / madison.com:
US Senate candidate McCloskey shows support for Rittenhouse  —  Republican Mark McCloskey, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, has been photographed outside the courthouse where Kyle Rittenhouse was on trial for murder with two people flashing a sign associated with white supremacists
Discussion: WKRG-TV and NBC Chicago
New York Times:
How a Cure for Gerrymandering Left U.S. Politics Ailing in New Ways  —  Independent commissions to oversee the redrawing of electoral maps were thought to be the solution to an age-old problem.  Instead, they have become bogged down in political trench warfare.
Discussion: Fox News and Election Law Blog
Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:
Gun-Control Support Drops Amid Growing Crime and Firearm Purchases  —  A new survey by Gallup found that 52% of U.S. adults want stricter gun laws and 19% support a ban on handguns  —  Americans' support for stricter gun-control measures has fallen to its lowest level since 2014, according to a poll released Wednesday by Gallup.
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Sean Golonka / The Nevada Independent:
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Beto rejects Trump as foil
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Nicholas Sandmann / Daily Mail:
The corrupt liberal media came for me, just like they came for Kyle Rittenhouse, and if he decides to sue I say go for it and hold the media accountable
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The AMA's “Advancing Health Equity” plan leaves out everything that matters
Politico:
Whistleblower worries Jan. 6 committee is going easy on Capitol Police
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
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Kana Ruhalter / The Daily Beast:
COVID-Positive Republican Senator Charged for Inappropriately Grabbing Nurse
Discussion: MLive.com