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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
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 …
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:   ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
‘QAnon Shaman’ sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in Jan. 6 riot
Discussion: NPR, Politico and UPI
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
‘QAnon shaman’ sentenced to 41 months for role in Capitol riot
Discussion: Insider, NBC News and Metro.co.uk
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024
Discussion: Washington Examiner and 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 …
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as the Pandemic Spread  —  More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the yearlong period ending in April, government researchers said.  —  Americans died of drug overdoses in record numbers as the pandemic spread across the country …
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Washington Post:
100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic  —  The U.S. drug epidemic reached another terrible milestone Wednesday when the government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021.
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.
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
Washington Post:
House poised to censure Gosar, eject him from committees over violent video depicting slaying of Ocasio-Cortez  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned the “outrageous” silence of House Republican leaders Wednesday ahead of an expected vote to censure Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) …
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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 …
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
Bridget Read / The Cut:
What Happened at Carmine's  —  A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021.  Maybe a bit too neatly.  —  A few hours before his workplace went viral, Matt, a server at Carmine's on the Upper West Side, was sitting in a pre-shift meeting, taking notes on the dinner specials.
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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Catholic Bishops Drop Effort to Ban Communion for Politicians Who Support Abortion Rights  —  The vote was the culmination of a debate that has exposed deep ideological divisions between U.S. bishops and Rome  —  BALTIMORE—The Catholic bishops of the U.S. ended a nearly yearlong debate Wednesday …
Discussion: Associated Press, ABC News and CNN
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 …
Sean Golonka / The Nevada Independent:
Clark County man pleads guilty to voting more than once in 2020 election  —  A Clark County man prominently featured by local and national Republicans as having evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election pleaded guilty on Tuesday to voting more than once during the same election …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Warren / CNN:
Trump's thirst for revenge is causing chaos in the Georgia governor's race  —  (CNN)A simmering war within the Georgia Republican Party is about — what else?  — Donald Trump.  —  The former President — still angry over how Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp responded to the 2020 election results in his state …
Discussion: The Hill
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
 
 
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
From Electric Bikes to ‘Tree Equity,’ Biden's Social Policy Bill Funds Niche Items
Adam Gold / Rolling Stone:
How Conspiracy Theorists and Eric Trump Turned Nashville's Most Famous Hotel into Anti-Vax HQ
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says first post-cancer exam shows she remains cancer-free
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and Political Wire
Alexia Fernández Campbell / Center for Public Integrity:
This year at USPS: Mail slowdowns, big executive bonuses for DeJoy and others
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
‘Circular firing squad’: Democratic power players are split on the Virginia blame game and how to prepare for the midterms
The Guardian:
Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying
Scott Bauer / madison.com:
US Senate candidate McCloskey shows support for Rittenhouse
Discussion: WKRG-TV and NBC Chicago
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Can Biden Whip Inflation Now?
Discussion: NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:
Gun-Control Support Drops Amid Growing Crime and Firearm Purchases
Discussion: National Review
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News host salary is bankrolled by you
John Bowden / Yahoo News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had a dinner party the day after the Capitol riot, book claims
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Who's Afraid of Saule Omarova?
New York Times:
How a Cure for Gerrymandering Left U.S. Politics Ailing in New Ways
Discussion: Election Law Blog and Fox News