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11:10 AM ET, December 15, 2021

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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Gone Too Far  —  The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied.  —  s cable television broadcast the scenes of Trump supporters breaking past police lines and even smashing their way into the Capitol on January 6, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. …
Discussion: CNN
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book. It's Damning.
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Was Screening Don Jr.'s Calls During the Capitol Attack
Albert W. Alschuler / Just Security:
The Easiest Case for the Prosecution: Trump's Aiding and Abetting Unlawful Occupation of the Capitol
Discussion: CNN, MSNBC, The Mahablog and The Federalist
Reuters:
The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump's campaign of disinformation  —  After Donald Trump lost the White House, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and three other current and former U.S. Army officers challenged the vote's legitimacy and pushed baseless conspiracy claims.
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia  —  They wait for Joe.  And while they wait, they wonder.  —  “His entourage vanished,” says a reporter.  —  “Maybe they snuck out the back,” says a photographer.  —  It's a Tuesday in early December.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden on passing agenda by year's end: ‘I hope so’
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
This block used to be for first-time homebuyers.  Then global investors bought in.  —  LA VERGNE, TENN. — The homes on Tammy Sue Lane aren't fancy.  Modest in size and clad in vinyl siding, the houses were priced below $200,000 when most were built about 15 years ago …
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry's Focus: Did He Mislead His Own Accountants?  —  The investigation, by the Manhattan district attorney, is zeroing in on information the former president and his company shared about the value of his assets.  —  As prosecutors in Manhattan weigh whether to charge Donald J. Trump …
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Washington Post:
Trump's longtime accountant testifies to N.Y. grand jury in criminal probe
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hillary 2024?  Given the competition, she may be the Dems' best hope  —  There may be a rematch coming in the 2024 race for the White House.  But we're not talking (God help us) Biden-Trump II.  —  Instead, 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is an interesting prospect to consider …
Discussion: HotAir and The Western Journal
Dionne Johnson / KLFY-TV:
Lafayette City Judge Michelle Odinet responds to use of racial slurs in home video following burglary  —  LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet confirmed with News 10 that over the weekend she and her family were victims of an armed burglary at their home in the upscale area of Bendel Gardens.
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Biden set to surpass Trump in first-year judicial nominees; a window into a major Democratic push  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden will soon announce his latest wave of nine judicial nominees, according to a White House official, capping a year where the selections — and an effort to establish …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
N.Y.C.'s Gas Ban Takes Fight Against Climate Change to the Kitchen  —  New York is set to become the nation's largest city to enact a ban on gas heat and stoves in new buildings.  It's a major step away from fossil fuels that is expected to influence wider markets.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Republicans Who Assailed Biden's Stimulus Bill Are Embracing the Money  —  Republican governors who criticized the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill as wasteful are championing state projects funded by the money.  —  WASHINGTON — At her annual budget address this month, Gov. Kristi Noem …
Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Menendez slips, fractures shoulder in rush to get to U.S. Senate floor for vote  —  His Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing had ended and a vote awaited, so Robert Menendez darted to the U.S. Capitol to reach the Senate floor.  —  But en route, the New Jersey senator slipped getting onto …
Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
A leader of an Ohio Muslim organization was fired for spying for a hate group  —  The Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it fired one of its top leaders after discovering he was sharing information about the organization to “a known anti-Muslim hate group.”
Discussion: Raw Story, CAIR and Fox 8 Cleveland WJW
T. Becket Adams / And another thing:
That Dana Milbank column is even dumber than you think  —  Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is as lousy a statistician as he is a political commentator.  —  Milbank claims journalists have been harder on President Joe Biden in the first year of his presidency than they were on former President Donald Trump in his last.
Keith E. Whittington / Washington Post:
The intellectual freedom that made public colleges great is under threat  —  Across the country, state legislators are trying to control what happens in classrooms — and who gets hired and fired  —  Faculty members at public universities are under fire in numerous states …
Discussion: Reason
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds  —  ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Blinken cuts short trip to Southeast Asia after member of his entourage tests positive for coronavirus  —  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Secretary of State Antony Blinken cut short his trip to Southeast Asia on Wednesday after a member of the press corps accompanying him on his visits tested positive for the coronavirus.
Scott Bauer / Washington Post:
Wisconsin attorney general won't enforce any abortion ban  —  MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul said in an interview Tuesday that he would not investigate or prosecute anyone for having an abortion should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade and a currently unenforceable state ban takes effect.
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:   Gableman touts Kleefisch's run for governor, asks for support in keeping his election review going
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Five Republican governors seek vaccine exemptions, escalating a fight with the Pentagon.  —  Governors from five states have written a joint letter to Lloyd J. Austin III, the defense secretary, asking that their National Guard troops be exempted from a federal coronavirus vaccine mandate …
Discussion: Political Wire
Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
DeSantis takes aim at CRT training in schools and corporate America  —  DeSantis' administration moved against critical race theory in schools; now the governor is broadening his efforts  —  DeSantis: Americans are rebelling against the Democratic Party  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
Dylan McGuinness / Houston Chronicle:
Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault charge  —  A Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun …
Discussion: Political Wire and Off the Kuff
Lola Fadulu / New York Times:
Cornell University goes on high alert after finding evidence of the Omicron variant on campus.  —  Cornell University canceled a ceremony for December graduates, closed libraries and took other restrictive measures on Tuesday after the school's coronavirus testing lab found evidence …
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Executes People for Watching K-Pop, Rights Group Says  —  At least seven people have been put to death in the past decade for watching or distributing K-pop videos, as the North cracks down on what its leader calls a “vicious cancer.”  —  SEOUL — North Korea has publicly executed …
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Democrats Legalized Crime, Thousands Died  —  And the killing is just getting started.  —  Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.  —  4,901 more people were murdered last year than in 2019.
Discussion: Michael Shellenberger
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A junkie's guide to the 2022 midterms  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING OVERNIGHT — The House voted 222-208 to hold MARK MEADOWS in contempt of Congress and make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.  Just two Republicans — ADAM KINZINGER (Ill.) and LIZ CHENEY …
 
 
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Build Back Better would make Biden's annus horribilis even worse
Christine Rosen / New York Post:
Inside the hypocrisy of media manipulators, censors who claim to fight misinformation
Katie Bo Lillis / CNN:
Biden administration expected to release some previously classified JFK assassination documents
Discussion: National Review and Politico
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
After extraordinary sacrifice, and years of delay, Alwyn Cashe gets his Medal of Honor
Discussion: Task & Purpose
The White House:
Remarks by President Biden at a Holiday Celebration for the Democratic National Committee
Discussion: Breitbart
Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Retail Sales Rose Modestly in November
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Geller / Politico:
Feds scramble to assess security flaw that threatens ‘hundreds of millions’ of devices
Discussion: ABC News
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Phil Waldron, backer of Jan. 6 PowerPoint, is invited to speak to Louisiana voting panel
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Tech's Looming Radical Chic Throwdown
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Climate change has destabilized the Earth's poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril
Discussion: Substack
Politico:
Judge scraps Trump lawsuit to shield tax returns from Congress
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Gorsuch writes scathing dissent after Supreme Court rejects New York vaccine mandate challenge
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land:
Google blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B ads and 6.7M advertiser accounts in 2022

 
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