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12:30 PM ET, December 28, 2021

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New York Times:
The Peanut Butter Secret: A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy  —  A tax break aimed at small businesses has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits.  —  This is the story of the incredible cloning tax break.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Lays Out How He and Bannon Planned to Overturn Biden's Electoral Win  —  “It started out perfectly.  At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them...” … A former Trump White House official says he and right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon …
Helen Branswell / STAT:
10 lessons I've learned from the Covid-19 pandemic  —  On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, just hours from when 2019 was going to segue into 2020, I read an email about some unusual pneumonia cases in China's Hubei province.  Over the past couple of decades, China has been a wellspring …
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New York Times:
Why Covid Death Rates Are Rising for Some Groups  —  The overall rate of Covid-19 deaths has declined since vaccines became widely available in April, yet nearly a quarter million people in the United States have died from the virus in the past eight months.
Virginia Langmaid / CNN:
US government should consider vaccination requirement for domestic air travel, Fauci says
Discussion: CBS News
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: There Was ANOTHER Rally Planned On Jan. 6 ... At The Supreme Court  —  The same people who organized Trump's fateful rally on the Ellipse had something else in store on Jan. 6: a rally planned in front of the Supreme Court.  —  The same people who organized Trump's fateful rally …
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Klein / National Review:
CDC's New Isolation Guidance Treats Unvaccinated the Same as Un-boosted  —  The Centers for Disease Control has moved one step closer to changing the definition of fully vaccinated to include only those who have received a booster.  —  Earlier, I noted how the CDC arbitrarily halved its quarantine guidance from ten days to five.
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CDC:
CDC Newsroom  —  CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
CDC recommends shorter COVID isolation, quarantine for all
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Now he tells us: There's no federal solution to COVID, says Biden
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
Russia's Supreme Court orders closure of Memorial civil rights group  —  Organisation has documented Soviet-era atrocities for more than three decades  —  Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial, the country's oldest civil rights group, after prosecutors accused …
Discussion: The Guardian and Bloomberg
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Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Russian court orders oldest civil rights group Memorial to shut
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Political Life of Dr. Oz … Dr. Oz for Senate is headquartered in a patch of strip mall next to a Mexican restaurant in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the candidate's father-in-law, Dr. Gerald Lemole, maintains a medical office down the road from the Lemole family farm …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
David Axelrod / New York Times:
It's Not Over for Joe Biden  —  Mr. Axelrod was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns.  —  Joe Biden must be having flashbacks.  —  In early 2010, when Democrats lost a special election for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat …
Discussion: Politico and Issues & Insights
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The Democrats' Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump  —  Terry McAuliffe lost the Virginia governor's race by saying, “I don't think parents should be telling schools what to teach.”  If that was no gaffe, Democrats have a lot more significant losing ahead
Discussion: Reason
Keith Coffman / Reuters:
Gunman kills four in Denver-area shooting spree before he is killed by police  —  A lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, on Monday in a Denver-area shooting spree that unfolded at several locations and ended with police killing the suspect, authorities said.
James Bruno / Washington Monthly:
How Back-Channel Diplomacy Can Prevent War With Russia  —  It's not too late for Joe Biden to stave off conflict and chaos between Moscow and Kyiv.  John F. Kennedy shows the way.  —  Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Guns of August made such a deep impression …
Discussion: Politico and TASS
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Russia ‘not bluffing’ on NATO rollback, warns of ‘large-scale conflict in Europe’
Thomas Colson / Insider:
Trump's struggling Scottish golf resorts lost nearly $9 million in 2020, new filings show  — Trump's two Scottish golf courses lost nearly $9 million combined in 2020, new filings show.  — The filings, signed by Eric Trump, show that the clubs lost money even after claiming UK government pandemic aid.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos / Election Law Blog:
Not the Time for Measuring Drapes  —  This column by Eric Levitz has been generating some buzz.  Based on the congressional districts redrawn so far, the piece argues that “the new House map will be much less biased in the GOP's favor than the old one.”  The new map might even be “tilted, ever so slightly, in the Democrats' favor.”
Andrew Sullender / Springfield News-Leader:
Antisemitic flyers found Christmas morning, spreading COVID conspiracies in Springfield  —  This Christmas Day, some Springfieldians woke up not to presents but to an antisemitic flyer.  —  The flyers were left at the front steps of houses in central Springfield sometime during the night of Christmas Eve.
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Hispanic Voters in This Pennsylvania City Are Shifting Toward the GOP.  Both Parties Want to Know Why.  —  Republican gains among Hispanics in Reading mirror those in other parts of the country, but Democrats think they still have important advantages with this growing demographic
 
 
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
5 takeaways from Pennsylvania's ongoing, landmark school-funding trial after one month
The White House:
Remarks by President Biden at COVID-19 Response Team's Regular Call With the National Governors Association
Discussion: Power Line
Nils Gilman / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: After 2021 tumult, here's what it will take to protect American democracy
Jaewon Kang / Wall Street Journal:
These Food Items Are Getting More Costly in 2022
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boy Named in Feds' James O'Keefe Search Warrant
Discussion: Raw Story
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart Sparks Public Outcry in China Over Products From Xinjiang
Discussion: New York Post