
CBS: Erskine Bowles points to examples of events this week indicating some progress in fiscal cliff negotiations.

CNN: The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, says lawmakers should comprise to avert a recession.

During an interview on CNN Jeb Bush, Jr., the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, said he hopes his father seeks the presidency.

Woodward: Obama Would Own Recession From Going Over Fiscal Cliff (12/9/12)

NYT Helene Cooper: Obama Would Own Recession From Going Over Fiscal Cliff (12/9/12)

On Saturday Night Live, guest host Jamie Foxx told the amped-up crowd now in his new movie, Django Unchained, he gets to “kill all the white people … How GREAT is that?” The live audience erupted in cheers and laughter.

AP: He’s Johnny Best in Football now — and a freshman, at that. Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first newcomer to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football’s top individual prize Saturday night after a record-breaking debut. Notre

With tons of debris still left from superstorm Sandy, and a New York State unemployment rate of almost nine percent, a federal grant programs hopes to solve two problems at once — cleaning up, and putting people back to work.
KRUGMAN: That kills charitable deductions. It hits the middle class hard. If you do it — if you do it right — we’ve done this, right… MATALIN: Are you an economist or a polemicist? Just make up your mind. KRUGMAN:

In metropolitan areas, where space is always at a premium, people are downsizing their homes. And as Maurice DuBois reports, they’re learning that living well doesn’t always require a lot of room.

FOX NEWS: IRVING, Texas – Dallas Cowboys practice-squad linebacker Jerry Brown was killed in a one-car accident Saturday and teammate Josh Brent was charged with intoxication manslaughter. Irving police spokesman John Argumaniz said the accident happened about 2:20 a.m. Saturday

Police released video Friday night that shows officers finding Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher asleep in his car just hours before he killed his girlfriend and later shot himself.

Julia Gillard, the Prime Minister of Australia, appears in a comedy video preparing her constituents for the end of the world, as predicted by the Mayan calendar. She wishes them well as they face mortality via Korean pop stars and

Appearing on Huf Po Live Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Fox News, “It’s divided our country in a way that we haven’t been divided probably since the Civil War.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill said on “Morning Joe” that Obama needs to do more schmoozing to Congress (December 5, 2012).

NBC News: A supermarket employee in Roswell, N.M., found an unexpected item in a case of frozen meat this week: a loaded handgun.The Albertsons worker was unwrapping the meat, which had been shipped from a packing plant in Colorado, when

Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS ad: “So far, a huge tax increase is his solution, No real spending reforms. Instead more taxes. The time for politics has ended. We need bipartisan ideas we can all support.”

Q: “Why can’t it be argued that President Morsi, by issuing this decree, essentially inflamed a situation that was already tense because the Coptic Christian minority, for one, didn’t feel that its interests were being respected, that there were some

Q: “Couldn’t it be argued, though, that President Morsi has essentially undercut the legitimacy of this draft constitution and of the referendum to initiate it by taking on these powers?” State Dept Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner: “Look, I think it

Union protesters in Michigan shove supporters of Right-to-Work. Americans for Prosperity-Michigan State Director dedicates Right-to-Work legislation for Andrew Breitbart.