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Wiretap: Liz Cheney, quitter

A tweet on the news from Wyoming: "First, relocate your family, destroy friendships and alienate your sister. Then, drop out." The question that remains: How many people is it possible to alienate in a state that has so few people?

Littwin: The whistleblower blues

The New York Times publishes an editorial, and at least one thing becomes clear: Newspapers still matter, at least if the paper is the Times, which has proposed that Edward Snowden come home, with the semi-blessing of a reluctant Obama administration.

Wiretap: Snowden won, for now, and you can’t smoke pot in...

OK, so it's funny that Edward Snowden would send out a Christmas message. But how Snowden helped change the world is almost certainly the story of the year.

Wiretap: Swing-state Virginia hates the Tea Party

Molly Ball writes that the Tea Party is turning purple Virginia blueish. Why should we care? Because Virginia is a lot like Colorado.