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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Friday, December 21, 2012 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Josh Voorhees NRA Speaks: "The Only Thing That Stops a Bad Guy With a Gun Is a Good Guy With a Gun" Friday, December 21, 2012, at 11:31 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees It's (Almost) Official: Obama To Tap John Kerry for Secretary of State Friday, December 21, 2012, at 10:35 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Americans Finally Figure Out How To Use the White House's We The People Website Friday, December 21, 2012, at 10:10 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees House GOP Calls Off Vote on Plan B Thursday, December 20, 2012, at 8:47 PM EST   Crime | Chris Kirk and Dan Kois How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Friday, December 21, 2012, at 5:40 AM EST Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.   Politics | David Weigel The Big Fail Friday, December 21, 2012, at 10:18 AM EST Why John Boehner's last, best hope at avoiding the "fiscal cliff" exploded in his face.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Failure of Last Night's "Plan B" Vote Makes a Fiscal Cliff Deal More Likely Friday, December 21, 2012, at 8:59 AM EST   View From Chicago | Eric Posner Why the U.S. Shouldn't Sign On to Empty Human Rights Treaties Friday, December 21, 2012, at 7:22 AM EST They're a propaganda exercise for many of the world's most unsavory nations.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias We Succeeded In Controlling Health Care Spending And Everyone Hated It Friday, December 21, 2012, at 10:35 AM EST   Blog | Christopher Heaney A Mysterious Failed Prophecy from the Smithsonian's Archives Friday, December 21, 2012, at 9:18 AM EST   Blog | Slate V Staff Sarah Palin Isn't Influential, Sarah Palin Says Thursday, December 20, 2012, at 6:12 PM EST   Politics | Siona Listokin and Yair Listokin We the People Fix the Budget Thursday, December 20, 2012, at 4:56 PM EST The best poll around shows exactly how Americans want to avert the fiscal cliff.   Future Tense | Ryan Gallagher Adam Lanza Tried To Destroy His Hard Drive. Here's How We Can Still Follow His Electronic Trail. Friday, December 21, 2012, at 9:03 AM EST   Television | Troy Patterson 2012: The Year in TV Moments Friday, December 21, 2012, at 7:45 AM EST Rachel Maddow makes a cocktail.   Holidays | Jeremy Stahl Nordic Quack Friday, December 21, 2012, at 6:30 AM EST Sweden's bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.   BEST FEATURED STORIES The "Plan B" Failure Makes a Deal With Obama More Likely We Can Still Follow Adam Lanza's Electronic Trail Even Though He Tried To Destroy His Hard Drive Are You Smarter Than Slate's Crime Blogger? Take Slate's News Quiz and Find Out. NRA Calls for Armed Guards in Every School   Copyright 2012 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend