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A.M. Links: Bolton Suggests Clinton Faked Concussion, Samuel L. Jackson Wades Into Gun Debate, French President Pushes For Banking Reform, Gun Control Task Group Announced, Obama is Time's Person of the Year

Matthew Feeney | 12.19.2012 9:00 AM


  • John Bolton has suggested that Hillary Clinton might have caught a "diplomatic illness" that prevented her from testifying on the Benghazi fiasco. The State Department maintains that Clinton fainted and hit her head. 
  • Samuel L. Jackson doesn't think gun control is the right way to address mass shootings.
  • Several networks are projecting that Park Gyeun-hye will win South Korea's presidential election. She will be South Korea's first female president.  
  • Obama has announced the creation of a gun control task force. The announcement came shortly before the president was declared Time's "Person of the Year."
  • French President Francois Hollande has proposed splitting banks' trading and lending operations. 
  • A bill backed by Netflix that will make it easier to share film-viewing habits was passed by the House.

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Matthew Feeney is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute.