Tuesday's Daily Brief

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Arianna Huffington: GOP Is Now a Three-Man Race: Romney vs. Gingrich vs. Gingrich Arianna Huffington: Now that Herman Cain has "suspended his campaign," the race is down to three people: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich. At this point, the question isn't so much whether Gingrich can beat Romney (he can), but whether Gingrich will beat Gingrich. This task is complicated by the fact that there isn't just one Gingrich. He's a very Walt Whitmanesque candidate -- he celebrates himself, he sings of himself, he is large, and he contains multitudes. And while both men are serial flip-floppers, the differentiating variable between them isn't consistency; it's conviction. Whereas Romney tries to reconcile his flip-flops with lawyerly logic, Newt has the ability to seemingly believe each of his contradictory positions with absolute conviction. And for better or worse -- usually worse -- the natural selection of our political process strongly favors that trait. BUSINESS WATCH: Occupy Groups Protest Foreclosures Nationwide TECHNOLOGY Sebastian Thrun: Google's Driverless Car WORLD Hillary Clinton: Russian Election Was Rigged LATINO VOICES Mexican Drug War: U.S. Accused Of Laundering Drug Cartel Money WORLD Twin Attacks Kill Dozens, Injure More Than 100 In Afghanistan BLOG POSTS Eric X. Li: Globalization 2.0: A Century for Sale, Any Taker? Who will own this young century of ours? While there is little uncertainty to China's approach, America's path is the unknown. Will it retreat and rebuild the American nation, or will it allow its 1% to continue its universal project paid for by a mortgage on the future of the 99%? Cara Santa Maria: Mental Illness Is Brain Illness The mind does not exert power on the brain nor does the brain exert power on the mind. Mind is an emergent property of brain. And mental illness is a dysfunction of both sides of the coin. Dan Collins: Donald Trump Hits Another New Low With Newt Gingrich Meeting I didn't think New York's contribution to the Republican primaries could get any more embarrassing. But it did. Hasn't the GOP noticed that Trump is popular because he's strange and unpredictable, not because he has an interesting vision of the nation's future? Mohamed A. El-Erian: Prepare for a Different Financial Landscape With the European crisis continuing to dominate the news, many people now realize that today's global economy faces an unusually uncertain outlook. Keli Goff: Six Tips for Writing the Perfect Piece of Hate Mail Here is a list of helpful hints to help you or the self-appointed critic in your life draft an effective piece of hate mail or blog comment that actually provokes thought as opposed to simply provoking chuckles.

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