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JANUARY 7, 2015 bloombergview.com

PARIS ATTACK The Editors: Free speech and the state that protects it were attacked yesterday in Paris. "The killing of several journalists -- as well as two police officers, one of whom had been assigned to guard them -- was a criminal act of terrorism, pure and simple." Read more... Josh Rogin: "Two months ago, a group of French members of Islamic State put out a video calling on Muslims to conduct terror attacks on French soil and offering them direct operational support. ... Their calls were answered." Read more... Leonid Bershidsky: "Michel Houellebecq couldn't have foreseen such a horribly swift real-life sequel to his latest literary provocation, the novel 'Submission.'" Read more... Noah Feldman: "If indeed the Paris attack is the work of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the franchise that includes Yemen, then its purpose is almost certainly to regain public attention from Islamic State and remind the world, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, that the old jihadi terrorist paradigm is still effective." Read more... TECH Katie Benner: "There have been a lot of musings of late about whether or not Marissa Mayer is the right chief executive for Yahoo. ... Pick Mayer apart or build her up. Either way, the Yahoo tanker would be hard for anyone to turn around." Read more... ECONOMICS Megan McArdle: What makes rich people think they're middle class?Read more... POLITICS Ramesh Ponnuru: "Some evangelical Christian conservatives are trying to get their brethren to unite behind one Republican primary candidate in the 2016 presidential race. They're likely to fail -- and they'll probably be better off if they do." Read more... Margaret Carlson: "Everything you need to know about the state of the Republican presidential race is explained by the schedules of the first two candidates to publicly dip their toes into the 2016 waters." Read more... Jonathan Bernstein: The decision by the House leadership to kick two Florida congressmen off the Rules Committee is being called "revenge" and "retribution." "But the decision to remove the two is more about assuring Republican Party control of the House than it is about punishing renegades." Read more... CARS Edward Niedermeyer: The most important car show is now CES. "Rather than trying to impress the auto industry with new automotive concepts, automakers are trying to make themselves relevant to the broader technology business." Read more... McArdle: "I'm running into more and more people here in Washington who are using UberX as a substitute for owning a car. ... If it works, this is going to be a game changer for urban dwellers, a taste of the utopian future when self-driving cars finally arrive. But to be honest, I find myself wondering if it is going to work." Read more...