This x That:

Know This:

• Payroll Tax Cut Extension: House rejects Senate payroll tax cut extension plan; Obama: “Time is running out”; economists: failure to pass extension would stall economy; other economists: if delay is short, impact will be small; what a failure to extend the cut would mean for you.

• Fugitive Iraqi Vice President denies links to terrorism, says US “left Iraq in a terrible situation.”

Read This:

• PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” is actually true.

• Piers Morgan questioned by Leveson Inquiry over alleged involvement in phone hacking scandal.

• FDA gives Canadian scientists green light to test HIV vaccine on humans.

• Today’s Big Read: Meet the 100-year-old doctor who still makes house calls.

• Atlanta Braves locked in trademark dispute with Disney over upcoming Pixar film, Brave.

• Maria Conchita Alonso called Sean Penn a communist at LAX and walked away. 

The Other:

• NewsFeed: A Particularly Cruel Crime in Brooklyn Leaves Neighbors Cringing.

• Tea x Time List: Top 10 Bizarre Wars.

• Above: Francis Baker’s “Armament” — heart-shaped molotov cocktail “inspired by the Egyptians and the so called Arab spring.” (via.)