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Wall Street Journal:
New Speaker Vows to Share Power—a Tricky Proposition — When John Boehner takes over one of the most powerful jobs in Washington this week, he says his first order of business is to make himself less powerful. — On Wednesday the new speaker of the House of Representatives plans to offer …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner fires back at Dem senators with vow to push forward with repeal — Incoming House Speaker John Boehner's office (R-Ohio) pointedly vowed on Tuesday to push ahead with legislation repealing healthcare reform. — Boehner's office responded to a letter sent by the Senate's top five Democrats …
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The Politico:
House freshman throws a party - and GOP cringes
House freshman throws a party - and GOP cringes
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Eric Cantor: Health Care Repeal Will Happen Because “It Was Litigated …
Eric Cantor: Health Care Repeal Will Happen Because “It Was Litigated …
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Michael Steel / gopleader.gov:
Boehner Press Office Responds to Senate Democrats re: Repealing …
Boehner Press Office Responds to Senate Democrats re: Repealing …
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Boehner to livestream opening day of new Congress on Facebook
Boehner to livestream opening day of new Congress on Facebook
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Palin re-tweet raises questions — (CNN) - Normally, it's what Sarah Palin tweets that makes news. This time it's what she has re-tweeted. — The former Alaska governor Monday relayed a comment from gay conservative pundit Tammy Bruce, who was expressing her criticism …
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A Few Brief Thoughts on a Sarah Palin ReTweet — As you can tell from my previous post about the USS Enterprise situation a Palin ReTweet of one of my Tweets seems to have become another story unto itself. I've been getting tons of emails asking me to expand a bit on what I think the RT means.
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Marc Schultz / Publishers Weekly:
Upcoming NewSouth ‘Huck Finn’ Eliminates the ‘N’ Word — Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades …
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Washington Post:
Obama weighs major reshuffling of staff — As President Obama returns from Hawaii, he is weighing a major reshuffling of his staff that could see as many as eight people playing new key roles in the weeks ahead, Democrats familiar with the process said. — Obama has been mulling for months …
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Kevin Connor / Eyes on the Ties:
Obama Considering Chamber of Commerce Insider for Top White House Post
Obama Considering Chamber of Commerce Insider for Top White House Post
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Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Santorum Takes Aim at Romney, Palin — Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., at a Capitol Hill coffee shop, trying to give a jolt to his presidential ambitions. — Rick Santorum the senator didn't shy from controversy. Apparently, neither will Rick Santorum the presidential candidate.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Huckabee's the best bet for now — My main thought on the Republican Presidential field as 2011 begins is that the party needs someone outside the current top 4 of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich to come out of the pack and win the nomination.
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Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
A power grab that the GOP avoided — When the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, some of us will be thinking back to a vote that occurred 15 years earlier to the day. Just two months after securing a congressional majority for the first time in 40 years, Republicans strode into the Senate chamber …
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
Strict Obstructionist — MITCH MCCONNELL IS A MASTER MANIPULATOR …
Strict Obstructionist — MITCH MCCONNELL IS A MASTER MANIPULATOR …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Tea Party skeptics to support Boehner for Speaker, aides say
Tea Party skeptics to support Boehner for Speaker, aides say
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CNN, Ballot Box and TPMDC
Emi Kolawole / Washington Post:
Scalia: Constitution does not protect women against discrimination — Justice Antonin Scalia has weighed in on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, leaving women's rights activists seething. — In an interview with California Lawyer, Scalia said that the Constitution itself does …
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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Citizenship for Babies Looms as Immigration Fight
Citizenship for Babies Looms as Immigration Fight
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callawyer.com:
THE ORIGINALIST — Last October marked the 24th anniversary …
THE ORIGINALIST — Last October marked the 24th anniversary …
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
G.O.P. Sets Up Huge Target for Budget Ax — WASHINGTON — The incoming Republican majority in the House is moving to make good on its promise to cut $100 billion from domestic spending this year, a goal eagerly backed by conservatives but one carrying substantial political and economic risks.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Plans To Implement The ‘Demon Pass’ They Once Decried
GOP Plans To Implement The ‘Demon Pass’ They Once Decried
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Theater Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch — David Koch masks his role as one of the top financiers of the Tea Party movement and pro-polluter front groups by loudly tacking his name to more laudable charities, like the New York city ballet. Koch, who has professed his devotion to …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
9th Circuit Sends Prop. 8 Case Back To California Supreme Court On Certified Question — I just received an automated e-mail from the 9th Circuit, as follows (emphasis mine): … Here is the certified question centering on whether the proponents of Prop. 8 have standing under California state law:
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Robert Cruickshank / Calitics:
Prop 8: 9th Circuit Appears Ready to Grant Proponents Standing to Appeal
Prop 8: 9th Circuit Appears Ready to Grant Proponents Standing to Appeal
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Schumer: Health care foes should forgo coverage — New York Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing Republican members of Congress who oppose last year's health care legislation to decline health coverage for themselves and their families. — Democrats have been trying to cast Republican members' acceptance …
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Freshman Rep. pledges to forgo federal health insurance
Freshman Rep. pledges to forgo federal health insurance
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Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Is Kathy Griffin Going Too Far Targeting 16-Year Old Willow Palin? — Kathy Griffin was booed by U.S. troops when she made “fat jokes” about Bristol Palin at a Dec. 4, 2010 VH1 event. (Reuters) — Kathy Griffin announced her New Year's resolution to continue a verbal assault on the Palin family.
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Carl Court / Newsweek:
Why Journalists Aren't Standing Up for WikiLeaks — Three reasons that efforts to prosecute Julian Assange aren't drawing more of an outcry about the First Amendment. — If you think prosecuting journalists is the province solely of the sort of authoritarian governments in the developing world …
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Judith Miller responds to criticism over Assange slight
Judith Miller responds to criticism over Assange slight
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David Corn / Politics Daily:
The House GOP Weaponizes the Constitution … On Thursday, Capitol Hill Republicans, a day after taking control of the House, intend to read the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. This is, of course, a stunt designed to position the GOPers as the party that really …
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Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
National security isn't on the agenda of the new Republican Congress.
National security isn't on the agenda of the new Republican Congress.
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New York Times:
With New Heart Pump, Cheney Resumes Old Life — By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR — WASHINGTON — A few days before Christmas, former Vice President Dick Cheney emerged from several months of a self-imposed political sabbatical to headline a fund-raiser for Maria Cino …
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Koran Addo / WBRZ-TV:
Mass La. bird deaths puzzle investigators — LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them. — State biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths …
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Palestinian Media Watch:
Arab kids sing “May our blood be shed” in school in East Jerusalem — Arab kids in Sur Baher, Jerusalem — taught to sing: — “May our blood be shed” — by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik — A Hamas terrorist arrested last month for planning to shoot a missile at a sports stadium …
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David Hinckley / NY Daily News:
Glenn Beck dropped by New York's WOR radio station over poor ratings, replaced by Mike Gallagher — Glenn Beck may be one of the hottest talk show hosts in the country, but he apparently left New York's WOR cold. — WOR (710 AM), one of the city's two biggest talk radio stations …
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The Moderate Voice and AOL News
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Strained States Turning to Laws to Curb Labor Unions — Faced with growing budget deficits and restive taxpayers, elected officials from Maine to Alabama, Ohio to Arizona, are pushing new legislation to limit the power of labor unions, particularly those representing government workers, in collective bargaining and politics.
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James Meikle / Guardian:
Gerry Rafferty dies aged 63 — Singer-songwriter behind Stuck in the Middle with You and Baker Street endured battles with music industry and alcohol — The singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, whose songs such as Stuck in the Middle with You, Baker Street and Get it Right Next Time soundtracked the 1970s …
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JTA:
Bibi sends Obama letter requesting Pollard release — WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu wrote President Obama urging clemency for Jonathan Pollard. — “At the time of his arrest, Jonathan Pollard was acting as an agent of the Israeli government,” Netanyahu wrote in his letter, sent Tuesday.
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