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Ezra Klein:
Joe Lieberman: Democratic hero? — If you look back over the past two years, perhaps the most consequential decision made by President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was to give Joe Lieberman his chairmanship, even though Lieberman had endorsed John McCain in the 2008 campaign.
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The Politico:
Lieberman won't run again — Sen. Joe Lieberman is retiring from the Senate in 2012, closing out a two-decade career that saw him rise to the Democratic presidential ticket only to be dismissed by his own state party a few years later over his support for the war in Iraq.
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David M. Halbfinger / City Room:
Lieberman Will Not Run for Re-election — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman will announce on Wednesday that he will not seek a fifth term, according to a person he told of his decision. — Mr. Lieberman, whose term is up in 2012, chose to retire rather than risk being defeated, said the person, who spoke to the senator on Tuesday.
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Steven Shepard / Hotline On Call:
Bysiewicz Poll Shows Her Leading Lieberman
Bysiewicz Poll Shows Her Leading Lieberman
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Weekly Standard and National Review
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Joe Lieberman to retire in 2012
Joe Lieberman to retire in 2012
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Booman Tribune, Politics Daily, New York Magazine, USA Today and Joe. My. God.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Report: Lieberman to announce retirement tomorrow
Report: Lieberman to announce retirement tomorrow
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Daily Ructions, CNN, Public Policy Polling and Weekly Standard
Jon Lender / Capitol Watch:
Lieberman To Reveal 2012 Plans Wednesday In Stamford; Insiders …
Lieberman To Reveal 2012 Plans Wednesday In Stamford; Insiders …
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msnbc.com:
FBI: Spokane bomb is ‘domestic terrorism’ — In an interview on msnbc cable's “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Spokesman-Review reporter Thomas Clouse said confidential sources told him that the device was equipped with a remote control detonator and contained shrapnel.
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Spokesman.com:
FBI says backpack on Spokane parade route was a bomb — The abandoned backpack found Monday along the route of Spokane's annual Martin Luther King Jr. march contained a bomb capable of inflicting “multiple casualties,” the FBI has confirmed. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation's terrorism task force …
Rob Kauder / KXLY-TV:
Device Found Along MLK Parade Route Credible Threat
Device Found Along MLK Parade Route Credible Threat
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The Jawa Report, POWIP and Rumproast
Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
FBI: Bomb Planted Along MLK Day Parade Route In Spokane
FBI: Bomb Planted Along MLK Day Parade Route In Spokane
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Hullabaloo
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Palin shoots herself in the foot — Sarah Palin might have really squandered an opportunity to improve her image last week. — Despite endless discussion in the wake of the Arizona shootings about whether Palin might bear any responsibility for fostering an atmosphere conducive to such an attack …
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Marissa Calhoun / CNN:
CNN Poll: Palin unfavorable rating at all time high — Washington (CNN) - A new national poll indicates that 56 percent of all Americans have an unfavorable view of Sarah Palin, an all-time high for the former Alaska governor. That 56 percent unfavorable figure is up seven points …
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GOP 12
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Boehner Favorability Jumps; Obama Back Above 50%
Boehner Favorability Jumps; Obama Back Above 50%
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Chicken, The Egg, The Media and Sarah Palin
The Chicken, The Egg, The Media and Sarah Palin
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Commentary, Washington Post and Prairie Weather
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Video Captured ‘Calculated’ Gunman in Tucson — TUCSON — The chief investigator for the sheriff's department here has for the first time publicly described the brief and gory video clip from a store security camera that shows a gunman not only shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords …
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Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
Sargent Shriver's Death Severs the Last Major Link to the Kennedy Years … Minutes after Wyoming's 15 votes vaulted him over the top at the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, John Kennedy arrived, under police escort, at the cottage that served as his political campaign center.
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ABCNEWS:
Peace Corps Founder Sargent Shriver Dies
Peace Corps Founder Sargent Shriver Dies
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msnbc.com, The Politico, The Moderate Voice and First Draft
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
R. Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps Leader, Dies at 95
R. Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps Leader, Dies at 95
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The Daily Beast, The Democratic Daily and Gothamist
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
CNN Apologizes For Guest Using Term “Crosshairs” — CNN's John King: “Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race. My friend Andy Shaw used the term ‘in the crosshairs’ in talking about the candidates.
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The Note:
The Death of “Job Killing” — ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports: — During his Pen & Pad briefing on Jan. 4, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the phrase “job killing” eight times over the course of the briefing. — Cantor, R-Virginia, used the term earlier this month to describe everything from …
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Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
Sheila Jackson Lee Says Repealing ObamaCare Violates Constitution — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution. — Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare …
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Tom Junod / Esquire:
Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America? — An exclusive and unbiased investigation into the highly paid operative of a foreign-born tycoon, a man who reengineered political and media culture and fomented a revolt that threatens the very stability of our country — Paranoid?
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Libtalker Doubles-Down On Hateful Speech — ‘I WISH I COULD’ — Liberal Hate-Talker Dreams Of Choking Rush To Death — Just as a new report details how state-run media networks have used the Arizona shootings to attack conservative voices (by an eight-to-one ratio) …
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. officials privately say WikiLeaks damage limited — (Reuters) - Internal U.S. government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to U.S. interests abroad, despite the Obama administration's public statements to the contrary.
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Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
The new Clintonian Obama is playing offense, and building momentum — Three months after an electoral “shellacking” that threatened to derail his agenda and his reelection, Obama is on a roll. — President Obama — the centrist, Clintonian version — is rolling.
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Rory Carroll / Guardian:
‘Baby Doc’ charged with corruption — Former dictator faces charges relating to his 15-year rule after being hauled before a judge in Port-au Prince — Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier was charged with corruption and the theft of his country's meagre funds last night after the former Haitian dictator …
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The Politico:
Muslim groups nervous about King hearings — American Muslim leaders, who have struggled to present a clear public voice or organize politically in the decade since Sept. 11, are increasingly apprehensive about the direction Rep. Pete King will take when he convenes hearings next month on the threat posed by radical Islam in America.
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The Moderate Voice and Atlas Shrugs
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Report: Pakistani spy agency rushed Mullah Omar to hospital — Mullah Omar, the elusive, one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, had a heart attack Jan. 7 and was treated for several days in a Karachi hospital with the help of Pakistan's spy agency, according to a private intelligence network run …
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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Do Republican critiques of the healthcare law add up? — As they campaign to repeal the law, they argue that it will hurt the job market and add to the federal budget deficit. — Reporting from Washington — In their campaign to repeal the healthcare overhaul President Obama signed last year …
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Colin Fernandez / Daily Mail:
'Wear the hijab or I'll kill you, cousin told girl': Muslim tells of terrifying phone threats — A man threatened to kill his cousin and harm her family after she decided to stop wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf, a court has heard. — Mohamed Al-Hakim, 29, allegedly phoned Alya Al-Safar …
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Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
Bradley Blackburn / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Gabrielle Giffords' Husband Mark Kelly Says She Feared She Would Be Shot — Giffords' Husband Tells Diane Sawyer Representative Job Is ‘Risky’ and Not Sure Wife Should Stay in Congress — For 20 crushing minutes, Mark Kelly thought that his wife Gabrielle Giffords had died.
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