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10:40 AM ET, January 25, 2011

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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Scalia: No plans to attend Obama's State of the Union address  —  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told The Hill on Monday evening that he does not plan on attending the State of the Union address on Tuesday.  —  The conservative-leaning jurist said that he hasn't “gone to the State …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't be fully represented at State of the Union  —  The Supreme Court finds itself again in the political limelight, a place most justices try to avoid.  —  A combination of events, concluding with the question of which justices will attend President Obama's State …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Thomas Cites Failure to Disclose Wife's Job
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Clarence Thomas revises disclosure forms
Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
White House Lawyer Tapped for Solicitor General
ABCNEWS:   Justice Clarence Thomas Amends 20 Years of Disclosure Forms With Wife's Employers
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Obama won't endorse raising retirement age or reducing Social Security benefits  —  President Obama has decided not to endorse his deficit commission's recommendation to raise the retirement age, and otherwise reduce Social Security benefits, in Tuesday's State of the Union address …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Rep. Eric Cantor: ‘No bailout of the states’
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:   GOP House stands ‘unapologetically for life,’ says Cantor
CNN:
Top Senate Budget Republican not ruling out government shutdown
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Says Chinese Folk Song Played During State Dinner Was Not An Insult; Experts Divided  —  Ivories that were tickled last Wednesday night at the White House are, to some conservative media, no laughing matter.  —  At the White House State Dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Carol Browner to leave White House  —  Carol M. Browner, President Barack Obama's energy adviser, plans to leave the White House in coming weeks, White House officials said Monday night.  —  Browner, who is Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, was EPA administrator …
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Pre-State of the Union, Democratic Talking Heads Briefed at White House
Discussion: American Thinker and Daily Kos
The Hill:
GOP to push for D.C. gay marriage ban  —  House conservatives say they will pursue legislation that would ban gay marriage in the nation's capital.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), told The Hill that he will push for a vote on the controversial issue in the 112th Congress.
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National Archives and Records Administration:
National Archives Discovers Date Change on Lincoln Record  —  Thomas Lowry Confesses to Altering Lincoln Pardon to April 14, 1865  —  Washington, DC...Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced today that Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, VA …
Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
Obama wants Rahm Emanuel back on the Chicago mayor ballot  —  President Barack Obama wants former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to stay on the Chicago mayoral ballot, a top presidential confidante said Tuesday.  —  “I think that [Obama] believes that [Emanuel] is eligible …
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Tribune:
Judicial arrogance  —  With startling arrogance and audaciously …
The Note:
The Note: Your Guide To The State Of The Union
Discussion: ABCNEWS, New York Times and CNN
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Report: George W. Bush aides violated Hatch Act  —  During the 2006 midterm elections, White House political aides to President George W. Bush engaged in widespread violations of a federal law which limits partisan political activity by government employees, a long-running federal investigation has found.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Bush White House Broke Elections Law, Report Says
Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Bachmann: SOTU rebuttal is not a ‘competition’ with Ryan  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said her rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address tomorrow isn't a “competition” with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who's delivering the official Republican response.  —  “This is not a competition,” Bachmann said.
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CNN:
Pawlenty embraces underdog mantle in New Hampshire
Discussion: GOP 12
Jim Miklaszewski / msnbc.com:
NBC: U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange  —  Military also denies allegations that Bradley Manning is being mistreated  —  Below:  —  U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected …
Ross McGuinness / Metro.co.uk:
Dentist uses sexy dresses to distract patients  —  Advanced drugs can cure many ills, new technology can revolutionise surgery but sometimes a low-cut, sorry lo-tech, solution is all you need - one dentist has bought herself and her ten nurses tight-fitting, cleavage-maximising dresses to distract worried patients while they work.
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Politics Insider: Nevada Republican to attend film release  —  Sharron Angle, the tea party-backed candidate who mounted a hard-fought campaign against U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last fall, will attend the national premiere in Johnston of a film that highlights the intersection of faith and science.
Reuters:
Financial Crisis Commission Finds Cause For Prosecution Of Wall Street  —  The bipartisan panel appointed by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has concluded that several financial industry figures appear to have broken the law and has referred multiple cases to state or federal authorities …
Amy Forliti / Associated Press:
Ventura sues over body scans, pat-downs  —  Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Raising False Alarms  —  If there's a better government program than Social Security, I'd like to know what it is.  —  It has gone a long way toward eliminating poverty among the elderly.  Great numbers of them used to live and die in ghastly, Dickensian conditions of extreme want.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Poll: Cut Social Security benefits or raise payroll cap?  Not even close
Discussion: Wonk Room and ThinkProgress
KABY-TV:
South Dakota legislators set State of the Union expectations … Tuesday night President Obama will address the country in his State of the Union address.  Action News asked South Dakota members of congress what they want to hear from the President.  —  The White House says the President will talk a lot about jobs and the economy.
Discussion: GOP 12
Robert M. Danin / Foreign Policy:
NastyLeaks  —  Far from a triumph for transparency, the Palestine Papers are a victory for the enemies of peace in the Middle East — but only if Palestinian leaders embrace Al Jazeera's narrative.  —  The Palestine Papers — more than 1,600 internal Palestinian documents summarizing negotiations …
Discussion: Guardian, Firedoglake and The Lede
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Guardian:
Palestinian negotiators accept Jewish state, papers reveal
 
 
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