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Chicago Tribune:
Judicial arrogance — With startling arrogance and audaciously twisted reasoning, two appellate judges ignored more than 100 years of legal precedent, invented a new definition of “residency” and ordered Rahm Emanuel off the Feb. 22 mayoral ballot. — With the election just four weeks away …
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Supreme Court: Emanuel stays on ballot while his case is considered — The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to put Rahm Emanuel's name back on the mayoral ballot. — The court has not decided whether to hear Emanuel's appeal …
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Supreme Court will hear appeal of ruling knocking Emanuel off ballot — The Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear the appeal of a court decision that knocked Rahm Emanuel out of the mayoral race. — Earlier Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Rahm back on ballot
Breaking: Rahm back on ballot
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General
Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General
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Jess Bravin / Washington Wire:
Six on Supreme Court to Attend State of the Union
Six on Supreme Court to Attend State of the Union
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Taegan Goddard's … and Hit & Run
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Illinois Supreme Court will hear Emanuel's case
Illinois Supreme Court will hear Emanuel's case
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Chicago Tribune, PostPartisan, Indecision Forever and OpenSecrets.org
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Emanuel takes steps to stay in Chicago mayoral race
Emanuel takes steps to stay in Chicago mayoral race
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Ben Smith's Blog, CNN and TPMDC
First Read / msnbc.com:
Ill. court issues stay; Rahm back on the ballot
Ill. court issues stay; Rahm back on the ballot
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The Atlantic Online
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Thomas Cites Failure to Disclose Wife's Job
Thomas Cites Failure to Disclose Wife's Job
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Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
Obama wants Rahm Emanuel back on the Chicago mayor ballot
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Emanuel narcissistic, opponents tell court
Emanuel narcissistic, opponents tell court
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The Politico and Ben Smith's Blog
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
President Obama to Propose Partial Budget Freeze and Earmark Ban Tonight* — Pursuing a path of deficit reduction and government reform, President Obama will tonight in his State of the Union address call for a ban on earmarks and he will propose a five year budget freeze …
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Ezra Klein:
What the speech has done already — The president won't give his annual State of the Union address until later tonight, but in an important way, the speech has already worked. For the past week or so, news report after news report has dutifully relayed the argument the president is planning …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Pelosi spurns Cantor on seating — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) invited Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to sit next to him at the State of the Union address — but the former House Speaker says she's already committed. — “I thank @GOPLeader for his #SOTU offer …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Michele Bachmann Not Doing Republicans A Favor By Giving Tea Party SOTU Response
Michele Bachmann Not Doing Republicans A Favor By Giving Tea Party SOTU Response
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The Plum Line, Little Green Footballs, The Fix and Lez Get Real
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Pelosi not sitting with Cantor, despite his invitation
Pelosi not sitting with Cantor, despite his invitation
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New York Times:
Broad Protests Across Egypt Focus Fury on Mubarak — CAIRO — Thousands of people calling for the end of the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with riot police in this Egyptian capital on Tuesday, on a day of some of the most serious civil unrest in recent memory here.
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Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
Inspired by Tunisia, Egypt's protests appear unprecedented
Inspired by Tunisia, Egypt's protests appear unprecedented
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Bachmann says she's “not in competition with Paul Ryan” — Washington (CNN) - Representative Michele Bachmann tells CNN at the top of her post State of the Union speech she will announce that her remarks are not the official Republican response. — She says she's spoken with Representative Paul Ryan …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN justifies airing Bachmann speech: “Tea Party has become major …
CNN justifies airing Bachmann speech: “Tea Party has become major …
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GOP 12, Politics Daily, Taegan Goddard's …, Daily Kos, Weigel and The Hill
Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Bachmann: SOTU rebuttal is not a ‘competition’ with Ryan
Bachmann: SOTU rebuttal is not a ‘competition’ with Ryan
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CNN, Crooks and Liars, Cubachi, Washington Monthly, USA Today, No More Mister Nice Blog and Pajamas Media
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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O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Gingrich attacks “big city” critics of ethanol — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich today dismissed the “big city” critics of corn-based ethanol and suggested the biofuels industry will be able to “stand on its own” without federal subsidies once all autos are “flexible-fuel” vehicles.
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Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Gingrich, Pence and Bachmann could beat history
Gingrich, Pence and Bachmann could beat history
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A plain blog about politics
Alex Wagner / Politics Daily:
House Approves Spending Cuts in Largely Symbolic Vote … In a highly partisan vote, the House passed 256 to 165 a nonbinding measure to block additional government spending and reduce the federal budget to pre-stimulus 2008 levels. — The bill also would give Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) …
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Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans wrestle with dissent on budget cuts
Republicans wrestle with dissent on budget cuts
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The Agonist
Matt Yglesias / Yglesias:
Breaking the News — The basic phenomenon is nothing new, but the only thing preventing me from saying that the ratio of articles about Rahm Emannuel's mayoral bid to information about Emannuel's views on urban policy is almost infinite is my strong suspicion that the denominator is actually zero.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Various matters — (updated below) — The combination of a mild (I'm hoping) flu and the all-consuming fixation by many on Obama's speech tonight makes this a good time to raise several discrete matters worth noting: — (1) Last month, The New York Times' Charlie Savage reported that the DOJ …
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Teri Buhl / The Atlantic Online:
E-mails Show Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions — Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Poll: Unpopularity of reform jumps 9 points — Public opposition to the health care reform law spiked to a record high in a new poll out today — but Americans don't necessarily want Republicans to spend time trying to dismantle it. — Fifty percent of Americans have unfavorable views of the law …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“History tells us” something that history doesn't tell us, say sociologists stumbling to protect Frances Fox Piven. — Here's the expression of “outrage” by the officers of the American Sociological Association: … So vigorous debate about Piven's ideas is really important …
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New York Times:
'98 Embassy Bomber Is Sentenced to Life Without Parole — Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first former Guantánamo Bay camp detainee to be tried in the civilian court system, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for his role in the 1998 bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa.
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.
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