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Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Attention Fox Nation: There Is More Than One Version Of The Bible — Conservatives have spent the last several years trying to cast doubt on President Obama's Christianity, often by suggesting he is a secret Muslim or claiming that he is a non-believer pretending to be Christian for political benefit.
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly and Religion Dispatches
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Romalley / Fox Nation:
Obama Botches Bible Verse at Prayer Breakfast — President Obama misquoted a familiar Bible verse during a faith-based address at the National Prayer Breakfast. — “Those who wait on the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary, and they will walk and not faint …
Julia A. Seymour / Media Research Center:
Santelli Slams CNBC Panelists for Spinning Jobs Report — CNBC's floor reporter criticizes ‘kool-aid drinkers’ for trying to find good news in the ‘disappointing.’ — Jobs are heading up and down at the same time. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the morning of Feb. 4 …
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Laura Conaway / The Maddow Blog:
Republicans totally, totally focused on jobs
Republicans totally, totally focused on jobs
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Washington Monthly and The Politico
Calculated Risk:
January Employment Report: 36,000 Jobs, 9.0% Unemployment Rate
January Employment Report: 36,000 Jobs, 9.0% Unemployment Rate
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The Atlantic Online, Free exchange, New York Times, Economix, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos and Economist's View
Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobless Rate Falls to 9%; Payrolls Rise by Only 36,000
U.S. Jobless Rate Falls to 9%; Payrolls Rise by Only 36,000
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New Deal 2.0, Brookings Institute, Rortybomb and New York Times
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama's Approval Ratings More Polarized in Year 2 Than Year 1 — Ranks as fourth-most-polarized year for a president since 1953 — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval ratings were even more polarized during his second year in office than during his first …
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Moonbattery, Hotline On Call, Raw Story, Pajamas Media, The Atlantic Online, Ballot Box, Conservatives4Palin, Cubachi, Commentary, Instapundit and HillBuzz.org
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Poll reveals striking divide on Obama
Poll reveals striking divide on Obama
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Weasel Zippers and Scared Monkeys
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Rand Paul: End ‘welfare’ to Israel — Tea party-backed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) isn't sure that congressional Republicans have the guts to make the big budget cuts they've promised and, he said, members of the movement are becoming frustrated. — “There's a disconnect between Republicans …
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Cubachi, ABCNEWS, The Plum Line, Commentary, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Raw Story and FrumForum
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Rand Paul sole GOP holdout on laser pointer bill
Rand Paul sole GOP holdout on laser pointer bill
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Washington Monthly
Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
Kerry's sharp eye on the secretary spot — AS EGYPT battles over its future, Senator John Kerry is negotiating his own. — The Bay State's senior senator is running an unofficial campaign to become the next secretary of state. For once, he looks artful, as well as ambitious.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Liberal Values, Sister Toldjah, Swampland and The Gateway Pundit
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egyptians Defy Crackdown With New Mass Protests — CAIRO — Cracks in the Egyptian establishment's support for President Hosni Mubarak began to appear Friday as jubilant crowds of hundreds of thousands packed the capital's central Tahrir Square to call for his ouster, this time unmolested …
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The Politico:
Finger-pointing begins on Egypt — The debate over who “lost” Egypt seems to have begun. — Critics are openly questioning the quality of information and analysis given to President Barack Obama by U.S. intelligence agencies in the days leading up to the dramatic uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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The Gateway Pundit, UrbanGrounds, Wake up America and Right Wing News
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Jeremy Schulman / Media Matters for America:
Why Is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio? — When the anti-abortion rights propagandists at Live Action began releasing their Planned Parenthood smear videos earlier this week, we explained that their claim that Planned Parenthood was covering-up “child sex trafficking” was clearly a lie.
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Feministe, pandagon.net, Hullabaloo, The Mahablog, Daily Kos and RHRealityCheck.org
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell: No deals with Obama on healthcare reform — Republicans aren't likely to bury the hatchet with President Obama over the healthcare reform act, their Senate leader said Friday. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), fresh off an unsuccessful vote on Wednesday …
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The New Republic, FrumForum and The Plum Line
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Open Left is closing — I have some sad news. After nearly four years in operation, today will be the final day Open Left publishes new content. — The site will not disappear, and all published content will remain online, but after today we will cease producing new content.
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Donklephant and Ben Smith's Blog
New York Observer:
Elizabeth Spiers Taking Over As Editor In Chief of The New York Observer — Elizabeth Spiers is taking over as Editor-in-Chief of The Observer today, overseeing both the print and digital content. — “I am very excited to be working with Elizabeth to further build on the great progress we have made over the past few years.
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Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, Media Decoder, The Wire and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Justice Scalia, Not Kennedy, Eyed As Key Vote In Support Of Health Care … WASHINGTON — Observers of the legal drama surrounding President Obama's health care reform legislation have reached two broad conclusions: that it will ultimately be ruled on by the Supreme Court, and that Justice Anthony Kennedy will be the deciding vote.
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The Plum Line, The New Republic, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and FrumForum
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Scores Legal Victory On Health Care
Obama Administration Scores Legal Victory On Health Care
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ThinkProgress, ACS Blog, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Reuters:
Special report: Jamie Dimon wants some R-E-S-P-E-C-T — Jamie Dimon, CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co, answers a question during an interview in his office in New York December 22, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson — NEW YORK (Reuters) - What's eating Jamie Dimon?
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Graphical Overview of the 2012 Republican Field — There is almost exactly one year to go until the Iowa caucuses, which are tentatively scheduled to take place on Feb. 6, 2012. No mainstream Republican candidate has yet declared for the presidency, but that is sure to change soon …
Telegraph:
WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets — The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain's nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. — HMS Vanguard is Britain's lead Trident-armed submarine.
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The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit and Pajamas Media
Bruce Siceloff / Raleigh News & Observer:
Citizen activist grates on state over traffic signals — RALEIGH — David N. Cox says he was merely exercising his right to petition the government, but a state Department of Transportation official has raised allegations that Cox committed a misdemeanor: practicing engineering without a license.
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Hit & Run, Right Wing News, Yglesias and Instapundit
The Politico:
Justice Thomas's wife Virginia Thomas now a lobbyist — She started as a congressional aide in the 1980s, became a midlevel Republican operative, then briefly left politics, reemerging in 2009 as founder of a tea party group, before stepping down amid 'continued questions about whether …
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Washington Monthly, Wonkette, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones and FrumForum
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Toward a soft landing in Egypt — Who doesn't love a democratic revolution? Who is not moved by the renunciation of fear and the reclamation of dignity in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria? — The worldwide euphoria that has greeted the Egyptian uprising is understandable.
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Power Line, Wonk Room, LobeLog.com, Betsy's Page, Guardian, PostPartisan, RubinReports and The Daily Dish
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Bad Faith of Mandate Critics, Part 2 — Read part 1 of this argument here. — The conservative legal brief against the Affordable Care Act rests heavily on a simple proposition. Government can't make us obtain private insurance because, as the argument goes, that would be forcing us to buy a private product.
Daily Mail / The Mail on Sunday:
Sarah Palin is a ‘soap opera’ out to make money, says Ronald Reagan's son — The son of the former US president Ronald Reagan has branded Sarah Palin a ‘soap opera’ ahead of a speech she will give honouring his late father. — Ron Reagan said that he doesn't see anything in common between …
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Cubachi and Michelle Malkin
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Unions Can Bargain on Behalf of Airport Security — WASHINGTON — Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf …
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Weasel Zippers and OpenMarket.org
Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
House Chatter on C-Span? Not This Session. — It looks like C-SPAN viewers will have to wait another two years - at least - to get close up coverage of the arm twisting and fat chewing that occurs daily on the House floor. — Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) this week rejected …
Melissa Clouthier / melissaclouthier's Diary:
Should Libertarians Be Banned From CPAC? — Maybe it's time to define Conservatism. People throw around the term and it's getting almost as used, abused, caricatured and feigned-persecuted as the term RINO-everyone's favorite fallback when they choose political expedience over principle.
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Liberty Pundits Blog, Riehl World View and Libertarian Republican