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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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Religion Dispatches, Washington Monthly, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Moderate Voice
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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 …
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The White House, minx.cc, No More Mister Nice Blog, Grim's Hall, Weasel Zippers, Zandar Versus The Stupid, The Mahablog and CNN
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, Big Journalism, Hullabaloo, pandagon.net, The Mahablog, Daily Kos and RHRealityCheck.org
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Jeremy Holden / Media Matters for America:
Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her Credibility Once And For All — In her latest video dump, James O'Keefe protégé Lila Rose shows a Planned Parenthood employee telling a man who claims to be a sex worker that clinics are required to report statutory rape and that minors are required …
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pandagon.net and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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, Conservatives4Palin, Cubachi, The Atlantic Online, Ballot Box, Commentary, HillBuzz.org and Instapundit
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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
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, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Nice Deb and Pajamas Media
UPI:
Judge tosses healthcare reform challenge — A federal judge in Mississippi Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. healthcare reform law enacted in 2010. — Judge Keith Starrett of the U.S. District Court Southern District of Mississippi in Hattiesburg found state …
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Outside the Beltway
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell: No deals with Obama on healthcare reform
McConnell: No deals with Obama on healthcare reform
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The New Republic, FrumForum and The Plum Line
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
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Could Palin Use Speech to End Silence on Egypt?
Could Palin Use Speech to End Silence on Egypt?
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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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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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Liberal Values, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Sister Toldjah, Swampland and The Gateway Pundit
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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The Atlantic Online, Economix, Hot Air, Calculated Risk, NewsBusters.org blogs, New York Times, Scared Monkeys and Instapundit
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, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, The New Republic 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 and Raw Story
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Sarah Palin trademark application refused - for now — (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's bid to trademark both her name and that of her daughter Bristol ran into trouble at the Patent and Trademark Office because the application forms were not signed, government records show.
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Indecision Forever, Salon, Weigel and Oliver Willis
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, Outside the Beltway, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Hot Air, Raw Story and FrumForum
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 …
Laura Conaway / The Maddow Blog:
Republicans totally, totally focused on jobs — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor today tried again today to convince America that Republicans are all about economy and not the culture wars. Too many Americans remain unemployed, he tweets, and “that's why all our efforts are centered around jobs.”
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The Politico, Washington Monthly and Yglesias
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP: Drop in unemployment rate not enough
GOP: Drop in unemployment rate not enough
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White House.gov Blog, Reuters, AOL News, The Plum Line and Daily Kos
Molly Ball / The Politico:
Democratic National Committee: No corporate cash at Charlotte convention — For the first time ever, the Democratic National Convention will not accept donations from corporations, PACs or federal lobbyists in 2012. — Individual contributions also will be capped — another first …
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CNN
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
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 …
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
Rasmussen Reports:
54% Say States Should Have Right To Opt Out of Health Care Law — More than half the states are challenging the constitutionality of the new federal health care law in court, many focusing on the requirement that every American must have health insurance. More voters than ever oppose …
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Wonk Room, The Gateway Pundit and HotAirPundit
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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Crooks and Liars, Weigel, Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones, Wonkette 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 and The Daily Dish
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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Paul Krugman and Yglesias
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.
Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog:
You Can't Believe Everything You Read — As valuable as the internet can be in helping to spread information, most people know that you can't believe everything you read, and they should check the source before relaying every alarming story they read. One such story is going around …
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The Politico and Media Matters for America
Melissa Clouthier / RedState:
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