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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Fear of being committed may have caused Connecticut gunman to snap — NEWTOWN, CONN. - The gunman who slaughtered 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school may have snapped because his mother was planning to commit him to a psychiatric facility …
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Adam Lanza's weapons — Has technology rendered the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution obsolete? — That is, has the application of modern military design to civilian firearms produced a class of weapons too dangerous to be in general circulation? — We say: Yes.
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
White House Gets More Specific on Gun Control Measures the President Might Back — President Barack Obama walks off stage after delivering a speech at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 at Newtown High School in Newtown …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Sandy Hook: The Corrections Begin — I noted here that the news media's performance on the Sandy Hook elementary school murders has been terrible, with news outlets committing one factual error after another. Yet in all the calls for “soul searching” that have followed Adam Lanza's rampage …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Michigan Gov. Snyder vetoes concealed gun bill — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) vetoed a concealed carry gun bill on Tuesday. — The bill would have let concealed gun owners with additional permits carry their weapons in places where it was previously illegal to carry them such as places of worship, bars, schools, and stadiums.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Tennessee Considers Training And Arming Schoolteachers To Protect Against Shootings
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Cerberus Capital Management Statement Regarding Freedom Group, Inc.
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Susan Candiotti / CNN:
Sporting goods chain suspends sale of certain semi-automatic after shooting
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Amy Hunter / WTOP.com:
McDonnell: It's time to discuss arming school officials
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Pelosi Backed Boehner's Tax Cut Proposal — A new tax on millionaires, if talks fail. — Image by Jason Reed / Reuters — WASHINGTON — Speaker of the House John Boehner's “Plan B” to avert the fiscal cliff would cut taxes for incomes under $1 million — a higher threshold than the White House demands …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dick Durbin: No cut in Social Security benefits — This may cheer liberals who are worried that the White House is giving too much ground to Republicans by proposing “Chained CPI” for Social Security as part of a final fiscal cliff deal — in effect agreeing to a cut in Social Security benefits.
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Paul Krugman:
The Deal Dilemma — First things first: cutting Social Security …
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Obama Hits Social Security In Fiscal Cliff Offer Friendlier To The Wealthy
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BuzzFeed:
NRA Promises “Meaningful” Contributions — The gun group breaks its silence. “We were shocked, saddened, and heartbroken.” — National Rifle Association spokesman Andrew Arulanandam emails the first statement from the organization since Friday's massacre in Newtown.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NRA News has already addressed Newtown
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Senate Republicans May Oppose Hagel SecDef Nomination — Senate Republicans signaled Tuesday afternoon that they may put up a fight if Barack Obama nominates former Nebraska Republican senator Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense. — Asked about Hagel's 2008 statement that the …
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
EXCLUSIVE: ADL pans possible Chuck Hagel pick
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Snyder's popularity plummets — Just last month when we took a first look at the 2014 landscape we talked about how much Rick Snyder had improved his popularity during his second year in office and how he led a generic Democrat for reelection by 6 points, even as Barack Obama won the state comfortably.
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SOM - State of Michigan:
Snyder vetoes concealed pistol bill, OKs process to streamline purchases
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Gov. Rick Snyder / Detroit Free Press:
Snyder vetoes concealed weapons bill
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Adam Weinstein / Mother Jones:
Do Your Senators Support an Assault Weapons Ban? — Some of the answers may surprise you. — Flickr/Brian.ch — Barely 48 hours after the Newtown massacre, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced that she'd introduce “a bill to ban assault weapons” on day one of the next congressional session.
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William La Jeunesse / Fox News:
Gun sales surge after Connecticut massacre
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
President Obama to push assault weapons ban in second term
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House: Obama would support new gun laws
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Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos — In its first big policy shift since Facebook bought the photo-sharing site, Instagram claims the right to sell users' photos without payment or notification. Oh, and there's no way to opt out. — Instagram said today …
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Scott Wong / Politico:
Inouye to lie in state in Capitol Rotunda — Sen. Daniel Inouye will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda as early as Thursday, two sources told POLITICO, a rare honor usually reserved for presidents and other historical figures. — Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat, died Monday at age 88 from respiratory complications.
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Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
412 US Senators Who Served with Daniel Inouye
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Leslie Eastman / Col·lege In·sur·rec· tion:
Rhode Island prof demands NRA chief's “head on a stick” (Update - deletes Twitter account) — Erik Loomis is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Rhode Island. He also blogs at “Lawyers Guns and Money” blog. — In reaction to the murders in Connecticut …
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Cass R. Sunstein / Bloomberg:
Gun Debate Must Avoid Crazy 2nd Amendment Claims — The rise of the Second Amendment as a serious obstacle to U.S. gun control legislation is astonishingly recent. — Its rise is a tribute less to the vision of the Founding Fathers than to the skill, money and power of the contemporary gun-rights movement …
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Aaron Hicklin / Out Magazine:
Nate Silver: Person of the Year — His forecasts for the 2012 election became the talk of the chattering classes. Now that he's vanquished his critics, what's next for the brainiac? — Photography by Mike McGregor — Nate Silver wants to know if I've seen Jiro Dreams of Sushi …
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Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries — OVERVIEW — As President Barack Obama negotiates with Republicans in Congress over federal entitlement spending, a new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that a majority of Americans (55%) have received government benefits from at least …
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New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's head fake — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to face a grilling from Congress this week over the terrorist attacks in Benghazi when she started channeling the late poet Shel Silverstein. — “I have the measles and the mumps / A gash, a rash and purple bumps …
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Steven Nelson / US News:
South Carolina Lawmakers Propose 5-Year Jail Sentence for ‘Obamacare’ Implementation — Federal officials could face fines and jail terms under proposed legislation — Nullification is yet again picking up steam in Dixie. — Pursuing an archaic legal theory that punctuated pre-Civil War disputes between …
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