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New York Post:
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.
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PR Newswire:
Cerberus Capital Management Statement Regarding Freedom Group, Inc. — We were shocked and deeply saddened by the events that took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT on December 14, 2012. We cannot comprehend the losses suffered by the families and friends of those killed …
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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New York Times, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog and American Prospect
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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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Susan Candiotti / CNN:
Sporting goods chain suspends sale of certain semi-automatic after shooting — Mourners leave Honan Funeral Home after attending the funeral for Jack Pinto, 6, one of the youngest victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, on Monday, December 17, in Newtown, Connecticut.
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DealBook, ABCNEWS, ABCNEWS, PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, Quartz, Shakesville, Mediaite and Shot in the Dark
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
White House Gets More Specific on Gun Control Measures the President Might Back
White House Gets More Specific on Gun Control Measures the President Might Back
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Mediaite, Washington Examiner and ABCNEWS
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Cerberus: We want out of gun biz
Cerberus: We want out of gun biz
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The Raw Story, emptywheel and Politicker
Amy Hunter / WTOP.com:
McDonnell: It's time to discuss arming school officials
McDonnell: It's time to discuss arming school officials
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George Zornick / The Nation:
How Walmart Helped Make Newtown Shooter's AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America
How Walmart Helped Make Newtown Shooter's AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America
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Politicker and Quartz
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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The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, Wonkblog, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, ABCNEWS, Hit & Run, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Paul Krugman:
The Deal Dilemma — First things first: cutting Social Security …
The Deal Dilemma — First things first: cutting Social Security …
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The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Washington Free Beacon and msnbc.com
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
President Delivers a New Offer on the Fiscal Crisis to Boehner
President Delivers a New Offer on the Fiscal Crisis to Boehner
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House: Obama would support new gun laws
White House: Obama would support new gun laws
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The Hill, UrbanGrounds, Weasel Zippers, Gawker and msnbc.com
Justin Sink / The Hill:
President Obama to push assault weapons ban in second term
President Obama to push assault weapons ban in second term
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protein wisdom
William La Jeunesse / Fox News:
Gun sales surge after Connecticut massacre
Gun sales surge after Connecticut massacre
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New York Times, Runnin' Scared, Fox News Insider and Wake up America
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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Weasel Zippers, Little Green Footballs, The Week and Mediaite
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NRA News has already addressed Newtown
NRA News has already addressed Newtown
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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and Taylor Marsh
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Stephens: Chuck Hagel's Jewish Problem — The would-be secretary of defense has some curious views. — Prejudice—like cooking, wine-tasting and other consummations—has an olfactory element. When Chuck Hagel, the former GOP senator from Nebraska who is now a front-runner to be the next secretary …
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
EXCLUSIVE: ADL pans possible Chuck Hagel pick
EXCLUSIVE: ADL pans possible Chuck Hagel pick
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Moe Lane, National Review, Washington Free Beacon and Power Line
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Senate Republicans May Oppose Hagel SecDef Nomination
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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Politico, Eclectablog, The Demos Blog, emptywheel and Mother Jones
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Gov. Rick Snyder / Detroit Free Press:
Snyder vetoes concealed weapons bill
Snyder vetoes concealed weapons bill
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detroitnews.com, Washington Examiner and Post Politics
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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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
CBS News: ‘Fast and Furious’ Gun Found At Site Where Mexican Beauty Queen Killed — WASHINGTON (CBSDC) - A gun found at the scene of a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and soldiers where a beauty queen died was part of the botched “Fast and Furious” operation, CBS News reports.
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The Jawa Report, “The Lid” and The Daily Caller
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Fast and Furious gun found at Mexican crime scene
Fast and Furious gun found at Mexican crime scene
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Weasel Zippers
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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National Review, Weasel Zippers, Instapundit and Law Blog
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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Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story and LewRockwell.com Blog
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Tennessee Considers Training And Arming Schoolteachers To Protect Against Shootings — Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the “the answer is more guns in schools” sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting. — A member of the Republican-controlled legislature plans during …
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Balloon Juice, Wonkette, The National Memo and The Raw Story
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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The Atlantic Online, CBS DC and Prairie Weather