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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Time Warner Cable Drops Current TV Upon Sale To Al Jazeera … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Al Jazeera, Current TV, Al Jazeera Buys Current, Al Jazeera Current, Al Jazeera Current Tv, Calderone: The Backstory, Time Warner Al Jazeera, Time Warner Cable Current TV, Time Warner Cable Drops Al Jazeera …
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Wall Street Journal:
Al-Jazeera to Buy Current TV — News network al-Jazeera agreed to purchase Current TV, the current affairs channel partly owned by Al Gore, seeking to boost its presence in American television. — Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but a person familiar with the matter …
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Current TV Announces It Has Been Sold To Al Jazeera
Current TV Announces It Has Been Sold To Al Jazeera
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Madeleine Morgenstern / TheBlaze.com:
AL GORE'S CURRENT TV REBUFFS ADVANCES BY THEBLAZE, AGREES TO SELL CHANNEL TO AL JAZEERA
AL GORE'S CURRENT TV REBUFFS ADVANCES BY THEBLAZE, AGREES TO SELL CHANNEL TO AL JAZEERA
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Leftist Jihadist Media Nexus: Terror TV, Al Jazeera Acquires Gore's Current TV “Al Jazeera America”
Leftist Jihadist Media Nexus: Terror TV, Al Jazeera Acquires Gore's Current TV “Al Jazeera America”
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Walter Shapiro / Associated Press:
The courage of Boehner and McConnell: No, they're not Lincolns. But they did something good. — If John Kennedy had not written “Profiles in Courage,” today we might have a more realistic understanding of political valor. But JFK's 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book so raised the bar …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Boehner reelected as Speaker; nine Republicans defect in vote — Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) was reelected Speaker of the House on Thursday after a week of rumors of a possible GOP revolt. — Boehner won a bare majority in a vote that saw nine Republicans vote for other GOP members …
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
House GOP Lets Violence Against Women Act Passed By Senate Die Without A Vote
House GOP Lets Violence Against Women Act Passed By Senate Die Without A Vote
Dana Bash / CNN:
Boehner confident in re-election to speaker
Boehner confident in re-election to speaker
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Tax Deal Shows Possible Path for Obama Past House G.O.P.
Tax Deal Shows Possible Path for Obama Past House G.O.P.
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Politico:
Obama's debt problem — President Barack Obama won't be able to enjoy much of a victory lap from his win over congressional Republicans on the fiscal cliff fight. — There are about 16.4 trillion reasons why. — The staggering national debt — up about 60 percent from the $10 trillion Obama inherited …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
For Obama, a Victory That Also Holds Risks
For Obama, a Victory That Also Holds Risks
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Simon Johnson / Economix:
The Supreme Court and the Next Fiscal Cliff
The Supreme Court and the Next Fiscal Cliff
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ThinkProgress:
Ten People We Are Grateful Are No Longer Members Of Congress — Under the Twentieth Amendment, “[t]he terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January.”
Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
Good Riddance to Rottenest Congress in History — On January 3rd, the 112th Congress of the United States of America finally ends. Thank God. — To properly evaluate the 112th, consider the record of its predecessor, the 111th Congress, which ran from January 2009 to January 2011.
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New York Times:
Leave It Alone; It's Irrelevant to the Deficit — Dean Baker, an economist and the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, is the author of “The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive.” — Millions of people are rightly outraged to hear that Social Security …
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Sunlen Miller / ABCNEWS:
Meet the New Class: The Senate Swears in a Historic 20 Female Senators — Today the Senate will make history, swearing in a record-breaking 20 female senators - 4 Republicans and 16 Democrats - in office. — As the 113th Congress is sworn in today on Capitol Hill, ABC “World News” …
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Erik Wemple:
Fox News producer was scolded by State Department — Justin Fishel is a Fox News producer/correspondent who covers the Pentagon and the State Department. In that capacity, he's known for his tough and often prickly questions. That reputation mounted on Monday, Dec. 17, when Fishel sat in on a State Department daily press briefing.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Andrew Sullivan's Ad-Free Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In First Six Hours — When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his intended business model.
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Peter Kaplan / Federal Trade Commission:
Google Agrees to Change Its Business Practices to Resolve FTC Competition Concerns In the Markets for Devices Like Smart Phones, Games and Tablets, and in Online Search — Landmark Agreements Will Give Competitors Access to Standard-Essential Patents; Advertisers Will Get More Flexibility to Use Rival Search Engines
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CNN:
Kirk makes emotional return to Capitol after stroke — Washington (CNN) - Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) made a triumphant return to the Senate Thursday, following a year's recuperation from a stroke. — Kirk, 53, emerged from a Capitol doorway to cheers and applause from fellow senators lined …
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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Sen. Mark Kirk's message to stroke victims: Don't give up
Sen. Mark Kirk's message to stroke victims: Don't give up
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House GOP's rules package calls for another reading of the Constitution — The House rules package for the 113th Congress that is expected to be approved on Thursday calls for another reading of the U.S. Constitution from the chamber floor. — The rules package for the the 112th Congress …
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Illinois Dems advance gun control bills, firearms group warns of ‘no exemptions’ — FILE: March 7, 2012: Gun owners and supporters participate in an Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.AP — Illinois Senate Democrats advanced legislation late Wednesday …
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The Week:
The culture war is over, and conservatives lost — It's time we conservatives accepted an alarming truth: Americans no longer agree with us — L — ate last year, I criticized the notion that Barack Obama won re-election by buying off voters with “gifts.”
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Ariane de Vogue / ABCNEWS:
Boehner Bolsters Support of Defense of Marriage Act — Despite poll numbers showing the majority of Americans now support gay marriage, House Speaker John Boehner sent a strong message today authorizing the continued use of taxpayer funds to defend a federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama signs ‘fiscal cliff’ bill using autopen — President Obama on Wednesday signed legislation that raises taxes on the wealthiest Americans and avoids the so-called “fiscal cliff,” which threatened to send the economy into decline. — The White House said late Wednesday that Obama reviewed …
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Sen. Mitch McConnell / Reuters:
Fiscal cliff deal not great, but it shields Americans from tax hike — Editor's note: This op/ed is by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — The first day of a new Congress always represents a fresh start. This year, it also presents a perfect opportunity to tackle …
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