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USA Today:
Giffords and Kelly: Fighting gun violence — Our new campaign will launch a national dialogue and raise funds to counter influence of the gun lobby. — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — The children of Sandy Hook deserve our efforts to stop gun violence. — In response to a horrific series …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Exclusive: Piers Morgan on Alex Jones — CNN host Piers Morgan just called to discuss his interview last night with Alex Jones, the conservative radio host and gun advocate who went on a tirade against Morgan, gun control legislation, and a litany of government conspiracies.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Alex Jones Fears For Life After Morgan Interview, Blames NYPD Or Bloomberg If 'We're Killed By Crackheads' — Moments after radio host Alex Jones taped an explosive interview with CNN host Piers Morgan, Jones took to YouTube where he expressed his fear that he would be harmed …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Biden, NRA to meet on guns — Vice President Biden will meet this week with the National Rifle Association and a variety of other groups as his task force on guns intensifies its efforts. — Biden will meet Wednesday with gun safety organizations and shooting victims groups and on Thursday …
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Reuters, CNN, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
The White House Just Set Gun Rights Activists Ablaze
The White House Just Set Gun Rights Activists Ablaze
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Balloon Juice, msnbc.com, Washington Monthly and CANNONFIRE
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
‘Deport Piers Morgan’ Creator Flips Out On Morgan's Show: 1776 Will Commence Again If Guns Taken Away
‘Deport Piers Morgan’ Creator Flips Out On Morgan's Show: 1776 Will Commence Again If Guns Taken Away
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Chances Of Gun Control Dim In Washington
Chances Of Gun Control Dim In Washington
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Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
Dylan Byers / Politico:
White House responds to ‘Deport Piers Morgan’ petition
White House responds to ‘Deport Piers Morgan’ petition
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Forbes, The Raw Story, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Congress somewhere below cockroaches, traffic jams, and Nickelback in Americans' esteem — Our newest national poll finds that Congress only has a 9% favorability rating with 85% of voters viewing it in a negative light. We've seen poll after poll after poll over the last year talking …
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BuzzFeed:
12 Awful Things More Popular Than Congress — The latest poll from P.P.P confirms Congress is more unpopular than colonoscopies and a bunch of other terrible stuff. — Andrew Kaczynski — an hour ago — 28 responses
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DealBook:
Rescued by a Bailout, A.I.G. May Sue Its Savior — Fresh from paying back a $182 billion bailout, the American International Group has been running a nationwide advertising campaign with the tagline “Thank you America.” — Behind the scenes, the restored insurance company is weighing whether …
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Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
Senator Elizabeth Warren Is Outraged That AIG Is Considering Suing The US Government
Senator Elizabeth Warren Is Outraged That AIG Is Considering Suing The US Government
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The Political Carnival and TheBlaze.com
David Brooks / New York Times:
Why Hagel Was Picked — Americans don't particularly like government, but they do want government to subsidize their health care. They believe that health care spending improves their lives more than any other public good. In a Quinnipiac poll, typical of many others …
Chris Moody / Reuters:
Moderate Republican group to remove ‘Republican’ from name, welcome Democrats — The Republican Main Street Partnership, a Washington-based group that has promoted moderate GOP lawmakers and policies, will remove the word “Republican” from its title and welcome center-right Democrats in 2013, Yahoo News has learned.
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Linda Stasi / New York Post:
Current situation: Staffers talk about first meeting with Al Jazeera — Just call him Al Gorezeera. — Yesterday morning, the still shell shocked staff at Current TV was called to an all hands staff meeting at its San Francisco headquarters, which was teleconferenced to their offices in LA and NYC, to meet their new bosses.
Michelle Cottle / The Daily Beast:
Mosbacher: I'm Furious at My Own Party — RNC Finance Committee co-chair Georgette Mosbacher tells Michelle Cottle that she's “mad as hell” about what Republicans have done to themselves. — Best not to ask GOP fundraising legend Georgette Mosbacher about the state of her beloved party unless you want an earful.
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Daily Kos and The Impolitic
Amanda Marcotte / Slate:
This Rape Infographic Is Going Viral. Too Bad It's Wrong. — Yesterday, under the headline, “The saddest graph you'll see today,” Dylan Matthews at the Washington Post published this infographic created by the Enliven Project to put the legal issues around rape, its prosecutions, and concerns about false accusations into perspective.
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Widow of Medgar Evers to deliver invocation at Obama inauguration — President Obama has picked Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers, to deliver the invocation at his public swearing-in later this month. It is believed to be the first time a woman …
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Florida Governor Inflates Cost Of Medicaid Expansion By 2,600% To Avoid Implementing Obamacare — Internal email messages uncovered by Health News Florida reveal that Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) is knowingly citing inaccurate cost estimates to justify his refusal to expand Florida's Medicaid program.
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Washington Monthly
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Does aiding WikiLeaks equal aiding Al Qaeda? — Prosecutors and lawyers for alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning were back in court Tuesday, sparring over one of the central questions in his case: does giving sensitive government information to the media equate to aiding Al Qaeda?
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Bradley Manning ensured leaks would not harm US, lawyer insists
Bradley Manning ensured leaks would not harm US, lawyer insists
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Wired, Firedoglake and Techdirt
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Judge Limits a Police Stop-and-Frisk Program in the Bronx — A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the New York Police Department's practice of stopping people suspected of trespassing outside private buildings in the Bronx was unconstitutional. — The decision appears …
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Hit & Run, Colorlines and Clayton Cramer's Blog
New York Times:
My Successor? Mayor Ponders Dream Choices — It has been a bedrock assumption of this year's race for New York City mayor: Michael R. Bloomberg and the muscular political operation that guided him to three electoral victories will coalesce around his favored candidate, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker.
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Jordan Zakarin / Hollywood Reporter:
Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal Fire Back at ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Investigation and Torture Debate — In accepting awards at the New York Film Critics Circle ceremony, the director and screenwriter addressed critics in Congress and the world of punditry. — As they received trophies in New York City …
Darren Everson / Wall Street Journal:
What Is Your Team Worth? — Never mind for a moment which college-football team is No. 1 on the field. Is Texas losing its grip on being No. 1 at the bank? — According to an annual analysis of the values of college-football programs, Texas remains the most valuable team in the sport.
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Washington Examiner:
Watchdog: Second VA official quits after wasteful conferences spotlighted — Another top Department of Veterans Affairs official has resigned in the wake of Inspector-General reports criticizing two “Patton parody” employee training conferences, The Washington Examiner
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Weekly Standard
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Holy Grail of Voters — Although independent voters have stolen the spotlight, people who describe themselves as moderates could be even more important. — After covering eight presidential and seven midterm election campaigns, I still manage to learn new things or come to view things differently.
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Washington Monthly
Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Liz Warren won't beat drum — After touting her heritage ... Despite repeated claims she is “proud” of her Cherokee heritage, newly minted U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is keeping that pride under wraps and won't be taking advantage of a chance to officially list herself as the Bay State's first Native American U.S. senator.
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The Daily Caller, Post Politics and Weekly Standard
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama's failure to nominate women for two top Cabinet posts questioned — President Obama brought his top Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency chiefs together Monday with their potential replacements, and some critics noticed one thing that stood out: Each of them was a white man.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Republicans getting weak-kneed about debt ceiling fight — House Speaker John Boehner spoke at length with the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore about the coming confrontation over the debt ceiling, the sequester, and the spending cuts Republicans will try to achieve.
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The Impolitic, Daily Kos, Campaign for America's Future, Hullabaloo, Wonkblog and CBS News
New York Sun:
Hagel and the Jews — A friend and admirer of Senator Hagel called the other day to ask whether we'd ever met the nominee to be secretary of defense. We expressed our regrets that we hadn't. Our friend wanted us to know that Mr. Hagel does not dislike the Jews.
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Taylor Marsh, Power Line and Right Turn