memeorandum: Anti-Gay Pastor Removed From Inaugural Program (Josh Israel/ThinkProgress)

4:55 PM ET, January 10, 2013

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Anti-Gay Pastor Removed From Inaugural Program … Louis Giglio, the anti-LGBT pastor who had been announced to perform the benediction at President Obama's second inauguration, has been removed from the program, ABC News's Jonathan Karl reported Thursday. — The move came after ThinkProgress …

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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:

Pastor Backs Out of Obama Inauguration Over Previous Anti-Gay Comments — Image Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images — Rev. Louie Giglio, who had been announced as the pastor to give the benediction at the presidential inauguration, has now pulled himself out of the ceremony …

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Minister Pulls Out of Inauguration After Outcry

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Louie Giglio, Inaugural Pastor, Criticized for Antigay Sermon

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Reuters:

Giffords gun control group wants $20 million for 2014 elections — (Reuters) - A new gun control group led by Gabrielle Giffords, the former U.S. congresswoman wounded in a Tucson shooting rampage, wants to raise $20 million for the 2014 congressional elections, matching …

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Katie Glueck / Politico:
NRA: 100K new members in 18 days

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The Atlantic Wire:
Don't Worry, NRA: Obama Can't Do Much on Guns by Himself

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Politico:
Expectations low for Joe Biden, NRA talks

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videocafe.crooksandliars.com:
Unhinged Tactical Response CEO Threatens to ‘Start Killing People’ Over Obama's Gun Control

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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Reframing the Gun Debate

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Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
Loyal Joe Biden Is Presidential Contender

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In campaign for tougher gun laws, Obama and allies work to tilt public opinion

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EndPlay / KERO-TV:

Report: At least two people shot at Taft High School — TAFT, Calif. - Officials have said that at least two people were shot at Taft High School. — The shooting happened at about 9 a.m., and reports indicate that at least two people were shot. — The shooter was taken into custody at about 9:20 a.m. officials said.

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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Biden's Gun Violence Event Interrupted By News Of Another School Shooting — On Thursday afternoon, CNN showed footage of Vice President Joe Biden meeting with gun rights groups and talking to reporters about his ongoing efforts to curb gun violence in the United States.

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Glenn Thrush / Politico:

Replacing David: Plouffe-by-committee? — Obama's right hand man in the West Wing and campaign consigliere, David Plouffe, has basically left the building, according to several White House sources who say they haven't seen him around much since the fiscal cliff deal.

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Sessions: Lew must ‘never’ be Treasury secretary

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Republicans: Lew will have to answer for White House tactics

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First Read:
First Thoughts: The disorganized cabinet shuffle

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Wall Street Journal:
Team of Liberal Loyalists

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Op Ed / Stanford Daily:

Cory Booker: “Pointing the finger at gays” — Cory Booker's column in the April 8, 1992 Stanford Daily. … I was in my tolerance stage or the “I don't give a damn if someone is gay, just as long as they don't bother me” stage. I was well trained in my tolerance. I stopped telling my gay jokes.

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Cory Booker Wrestled With His Own Homophobia — “I was disgusted by gays. The thought of two men kissing each other was about as appealing as a frontal lobotomy.” How Booker's mind was changed. — Image by Julio Cortez / AP — Newark Mayor Cory Booker's December announcement that he would …

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Thomas F. Schaller / Sabato's Crystal Ball:

Democrats Dread 2014 Drop-Off — At first blush, Saxby Chambliss and the Michigan right-to-work episode seem completely unrelated. Most Republicans approve of both, of course, but there is a deeper connection. The Georgia senator and Michigan's effort to restrict organized labor's power …

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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:

Joe Scarborough Goes Off On Mika Brzezinski After She Asserts He's ‘Being Chauvinistic’ — The Morning Joe family got heated and a bit awkward this morning during a discussion about the lack of diversity in President Obama's inner circle. As Joe Scarborough pointed to the lack of outrage …

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CNN:

Obama signs bill, gets Secret Service protection for life — Washington (CNN) - With the stroke of a pen Thursday, President Barack Obama gave himself and his wife Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. — The new law, which passed the House and Senate in December …

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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Signs Bill Giving Himself And George W. Bush Lifetime Secret Service Protection

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Edward D. Kleinbard / New York Times:

The Debt Ceiling's Escape Hatch — THE fiscal cliff may have been avoided, but an even higher-stakes political standoff — this time, over the federal debt ceiling — is just around the bend. — Congressional Republicans have said they will demand immense cuts to popular government programs …

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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Biden Hints at Outlawing Unregulated ‘Private’ Gun Sales — Vice President Joe Biden, in remarks today before a meeting on guns, suggested the Obama administration is seriously considering outlawing unregulated “private” gun sales: — /p> — “And so the kinds of things that there's …

Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Joe Biden eyes background checks, bans on clips

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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:

A GOP Strategy for the Debt-Ceiling Fight — The House should pass a bill pairing spending cuts with a dollar-for-dollar debt-ceiling increase. — President Obama says he won't negotiate with Republicans over his proposed more than $1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling as a matter …

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Paul Krugman:

The Mostly Solved Deficit Problem — The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has a graph: — The vertical axis measures the projected ratio of federal debt to GDP. The blue line at the top represents the projected path of that ratio as of early 2011 — that is, before recent agreements on spending cuts and tax increases.

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Ted Cox / DNAinfo.com New York:

Joe Walsh Suggests Breaking Law to Fight Affordable Care Act in Chicago — CHICAGO — Tea Party favorite Joe Walsh says conservatives are losing the “war” for U.S. voters and encouraged his backers at a South Loop rally to engage in civil disobedience to defy the Affordable Care Act or new gun regulations.

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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:

Frank endorses Markey for Senate — Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) endorsed Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) in the special election to replace Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) if Kerry is confirmed as secretary of State, as is expected. — “Frankly, Ed and I have worked together in Congress …