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Unhinged Tactical Response CEO Threatens to ‘Start Killing People’ Over Obama's Gun Control … Warning: Language NSFW. — The CEO of a Tennessee company that specializes in weapons and tactical training is threatening to “start killing people” if President Barack Obama moves forward with gun control measures.
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Talking Points Memo, AMERICAblog, No More Mister Nice Blog, Post Politics, Hullabaloo, The Mahablog and The Raw Story
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Talking Points Memo:
NRA ‘Disappointed’ With Biden Meeting For Proposing Restrictions On Guns — The National Rifle Association issued a statement following a meeting on gun violence with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday, saying it was “disappointed” with how much the conversation focused on limiting the Second Amendment.
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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 …
The Atlantic Wire:
Don't Worry, NRA: Obama Can't Do Much on Guns by Himself
Don't Worry, NRA: Obama Can't Do Much on Guns by Himself
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The Raw Story, The Mahablog, Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Politico and Talking Points Memo
Politico:
Expectations low for Joe Biden, NRA talks
Expectations low for Joe Biden, NRA talks
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CNN, ABCNEWS, Washington Post, Daily Kos, The Week, Connecting.the.Dots, msnbc.com, New York Times and Public Policy Polling
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Offers Glimpse of Gun Control Plan Coming in Days
Biden Offers Glimpse of Gun Control Plan Coming in Days
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Hit & Run, The Week and The Caucus
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Reframing the Gun Debate
Reframing the Gun Debate
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The Fix, Vox Popoli, Daily Kos, Democratic Strategist and CNN
Katie Glueck / Politico:
NRA: 100K new members in 18 days
NRA: 100K new members in 18 days
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Talking Points Memo, Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes' and Mediaite
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Joe Biden eyes background checks, bans on clips
Joe Biden eyes background checks, bans on clips
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Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes' and CNN
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
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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New York Times, BuzzFeed, AMERICAblog, Advocate, Alternet, The Hill, First Read and The Hinterland Gazette
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Minister Pulls Out of Inauguration After Outcry
Minister Pulls Out of Inauguration After Outcry
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National Review, Firedoglake, petitions.whitehouse.gov and Gawker
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
Biden's Gun Violence Event Interrupted By News Of Another School Shooting
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Firedoglake, ABCNEWS and L.A. NOW
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Sessions: Lew must ‘never’ be Treasury secretary — The top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee will oppose Jack Lew's nomination to be Treasury secretary. — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has prepared a statement saying “Jack Lew must never be Secretary of Treasury.”
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Washington Monthly, Politico, The Hill, The Plum Line, NewsBusters.org, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos and The New Republic
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Republicans: Lew will have to answer for White House tactics
Senate Republicans: Lew will have to answer for White House tactics
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Politico, Bernie Sanders, Forbes, OpenSecrets.org, The Maddow Blog and PostPartisan
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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Joe. My. God. and Post Politics
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Cory Booker Wrestled With His Own Homophobia
Cory Booker Wrestled With His Own Homophobia
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Post Politics and Gothamist
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
Obama Signs Bill Giving Himself And George W. Bush Lifetime Secret Service Protection
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The Hinterland Gazette
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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Washington Monthly and Politico
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
In Defense of Hagel for Defense — Critics are pounding President Obama's choice for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, as soft on Iran, anti-military and even anti-Semitic. This is a grotesque caricature of a man who would make a terrific defense secretary.
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ABCNEWS, NewsBusters.org blogs, Mondoweiss, p m carpenter's commentary, The Back Channel, Firedoglake and Guardian
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Politico:
Chuck Hagel may regret not having made more Senate pals
Chuck Hagel may regret not having made more Senate pals
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Algemeiner.com and msnbc.com
John Cornyn / CNN:
Cornyn: Why I can't support Hagel
Cornyn: Why I can't support Hagel
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Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, Gawker and ABCNEWS
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.
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Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
Loyal Joe Biden Is Presidential Contender
Loyal Joe Biden Is Presidential Contender
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CNN, Washington Monthly and The Reality-Based Community
Jeff Adelson / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Gov. Bobby Jindal calls for elimination of all Louisiana income and corporate taxes — Gov. Bobby Jindal is proposing to eliminate Louisiana's income and corporate taxes and pay for those cuts with increased sales taxes, the governor's office confirmed Thursday. The governor's office has not yet provided the details of the plan.
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Talking Points Memo, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The Daily Caller
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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TBogg, Los Angeles Times, The Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Tea Party Patriots and Taylor Marsh
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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Business Insider, Wonkblog and Eschaton
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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NationalJournal.com, Wonkblog, Business Insider, The Week, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, Forbes, Quartz, Felix Salmon and Hot Air
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Ryan on 2016: 'I've decided not to decide' — Former vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was decidedly evasive when asked about a 2016 presidential run on Wednesday, but declined to rule anything out. — “I've decided not to decide,” Ryan said when asked about his future plans, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
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PostPartisan and p m carpenter's commentary
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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The Impolitic, Ballot Box and Taegan Goddard's …