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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Impeachmentum: Reagan AG Says Obama Can Be Impeached Over Guns — Former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese, now a prominent emeritus official at the Heritage Foundation, became the latest conservative to warn that President Obama could risk impeachment if he takes executive action …
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New York Times:
Obama Poised to Back Comprehensive Plan to Curb Gun Violence — WASHINGTON — President Obama this week will embrace a comprehensive plan to reduce gun violence that will call for major legislation to expand background checks for gun purchases and lay out 19 separate actions the president …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rand Paul: Obama acting ‘like a king’ on guns, vows to fight executive actions
Rand Paul: Obama acting ‘like a king’ on guns, vows to fight executive actions
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Details of Biden gun package emerge
Details of Biden gun package emerge
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Associated Press:
Little-known laws shed light on NRA influence
Little-known laws shed light on NRA influence
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Dylan Stableford / Associated Press:
Man who helped Sandy Hook kids is harassed by conspiracy theorists — A man who found six children in his driveway in Newtown, Conn., after their teacher had been shot and killed in last month's school massacre has become the target of conspiracy theorists who believe the shootings were staged.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
This man helped save six children, is now getting harassed for it — Gene Rosen sheltered six kids during the Sandy Hook massacre. Now he's become a target of conspiracy theorists — “I don't know what to do,” sighed Gene Rosen. “I'm getting hang-up calls, I'm getting some calls …
Facebook Newsroom:
Introducing Graph Search Beta — Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected. The main way we do this is by giving people the tools to map out their relationships with the people and things they care about. We call this map the graph. It's big and constantly expanding with new people, content and connections.
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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Facebook's Graph Could Be OK Cupid, Yelp, and LinkedIn, All in One
Facebook's Graph Could Be OK Cupid, Yelp, and LinkedIn, All in One
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Jeff Richardson / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Murkowski: Country must pay its bills — FAIRBANKS — Sen. Lisa Murkowski is breaking with Republican leadership in the debate about raising the U.S. debt ceiling, saying the country has a duty to assure it can pay its bills. — Raising the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling has emerged …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Hoyer: Deal to raise federal debt limit must include new revenues
Hoyer: Deal to raise federal debt limit must include new revenues
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Bernanke: Debt limit should be scrapped
Bernanke: Debt limit should be scrapped
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Annotating Obama's 2006 speech against boosting the debt limit
Annotating Obama's 2006 speech against boosting the debt limit
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Utah Smoothie Shop Charges Liberals More, Donates Surcharge To Conservative Causes — A smoothie shop in Vernal, Utah is sparking outrage over an unorthodox pricing structure that charges liberals an extra dollar. The shop, tellingly named the I Love Drilling Juice and Smoothie Bar …
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Geoff Liesik / KSL-TV:
Liberal tax leaves bitter taste in some smoothie drinkers' mouths — VERNAL — When George Burnett first set up shop in Vernal, he knew he had to find away to connect with his adopted community if his custom seat cover business was going to survive. — So, armed with a sandwich board emblazoned …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Former Aide: Michele Bachmann Had “Unnatural Relationship” With Debate Coach — Peter Waldron alleges “Rasputin-like” control over the candidate. “The story is completely false,” says O'Donnell. — O'Donnell looking at Bachmann. — Image by AP / AP — Michele Bachmann's high-profile …
Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Can't Find Any Co-Sponsors For Their Latest Obamacare Repeal Bills — Earlier this month, Tea Party darling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) admitted that his plan to introduce yet another Obamacare repeal bill would be unlikely to pass in the wake of President Obama's decisive re-election.
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
DOMA: House Republicans Poised To Spend $3 Million On Legal Defense
DOMA: House Republicans Poised To Spend $3 Million On Legal Defense
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
How Hagel Won Schumer's Support For Defense Secretary — Shortly after Chuck Hagel was nominated to be next secretary of defense, TPM asked a Senate Republican leadership aide what their opposition strategy was going to be. — The aide's response in full: “Schumer.”
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Schumer to back Hagel as defense secretary
Schumer to back Hagel as defense secretary
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Galactic Empire Public Relations / The Official …:
Planet Earth Abandons Death Star Project In Face Of Superior Galactic Imperial Power — IMPERIAL CENTER, CORUSCANT - The overwhelming military superiority of the Galactic Empire has been confirmed once again by the recent announcement by the President of the United States that his nation …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN President Jeff Zucker backs Piers Morgan's gun control campaign — CNN president Jeff Zucker told CNN New York staff today that he supported Piers Morgan's decision to speak in favor of gun control, sources at the network tell POLITICO. — During a town-hall meeting with staff …
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
As inauguration approaches, Obama's most virulent foes want the celebration stopped — Eldon Bell, a retired Air Force officer and physician, is making no plans to see Barack Obama's second inauguration, in part because Bell considers the president arrogant and dishonest …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Mark Sanford: I'm Running for Congress — A conversation with the former South Carolina governor — Mark Sanford, the three-term congressman and two-term South Carolina governor, is preparing his political comeback, running for the House in the district recently represented by Tim Scott.
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New York Post:
More city co-eds turning to sugar daddies for school support — More New York City co-eds are turning to a new source of income — sugar daddies — to cope with the rising cost of their college tuition, surprising statistics released yesterday reveal. — And the majority is enrolled …
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Roger Kimball / Wall Street Journal:
This Metamorphosis Will Require a Permit — Sandy wrecked our house, but bureaucrats are keeping it broken. — “What sort of people were these? What were they talking about? What office did they belong to? K. was living in a free country, after all, everywhere was at peace …
Kevin Cullen / The Boston Globe:
On humanity, a big failure in Aaron Swartz case — If it was beyond scandalous that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines for downloading a bunch of obscure academic treatises without a subscription, it is beyond tragic that he is now dead.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Ann Coulter: ‘If You Compare White Populations,’ U.S. Has Same Murder Rate As Belgium (VIDEO) — Right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter on Monday said that the United States has a demographic problem rather than a gun problem, arguing that the country has a comparable murder rate to Belgium “if you compare white populations.”
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
Obama agrees to ‘taxation without representation’ plates on presidential limo — President Obama, after a push by the D.C. Council, has agreed to affix license plates to his limo with the phrase “taxation without representation.” — The new plates will be in place beginning this weekend …
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CNN
CNN:
Pakistani Supreme Court orders arrest of prime minister in corruption case — Islamabad (CNN) — The Pakistani government came under attack from two angles Tuesday as the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the country's prime minister and a rowdy anti-government rally took place near the national parliament.
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Former Obama Staff Complain Of Cold Inaugural Shoulder — The no-drama Obama campaign is over. “The people that worked so hard, for so long, to raise a billion dollars and turn out millions of voters deserve better.” — Stewards stand amid rows of empty seats during a dress rehearsal …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House panel blocks most GOP attempts to trim Sandy disaster-relief bill — The Republican-led House Rules Committee late Monday approved a rule for a massive Hurricane Sandy relief package that shuts out most GOP proposals to pare back the size of the bill.
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Jim Forsyth / WOAI-TV:
Texas Proposal: JAIL Any Federal Officials Trying to Enforce New Gun Restrictions in the State — measure would make any federal firearms legislation passed by Congress or approved by Presidential order unenforceable in Texas
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
New Video Game Allows Players to Murder NRA President — A new online video game is taking political discourse to a whole new level. We already reported the death threats being received by NRA executives and now, a video game which allows users to shoot NRA President David Keene in the head, has been released.
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