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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
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
President Congeniality talks tough
President Congeniality talks tough
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Details of Biden gun package emerge
Details of Biden gun package emerge
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Obama to unveil broad gun plans Wednesday
Obama to unveil broad gun plans Wednesday
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Michelle Malkin, The Fix, Post Politics, Washington Examiner and Guardian
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Impeachmentum: Reagan AG Says Obama Can Be Impeached Over Guns
Impeachmentum: Reagan AG Says Obama Can Be Impeached Over Guns
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The Raw Story, The Week and Zandar Versus The Stupid
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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Little Green Footballs and neo-neocon
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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 …
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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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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Annotating Obama's 2006 speech against boosting the debt limit — “I think if you look at the history, getting votes for the debt ceiling is always difficult, and budgets in this town are always difficult.” — “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Bernanke: Debt limit should be scrapped
Bernanke: Debt limit should be scrapped
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
The Most Important Line In Fitch's Warning About The US AAA Credit Rating
The Most Important Line In Fitch's Warning About The US AAA Credit Rating
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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 …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Schumer to back Hagel as defense secretary — Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced his support Tuesday for the nomination of former senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, delivering a key vote for the Nebraska Republican's confirmation after weeks of voicing doubt about his positions …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
How Hagel Won Schumer's Support For Defense Secretary
How Hagel Won Schumer's Support For Defense Secretary
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Weekly Standard and The National Memo
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Schumer to support Hagel
Schumer to support Hagel
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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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Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
NRA releases free target-practice app—for ages 4 and up — The National Rifle Association, exactly a month after the shooting at Newtown, Conn., appears to have released a branded target shooting game deemed suitable for kids ages 4 and up. — The NRA has been highly critical …
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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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Above the Law and protein wisdom
Experts Panel / IGM Forum:
Debt Ceiling — This panel explores the extent to which economists agree or disagree on major public policy issues. To assess such beliefs we assembled this panel of expert economists. Statistics teaches that a sample of (say) 40 opinions will be adequate to reflect a broader population …
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The Atlantic Online, Wonkblog and Brad DeLong
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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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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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 …
jhnewsandguide.com:
Lawmakers back gay marriage, union bills — For the first time in his career, Jackson Republican Rep. Keith Gingery is backing a gay marriage bill. — After eight years in the Legislature, Gingery has signed on as a co-sponsor of two measures sanctioning same-sex unions.
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Advocate, The Maddow Blog and Joe. My. God.
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The Eurozone Crisis Is Over, but the Eurozone Economy Is Worse Than Ever — Mario Draghi (L), president of the European Central Bank (ECB), and Bundestag President Norbert Lammert speak to the media at the Bundestag after Draghi spoke to German parliamentarians on Oct. 24, 2012 in Berlin, Germany
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Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Armstrong Admits Doping, and Says He Will Testify Against Cycling Officials — In an interview with Oprah Winfrey that is scheduled to air on her network on Thursday, Lance Armstrong confessed that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career, according to two people briefed …
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
The Seventh Circuit Needs to Rein in Richard Posner — The conservative jurist made a joke out of a deadly serious case. — John Gress/Reuters — Being a judge is a pretty good job, the comedian and philosopher Peter Cook once mused. “You're not troubled by falling coal, for one thing.”
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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