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Wall Street Journal:
We the Government — An inaugural address of striking liberal ambition and partisanship. — President Obama's second inaugural address won't be remembered for stirring lines, but then its purpose seemed to be more political than inspirational. Mr. Obama was laying down a marker …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Lays Out Liberal Vision at Inauguration — WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama ceremonially opened his second term on Monday with an assertive Inaugural Address that offered a robust articulation of modern liberalism in America, arguing that “preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”
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David Ignatius / PostPartisan:
A flat, partisan and pedestrian speech
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Politico:
Obama: On offense for liberalism
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama speech reveals a different leader
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First Read and Wonkblog
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Two lines that sum up Obama's presidency
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Business Insider, Patterico's Pontifications, The National Memo and Hot Air
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Obama Was Always a Liberal, But Now He's Defending Liberalism
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Wonkblog, americanthinker.com and Washington Examiner
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Virginia Senate Sneaks Through Gerrymandering Bill While Country Watches Inauguration — While the eyes of the nation were turned toward President Barack Obama's second inauguration on Monday, the Virginia State Senate managed to hurriedly pass a bill that would redistrict the state's senate seats.
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Lowkell / Blue Virginia:
BREAKING: While Dems Distracted by Inauguration, Virginia Senate GOP Stages a Coup — You don't get more slimy, sneaky, underhanded, etc. than this (great work by Ben Tribbett alerting us to what was going on in the following series of Facebook updates): — “Wow- Republicans in the Virginia Senate …
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Talking Points Memo, Addicting Info, The Raw Story, Mercury Rising, Daily Kos and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Va. Republicans push through rewrite of Senate districts — Senate Republicans this afternoon pushed through a surprise rewrite of the 2011 redistricting plan that erases a Democratic seat in western Virginia and creates a sixth majority black district that would be located between Petersburg and Danville.
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The Moderate Voice and The Hinterland Gazette
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia GOP Pulls ‘Dirty Trick’ On Inauguration Day
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Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Majority, for first time, want abortion to be legal — As the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision takes place on Tuesday, a majority of Americans - for the first time - believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Wall Street Journal:
Support Grows for Roe v. Wade — Seven in 10 Americans believe Roe v. Wade should stand, according to new data from a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, as the landmark Supreme Court abortion-rights ruling turns 40 on Tuesday. — That is the highest level of support for the decision …
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Politico, SCOTUSblog and American Power
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Collective Turn — The best Inaugural Addresses make an argument for something. President Obama's second one, which surely has to rank among the best of the past half-century, makes an argument for a pragmatic and patriotic progressivism. — His critics have sometimes accused …
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Achenblog, News Desk, The Other McCain, Daily Kos and driftglass
Peter Allen In Paris / Daily Mail:
Sarkozy's plans 'to dodge new 75% French tax rate by moving to London with wife Carla and setting up £1bn private equity fund' — Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing to move to London to set up a billion pounds plus investment fund, it was claimed today. — If the move goes ahead …
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Daniel Howden / The Independent:
Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings? — English-speaking jihadis seen in Mali, as a Canadian is reported to have co-ordinated Algeria attack — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE.
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Jill Kelley Says Paula Broadwell Tried to ‘Blackmail’ Her — The woman dragged into the Petraeus scandal tells Howard Kurtz that her life is now a nightmare. She says she didn't press charges against Paula Broadwell and never exchanged 30,000 emails with a top general.
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Politico and Business Insider
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
TRENDING: CNN Poll: Do Americans agree with Obama on climate change and immigration? — Washington (CNN) - Saying “we will respond to the threat of climate change,” President Barack Obama used his second inaugural address to put the divisive issue back on the front burner.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid to lay out plans for filibuster reform — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will present colleagues with options for reforming the Senate's filibuster rules in a Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday. — Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) …
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The Plum Line and New York Times
Angela Bassett / CBS News:
Cantor: Time for Washington to “set aside” differences — As President Obama officially embarks upon his second term, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., is calling on lawmakers of all stripes to “set aside” their political differences in order to produce “a government that works.”
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Full Text Of Obama's Second Inaugural Address — Below are the prepared remarks for President Barack Obama's second inaugural address, delivered Monday at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.:
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Kevin Glass / Townhall.com:
Study: “Debt Problem Began Four Decades Ago” … A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reminds Americans that, contrary to the narrative that huge deficits and debt are merely a recent product of the Great Recession, the problem began over forty years ago.
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Hot Air
Robert Lopez / L.A. NOW:
Police respond to Chris Brown's home in ‘swatting’ prank — Officers were called to the home of Chris Brown in a report that turned out to be false, the latest in a series of so-called swatting incidents targeting celebrity homes, police said Monday night. — Police were contacted shortly …
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