memeorandum: TRENDING: CNN Poll: Do Americans agree with Obama on climate change and immigration? (Paul Steinhauser/CNN)

9:30 AM ET, January 22, 2013

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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.

Discussion: Gin and Tacos, The PJ Tatler and Balloon Juice

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 …

Discussion: Addicting Info, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, Mercury Rising, Discourse.net, 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.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Hinterland Gazette

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.) …

Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia GOP Pulls ‘Dirty Trick’ On Inauguration Day

Discussion: Associated Press, Jesus' General and The Jawa Report

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.”

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Week, Washington Post, msnbc.com, The Caucus, WJLA-TV, Guardian, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Reuters, Talking Points Memo and American Power

Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:

Obama's Inaugural Intentions — The president reached out to Democratic interest groups. Republicans? Not so much. — President Obama wants more government. In his second inaugural address, he masked the message with phrases like “collective action” and doing “things together.”

Discussion: Weekly Standard

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Startling Second Inaugural

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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Two lines that sum up Obama's presidency

Discussion: Business Insider, Hot Air, The National Memo and Patterico's Pontifications

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The Second Inauguration Of Barack Obama

Discussion: Politico and CNN

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.:

Discussion: GigaOM, No More Mister Nice Blog, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and The Reaction

Kevin Robillard / Politico:
First inaugural use of the word ‘gay’

Discussion: Quartz, Truthdig, The Fix, Weasel Zippers, Reuters, The Atlantic Online, New York Magazine, ABCNEWS, Associated Press and CNN

New York Times:
Obama's Second Inaugural Speech

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Esquire and Talking Points Memo

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.

Discussion: The Hill and Politico

Fox News:

Gas plant worker and 2 Canadians helped terrorists in siege, Algerian PM says — Jan. 21, 2013: Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria.AP — An Al Qaeda-linked militant group who took control …

Discussion: The Jawa Report

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 …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Heritage Foundation

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 …

Discussion: SCOTUSblog and American Power

Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Majority, for first time, wants abortion to be legal

Discussion: The Fix

Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:

Axelrod: Immigration reform coming ‘early’ in Obama's agenda — President Barack Obama waves as the presidential inaugural parade winds through Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Pool / EPA / January 21, 2013) — WASHINGTON — While fiscal battles have dominated discussions …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and msnbc.com

David Ignatius / PostPartisan:
A flat, partisan and pedestrian speech

Discussion: Hot Air, Slate, The Plum Line, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Washington Post

Manu Raju / Politico:

Lunching with frienemies: A taste of bipartisanship — Maybe it was the lobster tails — or the sparkling wine. — But for a few brief moments on Monday, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans actually seemed to enjoy each other's company over an elaborate three-course lunch …

Discussion: CNN

Angela Bassett / CBS News:
Cantor: Time for Washington to “set aside” differences

Discussion: The Week and Hot Air

Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:

EXCLUSIVE: MARK LEVIN'S INAUGURAL DAY MESSAGE— FIGHT! — As President Barack Obama prepares for his inauguration, Breitbart News sat down with radio talk show host Mark Levin, the bestselling author of the blockbusters Liberty and Tyranny, Ameritopia, Men in Black, and Rescuing Sprite.

Discussion: Doug Ross

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Obama Becomes A “Great” President

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Gawker, nation.foxnews.com and The Daily Dish

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 …

Discussion: The Other McCain, News Desk and Daily Kos

Ethan Cox / National Post:

Pupil expelled from Montreal college after finding ‘sloppy coding’ that compromised security of 250,000 students personal data — A student has been expelled from Montreal's Dawson College after he discovered a flaw in the computer system used by most Quebec CEGEPs (General and Vocational Colleges) …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, AMERICAblog, Inside Higher Ed, Boing Boing and The Verge

U.S. News:

Where's Mitt? In warm, sunny California — It's chilly on the Capitol steps today, but that's no problem for Mitt Romney. — The former Republican presidential contender is spending Inauguration Day at his home in La Jolla, Calif., where it's sunny with a forecasted high of 73 degrees.

Discussion: TBogg, New York Magazine, Addicting Info, National Review and Connecting.the.Dots

Aliyah Frumin / msnbc.com:
Where in the world is Mitt Romney? (Hint: Not in D.C.)

Discussion: Mediaite and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

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.

Discussion: Politico and Business Insider

Matt Hadro / NewsBusters:

Giddy CNN Correspondent: ‘I Feel Like I Should Pinch Myself Right Now’ — CNN correspondent Jim Acosta was positively giddy while covering President Obama's inauguration parade on Monday afternoon, and didn't hold back his feelings on-air. — “You know, I feel like I should pinch myself right now, Wolf.