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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
McCain: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must Include Path To Citizenship — Senator John McCain (R-AZ) confirmed on Sunday morning that he that he and a bipartisan group of senators will roll out a comprehensive immigration reform effort in Congress. Speaking on ABC's “This Week,” McCain …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Durbin: Senate immigration plan will be comprehensive, include citizenship path
Durbin: Senate immigration plan will be comprehensive, include citizenship path
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
President Obama names Fox? And what does President Obama think happens when Democrat works with Republicans? What happens to that Democrat in the left leaning press? — While I disagree with what the President says below ( I don't attack - his word - politicians on either side …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama discusses media influence — The New Republic has just lifted the embargo on its wideranging interview with President Obama, in which he talked at length about the role the media can play in breaking Washington's partisan gridlock. — “One of the biggest factors …
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Kaye Foley / ABCNEWS:
Facebook Co-Founder Scolds Chris Christie Over Gay Marriage Stance
Facebook Co-Founder Scolds Chris Christie Over Gay Marriage Stance
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama says he goes skeet shooting ‘all the time’ at Camp David
Obama says he goes skeet shooting ‘all the time’ at Camp David
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Paul Krugman:
From Welfare Queens to Disabled Deadbeats — If you want to understand the trouble Republicans are in, one good place to start is with the obsession the right has lately developed with the rising disability rolls. The growing number of Americans receiving disability payments has …
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Scores Dead as Fire Sweeps Through Nightclub in Brazil — RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire ignited by a flare from a live band's pyrotechnic spectacle swept through a nightclub filled with hundreds of university students early Sunday morning in Santa Maria, a city in southern Brazil, leaving at least 245 people dead, police officials said.
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Fox Made Limited Effort to Keep Sarah Palin — Financial Offer Far Less Than Previous Deal — Fox News offered Sarah Palin a new contract before she decided to part ways with the network where she has held forth as a commentator for the last three years. — However, it would be hard to describe it as a generous contract.
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Selling a New Generation on Guns — Threatened by long-term declining participation in shooting sports, the firearms industry has poured millions of dollars into a broad campaign to ensure its future by getting guns into the hands of more, and younger, children.
videocafe.crooksandliars.com:
Jerry Boykin Feels Humiliated ‘as a Man’ With Women in Combat Because of ‘Personal Hygiene’ … An anti-Muslim retired lieutenant general says that he would not want to serve in a combat role with women because “personal hygiene and the other normal functions” are already “degrading and humiliating enough” …
Raheem Kassam / The Commentator:
Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less — Why can't cartoonists seem to criticise Israel without the use of big noses and blood libels? And why do the mainstream papers still publish this stuff? — Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Secret Donors Finance Fight Against Hagel — A brand new conservative group calling itself Americans for a Strong Defense and financed by anonymous donors is running advertisements urging Democratic senators in five states to vote against Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee to be secretary of defense …
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JustOneMinute, Prairie Weather, Towleroad News #gay and The Hinterland Gazette
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McChrystal: Women will serve in, improve special-forces units — Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal predicted Sunday that women will eventually become part of special operations units like the Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, saying that including female servicemembers could improve the elite groups' operations.
David Kravets / Wired:
Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest — A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
For The Sixth Time In One Week, Man Shot At Gun Show — Gun activists designated last Saturday “Gun Appreciation Day” in an attempt to highlight their opposition to gun safety laws. The PR stunt proved to be more of an embarrassment, however, when 5 people were shot at 3 different gun shows on Gun Appreciation Day.
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