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9:40 PM ET, January 27, 2013

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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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Kaye Foley / ABCNEWS:
Facebook Co-Founder Scolds Chris Christie Over Gay Marriage Stance  —  How does Chris Hughes, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The New Republic and Facebook Co-founder, feel about Mark Zuckerberg hosting a fundraiser for Republican Governor Chris Christie?  Hughes joined ABC News in a web exclusive …
CBS News:
Obama and Clinton: The 60 Minutes interview  —  The following script is from “The President and the Secretary of State” which aired on Jan. 27, 2013.  Steve Kroft is the correspondent.  Michael Radutzky, Maria Gavrilovic and L. Franklin Devine, producers.  —  There are few people …
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Obama, Clinton defend record in Middle East  —  President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended their foreign policy record in the middle East, saying in an interview aired Sunday that they wisely chose not to “shoot from the hip.”  —  In a joint interview aired on CBS's …
Discussion: Politico
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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Wall Street Journal:
Immigration-Policy Blueprint Due This Week, Senator Says
Discussion: TalkLeft
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Durbin: Senate immigration plan will be comprehensive, include citizenship path
Discussion: Politico
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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Associated Press:
Fire at Brazil club kills more than 230 as partiers stampede toward exit, choke on toxic smoke
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Lori Ziganto / Twitchy:
Bitter clinger!  Obama claims that he totally goes secret skeet shooting all the time, guys  —  Some of his best friends are skeets, guys!  We are finding out a lot from New Republic's interview with President Obama.  First we found out he is Media Matters material, and now we find out he totally goes skeet shooting all the time.
Discussion: Power Line
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Sen. Feinstein: Passing gun-control legislation is ‘hardest’ challenge
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, CNN and Politico
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 …
Discussion: Eschaton
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.
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.
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.
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” …
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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James Hohmann / Politico:
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Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
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Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
Travis Kalanick: The Transportation Trustbuster
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Dan Williams / Reuters:
Israel threatens Syria strike if rebels get chemical arms
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McChrystal: Women will serve in, improve special-forces units
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama would think ‘hard’ before letting a son play football, cites head-injury fears
Discussion: CNN
Joel Stonington / Spiegel Online:
Wake-Up Call: A Disastrous Week for Carbon Trading
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
For The Sixth Time In One Week, Man Shot At Gun Show
Colin Freeman / Reuters:
Revealed: how Saharan caravans of cocaine help to fund al-Qaeda in terrorists' North African domain
Discussion: Telegraph and Jihad Watch
George F. Will / Washington Post:
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