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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 …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama discusses media influence
Obama discusses media influence
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Fire Sweeps Through Brazil Nightclu; Hundreds Dead — RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire ignited by a flare from a band's pyrotechnics spectacle swept through a nightclub filled with hundreds of university students early on Sunday morning in Santa Maria, a city in southern Brazil, killing at least 233 people, officials said.
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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.
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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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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Sen. Feinstein: Passing gun-control legislation is ‘hardest’ challenge
Sen. Feinstein: Passing gun-control legislation is ‘hardest’ challenge
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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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David Nather / Politico:
The quiet liberal plans for entitlement reform — Ask liberals about GOP demands to rein in Social Security and Medicare spending, and many say this: no way. — But the truth is, there are a number of ideas to do just that already sitting on the shelves of influential liberal think tanks around Washington.
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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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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” …
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.
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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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Divided by Abortion, United by Feminism — IN 1942, 71 years before last week's Pentagon decision allowing women on the front lines of combat, the United States government established the Women's Army Corps, with Athena as its insignia, and welcomed our country's first female military recruits.
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