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5:40 PM ET, January 29, 2013

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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

GOP Rep Says He Opposes Immigration Reform Because Latinos Are Uneducated, Will Never Support Republicans — Republican senators in the so-called Gang of 8 working to enact comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship argue that repairing the broken system would attract Latino voters to the GOP.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Plum Line, Reuters and Morning Call

Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:

Here's How Obama's Immigration Position Differs From The Senate's — In a speech, the president mostly backs the bipartisan framework on the Hill with two key exceptions: treatment of same-sex couples, and the inclusion of a border security “trigger.” — Image by Jason Reed / Reuters

Discussion: The National Memo and The Other McCain

Jordan Fabian / ABCNEWS:

Obama Immigration Plan: More Direct Path to Citizenship Than Senate's — President Barack Obama is expected to lay out his principles for immigration reform in a speech in Las Vegas today that will include a potentially quicker path to citizenship than the bipartisan plan a group of senators unveiled earlier this week.

Discussion: CNN, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Rush Limbaugh, Power Line, Taylor Marsh, Politico, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The PJ Tatler, JustOneMinute, Washington Post, Poliglot, Towleroad News #gay and Dr. Orly Taitz, Esquire

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

Obama Will Include Same-Sex Couples In Immigration Plan — The Senate is silent on bi-national couples divided by law. — WASHINGTON — Same-sex couples will be a part of the proposal for addressing immigration reform that President Obama is scheduled to unveil Tuesday in Las Vegas …

Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Marco Rubio wins big praise from Rush Limbaugh

Discussion: CNN, The Week and Scared Monkeys

Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
READ: President Obama's immigration proposal

Discussion: Post Politics and Immigration Equality

Jodi Arias / Associated Press:
Details of Obama, Senate Immigration Proposals

Discussion: Politico

Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Immigration reform could add 7 million people to Obamacare

Discussion: Washington Examiner and National Review

Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Warns Immigration Reform Including Same-Sex Couples Will Fail

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Colorlines, Poliglot, Guardian, Towleroad News #gay and The Right Scoop

Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Poll: 51% back path to citizenship

Discussion: CNN, americanthinker.com and Outside the Beltway

Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Bashes Immigration Proposal, Awaiting Marco Rubio Interview

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, nation.foxnews.com and Politico

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Marco Rubio Suggests He Won't Vote For Immigration Reform Without Stricter Enforcement

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Maddow Blog, Hot Air and Rush Limbaugh

New York Times:
Now We're Talking — The thousand-mile journey to comprehensive …

Discussion: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, CNN and Talking Points Memo

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Confusion envelops Senate immigration plan

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, The Week, The Hill, Washington Monthly, Prairie Weather, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Hot Air

Erick Erickson / RedState:

Moving On — I was not going to say anything, but rather just fade away. I suppose though with rumors and reports I should say something. — My voicemail and inbox are, as I type, filling up. I have turned my phone off as the only way to get it to stop ringing. — Yes, I can confirm I am leaving CNN.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Mediaite, TVNewser, The Daily Caller, Peach Pundit and Mock, Paper, Scissors, more at Mediagazer »

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

CNN Parts Ways With Major Contributors — Pundit power couple James Carville and Mary Matalin will not be continuing their contracts with CNN, according to FishbowlDC sources. In addition, Bill Bennett and Maria Cardona are also parting ways with the network, although CNN Espanol will keep Cardona on board.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, TVNewser, Business Insider and The Hinterland Gazette, more at Mediagazer »

Dylan Byers / Politico:

James Carville, Mary Matalin leaving CNN — CNN contributors and political power couple James Carville and Mary Matalin are leaving the network, Carville told POLITICO today. — The decision was CNN's, Carville said: “I was told that they wanted the contributors to be more available — essentially, closer to Washington.

Discussion: Associated Press, Media Decoder, From Inside the Box, Washington Examiner, TheBlaze.com, Deadline.com, TBogg, Gawker, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:

Big Shakeup At CNN — Just a week into CNN president Jeff Zucker's tenure, the network's managing editor and a number of prominent on-air contributors are on their way out. — Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville and his wife Mary Matalin are leaving CNN, Carville told TPM Tuesday.

Discussion: Politico and CNN, more at Mediagazer »

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Erick Erickson leaving CNN for Fox News

Discussion: Deadline.com and FIRST DRAFT

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Mark Whitaker Leaving CNN

Discussion: Mediaite, Deadline.com and FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »

Dallas Morning News:

Supreme Court Justice Scalia offers perspective on the law at SMU lecture — “The judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge,” said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (right), with law professor Bryan A. Garner on Monday. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, ACS Blog, Advocate, msnbc.com, Mediaite, The Raw Story, Pat Dollard and The Hill

Katie Glueck / Politico:

Antonin Scalia: The Constitution is ‘dead’ — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the Constitution is “dead, dead, dead,” rather than a “living document.” — “It's not a living document,” Scalia said on Monday while speaking at Dallas-based Southern Methodist University, according to a report from the Dallas Morning News.

Talking Points Memo: Scalia: The Constitution Is ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Hitler Alive and Well, Owning Liberal Magazine — The Washington Free Beacon has a report, sourced to “Washington Free Beacon Staff,” that Chris Hughes is purging Jews from The New Republic. (Occasionally the Free Beacon publishes stories too embarrassing for any staffers to be associated with by name.)

Discussion: Brad DeLong and The Daily Dish, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Free Beacon:
Hughes Drops Jews

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Wonkette, The PJ Tatler and Atlas Shrugs

Kirsten Powers / Fox News:

Obama vs. Fox News — behind the White House strategy to delegitimize a news organization — Jan. 14, 2013: President Obama gestures during his final news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington.AP — There is no war on terror for the Obama White House, but there is one on Fox News.

Discussion: The Daily Dish, neo-neocon, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, The Raw Story, Washington Monthly, Wonkette, Crooks and Liars, National Review and Sense of Events

David Brooks / New York Times:

A Second G.O.P. — On the surface, Republicans are already doing a good job of beginning to change their party. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana gave a speech to the Republican National Committee calling on Republicans to stop being the stupid party, to stop insulting the intelligence of the American people.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Business Insider, Hit & Run, CANNONFIRE, Brad DeLong, No More Mister Nice Blog, Booman Tribune, msnbc.com, Politico and Shakesville

Washington Post:

President Obama unveils his proposals for immigration reform (Transcript) — Susan Walsh/AP - President Obama waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Jan. 29. Obama is traveling to Las Vegas to deliver a speech on immigration. … PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you.

Discussion: National Review and Guardian

CNN:
Transcript: Obama says ‘the time has come for’ for comprehensive immigration reform

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama to Fly Over 9 Hours Just for Speech on Immigration

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Twitchy and The Right Scoop

Mike Dash / History & Archaeology:

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II — In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga — The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived …

Discussion: The Raw Story and Boing Boing

Sdesprat / Twitchy:

Outrageous: How the left-wing media lied about Newtown ‘hecklers’ — National and international media are up in arms today over the story of Neil Heslin, father of slain Sandy Hook student Jesse Lewis, being heckled yesterday during a Connecticut legislative meeting.

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers

Jane C. Timm / msnbc.com:
Emotional father of Sandy Hook victim heckled by gun nuts

Discussion: Hullabaloo and CBS New York

Paul Alster / Fox News:

Aide to Egyptian President Morsi claims Holocaust a US hoax — A top deputy of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi calls the Holocaust a myth, part of a troubling pattern, according to the Simon Weisenthal Center.AP — HAIFA, ISRAEL - A key figure in Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's government called …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Weasel Zippers, The Right Scoop and Sister Toldjah

New York Times:
Chief of Egypt's Army Warns of ‘Collapse’ as Chaos Mounts

Discussion: The Week

David Edwards / The Raw Story:

Georgia man guns down immigrant after GPS sends him to wrong driveway — A 69-year-old war veteran and former missionary was arrested over the weekend on the suspicion of killing a 22-year-old Cuban immigrant who mistakenly arrived in his driveway because of faulty GPS directions.

Discussion: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV, The Mahablog, Gawker, The Hinterland Gazette and Suburban Guerrilla

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Perry looking highly vulnerable — Texas voters- even Republicans- have had enough of Rick Perry. — PPP's newest poll finds that only 31% of voters think Perry should seek reelection next year, compared to 62% who think it's time for him to step aside. He's among the most unpopular Governors …

Discussion: Juanita Jean's, Taegan Goddard's … and The Political Carnival