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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 …
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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.
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Power Line, JustOneMinute, Washington Examiner, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, Towleroad News #gay and Dr. Orly Taitz, Esquire
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
McCain: Binational Same-Sex Couples Are ‘Not Of Paramount Importance’ To Immigration Reform — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — one of the architects of the bipartisan Senate plan to reform the immigration system — told CBS on Tuesday morning that including binational gay and lesbian couples whose relationships …
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The Plum Line, The Reaction, Hot Air, The National Memo, Towleroad News #gay, Dependable Renegade and Mother Jones
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Congress Faces Deep-Seated Resistance to Immigration Plan
Congress Faces Deep-Seated Resistance to Immigration Plan
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Washington Monthly, The Caucus, Booman Tribune, msnbc.com, Obsidian Wings, PERRspectives and The PJ Tatler
Washington Post:
Obama to announce his immigration reform plan, said to be more liberal than Senate effort
Obama to announce his immigration reform plan, said to be more liberal than Senate effort
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Wonkblog, The Plum Line, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, The Week, Politico, Right Turn, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Post Politics
First Read / NBCNews.com:
First Thoughts: Obama to embrace Senate deal
First Thoughts: Obama to embrace Senate deal
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, Pat Dollard, msnbc.com and Twitchy
Politico:
Obama, McCain, Rubio begin immigration dance
Obama, McCain, Rubio begin immigration dance
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CNN, National Review, The Week, First Read, Reuters and Weasel Zippers
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Confusion envelops Senate immigration plan
The Morning Plum: Confusion envelops Senate immigration plan
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Washington Monthly, Townhall.com, The Hill, Hot Air and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Bipartisan immigration plan faces deep skepticism
Bipartisan immigration plan faces deep skepticism
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msnbc.com and Washington Monthly
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama to Fly Over 9 Hours Just for Speech on Immigration
Obama to Fly Over 9 Hours Just for Speech on Immigration
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Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, Twitchy and The Right Scoop
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
John McCain: Immigration Rights For Same-Sex Couples “Not Of Paramount Importance”
John McCain: Immigration Rights For Same-Sex Couples “Not Of Paramount Importance”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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.
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Politico, Hit & Run, CANNONFIRE, Brad DeLong, No More Mister Nice Blog, Shakesville and Booman Tribune
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.
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Politico, Business Insider, Mediaite, Deadline.com and The Hinterland Gazette, more at Mediagazer »
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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.
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TheBlaze.com, Deadline.com, Gawker, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars, Hot Air, Mediaite, Sense of Events and National Review
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.)
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The Daily Dish and Brad DeLong
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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.
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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 …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite and The Hill
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Steve Kroft's Softball Obama Interviews Diminish ‘60 Minutes’ — All 14 questions the award-winning correspondent posed in his recent sit-down were glaringly flawed. Even Jon Stewart is more hard-hitting. — CBSNews.com — On 60 Minutes, the news-magazine show that prides itself on …
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air and CBS News
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Love has no pride — The thought that love has no pride is an old one. Indeed, it has become something of a cliché. Yet it is achieved the status of cliché by virtue of the truth in it. — CBS's venerable 60 Minutes show brought us an example of the cliché in action over the weekend.
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National Review, Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Raw Story
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Kroft: Obama-Clinton interview request a surprise
Kroft: Obama-Clinton interview request a surprise
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NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers, Politico and CBS News
Stephanie Gaskell / Politico:
DOD eyes potential drone base in Africa — American commanders are considering whether to set up a base for unmanned aircraft in the African nation of Niger, a defense official confirmed to POLITICO, which could mean American drones might begin operating over conflict-torn Mali or its neighbors.
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AEIdeas and Associated Press
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Marsha Blackburn / CNN:
TRENDING: Skeptical congresswoman challenges Obama to skeet shooting match — (CNN) - It's about time for some bipartisan...skeet shooting? — Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, joined a chorus of skeptics who questioned President Barack Obama's recent comments about his hobby of skeet shooting …
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Politico, New York Magazine, The Week, The Hill, Mediaite, americanthinker.com, American Power, Weasel Zippers, Post Politics and Jammie Wearing Fools
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 …
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Taegan Goddard's … and The Political Carnival
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Collective action is overrated — Of the 2,000-plus words in President Obama's second inaugural address, surely the most provocative were “collective action.” — He presented American history as a “journey,” during which, at every crucial turn, we discovered “together” that …
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Questions and Observations and Balloon Juice
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Bay Buchanan quits TV punditry, takes online real estate class after Romney's ‘brutal’ loss — A former top aide to Mitt Romney says that she quit her career as a television pundit and began taking online real estate classes after the former Republican presidential nominee's “brutal” loss to President Barack Obama.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bay Buchanan trades politics for real estate
Bay Buchanan trades politics for real estate
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Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Stinque
Investor's Business Daily:
Subsidies Create Glut Of College Grads — Higher Education: A new study finds almost half of Americans with college degrees are working at jobs that don't require one. It's the latest example of how federal subsidies are creating a massive higher-education bubble.
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Betsy's Page and americanthinker.com
Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post:
Paul Krugman: Obama Won't Be Able To Pass Major Legislation In His Second Term — Paul Krugman, Video, Chris Hayes, Krugman Obama, Paul Krugman Barack Obama, Paul Krugman 92Y, Paul Krugman 92nd Street y, Paul Krugman Chris Hayes, Paul Krugman Obama, Paul Krugman Obama Legislation …
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Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Kyle Trygstad / Roll Call:
Shop Talk: NRSC Announces Senior Staff — Dayspring, left, the new National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director, formerly worked for Cantor. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) — The National Republican Senatorial Committee announced its senior staff Tuesday …
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The Daily Caller and Naked Politics
Reihan Salam / National Review:
The Gang of Eight's Emerging Immigration Deal — Having noted some of the constructive aspects of Sen. Marco Rubio's new immigration reform framework, I should note that the broad contours of the emerging Gang of Eight proposal are somewhat disappointing. A few red flags …
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Washington Wire and Politico
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
New York Removes ‘No Honking’ Signs — And should a fellow driver commit the cardinal sin of hesitating at a light just turned green, anyone — from brain surgeons to criminals to the kindliest of grandmothers — can be expected to smack a palm against the steering wheel.