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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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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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Hot Air, Towleroad News #gay, The Plum Line and The National Memo
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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Washington Examiner, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air and Towleroad News #gay
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
John McCain: Immigration Rights For Same-Sex Couples “Not Of Paramount Importance” — While Obama will include same-sex couples in his immigration proposal, the Senator calls it “a red flag.” A potential roadblock to reform. — Arizona Sen. John McCain said Tuesday morning that protections …
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Washington Post:
Obama to announce his immigration reform plan, said to be more liberal than Senate effort — The Obama administration has developed its own proposals for immigration reform that are more liberal than a separate bipartisan effort in the Senate, including a quicker path to citizenship for illegal immigrants …
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Politico:
Obama, McCain, Rubio begin immigration dance
Obama, McCain, Rubio begin immigration dance
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CNN, First Read, Reuters and The Hill
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
McCain: GOP will back plan offering ‘tough road’ to citizenship
McCain: GOP will back plan offering ‘tough road’ to citizenship
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Politico and americanthinker.com
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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msnbc.com, Obsidian Wings, PERRspectives and The PJ Tatler
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Sen. McCain: We need border drones to get a deal on immigration reforms
Sen. McCain: We need border drones to get a deal on immigration reforms
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The Raw Story and Dependable Renegade
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Bipartisan immigration plan faces deep skepticism
Bipartisan immigration plan faces deep skepticism
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Washington Monthly
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
Obama to offer immigration specifics
Obama to offer immigration specifics
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
Russell Berman / The Hill:
House GOP cautious on Senate's bipartisan immigration blueprint
House GOP cautious on Senate's bipartisan immigration blueprint
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CNN:
Sources: Congressional Hispanic Caucus members urged Obama not to unveil immigration bill
Sources: Congressional Hispanic Caucus members urged Obama not to unveil immigration bill
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The Caucus, The Week, National Review, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Twitchy, The Hill, Weasel Zippers, Politico and americanthinker.com
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
The U.S. Border Is More Secure Than Ever Before
The U.S. Border Is More Secure Than Ever Before
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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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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 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
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Booman Tribune
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Super PAC to back Hillary Clinton — Fans of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have launched a super PAC on her behalf as speculation continues to swirl about her 2016 ambitions. — “Ready for Hillary” on Friday filed with the Federal Election Commission, following on the heels of another group called “HILLARYCLINTONSUPERPAC.”
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Joshua Green / Business Week:
Obama's Parting Gift to Hillary Clinton
Obama's Parting Gift to Hillary Clinton
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Outside the Beltway, The Week, Prairie Weather, Truthdig and Booman Tribune
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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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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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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Hot Air, National Review and Mediaite
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
I Was Quite Surprised By Some Things On My American Airlines International ‘Economy Class’ Flight — Everyone's always complaining about how horrible flying is—especially “economy class” flying. — And compared to other ways that one can spend one's time, flying is indeed often unpleasant and aggravating.
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Hullabaloo
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.
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 …
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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americanthinker.com and Betsy's Page
Robin Van Daalen / Wall Street Journal:
Dutch Queen to Abdicate in Favor of Her Son — Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is stepping down after 33 years on the throne. She will be succeeded by her eldest son, the 45-year-old Willem-Alexander. Robin van Daalen reports from Amsterdam. — AMSTERDAM—Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands …
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Rebecca Berg / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul Will Propose Ban On Sending F-16s To Egypt — The senator from Kentucky told a group of conservatives at an off-the-record meeting Monday. Beefing up his pro-Israel credentials. — Image by J. Scott Applewhite / AP — WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul told an off-the-record meeting …
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Fox News:
Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn — The predicted temperature changes (darker red indicating greater change) due to global warming, based on data that scientists, policymakers and the public are now questioning.
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