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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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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 …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama to Fly Over 9 Hours Just for Speech on Immigration — President Barack Obama will fly over 9 hours tomorrow, round-trip from Washington, D.C. to Las Vegas, Nevada, just to deliver a speech on immigration, according to the president's White House schedule.
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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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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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First Read / NBCNews.com:
First Thoughts: Obama to embrace Senate deal
First Thoughts: Obama to embrace Senate deal
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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Bashes Immigration Proposal, Awaiting Marco Rubio Interview
Rush Limbaugh Bashes Immigration Proposal, Awaiting Marco Rubio Interview
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Politico:
Obama, McCain, Rubio begin immigration dance
Obama, McCain, Rubio begin immigration dance
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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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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 and The Raw Story
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Washington Free Beacon:
Hughes Drops Jews
Hughes Drops Jews
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Washington Monthly, The PJ Tatler and Wonkette
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.
Love has no pride — The thought that love has no pride is an old one.
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msnbc.com, National Review, Fox News and The Daily Caller
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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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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Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Arkansas Town Unleashes SWAT To Patrol Streets — Paragould, Arkansas, that is: … Statistics isn't a good enough reason to stop citizens on the streets. As best as I know, Arkansas is a so-called stop and identify state, but only for loitering. Additionally, even in stop and identify states …
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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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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 …
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Weasel Zippers, The Right Scoop and Sister Toldjah
Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Justice: Progress in Fast and Furious Negotiations — The Justice Department reports progress in settlement talks over a lawsuit by a House committee to get records involving the bungled gun-tracking program known as Operation Fast and Furious. — In a filing Tuesday …
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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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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Hispanic group to GOP congressmen: Watch your language — One top GOP Hispanic group has a message for Republicans as Congress begins debate on immigration: Watch your language. — The Hispanic Leadership Network, a center-right group looking to woo Latinos to the GOP …
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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
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.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV, Gawker and Suburban Guerrilla
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.
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.”
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Remember Obama's tax hikes on the rich to pay debt? He's already spent every penny — It's a good thing our federal government is going on a strict spending diet to curb its out-of-control borrowing. Otherwise, the latest piece of spending legislation passed Monday worth more than $50 billion might have been substantial.
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