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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
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Immigration reform could add 7 million people to Obamacare
Immigration reform could add 7 million people to Obamacare
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Washington Examiner and National Review
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Marco Rubio wins big praise from Rush Limbaugh
Marco Rubio wins big praise from Rush Limbaugh
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CNN, The Week and Scared Monkeys
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
READ: President Obama's immigration proposal
READ: President Obama's immigration proposal
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Post Politics and Immigration Equality
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Durbin Seeks To Clarify Role Of Proposed Border Security Commission
Durbin Seeks To Clarify Role Of Proposed Border Security Commission
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Twitchy, The Maddow Blog and Guardian
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Will Include Same-Sex Couples In Immigration Plan
Obama Will Include Same-Sex Couples In Immigration Plan
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Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Warns Immigration Reform Including Same-Sex Couples Will Fail
Lindsey Graham Warns Immigration Reform Including Same-Sex Couples Will Fail
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The Moderate Voice, Guardian, Colorlines, Poliglot, Towleroad News #gay and The Right Scoop
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Poll: 51% back path to citizenship
Poll: 51% back path to citizenship
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CNN, americanthinker.com and Outside the Beltway
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.
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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.
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.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Erick Erickson leaving CNN for Fox News
Erick Erickson leaving CNN for Fox News
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TVNewser, Deadline.com and FIRST DRAFT
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Big Shakeup At CNN
Big Shakeup At CNN
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TVNewser and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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Crooks and Liars, The Huffington Post, Morning Call, The Plum Line, Daily Kos and The Maddow Blog
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Harry J Enten / Guardian:
Five reasons Republicans won't win Latino voters with immigration reform
Five reasons Republicans won't win Latino voters with immigration reform
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Hot Air, Business Insider, thenewamerican.com, Ross Douthat, The Plum Line and The Daily Dish
Talking Points Memo:
Senate Confirms John Kerry As U.S. Secretary Of State — The Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) as the nation's next secretary of state on Tuesday. — The vote was 94 to 3. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jim Inhofe (R-OH) voted against confirmation.
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Julian Pecquet / Ballot Box:
Senate approves Kerry for State, setting in motion special election process
Senate approves Kerry for State, setting in motion special election process
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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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Natalie Angier / New York Times:
That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think — For all the adorable images of cats that play the piano, flush the toilet, mew melodiously and find their way back home over hundreds of miles, scientists have identified a shocking new truth: cats are far deadlier than anyone realized.
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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.
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The Daily Caller, The Week and Weasel Zippers
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Jane C. Timm / msnbc.com:
Emotional father of Sandy Hook victim heckled by gun nuts
Emotional father of Sandy Hook victim heckled by gun nuts
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Ed Driscoll, Hullabaloo, Hot Air and CBS New York
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.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Michael Bloomberg: Joe Biden has ‘set of balls’ — Rupert Murdoch should encourage Fox News to focus on immigration reform. President Obama should be on notice that he'll face tougher criticism in the coming months. And Joe Biden has a “set of balls.” — So pronounced New York City …
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Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
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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 …
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The Raw Story, National Review and Boing Boing
Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Fox News Sees Its Worst Ratings Since 2001 — More ratings woes for FNC since Obama's reelection. — January marked Fox News Channel's lowest 25-54 demo delivery for Monday-Sunday Primetime and Sales Prime (M-Su 7p-2a) since August 2001. — January was also the worst month ever for FNC's …
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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.
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.)
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.
Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:
Oops! The New Republic tweets parody site ‘proof’ of Obama shooting skeet, quickly deletes — If it's too good to be true, The New Republic is on it! — President Barack “Bitter Clinger” Obama claimed he totally goes skeet shooting “all the time” at Camp David, but White House press secretary Jay Carney …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Mag Pushes Fake Picture of Obama Skeet Shooting
Fred Clark / slacktivist:
Do white evangelicals have a delusional persecution complex? Barna says yes, and provides quantifiable proof — After discussing the limits of the survey research and data supplied by the Barna Group, let's turn to the merits of it, and what such research can tell us.
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Crooks and Liars
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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