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3:45 PM ET, January 29, 2013

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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.
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.
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 …
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Marco Rubio wins big praise from Rush Limbaugh
Discussion: CNN and Scared Monkeys
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Bashes Immigration Proposal, Awaiting Marco Rubio Interview
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: The Daily Caller and Peach Pundit
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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
Discussion: Deadline.com and FIRST DRAFT
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Mark Whitaker Leaving CNN
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 …
Talking Points Memo:   Scalia: The Constitution Is ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’
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.
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.
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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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Poll: 51% back path to citizenship  —  A slim majority of Americans believe that illegal immigrants should be able to stay in the United States and apply for citizenship, according to a new poll that found support for citizenship is on the rise.  —  Fifty-one percent think illegal immigrants …
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Colby Itkowitz / Morning Call:
Congressman Lou Barletta opposes emerging immigration plan
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Mag Pushes Fake Picture of Obama Skeet Shooting  —  President Obama recently told the New Republic magazine, “Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.”  Today, after some suggested the president's claim might not be true, the New Republic tweeted a picture supposedly proving that Obama has gone skeet shooting:
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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.
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 …
Charles Stile / NorthJersey.com:
Democrats' hopes for savior from Christie unfulfilled  —  Monday should have been Barbara Buono's triumphant moment as the Democratic Party started to coalesce around her candidacy for governor.  —  A cascade of endorsements minted her as the party's genuine standard-bearer.
Discussion: Politico
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Steve Kornacki / Capital New York:
Exit everyman: How the Jersey Democratic bosses destroyed Dick Codey and unleashed Chris Christie
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
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 …
Josh Barro / Bloomberg:
Sorry, Ramesh Ponnuru.  Conservatism Is Doomed.  —  My colleague Ramesh Ponnuru, responding this month to a piece I wrote in November, says that I am all wrong: It is possible to construct a viable conservative agenda that addresses middle-class concerns.  If Ponnuru has laid …
Discussion: National Review and Eschaton
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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Mike Dash / History & Archaeology:
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
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Jessica Willey / KTRK-TV:
Army drill scares residents on Houston's south side
Discussion: Moonbattery and AMERICAN DIGEST
Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Arkansas Town Unleashes SWAT To Patrol Streets
Discussion: protein wisdom
Matt Lait / L.A. NOW:
Former SEIU union local president convicted of embezzlement
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Remember Obama's tax hikes on the rich to pay debt? He's already spent every penny
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Bobby Jindal / Washington Post:
Let's meet on Medicaid, Mr. President
Reihan Salam / National Review:
The Gang of Eight's Emerging Immigration Deal
Discussion: Washington Wire and Politico
Courier-Journal:
Mitch McConnell opponents outnumber supporters
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Streaming Shakes Up Music Industry's Model for Royalties
Discussion: Business Insider
Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post:
Paul Krugman: Obama Won't Be Able To Pass Major Legislation In His Second Term
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Investor's Business Daily:
Subsidies Create Glut Of College Grads
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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