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4:25 PM ET, January 29, 2013

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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.

Discussion: The Plum Line, The Huffington Post and Morning Call

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 …

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.

Discussion: Power Line, Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh, JustOneMinute, Hot Air, Washington Examiner, The PJ Tatler, The Right Scoop, Washington Post, Poliglot, The Hill and Towleroad News #gay

Kevin Cirilli / Politico:

Marco Rubio wins big praise from Rush Limbaugh — Sen. Marco Rubio went into Rush Limbaugh's lion's den on Tuesday and came out with a rousing praise and support from the conservative radio show host for the Florida Republican's effort to reform the country's immigration system.

Discussion: CNN and Scared Monkeys

Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

READ: President Obama's immigration proposal — Here's the White House's immigration framework, which is similar to the Senate's Gang of 8 framework, and to the White House's May 2011 plan. If anything, their May 2011 plan was more detailed. — In his speech in Las Vegas this afternoon …

Discussion: Immigration Equality

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

Discussion: The National Memo

Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Poll: 51% back path to citizenship

Discussion: CNN, The Hill, Outside the Beltway and americanthinker.com

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
McCain: Binational Same-Sex Couples Are ‘Not Of Paramount Importance’ To Immigration Reform

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Prairie Weather, Hot Air, Immigration Equality, Washington Examiner, Towleroad News #gay, The National Memo, The Reaction and The Plum Line

New York Times:
Now We're Talking — The thousand-mile journey to comprehensive …

Discussion: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, CNN and Talking Points Memo

Reihan Salam / National Review:
The Gang of Eight's Emerging Immigration Deal

Discussion: Washington Wire and Politico

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Confusion envelops Senate immigration plan

Discussion: The Hill, The Week, Washington Monthly, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Hot Air and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Bashes Immigration Proposal, Awaiting Marco Rubio Interview

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, Hot Air, nation.foxnews.com and Politico

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Congress Faces Deep-Seated Resistance to Immigration Plan

Discussion: The Caucus, msnbc.com, Washington Examiner, Booman Tribune, Washington Monthly, Obsidian Wings, PERRspectives and The PJ Tatler

Washington Post:
Obama to announce his immigration reform plan, said to be more liberal than Senate effort

Discussion: Las Vegas Review-Journal, NBCNews.com, Wonkblog, Mediaite, Politico, The Plum Line, First Read, Right Turn, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and Post Politics

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Immigration plan mirrors 2007's

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, The Hill and Dr. Orly Taitz, Esquire

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: Washington Monthly, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Peach Pundit, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Business Insider, TVNewser and The Hinterland Gazette, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: Associated Press, From Inside the Box, TheBlaze.com, Deadline.com, Gawker, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
James Carville, Mary Matalin Leaving CNN

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Big Shakeup At CNN

Discussion: Politico and CNN, more at Mediagazer »

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Erick Erickson leaving CNN for Fox News

Discussion: Deadline.com and FIRST DRAFT

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Mark Whitaker Leaving CNN

Discussion: Mediaite, Deadline.com and FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Advocate, msnbc.com, Pat Dollard, The Raw Story, Mediaite and The Hill

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.

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Business Insider, Politico, Hit & Run, CANNONFIRE, Brad DeLong, No More Mister Nice Blog, Booman Tribune, msnbc.com and Shakesville

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.)

Discussion: Brad DeLong and The Daily Dish, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Free Beacon:
Hughes Drops Jews

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Wonkette and The PJ Tatler

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.

Discussion: The Daily Dish, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, neo-neocon, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air, Wonkette, The Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, National Review and Sense of Events

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 …

Discussion: The Raw Story and Boing Boing

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 …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Colorlines, The Raw Story, BuzzFeed and The Maddow Blog

David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
GOP Group Urges ‘Tonally Sensitive’ Immigration Messaging

Discussion: msnbc.com and Talking Points Memo

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.

Discussion: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV, Gawker and Suburban Guerrilla

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.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, msnbc.com and Weasel Zippers

Henry J. Gomez / Plain Dealer:

Secretary of State Jon Husted and other Republicans say Electoral College changes not in store for Ohio — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Count Ohio's Republican leaders out of a GOP-backed effort to end the Electoral College's winner-take-all format in the Buckeye State and other presidential battlegrounds.

Discussion: The Maddow Blog, The Political Carnival and A plain blog about politics

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 …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Political Carnival