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Michael Isikoff / NBCNews.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans — Tribesmen examine the rubble of a building in southeastern Yemen where American teenagerAbdulrahmen al-Awlaki and six suspected al-Qaida militants were killed in a U.S. drone strike on Oct. 14, 2011.
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New York Times:
Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens in Al Qaeda — WASHINGTON — Obama administration lawyers have asserted that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if “an informed, high-level official” of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Memo on Killing Americans Twists ‘Imminent Threat’ Like Bush
Obama's Memo on Killing Americans Twists ‘Imminent Threat’ Like Bush
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The Week, Firedoglake, Alas, a Blog, Hot Air, Hit & Run and thomaspmbarnett.com
Marc Ambinder / The Week:
Your government can kill you if... A Justice Department …
Your government can kill you if... A Justice Department …
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Prairie Weather and Hullabaloo
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
The Harbingers of Tyranny — Please consider the following news reports:
The Harbingers of Tyranny — Please consider the following news reports:
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Moonbattery and NationalJournal.com
Politico:
Cantor 4.0 seeks to rebrand House GOP — House Republicans haven't settled on an agenda yet, but Majority Leader Eric Cantor is ready to rebrand the party. — The Virginia Republican is a metaphor for a GOP conference that is trying to modernize on the fly after a disappointing 2012 election …
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NBCNews.com, The Maddow Blog, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, msnbc.com and Wall Street Journal
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Slam Republicans Over Opposition To The Violence Against Women Act
Democrats Slam Republicans Over Opposition To The Violence Against Women Act
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Daily Kos
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Ron Paul · 1,118,166 like this — As a veteran, I certainly recognize that this weekend's violence and killing of Chris Kyle were a tragic and sad event. My condolences and prayers go out to Mr. Kyle's family. Unconstitutional and unnecessary wars have endless unintended consequences.
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: RAND PAUL RESPONDS TO RON: ‘CHRIS KYLE WAS A HERO’ — In the aftermath of Ron Paul's despicable tweet today slamming US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, murdered on Saturday while helping a fellow soldier learn to cope with post traumatic stress syndrome, Paul's son, Senator Rand Paul …
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama's posterior again the subject of a public rant — They're at it again. — The latest public rant against Michelle Obama's effort to promote low-calorie school lunches was recently caught on tape in Alabama — the usual protest against the federal government meddling in local business.
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NewsBusters, CNN, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, The Hinterland Gazette, Althouse, Taylor Marsh and Jammie Wearing Fools
Justin McCurry / Guardian:
North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack — YouTube video shows city ablaze in scenes reminiscent of 9/11, as South Korea claims nuclear test imminent in Pyongyang — It begins benignly enough, with an image of a sleeping young North Korean man …
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Michelle Malkin, New York Times, Forbes, The Lede, AEIdeas, Pat Dollard, FP Passport, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, WorldViews and Gawker
Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
The Menendez Dilemma — Prostitution is both legal and widespread in the Dominican Republic, where as many as 100,000 women are part of the industry in a nation that has become a major sex-tourism hotspot of the Caribbean. So it would not be a crime for Sen. Robert Menendez to have availed himself …
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The Other McCain, The Daily Caller, CNN, Fausta's Blog, Naked Politics and The Hill
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
STRANGE STEWARDESS: PHOTO EMERGES OF MYSTERY MELGEN-MENENDEZ WOMAN
STRANGE STEWARDESS: PHOTO EMERGES OF MYSTERY MELGEN-MENENDEZ WOMAN
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The Jawa Report, The Other McCain and The Lonely Conservative
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Eight Senators Vote To Block Violence Against Women Act — Eight Senators on Monday voted not to consider the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, a bill that protects victims of domestic violence. The Senators who voted against moving to debate on the bill were: Sens. Ted Cruz …
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The Huffington Post, Addicting Info, The Hinterland Gazette, The Raw Story and Daily Kos
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
Jon Favreau, President Obama's head speechwriter, is departing — Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who at times lit up social media as well as the president's addresses, is leaving. — President Obama and his head speechwriter, Jon Favreau, work in the Oval Office.
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Weekly Standard and Post Politics
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans — Conservatives often point out that laws, no matter how benign they may appear, have unintended consequences. They can reverberate in ways that not many people foresaw and nobody wanted: Raising the minimum wage can increase unemployment; prohibition can create black markets.
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Power Line and TheBlaze.com
Jason Koebler / US News:
Study: Global Warming Can Be Slowed By Working Less — A new analysis suggests that a more ‘European’ schedule would reduce the effects of climate change — Want to reduce the effects of global warming? Stop working so hard. Working fewer hours might help slow global warming …
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NewsBusters, americanthinker.com, Pirate's Cove, Say Anything, Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's ObamaCare Flippers — How the law's perverse incentives—and the health lobby—captured Arizona's Governor. — As D-Day looms for ObamaCare, one big question is how many states will sign up for its Medicaid expansion. The recent and spectacular flip-flop of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer …
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Washington Monthly and TheBlaze.com
DealBook:
Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private — Updated — Dell announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to go private in a $24.4 billion deal led by its founder and the investment firm Silver Lake, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis. — Under the terms of the deal …
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The Week, Business Insider and The Daily Caller
Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Debuts New Website — Hillary Clinton appears to have a new website. So far, hillaryclintonoffice.com has a picture of the former secretary of state and a form for contacting her.
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The Hill, Politico, Taylor Marsh and The Hinterland Gazette
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
A revolution in the works? Column — But if there's an upside to the increasing unhappiness that most Americans feel toward the political class, it's that maybe it means people are paying closer attention. — Americans are out of sorts, and increasingly they're unhappy with the government.
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Babalú Blog, Hit & Run, This ain't Hell …, The Other McCain, Daily Pundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Ed Driscoll
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
HHS begins purge of ‘excessively burdensome’ healthcare rules — The Obama administration is proposing to reform existing healthcare regulations and purge unnecessary ones, a move that it says would save $3.4 billion over five years. — The Department of Health and Human Services has rolled …
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National Review
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House GOP thinks unthinkable on defense cuts — The Republican mantra for decades has been: cut NPR, EPA and the National Endowment for the Arts. — Now add the Pentagon to the list. — In the modern history of the Republican Party, it would have been unthinkable.
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Hullabaloo and Reuters
Michèle A. Flournoy / Wall Street Journal:
The Right Way to Cut Pentagon Spending — The U.S. has an abysmal record of postwar drawdowns that undermine military readiness and modernization. — Whether or not Congress avoids sequestration by March 1, defense spending will likely be cut by at least 10% over the next decade.
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Hot Air, Weekly Standard, The Week and msnbc.com
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Pennsylvania Republicans To Introduce New Election-Rigging Plan … Last month, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus called up “states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” to rig future presidential elections by changing the way electoral votes are allocated.
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American Prospect, Addicting Info and Philly.com
EIA:
U.S. household expenditures for gasoline account for nearly 4% of pretax income — Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. — Republished: February 4, 2013, 10:00 a.m.: To correct an error in the text. — Gasoline expenditures in 2012 for the average U.S. household reached $2,912 …
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The Atlantic Online, Wonkblog and The Daily Caller
Darleen / protein wisdom:
“It's who they are ...” [Darleen Click] — “... it's what they do,” to quote Jeff. — Indefensible wealth. Think of all the envy, coveting, self-hate, and downright misanthropy wrapped up in that one little phrase. — Really, the core “value” of the Left. — h/t Twitchy
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Twitchy, Daily Pundit and American Power
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Academic Study Weakens Israeli Claim That Palestinian School Texts Teach Hate — JERUSALEM — An academic study of the contents of Israeli and Palestinian Authority textbooks, to be published Monday, finds that each side generally presents the other as the enemy, but it undermines recent assertions …
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Right Turn, WorldViews, Israpundit and Israel Matzav
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Feds investigating finances of former Ald. Sandi Jackson: sources — Former Ald. Sandi Jackson in December. File I Scott Stewart~Sun-Times — A federal financial probe of the once-politically powerful Jesse and Sandi Jackson has evolved into two separate investigations …
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