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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Southern Poverty Law Center website triggered FRC shooting … The Family Research Council shooter, who pleaded guilty today to a terrorism charge, picked his target off a “hate map” on the website of the ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center which is upset with the conservative group's opposition to gay rights.
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WJLA-TV:
Floyd Corkins pleads guilty to Family Research Council shooting — (AP/ABC7) - A man accused of shooting a security guard inside the downtown Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with the shooting.
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Bob Owens, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters and Joe. My. God.
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Family Research Council shooter pleads guilty to three felonies, including terrorism charge, in federal court
Family Research Council shooter pleads guilty to three felonies, including terrorism charge, in federal court
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The Daily Caller and nation.foxnews.com
John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
SPLC Website Provided Shooter with His Targets
SPLC Website Provided Shooter with His Targets
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Hot Air, Twitchy, The Daily Caller, Nice Deb and Ed Driscoll
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
US Attorneys' office links shooting at FRC, high-capacity magazines
US Attorneys' office links shooting at FRC, high-capacity magazines
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The PJ Tatler
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Hagel Tells Lawmakers He Can't Provide Details On Speaking Engagements, Foreign Funders — “He is basically telling Senators they have no right to know if he has been unduly influenced by foreign governments or foreign agents over the last five years. What is he hiding?” GOP aide says.
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Israel Matzav, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, “The Lid”, Power Line, Weekly Standard and The Lonely Conservative
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
GOP senators call for delay in Hagel committee vote — Two senior GOP members of the Senate Armed Services Committee told The Cable Tuesday that they won't consent to a committee vote on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be secretary of defense until the former Nebraska senator discloses …
Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Strange Days in the Senate: Could Ted Cruz Do What He Is Asking of Hagel?
Strange Days in the Senate: Could Ted Cruz Do What He Is Asking of Hagel?
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The Dish
Reuters:
Postal Service to Cut Saturday Mail — ABC OTUS News - US Postal Service to End Saturday Mail Delivery (ABC News) — Apparently trying an end-run around an unaccommodating Congress, the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Thanks To Congressional Incompetence, Saturday Mail Delivery Is History — The U.S. Postal Service announced on Wednesday that it will discontinue first class Saturday mail delivery, marking another milestone in the decline of the once-ubiquitous government service.
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Fox News, The Atlantic Online and UrbanGrounds
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Postal Service to End Delivery of Letters on Saturdays
Postal Service to End Delivery of Letters on Saturdays
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CBS News, Dealbreaker, USA Today, Daily Kos, Federal Eye, Via Meadia and LewRockwell.com Blog
Felix Salmon:
The Post Office gets tough with Congress
The Post Office gets tough with Congress
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Esquire, Mother Jones and Wonkblog
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
4th Annual TV News Trust Poll — PPP's annual poll on TV news finds that there's only one source more Americans trust than distrust: PBS. 52% of voters say they trust PBS to only 29% who don't trust it. The other seven outlets we polled on are all distrusted by a plurality of voters.
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Duncan Black / USA Today:
401Ks are a disaster: Column — Recent and near-retirees, the first major cohort of the 401(k) era, do not have nearly enough in retirement savings to even come close to maintaining their current lifestyles. — We need an across the board increase in Social Security retirement benefits of 20% or more.
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Corrente, The Stranger …, The Impolitic, Booman Tribune, Eschaton and Philly.com
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Spokesman.com:
Bill requires all Idaho kids to read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ — BOISE - Coeur d'Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate's Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it to graduate from high school.
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Washington Monthly, Taegan Goddard's …, The Week, The Raw Story, Joe. My. God. and Wonkette
Erik Wemple:
Fox News drops Dick Morris: Hooray — No more Fox News contributor Dick Morris. His contract to spout republic-damaging nonsense on Fox airwaves has expired, and the network isn't renewing it. — Taken together with the news that Sarah Palin will no longer be contributing …
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American Prospect and The Daily Caller
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Dick Morris Dropped by Fox News
Dick Morris Dropped by Fox News
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Washington Monthly, FishbowlDC, Crooks and Liars, The Huffington Post and msnbc.com
The Daily Caller:
FBI sources: Menendez investigation moved to Newark, NJ — Two FBI sources have told The Daily Caller that the bureau's inquiry into Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is now based in New Jersey, not Miami. One added that pressure is mounting from the highest levels of the Justice Department to pursue the investigation.
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The Other McCain, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, NewsBusters blogs and Daily Pundit
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Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Bob Menendez Spent Up to 87 Percent of Wealth Paying Back Donor
Bob Menendez Spent Up to 87 Percent of Wealth Paying Back Donor
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The Fix, Washington Free Beacon, The PJ Tatler and Election Law Blog
New York Times:
With Brennan Pick, a Light on Drone Strikes' Hazards — SANA, Yemen — Late last August, a 40-year-old cleric named Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber stood up to deliver a speech denouncing Al Qaeda in a village mosque in far eastern Yemen. — It was a brave gesture by a father of seven …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
GOP to offer sequester counter-plan …
GOP to offer sequester counter-plan …
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The Plum Line and Business Insider
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rubio to deliver GOP response to Obama's State of the Union — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will deliver the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address on February 12. — Rubio's response will be delivered in both English and Spanish, according to Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) office.
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The Atlantic Wire:
Rove's ‘No More Akins’ Group Outrages Conservatives — Karl Rove's American Crossroads has started a new group to make sure the 2014 Senate races produce zero Todd Akins. But it turns out some conservatives like Rove less than Akin. The Conservative Victory Project will spend money …
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Politico, Crooks and Liars, BREITBART.COM, The Maddow Blog and Washington Examiner
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative
Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative
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nation.foxnews.com, CNN, The Week, Hot Air, Cold Fury, Booman Tribune and First Read
Rand Paul / Reason:
Containment and Radical Islam — A realist foreign-policy vision that is neither imperialistic nor isolationist. — The following is text of a speech delivered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at the Heritage Foundation on February 6, 2013. — Foreign policy is uniquely an arena …
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Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
Here's Rand Paul's Grand Vision For U.S. Foreign Policy
Here's Rand Paul's Grand Vision For U.S. Foreign Policy
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Washington Monthly and American Spectator
Ryan Pearson / bigstory.ap.org:
BRUCE WILLIS: DON'T INFRINGE ON SECOND AMENDMENT — You are here — Home » Hollywood » Bruce Willis: Don't infringe on Second Amendment — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Willis says he's against new gun control laws that could infringe on Second Amendment rights.
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The Gateway Pundit, Reuters, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Poor Richard's News
Marice Richter / Reuters:
Boy Scouts of America delay vote on ending ban on gays — (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America on Wednesday delayed until May a vote on whether to end a controversial ban on gay members, drawing praise and rebukes from the two sides of a heated debate that has drawn in politicians as well as parents.
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The Huffington Post, FRC.org, Towleroad News #gay, NBCNews.com and First Read
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Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Poll: Majority of voters back gay Boy Scouts
Poll: Majority of voters back gay Boy Scouts
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Associated Press, msnbc.com, The Right Scoop and The Raw Story
Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:
CHRIS ROCK: ‘THE PRESIDENT IS OUR BOSS’... OUR ‘DAD’ — Comedian Chris Rock showed up on Capitol Hill today to support President Barack Obama's gun control proposals. Here is what he said during the morning press conference: … Apparently the comedian has flip-flopped on his previous gun control position, i.e. “bullet control” ...
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Twitchy, Sister Toldjah, The Lonely Conservative, Politico, The Truth About Guns and The Gateway Pundit
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Broun jumps into Georgia Senate race — Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) made it official Wednesday after dropping hints for several weeks — he'll run for retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss's (R-Ga.) seat. — “I'll be the only candidate in this race whose first priority is to stop the runaway spending …