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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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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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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Dick Morris Dropped by Fox News
Dick Morris Dropped by Fox News
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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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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 …
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
Rove's ‘No More Akins’ Group Outrages Conservatives
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative
Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative
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Steve Deace / Politico:
How to beat Karl Rove at his own game
How to beat Karl Rove at his own game
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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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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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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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Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Drone Strikes, Waterboarding, and Moral Preening
Drone Strikes, Waterboarding, and Moral Preening
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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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First Read:
Obama to nominate head of REI for Interior secretary — By NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro — President Obama will nominate the head of the outdoor retail chain REI to head up the Interior Department. — The choice of CEO Sally Jewell is an unconventional one …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama to nominate CEO of outdoor equipment giant REI to become interior secretary
Obama to nominate CEO of outdoor equipment giant REI to become interior secretary
Politico:
Obama to nominate REI chief Sally Jewell for Interior Secretary
Obama to nominate REI chief Sally Jewell for Interior Secretary
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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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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
We Had To Tax The Retirement Plan In Order To Save It — Duncan (He can't be Sirius) Black, the econ degree holder formerly known as Atrios, explains in USA Today that baby boomers face a retirement crisis which can only be solved by raising both taxes and Social Security benefits. Really:
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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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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Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Chris Rock stands up for gun control
Chris Rock stands up for gun control
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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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American Spectator
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
CNN Host Destroys Supporter Of Boy Scouts Discrimination For Equating Pedophilia With Being Gay — CNN's Soledad O'Brien challenged the conservative opposition to keeping gays scouts and leaders out of the Boy Scouts on Wednesday morning, comparing the organization's ban to past restrictions on African Americans and women.
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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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International Business Times:
Women's Unclean Breasts Cause Diarrhoea, Says Egypt Prime Minister Hisham Qandil — By VASUDEVAN SRIDHARAN: Subscribe to Vasudevan's RSS feed — Egypt's prime minister, Hisham Qandil - Reuters — The inability of women in rural Egypt to clean their breasts is causing a diarrhoea epidemic …
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Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state, but has no intention of launching attack on Israel — In interview with Al-Ahram on eve of Islamic Summit Conference in Cairo, Iranian president also says his country opposes outside intervention in Syria. — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
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Associated Press:
Own a gun? Time to buy violence liability insurance, California Democrats say — Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday that would require California gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover damages or injuries caused by their weapons. — Similar bills have been introduced …
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: Panetta to recommend pay cut for military — Just days before he leaves office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is recommending military pay be limited, effectively decreasing troop salaries next year. — Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a 1% increase in 2014.
Politico:
Embattled Scott plans $100M campaign vs. Crist — Rick Scott is preparing to defend the Florida governorship with the most expensive reelection campaign in state history, drawing up plans for a battleship-sized political operation aimed at overcoming the Republican's deep personal unpopularity.
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