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Politico:
Obama, the puppet master — President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House. — Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ed Henry: 'This isn't about a golf game' — White House Correspondents Association president Ed Henry is standing by his complaints about the lack of press access to President Obama, pushing back against critics who say he and his fellow White House correspondents are just “whining” and don't respect the president's privacy.
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First Thoughts: Here comes the bully pulpit
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
GOP senators waiting for President Obama's outreach
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momentoftruthproject.org:
A BIPARTISAN PATH FORWARD TO SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE — Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are co-chairs of the Moment of Truth project and formerly co-chaired the President's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. — The United States faces two big risks …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Simpson and Bowles Offer Up Deficit Fix — WASHINGTON—Deficit hawks Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles on Tuesday proposed a detailed plan for rewriting the tax code and implementing deep new spending cuts, hoping to offer a path to compromise for Democrats and Republicans. — Messrs.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama to Turn Up Pressure for Deal on Budget Cuts
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Daily Kos
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama presses Congress for stopgap sequester fix
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama To Call On Congress To Avert Mandatory Spending Cuts — Again
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Dana Loesch / RedState:
Colorado Democrat: Women Don't Need Guns If They 'Feel Like They're Going To Be Raped' — Chill, women, says Colorado Democrat Rep. Joe Salazar. While arguing for the disarmament of college students, Salazar says that even if women feel like they're going to be raped, they may not, so who needs a firearm for protection?
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Lynn Bartels / Denver Post:
Colorado lawmaker Joe Salazar issues apology over rape remark
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Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:
Conservatives take aim at Democrat for statement about rape
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Marco Rubio: The Electable Conservative? — Some commentators have expressed surprise upon learning about the very conservative voting record of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union address last week.
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New York Times:
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. — On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors. — The building off Datong Road …
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David Rogers / Politico:
Why John McCain turned on Chuck Hagel — Tower, a Texas Republican, Navy veteran and powerhouse in the Senate Armed Services Committee, had befriended McCain as a young naval liaison to Congress and later helped him first run for the House in 1982. As a freshman senator …
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The Dish
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Prof Strips, Shows 9/11 Footage, Impales Stuffed Animal (VIDEO) — A science professor at Columbia University on Monday began a quantum mechanics lecture by stripping into his boxers and eating a banana while rap music played in the background. — Then it got weird.
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court to hear RNC suit challenging campaign finance limits — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether certain limits on campaign contributions are too low — or altogether unconstitutional. — The court said it would hear a case, filed by the Republican National Committee …
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J. Lester Feder / BuzzFeed:
Mexican Supreme Court: American Cases Demand Marriage Equality
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Joe. My. God.
New York Times:
Pistorius Denies Murdering Girlfriend — PRETORIA, South Africa — Facing a charge of premeditated murder in the death of his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee track star and one of the world's best-known athletes, denied on Tuesday that he intended to take her life when he opened fire …
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Tea Party challenger to McConnell emerging — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could see a primary challenge from local businessman Matt Bevin, who sources say is reaching out to Tea Party groups in the state to gauge support for a 2014 Senate run.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Lawmakers Look at Ban on High Capacity Gun Magazines — WASHINGTON — Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, is haunted by many things that emerged from the investigation of the December mass shooting at a Newtown elementary school. Among them is the nagging question …
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Jonathan Lloyd / NBC Southern California:
At Least 4 Dead in OC Shootings, Carjackings — At least four people are dead after a series of shootings and carjackings early Tuesday near the 5 and 55 freeways in the Tustin and Villa Park areas. — Map: Shooting Investigation Locations — It was not immediately clear whether the gunman was among the deceased.
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Filibuster Hagel — If Republicans refuse, they won't be standing on principle but capitulating to the president. — Chuck Hagel says he can't remember if he called the U.S. State Department “an adjunct of the Israeli foreign minister's office” in the Q&A following a March 2007 speech …
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CBS News:
Newtown shooter motivated by Norway massacre, sources say — Law enforcement sources say Adam Lanza was motivated by violent video games and a strong desire to kill more people than another infamous mass murderer. — Sources say Lanza saw himself as being in direct competition with Anders Breivik …
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