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Source: Charlotte mayor to be nominated for transportation secretary — (CNN) - President Barack Obama will tap Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday to become his next transportation secretary, a White House official with knowledge of his decision said Sunday.
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Franco Ordoñez / The Charlotte Observer:
Obama to name Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx as transportation chief — WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will tap Charlotte, N.C., mayor Anthony Foxx as the new secretary of transportation on Monday, a White House official said Sunday, who asked not to be named because the announcement is not yet official.
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The Hinterland Gazette
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Obama Is Not The ‘Strapping Young Muslim Socialist’ He Used To Be
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Obama Mocks MSNBC, CNN, Fox, BuzzFeed, His Liberal Critics And Himself In Correspondents Dinner Speech — President Barack Obama took the stage on Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner night where he fired off a number of quips at his expense and a number of his allies and critics.
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Joe. My. God.
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Michael Livingston / The Reliable Source:
WATCH: President Barack Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner one-liners — Here are the best one-liners from President Barack Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech: — On the passage of time: “I look in the mirror. I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be. . . I still make rookie mistakes though.
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JustOneMinute
Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker:
All the Dumb Questions Politico Writers Are Asking Celebrities Tonight
All the Dumb Questions Politico Writers Are Asking Celebrities Tonight
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Hullabaloo, Gothamist and Outside the Beltway, more at Mediagazer »
Karen Tumulty / The Reliable Source:
The 20-lb. swag bag from People/Time's White House Correspondent's party
The 20-lb. swag bag from People/Time's White House Correspondent's party
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Taylor Marsh, The Impolitic and Firedoglake
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McCain: Putting troops in Syria the ‘worst thing United States could do’ — An international coalition of troops should be ready to go into Syria to secure the country's chemical weapons stockpiles, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday, warning that U.S. troops on the ground would only spark more Mideast anger.
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Outside the Beltway and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy
Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy
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The Caucus, Right Turn, The PJ Tatler, The Other McCain and LewRockwell.com Blog
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Black Voter Turnout Passed White Turnout For The First Time In 2012 — WASHINGTON (AP) — America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election …
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The Moderate Voice, ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune and Outside the Beltway
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
The truth about late-term abortion — Are the legal activities of New York abortion clinics really any less horrifying than those of Kermit Gosnell? — Is the Kermit Gosnell baby-murder mill in Philadelphia an isolated case? Consider what happened at Dr. Emily's Women's Health Center in The Bronx on Jan. 11, 2013.
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National Review, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air and Wake up America
Politico:
Democrats ask: What debt crisis? — Call them the debt crisis dissenters. — The two parties are miles apart on how to cut the deficit and national debt: Republicans want to slash spending even more. Democrats want to raise revenue. — And then there are the other Democrats …
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The PJ Tatler
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Silver Fox's Pink Slip — BARBARA BUSH is a word that rhymes with fright. — She's right. — Asked on the “Today” show whether she thought her son Jeb should run for president in 2016, as W. has urged, the famously candid and caustic Silver Fox offered the most honest assessment of her oldest son's legacy.
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Prairie Weather
Paul Krugman:
The Great Degrader — I've been focused on economic policy lately, so I sort of missed the big push to rehabilitate Bush's image; also, as a premature anti-Bushist who pointed out how terrible a president he was back when everyone else was praising him as a Great Leader, I'm kind of worn out on the subject.
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The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Gun control reform still possible, Manchin says — Sen. Joe Manchin was optimistic on Sunday that the Senate could take another shot at passing a narrow gun control bill that focuses specifically on mental health and criminal background checks. — “The only thing we've asked for is for people …
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Outside the Beltway and CNN
Mary Wisniewski / Reuters:
Kentucky woman ordained as priest in defiance of Roman Catholic Church — (Reuters) - In an emotional ceremony filled with tears and applause, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman was ordained a priest on Saturday as part of a dissident group operating outside of official Roman Catholic Church authority.