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Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro Shake Hands at Nelson Mandela Memorial — President Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro today at a memorial service for the late Nelson Mandela in South Africa. — Obama stopped to shake Castro's hand as he was walking to the podium to pay tribute to Mandela.
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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Liz Cheney's 1988 Op-Ed on Anti-Apartheid Protestors: “Nobody's Listening” — Her father wasn't the only Cheney to speak out against speaking out against apartheid. — Liz Cheney for Senate; The Catalyst — In a 1988 op-ed for her college newspaper, Liz Cheney, the daughter …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain On Obama-Castro Handshake: ‘Chamberlain Shook Hands With Hitler’ (AUDIO) — President Obama's handshake with Cuban President Raul Castro on Tuesday was met with a mostly muted reaction from conservatives and Republicans. Invoking memories of the Munich Agreement, Sen. John McCain …
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CNN:
A brief but important handshake between Obama, Castro — (CNN) - Arriving on stage at FNB stadium in Johannesburg to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, President Barack Obama shook hands with dozens of other world leaders, pausing briefly to grasp the hand of Cuban President Raul Castro.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio Complains That Obama Didn't Take Castro To Task For Denying ‘Basic Freedoms’
Rubio Complains That Obama Didn't Take Castro To Task For Denying ‘Basic Freedoms’
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Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Obama hand shake with Raul Castro makes waves
Obama hand shake with Raul Castro makes waves
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Otto J. Reich / National Review:
The Damage of a Handshake — American presidents should avoid shaking …
The Damage of a Handshake — American presidents should avoid shaking …
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
CNN: OBAMA-CASTRO HANDSHAKE SHOULD ‘NOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD’
CNN: OBAMA-CASTRO HANDSHAKE SHOULD ‘NOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD’
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USA Today:
Obama eulogizes Mandela as ‘great liberator’
Obama eulogizes Mandela as ‘great liberator’
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Associated Press:
Nelson Mandela memorial service: Obama praises ‘Madiba’ in euology …
Nelson Mandela memorial service: Obama praises ‘Madiba’ in euology …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
How Mandela Shifted Views on Freedom of Markets
How Mandela Shifted Views on Freedom of Markets
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA SHAKES HANDS WITH CUBA'S RAÚL CASTRO AT MANDELA MEMORIAL
OBAMA SHAKES HANDS WITH CUBA'S RAÚL CASTRO AT MANDELA MEMORIAL
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Colin Freeman / Telegraph:
President Barack Obama shakes Raul Castro's hand at Mandela memorial service
President Barack Obama shakes Raul Castro's hand at Mandela memorial service
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Erin McClam / NBCNews:
Obama, in eulogy, calls Mandela ‘the last great liberator of the 20th century’
Obama, in eulogy, calls Mandela ‘the last great liberator of the 20th century’
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World News
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Ex-Clinton Aide Expected to Join Obama — WASHINGTON — President Obama, after a rocky year that leaves him at the lowest ebb of his presidency, is bringing into his White House circle the longtime Democratic strategist John D. Podesta, a former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama turns to populism to boost agenda
Obama turns to populism to boost agenda
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Keith Laing / The Hill:
GOP bills would prohibit in-flight calls — Political momentum to keep a ban on cellphone calls during flights gained momentum Monday as lawmakers said it would be crazy to allow them. — Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) became the second lawmaker after Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) to offer legislation to keep the ban in place.
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David Martosko / Daily Mail:
‘A public safety disaster’: Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close — The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines — The IRS says volunteer firefighters are 'employees …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Another potential boost for Obamacare — Opponents of the Affordable Care Act tend to suggest expanded coverage resulting from the law's Medicaid expansion somehow doesn't really count as success. But the law's goal is to expand coverage, and the Medicaid expansion is one of the tools it utilizes to accomplish that.
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Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Senate Confirms Millett to D.C. Circuit Court — Move Marks First Judge Approved Since Democrats Changed Filibuster Rules — WASHINGTON—A divided U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Washington lawyer Patricia Millett to serve on a powerful U.S. appeals court, the first Obama administration nominee …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Yes, Obamacare is Redistribution—But Republicans Are Wrong About Who Pays — Republicans and their allies are making a lot of different arguments about what Obamacare is doing to America. It's hiking premiums! It's making people lose their doctors! It's destroying Medicare!
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New York Post:
The New York Times' ‘homeless’ hooey — If a five-part opus in The New York Times by Andrea Elliott is to believed, we live in a hard-hearted city. But if you read closely, it suggests just the opposite. — Begin with the family at the center of this story. The mother, father and eight kids aren't really homeless at all.
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Ari Soffer / Arutz Sheva:
Again: Turkish Students Arrested for Nazi Salutes at Auschwitz — Two Turkish tourists could face up to two years in prison for giving Nazi salutes outside the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. — The Turkish nationals - who according to Turkey's Zaman news site …
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Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
Twitchy Sold To Owners Of Townhall And Hotair — “Media Matters types would like to paint conservatives as boring, old white guys. Twitchy ads more fun and humor to our platform,” Townhall's general manager says. — Twitchy, the conservative Twitter aggregation site …
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Fox News:
New York's top court blocks Colorado from forcing Fox reporter to reveal sources or face jail — New York's top court today spared FoxNews.com reporter Jana Winter from jail for refusing to reveal confidential sources for a bombshell story following the Aurora movie massacre.
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Cracks emerge in anti-ACA wall — Since the beginning of the debate over health care reform in 2009, the line from congressional Republicans has been as unyielding as it's been unconstructive: whatever President Obama suggests, they hate, even when the White House adopts GOP ideas.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Patty Murray, Paul Ryan close to finishing budget deal — House and Senate budget negotiators are down to a small set of differences, and are aiming to unveil a budget agreement by the end of the day Tuesday, according to senior aides familiar with the talks.
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James Arkin / BuzzFeed:
Here's Why That Kentucky Doctor Is Closing His Practice “Due To The Policies Of Obamacare” — A Kentucky doctor took out a newspaper ad saying he was closing his practice “due to the policies of Obamacare.” The reason is a federal requirement that he keep electronic records.
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