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David Weigel / Slate:
Ruth Marcus, David Brooks, and Reefer Madness — Whoever's been drugging the tap water in the Acela, please just stop. Your efforts have resulted in complementary columns in the Washington Post from Ruth Marcus and in the New York Times from David Brooks. Unless ... did they come up with these columns all by themselves?
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Weed: Been There. Done That. — For a little while in my teenage years, my friends and I smoked marijuana. It was fun. I have some fond memories of us all being silly together. I think those moments of uninhibited frolic deepened our friendships. — But then we all sort of moved away from it.
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Gary Greenberg:
I smoked pot with David Brooks — Please note: What follows here is satire of the Juvenalian variety. I thought I embedded enough tipoffs, but then again I forgot how much stranger than fiction truth can be. So to those who thought it was real and suffered pain as a result, I apologize.
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Michelle Goldberg / thenation.com/blogs/176594:
This Is David Brooks on Drugs — The fact that David Brooks's wistful, self-satisfied moralism cloaks a serious moral obtuseness is usually hardly worth noting. It's simply to be expected, as predictable as Tom Friedman bumping into a taxi driver with pithy insights about globalization …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The perils of legalized pot
The perils of legalized pot
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World News:
Kim Jong Un's executed uncle was eaten alive by 120 hungry dogs: report — Rodong Sinmun / Yonhap via Reuters, file — Kim Jone Un's uncle Jang Song Thaek is dragged into court by uniformed personnel prior to last month's execution. — By Eric Baculinao and Alexander Smith, NBC News
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Max Fisher / WorldViews:
No, Kim Jong Un probably didn't feed his uncle to 120 hungry dogs — If you've been on the Internet at all today, you've almost certainly seen the story claiming that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had his uncle executed last month by stripping him naked and feeding him to 120 hungry dogs.
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Did North Korea's Kim Jong-un really kill his uncle with 120 starving dogs?
Did North Korea's Kim Jong-un really kill his uncle with 120 starving dogs?
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BBC, National Review, Business Insider and The Dish
Fox News:
Rude and Crude: Why MSNBC keeps getting into trouble — Is there something in the water over at 30 Rock? — Whether you love or detest MSNBC, the network has had a rough few months, and I'm wondering whether a series of embarrassing episodes is more than a coincidence.
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Mitt Romney Expected to Address Harris-Perry Controversy During Fox News Sunday Appearance
Mitt Romney Expected to Address Harris-Perry Controversy During Fox News Sunday Appearance
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Fox News Sunday’ Books Mitt Romney During Melissa Harris-Perry Controversy
‘Fox News Sunday’ Books Mitt Romney During Melissa Harris-Perry Controversy
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Strengthening the Federal Background Check System to Keep Guns out of Potentially Dangerous Hands — Today, the Administration is announcing two new executive actions that will help strengthen the federal background check system and keep guns out of the wrong hands.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Obama Issues New Executive Actions on Background Checks for Gun Purchases — President Obama has released two new executive actions on background checks for gun purchases. The actions were posted on WhiteHouse.gov Friday afternoon and according to the Department of Justice …
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Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq — BEIRUT — A rejuvenated al-Qaeda force asserted control over the western Iraqi town of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas …
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi Troops Besiege Fallujah, Try To Wrest City From Al-Qaida
Iraqi Troops Besiege Fallujah, Try To Wrest City From Al-Qaida
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Brian Carlson / 4Utah.com:
Utah man fasting to stop same sex marriages — SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) - A Utah man is vowing to go without any food until the state stops allowing same sex marriages. He claims if Utah wants to protect traditional marriage, it has an option it's not using, and he's fasting until it does it.
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
RAND PAUL TO LEAD CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST OBAMA OVER NSA SPYING — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is leading a class-action lawsuit with hundreds of thousands of Americans against President Barack Obama's National Security Agency (NSA) over its spying on the American people, Breitbart News has learned.
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Paul to file class action suit against NSA ‘soon’
Paul to file class action suit against NSA ‘soon’
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bernie Sanders to NSA: Spying on Hill? — Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a letter Friday to the director of the National Security Agency asking if the agency is spying or has ever spied on members of Congress. — The Vermont independent said he was “deeply concerned” about the NSA's collection …
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Jill Colvin / Politicker:
Video: Bill de Blasio Threatens to Strip During Storm Briefing — Bill de Blasio makes his offer. (Screenshot: nowthisnews.com) — Mayor Bill de Blasio sure knows how to make reporters pay attention to his winter snowstorm briefings. — At the very end of a detailed press update …
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Clay Aiken ‘actively considering’ run for Congress: sources — Clay Aiken is “actively considering” a run for Congress, sources say. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) — Gay singer and “American Idol” runner-up Clay Aiken is actively considering a bid to represent North …
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
IMF paper warns of ‘savings tax’ and mass write-offs as West's debt hits 200-year high — Debt burdens in developed nations have become extreme by any historical measure and will require a wave of haircuts, warns IMF paper — Much of the Western world will require defaults …
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Ben Goad / The Hill:
DOJ rejects nuns' argument on ObamaCare contraception mandate — The Obama administration on Friday offered a vigorous defense of the Affordable Care Act's “birth control mandate,” disputing as unfounded the religious challenge that led a Supreme Court justice to partially block the provision from taking effect this week.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Sonia Sotomayor faces health law contraception decision
Sonia Sotomayor faces health law contraception decision
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Steve Lonegan / New Jersey Online:
Lonegan says he'll run for Congress in South Jersey — Steve Lonegan, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, is shown just after concession speech to his supporters on election night, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013 at the Bridgewater Manor. (Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger)
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Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Hospital agrees to let Jahi McMath family take girl — (01-03) 12:43 PST Oakland — Children's Hospital Oakland reached an agreement with the family of Jahi McMath on Friday that will allow a critical care team to enter the hospital to move the girl to an unspecified facility.
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New York Post:
Public advocate caught in lie over Times homeless story — She lied on her first day on the job — and got caught. — Just hours after being sworn in as the city's public advocate, Letitia James went on TV to claim that she played a key role in helping expose “the face of poverty in the City of New York” …
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Gordon G. Chang / The Daily Beast:
Snowden Lied About China Contacts — Snowden lied about his contacts with China. Should he get clemency? — Yesterday, the New York Times urged the Obama administration to offer Edward Snowden “a plea bargain or some form of clemency.” The paper called the former NSA contractor …
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