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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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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 …
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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David Brooks / New York Times:
Weed: Been There. Done That.
Weed: Been There. Done That.
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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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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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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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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
IMF Says: By the Way, There's a Debt Crisis
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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ThinkProgress:
900 Rich People Won't Pay Into Social Security For The Rest Of The Year — While almost all working Americans will pay into Social Security through their paychecks throughout the year, the 900 wealthiest people in the country won't. That's because the highest-earning 0.0001 percent of the U.S. …
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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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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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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Why the Senate Will Only Get More Polarized — As party-line voting between presidential and congressional races steadily increases, so will gridlock. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., (left) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Access to Abortion Falling As States Pass Restrictions — A three-year surge in anti-abortion measures in more than half the states has altered the landscape for abortion access, with supporters and opponents agreeing that the new restrictions are shutting some clinics …
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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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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Doctor's Office Spends 2 Hours On Hold With Health Insurer For Patient's Surgery Authorization — CHICAGO (AP) — The new year brought relief to some Illinois patients newly insured under the nation's health care law. Others still weren't sure whether they were covered …
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