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CNN exclusive: Feds investigating Christie's use of Sandy relief funds — Scandal is unfolding around New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over lane closures on the George Washington Bridge as part of a political vendetta to punish a local mayor who wouldn't support him at the polls.
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Hillary's hit list — The Clintons keep a favor file of saints and sinners, according to this excerpt from HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton. — Inside a cramped third-floor office of Hillary Clinton's once-bustling presidential campaign headquarters in the Ballston neighborhood …
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Kerry, Kennedy top Clinton's traitor list — Aides on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign kept a detailed list of party colleagues who staffers believed had betrayed her during the long and bitter primary battle with President Obama, a new book reveals.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
MSNBC Contributor Sees Sexism in Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton's ‘Hit List’
MSNBC Contributor Sees Sexism in Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton's ‘Hit List’
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Weasel Zippers and National Review
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Robert Gates: My memoir has been ‘hijacked’ by politics — Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates clarified claims he supposedly made about President Obama's commitment to the military surge in Afghanistan, saying Monday he “absolutely believed” the commander-in-chief supported the mission at the time.
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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Records Show Christie Administration Canceled Meetings After Jersey City Mayor Didn't Endorse — Documents released Monday indicate that meetings arranged between top commissioners to Gov. Chris Christie and Jersey City mayor Steve Fulop were abruptly canceled without reason last year …
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Enemies of the Poor — Suddenly it's O.K., even mandatory, for politicians with national ambitions to talk about helping the poor. This is easy for Democrats, who can go back to being the party of F.D.R. and L.B.J. It's much more difficult for Republicans, who are having a hard time shaking …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Morning Plum: Republicans all over the map on jobless benefits
Morning Plum: Republicans all over the map on jobless benefits
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Washington Monthly, PoliticusUSA and Prairie Weather
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The reputation of Roger Ailes. — In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. Hearst's papers were all alike: hot-blooded, with leggy headlines.
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David Carr / New York Times:
Roger Ailes's Permanent Pushback Campaign
Roger Ailes's Permanent Pushback Campaign
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Veteran Dem George Miller to retire — California Rep. George Miller, Nancy Pelosi's strong right arm and one of the top Democratic legislators of his generation, is stepping down at the end of this year after four decades in Congress. — Miller informed Pelosi, the Democratic leader …
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Ted Cruz hires sacked RSC staffer Paul Teller — A sacked aide to the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, has joined the office of Sen. Ted Cruz. — Paul Teller, who was fired in December as executive director of the RSC after leaking private conversations of members …
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Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Ted Cruz adds Katrina Pierson to his expanding list of the “utterly fearless”
Ted Cruz adds Katrina Pierson to his expanding list of the “utterly fearless”
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Talking Points Memo and National Review
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The Fight Over Unemployment Benefits Underscores the Right's Extremism — Under George W. Bush, the GOP never balked at extending unemployment benefits, but that was then. Their newfound intransigence on this issue proves afresh that the party has been hijacked by extremists.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell / Politico:
How to save the Senate — Lyndon B. Johnson is usually remembered …
How to save the Senate — Lyndon B. Johnson is usually remembered …
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and The Hill
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Voice Doubts on Obama Recess Appointments — WASHINGTON — In an extended argument that contained large doses of history and practical politics, the Supreme Court on Monday seemed skeptical of the Obama administration's contention that it had acted properly in bypassing the Senate …
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SCOTUSblog and Weasel Zippers
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David Hawkings / Hawkings Here:
A Balance of Powers Case With Senate GOP Power in the Balance
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Heroic Measures — LISA BONCHEK ADAMS has spent the last seven years in a fierce and very public cage fight with death. Since a mammogram detected the first toxic seeds of cancer in her left breast when she was 37, she has blogged and tweeted copiously about her contest with the advancing disease.
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Alex Sink rises to top in Florida special election — It's been framed as the clearest barometer of the public's mood heading into this year's midterms: a special election battle for a 50-50 congressional district in the famously 50-50 state of Florida. — But upon closer inspection …
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Ari Fleischer / Wall Street Journal:
How to Fight Income Inequality: Get Married — In families headed by married couples, the poverty level in 2012 was just 7.5%. Those with a single mother: 33.9%. — If President Obama wants to reduce income inequality, he should focus less on redistributing income and more on fighting …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Hear Arizona Appeal on Abortion Ban — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Arizona officials seeking to revive a state law that barred most abortions after 20 weeks of fetal gestation. The justices offered no reasons for turning down the appeal, as is their custom.
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MTV's ‘16 and Pregnant,’ Derided by Some, May Resonate as a Cautionary Tale — WASHINGTON — Kailyn Lowry, at age 17, decided to let MTV film her pregnancy and the birth of her first child in the hope of persuading other young men and women to wait to start a family.
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Obamacare's Spanish-language Web site is ‘written in Spanglish’ — HealthCare.gov's October 1st launch was a disaster. But at least it was a punctual disaster. The site's Spanish-language version — CuidadoDeSalud.gov — launched more than two months late.