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Chris Frates / CNN:
Feds investigate Christie's use of Sandy relief funds — Washington (CNN) — Just days after dismissing two top advisers for their roles in the George Washington Bridge scandal, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie faced questions over the use of Superstorm Sandy relief funds.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Christie Story Attracts Little Public Interest — Recent Opinions of New Jersey Governor Are Largely Unchanged — The public paid far more attention to last week's cold snap than to the controversy swirling around New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. There also has been little short-term change …
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Ana Marie Cox / Guardian:
That West Virginia chemical spill? It's likely a bigger scandal than Bridgegate — Sadly, the West Virginia spill just isn't as interesting for the media and public as the Chris Christie revenge conspiracy. It should be — If we called West Virginia 4-methylcyclohexane-methanol leak …
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N. R. Kleinfield / New York Times:
A Bridge to Scandal: Behind the Fort Lee Ruse
A Bridge to Scandal: Behind the Fort Lee Ruse
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: An uneasy day for presidential power — Seeming a bit troubled about allowing the Senate to have an on-off switch on the president's power to temporarily fill vacant government posts, the Supreme Court on Monday indicated that it may yet allow just that.
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Sarah Jean Seman / Townhall.com:
Supreme Court To Weigh Constitutionality of Obama Power Grab — The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday regarding the constitutionality of President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. — Obama selected Richard Griffin Jr., Sharon Block …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
SCOTUS skeptical on White House recess appointments — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject President Barack Obama's bold use of the recess appointment power, judging from the surprisingly widespread hostility the administration's arguments received Monday from conservative and liberal justices.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Voice Doubts on Obama Recess Appointments
Justices Voice Doubts on Obama Recess Appointments
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Politico:
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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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
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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Eun Kyung Kim / Today:
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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Leo Shane III / Stars & Stripes:
Gates as VP? Memoir is full of interesting tidbits
Gates as VP? Memoir is full of interesting tidbits
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New York Times:
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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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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Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Ted Cruz adds Katrina Pierson to his expanding list of the “utterly fearless” — Sen. Ted Cruz, hunting pheasant on Oct. 26 with Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa — one of a growing list of allies he has described as “utterly fearless.” (AP/Nati Harnik) — WASHINGTON -It's pretty high praise to be called …
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Jill Lepore / New Yorker:
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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David Rogers / Politico:
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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Fars News Agency:
Snowden Documents Proving “US-Alien-Hitler” Link Stun Russia — TEHRAN (FNA)- Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealed documents providing incontrovertible proof that an alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda is driving US domestic and international policy …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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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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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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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Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
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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