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Christie camp held Sandy relief money hostage, mayor alleges — Two senior members of Gov. Chris Christie's administration warned a New Jersey mayor earlier this year that her town would be starved of hurricane relief money unless she approved a lucrative redevelopment plan favored by the governor …
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Actress Out Of San Francisco Production After Endorsing Tea Party Candidate — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A famed actress is facing backlash in San Francisco's Latino community, after she voiced support for a conservative candidate for California governor. — Maria Conchita Alonso starred …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The Republican Party's uphill path to 270 electoral votes in 2016 — A recent conversation with a veteran of GOP presidential campaigns raised this question: Which, if any, of the recent battleground states are likely to become more Republican by 2016? The consensus: very few.
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Why I Let My Daughter Get a ‘Useless’ College Degree — A new study from the Federal Reserve offers more evidence that my humanities-loving child will graduate with lots of debt and not so many job offers. And I'm OK with that. — My oldest child, Emma, just returned to campus …
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Is the Obama marriage on the rocks? Astonishing claims emerge of ugly fights over that selfie, and even a Presidential affair — With invitations warning guests to ‘EBYC’ — Eat Before You Come — and rumours they'll be dancing to star turns from Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay Z, it won't be your usual White House knees-up.
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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
FL's Brian Ballard, top Romney fundraiser, dumps on ‘horrific’ Chris Christie before FL visit — Some of Florida's biggest money men will attend the state's various fundraisers for Gov. Rick Scott headlined this weekend by NJ Gov. Chris Christie, with one notable exception: Brian Ballard.
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Romney: Christie's presidential ambitions ‘not hurt’ by bridge scandal — Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had handled the scandal over lane closures on the George Washington bridge “in a very effective way” …
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Wonkblog sells out. — Ezra Klein is back in line. The Journolist founder, who now runs Wonkblog for the Washington Post, took some flak from other left-liberal journalists last year when he acknowledged that the ObamaCare exchanges had serious technical flaws.
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Mitt on Netflix: A knight errant in an age of political cynicism — A new documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at Mitt Romney's ill-fated presidential campaigns — W — hen we think of that rarest figure in American politics — a man of integrity — Mitt Romney does not usually leap to mind.
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Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Watchdogs sue FEC, demand investigation of Karl Rove group — Watchdog groups are suing the Federal Election Committee after it dropped its inquiry into Crossroads GPS, the nonprofit organization co-founded by GOP operative Karl Rove. — The Campaign Legal Center and Public Citizen filed …
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Most health-exchange sign-ups already had coverage — Early estimates suggest that a majority of people signing up in the new marketplaces already had health plans.
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Pope Benedict doubled defrockings — Close to 400 priests were defrocked in only two years by the former Pope Benedict XVI over claims of child abuse, the Vatican has confirmed. — The statistics for 2011 and 2012 show a dramatic increase compared with previous years, according to a document obtained by the Associated Press (AP).
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The Political Genius of Pope Francis
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Obama's restrictions on NSA surveillance rely on narrow definition of ‘spying’ — President Obama said Friday, in his first major speech on electronic surveillance, that “the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don't threaten our national security.”
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Bloggers = Media for First Amendment Libel Law Purposes — So holds today's Obsidian Finance Group v. Cox (9th Cir. Jan. 17, 2014) (in which I represented the defendant). To be precise, the Ninth Circuit concludes that all who speak to the public, whether or not they are members of the institutional press …