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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Kim Guadagno: Mayor's claim ‘illogical’ — New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno is pushing back against allegations that she told Hoboken's mayor Sandy relief funds would be withheld based on political conditions, calling the claims “illogical” and “offensive.”
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The Moderate Voice
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Yahoo! News:
Christie speaks, and looks for lessons — “I will learn things from this,” Chris Christie told me last Friday, a little more than a week after he gave the News Conference to End All News Conferences, and a few days after the cable channels covered his annual address to the legislature …
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Talking Points Memo and TheBlaze.com
Chris Frates / CNN:
First on CNN: Lt. governor to deny mayor's Christie claims — (CNN) — New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno is expected to “categorically deny” allegations Monday that she gave Hoboken's Mayor an ultimatum to support a redevelopment plan backed by Gov. Chris Christie in order to receive Hurricane Sandy recovery aid, a source said.
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Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, National Review and Taegan Goddard's …
msnbc.com:
US attorney inquiry into Christie widens — The New Jersey mayor who publicly claimed this weekend that Gov. Chris Christie's administration tried to withhold hurricane relief funds met Sunday in private with the U.S. attorney for the state of New Jersey. — “This afternoon I met …
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
4 Ways Martin Luther King Was More Radical Than You Thought — Every January, Martin Luther King, Jr. is universally honored as a national hero who preached a peaceful fight against racial injustice. This saintly image is quite a departure from the kind of attacks the reverend endured over his lifetime.
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The Raw Story
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Why King Still Matters — I don't have anything terribly original to offer this King Day about my hero's historical significance. He held up a mirror to America and asked us all to live up to our own professed civic and religious values. For that he was feared and despised in the most …
New York Times:
The Undeserving Rich — The reality of rising American inequality is stark. Since the late 1970s real wages for the bottom half of the work force have stagnated or fallen, while the incomes of the top 1 percent have nearly quadrupled (and the incomes of the top 0.1 percent have risen even more).
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The Other McCain and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Juan Williams / The Hill:
GOP will rue O-Care focus — Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, is sure he has the best political strategy for winning the six seats the GOP needs to capture control of the Senate in November — attack Democrats for the Affordable Care Act.
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The Reaction and Bloomberg
Lynn Berry / Associated Press:
RUSSIAN ISLAMIC VIDEO THREATENS SOCHI OLYMPICS — MOSCOW (AP) — An Islamic militant group in Russia's North Caucasus claimed responsibility Sunday for twin suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd last month and posted a video threatening to strike the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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Los Angeles Times, Jihad Watch and Reuters
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CNN:
Russia's Putin vows Winter Olympics will be secure
Russia's Putin vows Winter Olympics will be secure
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Taylor Marsh, BizPac Review, Politico and Associated Press
ABC News:
Terror ‘Surprise’ for Sochi Olympics? Purported Suicide Bombers' New Threat
Terror ‘Surprise’ for Sochi Olympics? Purported Suicide Bombers' New Threat
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NY Daily News, Right Wing News and Liberaland
Jason Lee / Reuters:
U.S. lawmaker investigates whether Russia behind Snowden's leaks
U.S. lawmaker investigates whether Russia behind Snowden's leaks
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Guardian
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Cantor in a pickle on voting rights — The arrival of a bipartisan bill to modernize the 1965 Voting Rights Act has put Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in a pickle. — The House majority leader has been a rare Republican voice urging assurances that last year's Supreme Court decision …
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Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
BBC:
10 myths about WW1 debunked — Much of what we think we know about the 1914-18 conflict is wrong, writes historian Dan Snow. — No war in history attracts more controversy and myth than World War One. — For the soldiers who fought it was in some ways better than previous conflicts, and in some ways worse.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Chris Christie's 1994 ad was too tough (and inaccurate) for Jersey — In Chris Christie's first successful campaign for public office, he sat down next to his wife and baby, looked into a camera and told voters something that wasn't true. — It was 1994, and Christie was a 31-year-old lawyer …
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Power Line
Sean Wilentz / The New Republic:
Would You Feel Differently About Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange If You Knew What They Really Thought? — We live in the age of the leaker. Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Julian Assange are celebrated as heroes on op-ed pages and across glossy magazine spreads.
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Firedoglake, Crooked Timber, Little Green Footballs and The Daily Banter