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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Trey Radel to resign House seat — Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) will resign from Congress on Monday, according to multiple sources. — Radel, 37, was caught buying cocaine in November from an undercover federal agent in Washington and spent nearly a month in a rehabilitation facility.
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Rep. Trey Radel to resign from Congress
Rep. Trey Radel to resign from Congress
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Radel to resign on Monday
Radel to resign on Monday
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Time for Obama to punch hard — As President Obama goes to Capitol Hill for his State of the Union address he is telling the world he is fed up with Congress — the paralysis and the GOP obstruction — but his anger is secondary to signs that he is a demoralized lame duck.
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
A Pen, a Phone, and a Flailing President
A Pen, a Phone, and a Flailing President
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Assert Unilateral Agenda
Obama to Assert Unilateral Agenda
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
White House panics as millennials wise up, bail on President Obama
White House panics as millennials wise up, bail on President Obama
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James Ball / Guardian:
NSA and GCHQ target ‘leaky’ phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data — GCHQ documents use Angry Birds - reportedly downloaded more than 1.7bn times - as a case study for app data collection. — The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities …
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New York Times:
Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data — When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spy agencies have plotted how to lurk in the background to snatch data revealing the player's location, age …
BBC:
Sochi 2014: No gay people in city, says mayor — The mayor of Sochi, host of the Winter Olympics, has said there are no gay people in the city. — Anatoly Pakhomov said homosexuals were welcome at the Games - as long as they “respect Russian law” and “don't impose their habits on others”.
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Hillary Clinton: “My Biggest Regret Is What Happened In Benghazi” — QUESTION: Any do-overs that you would — relative to Secretary of State? HILLARY CLINTON: Oh, sure. I mean, you know, you make these choices based on imperfect information. And you make them to — as we say, the best of your ability.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Admits She Hasn't Driven A Car Since 1996 (VIDEO)
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Supporters Want Iowa To Want Her
Clinton Supporters Want Iowa To Want Her
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Deficit Reduction Declines as Policy Priority — Just Half of Democrats Rate Deficit as ‘Top Priority’ — For the first time since Barack Obama took office in 2009, deficit reduction has slipped as a policy priority among the public. Overall, 63% say reducing the budget deficit …
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Timothy P. Carney on Chuck Schumer: Voice of the little man, courtier of plutocrats — TEA PARTY CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS LOBBYING CHUCK SCHUMER REVOLVING DOOR — The favorite senator of Wall Street and K Street explained to a liberal D.C. audience last week how to defang the Tea Party …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
2014 Elections Likely to Keep Capital's Split
2014 Elections Likely to Keep Capital's Split
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John Harwood / New York Times:
For Obama, Investing in Brighter Futures Remains a Tough Sell
For Obama, Investing in Brighter Futures Remains a Tough Sell
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Ezra Klein / The Verge:
Vox is our next — Early last year, Melissa Bell, Matt Yglesias and I began wrestling with a question that had bugged all of us for a long time: why hadn't the Internet made the news better at delivering crucial context alongside new information? — This year, we're founding a new publication …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself
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Greg Richter / NewsMax.com:
D'Souza Producer: ‘I Never Feared My Govt Until Now’ — More ways to share... Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Newstrust — Tell my politician — Technocrati — Get Short Link — Gerald Molen, the producer of Dinesh D'Souza's documentary film “2016: Obama's America,” …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Dinesh D'Souza's ‘America’ Trailer Released (Video)
Dinesh D'Souza's ‘America’ Trailer Released (Video)
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Chicago News and Weather:
Gary woman admits selling baby for sex — HAMMOND, Ind. (Sun-Times Media Wire) - — A Gary, Ind. woman admitted this week that she sold a baby eight times to a Gary man for sex and was in the room for all the meetings except for the last one. — Natisha Hillard, 25 …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Paranoia of the Plutocrats — Rising inequality has obvious economic costs: stagnant wages despite rising productivity, rising debt that makes us more vulnerable to financial crisis. It also has big social and human costs. There is, for example, strong evidence that high inequality leads to worse health and higher mortality.
Matt West / Boston Herald:
Sheriffs cheer pot shot, say DEA chief ripped Obama remarks — Photo by: — WE'RE ‘FRUSTRATED’: Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, above, lauded DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart after she criticized President Obama for comparing smoking marijuana to drinking alcohol. — By:
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz's Father Blames Hackers For ‘Pornographic’ Facebook Post — Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) father, Rafael Cruz, issued an apology Sunday evening for what he described as a “pornographic picture” that was posted on his personal Facebook page. The elder Cruz, a pastor and popular conservative speaker, blamed the incident on hackers.
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
How Scott Walker and the conservatives saved Wisconsin. America, take note — There was a time when Wisconsin was headline news. You must remember the story? Wisconsinites elected some caveman called Scott Walker as their governor on a platform of drowning government in the bath.