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Rep. Henry A. Waxman / Washington Post:
Rep. Henry Waxman: The reason I'm leaving Congress — Rep. Henry A. Waxman is a Democrat from California. — I announced this past week that I will be retiring after having the honor of serving my Los Angeles constituents in Congress for 40 years. — Immediately, speculation began …
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The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos
Harvey Silverglate / Wall Street Journal:
Harvey Silverglate: Justice Goes After the GOP — Investigating Chris Christie's administration, indicting another prominent Republican. Is it political? — Is Eric Holder's Justice Department driven by a political agenda, or are the department's recent prosecutorial decisions simply signs of overzealousness?
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Christie Knew About Lane Closings, Ex-Port Authority Official Says — The former Port Authority official who personally oversaw the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge in the scandal now swirling around Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Friday that the governor knew …
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The Star-Ledger Editorial Page:
Chris Christie should resign if bombshell proves true: Editorial
Chris Christie should resign if bombshell proves true: Editorial
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Talking Points Memo
Josh Margolin / ABC News:
Former Christie Ally Alleges Governor Knew About Lane Closures
Former Christie Ally Alleges Governor Knew About Lane Closures
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The Impolitic, Politico and CNN
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
Obama Fails Art History and Economics — President Obama had a perfectly fine message for young people when he spoke at a General Electric plant in Wisconsin yesterday: Learning a skilled trade can be just as lucrative and worthy of respect as getting a college diploma. Unfortunately, that's not what he said.
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Althouse, Joanne Jacobs and Weekly Standard
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Will Immigration Reform Finally Happen? — Speaker John Boehner finally tipped his hand on an issue he says he's committed to getting done. But will the rest of the Republicans in Congress agree to his set of “principles”? — CAMBRIDGE, Maryland — In this snowbound summer town …
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Bloomberg:
Republicans' Immigration Deal Makes No Sense — House Republicans who want to advance what they call “comprehensive immigration reform” say they've found a workable compromise, one that allays the concerns of opponents, improves current policy and allows the party to make gains among Hispanics.
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Power Line and National Review
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Rebel Conservatives Excel in G.O.P. Fund-Raising, Heralding a Tug Right — Insurgent conservatives seeking to pull the Republican Party to the right raised more money last year than the groups controlled by the party establishment, whose bulging bank accounts and ties to major donors …
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The PJ Tatler and Riehl World News
Christina Hoff Sommers / The Daily Beast:
No, Women Don't Make Less Money Than Men — It's the bogus statistic that won't die—and president deployed it during the State of the Union—but women do not make 77 cents to every dollar a man earns. — President Obama repeated the spurious gender wage gap statistic in his State of the Union address.
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Power Line
John Aziz / The Week:
Study: Liberals drink more alcohol than conservatives — Apparently, being liberal is thirsty work — sobering new study published by the Journal of Wine Economics — yes, there is a Journal of Wine Economics — finds that alcohol consumption in American states rises as the population's politics becomes more liberal.
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The Heritage Foundation and americanthinker.com
TheBlaze.com:
S.E. CUPP SPEAKS OUT AGAINST MSNBC'S LATEST MISSTEP: THEY HAVE A PROBLEM THAT IS ‘SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL’ — MSNBC's latest public apology shows the network has a problem that is “spiraling out of control,” TheBlaze's S.E. Cupp said Thursday. — The network prompted outrage Wednesday …
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protein wisdom, Townhall.com, Ed Driscoll, NY Daily News and Hot Air
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Montana GOP Candidate Calls Hillary Clinton The ‘Anti-Christ’ — A Republican candidate for Congress in Montana compared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the anti-Christ. — The candidate, state Sen. Ryan Zinke, is one of five Republicans competing for the nomination to succeed …
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The Moderate Voice, PoliticusUSA, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and flatheadnewsgroup.com
ThinkProgress:
Nestlé CEO: Let God Handle Global Warming — Climate change threatens one of the single most crucial ingredients at Nestlé, the world's largest food company. However, instead of demanding for aggressive action to cut carbon emissions, Nestlé's chairman denies that humans are the cause of global warming at all.
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Liberaland and Guardian