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As the Latest Christie Story Evolved, The Times Should Have Noted a Change — In the digital age, news evolves before our very eyes. A story breaks and goes online with perhaps a few rough paragraphs. Soon after, more details are added, new angles explored and writing is tuned up.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Erik Wemple, Mediaite, Capital New York and NewsHounds blog, more at Mediagazer »
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Exclusive: Christie hammers New York Times for ‘sloppy,’ ‘misleading’ report — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is hitting back at The New York Times for its “sloppy” and “misleading” reporting on the George Washington Bridge lane-closing controversy, according to a memo from his office obtained first by The Daily Caller.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Mediaite, Gothamist and Erik Wemple


What has happened to the New York Times? — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — What has happened to The New York Times? — The Gray Lady, America's Paper of Record, where readers turn to find “All the News That's Fit to Print,” has gone off the deep end. — Last Friday, the paper published a huge story.
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The PJ Tatler


The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World. — In Manhattan, the upscale clothing retailer Barneys will replace the bankrupt discounter Loehmann's, whose Chelsea store closes in a few weeks. Across the country, Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants are struggling …
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Washington Monthly, AEIdeas, Business Insider, Shakesville and ParaPundit
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A STARTLING DISCOVERY … American “business,” a concept that runs from your local pharmacist to Goldman Sachs, which then steals it all and runs away, pronounces itself startled that, having worked diligently at its highest levels to burn the entire house down, it is now difficult to see the TV clearly through all the smoke.
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CANNONFIRE and Eschaton


Not waiting for Clinton, Md. Gov. O'Malley prepares for possible presidential bid — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is moving ahead with preparations for a possible presidential bid and said in an interview that if he's going to lay the groundwork for a national campaign …
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CNN/ORC Poll: Christie's loss appears to be Clinton's gain — Washington (CNN) - What a difference two months makes. — In late November and early December, in the wake of Chris Christie's landslide re-election victory, the Republican governor from New Jersey was riding high in the polls.
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Politico, The Hill and Post Politics

O'Malley preparing ‘ground work’ for potential 2016 run
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Politico and OnPolitics


Kerry Tells Senators That Obama Syria Policy Is Collapsing — Two prominent Republican senators say that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told them — along with 13 other members of a bipartisan congressional delegation — that President Barack Obama's administration is in need of a new …
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Mediaite, The PJ Tatler, NPR, Questions and Observations and Weekly Standard
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Senators: Kerry Admits Obama's Syria Policy Is Failing
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New York Times, The Daily Caller, Lawfare and Hot Air


Coca-Cola's Multicultural Super Bowl Ad Really Angered Conservatives — Not many people expected the Seattle Seahawks to steamroll the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Less surprising was the right-wing outrage over an ad featuring a patriotic hymn performed in multiple languages.
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Hit & Run, Right Wing Watch, Allen B. West, The Raw Story, Mediaite and Daily Kos
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Study: Abortion rate at lowest point since 1973 — The abortion rate in the United States dropped to its lowest point since the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in all 50 states, according to a study suggesting that new, long-acting contraceptive methods are having a significant impact in reducing unwanted pregnancies.
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ThinkProgress, Hot Air, The Week, Gawker, Washington Monthly, The Dish, The PJ Tatler, New York Times, BillMoyers.com and The Atlantic Online
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Missouri Senate Committee Votes To Jail Federal Agents Who Enforce Gun Laws
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Daily Kos and dailyjournalonline.com

U.S. Abortion Rate Hits Lowest Level Since 1973
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Taking Note, The National Memo, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, CNN and Shakesville

Shaheen: “Pay more' to keep your doc,' won't say if she'd vote for O-Care again — Americans who have lost access to their health care providers due to ObamaCare may be able to get their old doctors back but only if they are “willing to pay more.” That's Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's (D-NH) …
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Power Line, The PJ Tatler and Washington Free Beacon
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Here, Let Ezra Explain — What is D.C.'s most famous young policy wonk doing leaving the Washington Post? Trying to start a news organization he thinks could one day eclipse it. — On January 24, at five in the morning after his final day at the Washington Post …
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Marginal Revolution, The Dish and Capital New York, more at Mediagazer »


TRANSCRIPT: Bill O'Reilly interviews President Obama — BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Mr. President, thank you for doing this. — BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Great to be with you. — O'REILLY: Really appreciate it. — I want to get some things on the record.


In Conversation: Lorne Michaels … TWEET THIS QUOTE
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, CNN, Politico, Mediaite, NewsBusters, Weekly Standard, Power Line and The Gateway Pundit


Officials: Michigan killer on loose — (CNN) — Locked in a gas station bathroom, the woman whispers into her cell phone, an escaped Michigan murderer banging on the door. — “He didn't say where, exactly, he just said somewhere far,” she says in a 911 call, telling the dispatcher …
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How Obamacare killed immigration reform — Barack Obama has all but conceded his lame-duck status. His State of the Union address was bereft of big ideas. And his declaration that he will use his “pen and a phone” to issue a raft of executive orders is an admission of political impotence …
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VodkaPundit, Washington Monthly, The Heritage Foundation and Post Politics

HealthCare.gov can't handle appeals of enrollment errors — Tens of thousands of people who discovered that HealthCare.gov made mistakes as they were signing up for a health plan are confronting a new roadblock: The government cannot yet fix the errors. — Roughly 22,000 Americans …


Elizabeth Warren Proposes Replacing Payday Lenders With The Post Office — The Postal Service (USPS) could spare the most economically vulnerable Americans from dealing with predatory financial companies under a proposal endorsed over the weekend by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
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Business Insider, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story, Riehl World News and Hullabaloo