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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
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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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
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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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Christie hammers New York Times for ‘sloppy,’ ‘misleading’ report
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
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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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
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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John Wagner / Washington Post:
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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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Christie's loss appears to be Clinton's gain
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Dan Merica / CNN:
O'Malley preparing ‘ground work’ for potential 2016 run
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Bloomberg:
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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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Senators: Kerry Admits Obama's Syria Policy Is Failing
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
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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Missouri Senate Committee Votes To Jail Federal Agents Who Enforce Gun Laws
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Rebecca Wind / New from the Guttmacher Institute:
U.S. Abortion Rate Hits Lowest Level Since 1973
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
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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Allen West / Allen B. West:
Coca Cola ad on Super Bowl — American's brand? Hm. — I'm watching the Super Bowl, looks like good defense (Seattle) is trouncing good offense (Denver) when a Coca Cola commercial came on and it started rather patriotically with the words of “America the Beautiful.”
Patrick Hynes / New Hampshire Journal:
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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Fox News:
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.
Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:
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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CNN:
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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Lane Brown / Vulture:
In Conversation: Lorne Michaels … TWEET THIS QUOTE
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
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 …
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
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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