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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Breitbart Issues Best Correction Since Forever — I generally don't like harping on other outlets' errors or the always mortifying process of issuing a correction. It's a mix of ‘there but for the grace of God’ and, in this case, look at the source. But I think here we may have perhaps …
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New York Times, Shakesville and Althouse
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Balloon Juice:
When Lynchings Go Awry — Apparently Warner Todd Huston and Joel Pollak at Breitbart have breaking pieces on AG nominee Loretta Lynch: … I wouldn't suggest reading the comments at Breitbart- they read like they have finally gone full Stormfront.
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
LORETTA LYNCH: A QUALIFIED, BUT POLITICAL, CHOICE—UPDATE: WHITEWATER? UPDATE: NO
LORETTA LYNCH: A QUALIFIED, BUT POLITICAL, CHOICE—UPDATE: WHITEWATER? UPDATE: NO
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Breitbart Attacks The Wrong Loretta Lynch for Purported Tie to WhiteWater
Breitbart Attacks The Wrong Loretta Lynch for Purported Tie to WhiteWater
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Little Green Footballs and BREITBART.COM
Warner Todd Huston / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL NOMINEE LORETTA LYNCH REPRESENTED CLINTONS DURING WHITEWATER (CORRECTED)
OBAMA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL NOMINEE LORETTA LYNCH REPRESENTED CLINTONS DURING WHITEWATER (CORRECTED)
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Liberaland, The Huffington Post, Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mike Allen / Politico:
Rand's grand plan — An inside look at the senator's presidential rollout. — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has made key decisions about how to launch his presidential campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination, including a plan to headquarter his effort in Louisville and opting to run …
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Washington Monthly, CNN, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog and FOX News Radio
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Latest Frivolous Attack on Obamacare — My parents used to own a small house with a large backyard, in which my mother cultivated a beautiful garden. At some point, however — I don't remember why — my father looked at the official deed defining their property, and received a shock.
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National Review, Washington Post and Patterico's Pontifications
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David Tedrow / Washington Post:
Without Obamacare, I would have died. I'm scared the Supreme Court is going to gut the part that saved me.
Without Obamacare, I would have died. I'm scared the Supreme Court is going to gut the part that saved me.
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New York Magazine, Hullabaloo, American Prospect and Twitchy
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Obama officials work on health site contingency plans as enrollment nears
Obama officials work on health site contingency plans as enrollment nears
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Urges F.C.C. to Adopt Strict Rules on Net Neutrality — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday put the full weight of his administration behind an open and free Internet, calling for a strict policy of so-called net neutrality and formally opposing deals in which content providers …
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TechCrunch, Washington Monthly and Business Insider
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Obama makes aggressive push on net neutrality regulations
Obama makes aggressive push on net neutrality regulations
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Politico
Gary Buiso / New York Post:
Never-before-heard tapes of Reagan revealed — President Ronald Reagan secretly recorded some of his conversations with foreign leaders, discovered author William Doyle, who shared some of these never-heard tapes exclusively with The Post. — “Until now, taping was thought to have stopped in the Nixon era.
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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Cuomo had a secret re-election ‘pact’ with Republicans — The state's most powerful Republican secretly worked for months to help Democratic Gov. Cuomo win re-election — in exchange for Cuomo's promise not to aid Senate Democrats in their Long Island races, a top New York GOP leader has charged.
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Daily Kos and BillMoyers.com
Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
Couple fined for refusing to host same-sex wedding on their farm — Cynthia and Robert Gifford are caught in a same-sex nightmare. They've been forced to defend themselves against claims that they're lesbian-hating homophobes. — “We respect and care for everyone!” Cynthia Gifford told me.
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The Right Scoop
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
No one has understood Valerie Jarrett's role, until now — Even at this late date in the Obama presidency, there is no surer way to elicit paranoid whispers or armchair psychoanalysis from Democrats than to mention the name Valerie Jarrett. Party operatives, administration officials …
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Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Instapundit and Washington Monthly
Susan Snyder / Philly.com:
A college president's words to young women about men — With an auditorium full of female students, Lincoln University president Robert R. Jennings offered the sort of fatherly advice he believes many of them need when it comes to sex and men. — “We have, we had, on this campus …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
McConnell pressed to repeal ObamaCare with budget move — Conservatives in Washington are adamant that Senate Republicans should pass a full repeal of the healthcare law next year, even it if means a certain veto from President Obama. — With Senate Democrats likely to filibuster …
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PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Billionaires Adelson and Saban, at odds in campaigns, unite on Israel and hit Obama — The billionaire political kingmakers planning to bankroll much of the 2016 presidential campaign spoke out together on Sunday with blunt warnings on key issues for their respective parties.
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Israelilifeusa / IsraelUSA.net:
Sheldon Adelson Challenges Haim Saban to Team Up and Buy The New York Times
Sheldon Adelson Challenges Haim Saban to Team Up and Buy The New York Times
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FOX News Radio
Politico:
Haley Barbour apologizes after calling Obama's policies ‘tar babies’ — Haley Barbour called President Barack Obama's policies “tar babies” on a post-election conference call for clients of his lobbying firm, two sources familiar with the call told POLITICO.
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Liberaland, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Did a Flawed Computer Model Sabotage the Democrats? — Don't blame turnout. How a late change in strategy may have sent Democratic volunteers after the exact wrong type of voter. — The much-vaunted Democratic turnout machine didn't fail Tuesday. Volunteer shifts made record numbers …
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Hot Air
Ashley Killough / CNN:
(CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden stressed Monday that he and Benjamin Netanyahu are “still buddies” during remarks to the Jewish Federations of North America, less than two weeks after a senior Obama administration official was quoted calling the Israeli prime minister “chickens—”
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New York Times, Weekly Standard and Informed Comment
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Rick Santorum: Obama and Bush Have ‘Given All Muslims A Pass’ — Former Republican senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum sharply criticized President Obama's management of conflict in the Middle East today, saying both Obama and President George W. Bush have “given all Muslims a pass” …