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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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Mediaite, BREITBART.COM, New York Times and Althouse
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
LORETTA LYNCH: A QUALIFIED, BUT POLITICAL, CHOICE—UPDATE: WHITEWATER? UPDATE: NO — Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama's choice to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General, would likely sail through confirmation hearings under normal circumstances—i.e. even when Democrats had not gutted …
Balloon Juice:
When Lynchings Go Awry — Apparently Warner Todd Huston …
When Lynchings Go Awry — Apparently Warner Todd Huston …
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Daily Kos, Liberaland, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Banter
Sam Kleiner / The New Republic:
Republicans Are Already Undermining Obama's Highly Qualified Attorney General Pick
Republicans Are Already Undermining Obama's Highly Qualified Attorney General Pick
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Washington Post, The Dish, Shakesville and ThinkProgress
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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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Obama makes aggressive push on net neutrality regulations — President Obama is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to treat broadband Internet as a public utility to protect net neutrality, a move that would ban companies from cutting deals for faster service.
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Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
Ted Cruz Says Net Neutrality Is ‘Obamacare For The Internet’
Ted Cruz Says Net Neutrality Is ‘Obamacare For The Internet’
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TechCrunch, PoliticusUSA, National Journal, Bloomberg Politics, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Booman Tribune
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Urges F.C.C. to Adopt Strict Rules on Net Neutrality
Obama Urges F.C.C. to Adopt Strict Rules on Net Neutrality
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Washington Monthly and No More Mister Nice Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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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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
Elizabeth Murray / Today:
George W. Bush talks Jeb in 2016, why he never asked his dad if he should run — and reveals a never-before-seen painting — Savannah Guthrie sat down with President George W. Bush at his home in Dallas to discuss his new book, “41,” about his father. The pair also discussed a number of other topics …
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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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Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize — The seminars offered police officers some useful tips on seizing property from suspected criminals. Don't bother with jewelry (too hard to dispose of) and computers ("everybody's got one already"), the experts counseled.
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Hit & Run, Washington Free Beacon and Prairie Weather
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
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
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
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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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, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Daily Signal:
Caught on Camera: Obamacare Architect Admits Deceiving Americans to Pass Law — In a newly surfaced video, one of Obamacare's architects admits a “lack of transparency” helped the Obama administration and congressional Democrats pass the Affordable Care Act.
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Weekly Standard, Hit & Run, The Right Scoop, Mediaite, National Review, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll and BizPac Review
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
GOP can only win presidency by nominating a real conservative — VID: — 2016 ELECTIONS MITT ROMNEY CONSERVATISM — As the jockeying for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination begins, a familiar debate will be playing out: Should the party pick somebody ideologically pure …
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