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11:10 AM ET, January 8, 2015

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USA Today:
People know the consequences: Opposing view  —  Why did France allow the tabloid to provoke Muslims?  —  Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone.  Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression …
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Bill / Catholic League:
MUSLIMS ARE RIGHT TO BE ANGRY  —  Bill Donohue comments on the killing of 12 people at the Paris office of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo:  —  Killing in response to insult, no matter how gross, must be unequivocally condemned.  That is why what happened in Paris cannot be tolerated.
George Packer / New Yorker:
The Blame for the Charlie Hebdo Murders  —  The murders today in Paris are not a result of France's failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies.  They're not about French military action against the Islamic State in the Middle East, or the American invasion of Iraq before that.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Europe Is Under Siege  —  The European Parliament complex in Brussels, where I happen to be sitting at the moment, is meant to be a monument to post-World War II continental ideals of peaceable integration, tolerance, free speech, and openness.  All of these notions seem to be under attack at once …
New York Times:
‘Dangerous Moment’ for Europe, as Fear and Resentment Grow  —  LONDON — The sophisticated, military-style strike Wednesday on a French newspaper known for satirizing Islam staggered a continent already seething with anti-immigrant sentiments in some quarters, feeding far-right nationalist parties like France's National Front.
New York Times:
Two Brothers Suspected in Killings Were Known to French Intelligence Services  —  PARIS — When Chérif Kouachi first came to the attention of the French authorities as a possible terrorist a decade ago, he was in his early 20s and, according to testimony during a 2008 Paris trial …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Blasphemy We Need  —  In the wake of the vicious murders …
Arthur Goldhammer / Fact-Based, In-Depth News:
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Internal CNN memo: ‘We are not at this time showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons’
Anna Palmer / Politico:
K Street won't get blank check on Hill  —  But they will still be looking to add language favorable to clients and to insert pet projects.  —  Big Business and its Washington lobbyists shelled out millions to secure a Republican Congress.  —  Now, the D.C. hired guns are warning their clients …
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
John Cornyn Steps Up, Says He'll Spare the Whip
Discussion: ABC News
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Dumbest 57 Seconds Ever On TV?  —  Adam Baldwin linked to this MSNBC clip with a succinct tweet “Spot the morons/cowards.”  —  All due respect to Adam, but his understatement is almost a scandal.  We've posted a lot of incredibly stupid sound bites from MSNBC and other places around here …
Discussion: NewsBusters and RedState
Cory Shaffer / Plain Dealer:
Extended Tamir Rice shooting video shows officers restrained sister  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland police officers forced Tamir Rice's 14-year-old sister to the ground, handcuffed her and placed in the back of a Cleveland police car steps away from her wounded 12-year-old brother.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Raw Story and ABC News
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Durbin: ‘Now is the time’ to raise gas tax  —  Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says he thinks “now is the time” to raise the gas tax, which hasn't been touched by Congress in over 20 years.  —  “I think now is the time to do it, but we ought to do it in a thoughtful way,” Durbin said on Wednesday.
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:   Support builds for medical device tax repeal
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
It's All Right with Sam  —  Samuel A. Alito Jr. may be the least recognizable of Supreme Court justices.  I doubt if one American in a thousand could pick him out of a lineup.  Those who do know the name, if not the face, of the 64-year-old justice most likely lump him with the other conservatives …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Clinton Foundation Accepted $25,000 from Known Pedophile  —  On July 18, 2006, the Clinton Foundation received a $25,000 check from the C.O.U.Q. Foundation, whose president was known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of Bill Clinton.  The donation is revealed in the C.O.U.Q. Foundation's 990 tax form, filed with the IRS.
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Jeffrey Epstein And A Long History Of Slime
Discussion: Moe Lane
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Christie's Re-Election Campaign Gets Subpoena  —  Prosecutors Seek Documents Relating to Meetings Allegedly Canceled With Jersey City's Mayor  —  Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have subpoenaed Gov. Chris Christie's re-election campaign for documents relating to government meetings …
Neil Vigdor / CT Politics:
Jeb Bush takes swipe at Hillary Clinton  —  GREENWICH — A physically-fit and newly “unemployed” Jeb Bush took a veiled shot at Hillary Clinton Wednesday night when the former Florida GOP governor was asked to handicap the 2016 presidential field by a well-heeled network of contributors in his father's hometown.
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Grand Central: Could Lower 10-Year Yields Spark A More Aggressive Fed?  —  The Wall Street Journal's Daily Report on Global Central Banks for Thursday, January 8, 2015:  —  Sign up for the newsletter: http://on.wsj.com/grandcentralsignup … HILSENRATH's TAKE: COULD LOWER 10-YEAR YIELDS SPARK A MORE AGGRESSIVE FED?
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Two Infants Too Young For Vaccinations Contract Measles From Unvaccinated People At Disneyland  —  CREDIT: PRNewsFoto/Disney Parks via AP Images  —  California officials issued a health alert this week over a measles outbreak that appears to have originated at Disneyland theme parks.
San Francisco Chronicle:
IMAGE 1 OF 15  —  Menus across the Bay Area were being hastily rewritten Wednesday after a federal judge struck down California's ban on foie gras, allowing restaurants to serve up the delicacy for the first time in two years.  —  U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles ruled …
 
 
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paris terrorist attack draws questions about Obama policies
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Times
Kazunori Takada / Reuters:
Sony to delay sale of PlayStation 4 in China
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Tech group finds firm legal footing for reclassifying Web
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In G.O.P., a Divide of Ideology and Age
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Bill would OK gun permits for people under PPOs
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
F.B.I. Says Little Doubt North Korea Hit Sony
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RealClearPolitics Videos:
Howard Dean on Paris Attack: “I Stopped Calling These People Muslim Terrorists”
Discussion: Reuters
Steve Osborne / New York Times:
The N.Y.P.D. Protests: An Officer's View
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Gallup:
Story Highlights  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — An average 43% …
Discussion: Washington Post
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Boehner defends retribution
Discussion: Hot Air
Nathaniel Cary / Greenville News:
Bills target gun rights education in schools
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TPNN
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Problem With Meaning  —  Not long ago, a friend sent …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Leonard Greene / Page Six:
‘60 Minutes’ host Steve Kroft exposed in nasty affair
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Gawker and Daily Mail