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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.
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Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney.com, Guardian, Bloomberg View, Telegraph, Betsy's Page, Raw Story, The Great Debate and Joanne Jacobs, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Chicago Boyz, Wall Street Journal and Ricochet
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.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Blasphemy We Need — In the wake of the vicious murders …
The Blasphemy We Need — In the wake of the vicious murders …
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New York Times:
Two Brothers Suspected in Killings Were Known to French Intelligence Services
Two Brothers Suspected in Killings Were Known to French Intelligence Services
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Daily Mail, Liberaland, Jay Bookman and NPR
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Is Islam to Blame for the Shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris?
Is Islam to Blame for the Shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris?
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Guardian, The Long War Journal, National Review, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Newseum, more at Mediagazer »
Reuters:
Police hunt three Frenchmen after 12 killed in Paris attack
Police hunt three Frenchmen after 12 killed in Paris attack
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Hot Air, New York Magazine, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times
Arthur Goldhammer / Fact-Based, In-Depth News:
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Don't let murderers pretend their crimes are about cartoons
Don't let murderers pretend their crimes are about cartoons
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
23 Heartbreaking Cartoons From Artists Responding To The Charlie Hebdo Shooting
23 Heartbreaking Cartoons From Artists Responding To The Charlie Hebdo Shooting
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Weasel Zippers, The Huffington Post, The Mahablog and Taylor Marsh
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Internal CNN memo: ‘We are not at this time showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons’
Internal CNN memo: ‘We are not at this time showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons’
Washington Post:
Charlie Hebdo stands solidly for free expression. The West must do no less.
Charlie Hebdo stands solidly for free expression. The West must do no less.
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Gawker, Washington Free Beacon, Bloomberg, RT, Telegraph and The Daily Banter
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Confusion as French Hunt Magazine Attack Suspects
Confusion as French Hunt Magazine Attack Suspects
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Barney Henderson / Telegraph:
Paris Charlie Hebdo attack: live
Paris Charlie Hebdo attack: live
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Boehner defends retribution — A day after winning his third term as Speaker, John Boehner (R-Ohio) said his conference had begun a “family conversation” about how to respond to the 25 conservatives who revolted and voted against him on the floor. — Boehner confirmed that the Rules …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Boehner may let dissenters off the hook
Boehner may let dissenters off the hook
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BarbWire.com, Daily Signal, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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 …
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Washington Monthly, SCOTUSblog and Election Law Blog
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 …
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
John Cornyn Steps Up, Says He'll Spare the Whip … WASHINGTON, D.C. — For several years now, the most powerful Texan in Washington has been the Senate's No. 2 Republican, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. When Republicans took control of the Senate on Tuesday, he became even more so.
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Dems Respond To McConnell Taking Credit For Economic Growth: ‘Hahahahahahahahahahaha’
Dems Respond To McConnell Taking Credit For Economic Growth: ‘Hahahahahahahahahahaha’
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msnbc.com, FreakOutNation, ThinkProgress and Addicting Info
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 …
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Political Wire, susiemadrak.com and Politico
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.
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Oxford Journals, Los Angeles Times and Balloon Juice
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.
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Politico and Political Wire
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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Guardian, The Toast, New York Times, Reuters, Inside Scoop SF, PETA, Washington Times and Bloomberg Politics
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Tech group finds firm legal footing for reclassifying Web — A trade group representing major technology companies said the Federal Communications Commission would be on firm legal footing if it reclassified the Internet as a public utility. — The Internet Association said changes …
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Re/code
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In G.O.P., a Divide of Ideology and Age — WASHINGTON — Three years before he ran for president in 2008, a newly slim Mike Huckabee peddled a book with a title that doubled as a lecture: “Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork.” Now, as Mr. Huckabee considers a second White House run …
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Washington Monthly and Political Wire
Steve Osborne / New York Times:
The N.Y.P.D. Protests: An Officer's View — ON Sunday, at the funeral of the slain New York City police officer Wenjian Liu, his grieving father described how his son would call him at the end of each day's tour of duty, just to let him know he was O.K. — This sort of habit is familiar to many cops.
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