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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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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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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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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 …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Blasphemy We Need — In the wake of the vicious murders …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Is Islam to Blame for the Shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris?
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Guardian, Religion News Service, The Long War Journal, National Review, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine
Arthur Goldhammer / Fact-Based, In-Depth News:
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Don't let murderers pretend their crimes are about cartoons
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Reuters:
Police hunt three Frenchmen after 12 killed in Paris attack
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Internal CNN memo: ‘We are not at this time showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons’
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Confusion as French Hunt Magazine Attack Suspects
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
23 Heartbreaking Cartoons From Artists Responding To The Charlie Hebdo Shooting
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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’
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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 …
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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.
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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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
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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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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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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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?
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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
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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