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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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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 …
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Chicago Boyz and Wall Street Journal
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.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Blasphemy We Need — In the wake of the vicious murders at the offices of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo today, let me offer three tentative premises about blasphemy in a free society. — 1) The right to blaspheme (and otherwise give offense) is essential to the liberal order.
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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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Business Insider, Jay Bookman, NPR and Telegraph
Daily Mail:
Attack came less than 24 hours after 12 people were shot dead at the offices of satirical …
Attack came less than 24 hours after 12 people were shot dead at the offices of satirical …
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Vox Popoli and Hinterland Gazette
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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Hit & Run, Guardian, Newseum, Religion News Service, National Review, The Long War Journal and The Huffington Post
Arthur Goldhammer / Fact-Based, In-Depth News:
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
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The Glittering Eye, more at Mediagazer »
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’
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Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
‘Je suis Charlie’? No, You're Not, or Else You Might Be Dead
‘Je suis Charlie’? No, You're Not, or Else You Might Be Dead
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Hot Air, Balloon Juice, TIME, The Daily Beast, The White House, Telegraph, Friendly Atheist and France 24
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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Politico, Hot Air, The Federalist, Althouse, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, Washington Center …, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Hit & Run
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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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Confusion as French Hunt Magazine Attack Suspects
Confusion as French Hunt Magazine Attack Suspects
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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.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Hit & Run and ABC News
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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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Shark Tank and Hot Air
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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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Daily Kos, BarbWire.com, Daily Signal, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
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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NewsBusters and RedState
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
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
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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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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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, CNN and Balloon Juice
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 — President Obama and top lawmakers condemned the shocking assault Wednesday on the Paris newsroom of a satirical newspaper that left 12 people dead. — The attack prompted calls for unity with France, but also questions …
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Daily Kos and Washington Times
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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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Washington Center … and Bloomberg View
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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