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Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo staff vow to publish next week with 1m print run — Writer for satirical magazine says ‘stupidity will not win’ as Google pledges to donate €250,000 to support the publication — Surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo have vowed to publish the satirical weekly next Wednesday …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
After Charlie Hebdo attack, U.S. Catholic group says cartoonists ‘provoked’ slaughter — In the aftermath of the deadly assault on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, much of the world has rallied in solidarity with the publication, its irreverent cartoonists and their right to free speech.
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Catholic League, RT, Hot Air, CNN, Middle East Eye, Daily Kos, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Firedoglake, Foreign Policy, The Dish, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
New York Times Reports On Muslim Proselytizing During Charlie Hebdo Attack, Then Deletes It — When Islamic terrorists expressly tell their victims why they're being attacked, our mainstream media will do anything to cover it up. They'll change the subject, they'll blame the victims... they'll even stealth-edit their own copy.
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Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
Shanifa Nasser / National Post:
In wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks, secularist groups to seek end of Canada's blasphemy law
In wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks, secularist groups to seek end of Canada's blasphemy law
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Friendly Atheist, Wall Street Journal, DamianPenny.com and Hot Air
Liz Alderman / New York Times:
Survivors Retrace a Scene of Horror at Charlie Hebdo
Survivors Retrace a Scene of Horror at Charlie Hebdo
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NBC News, ThinkProgress and NPR, more at Mediagazer »
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Muslims segregated from French society in growing Islamist mini-states
Muslims segregated from French society in growing Islamist mini-states
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Israel Matzav
Erin Polgreen / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting
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Fusion, Feministing, Twitchy 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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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
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Print the Cartoons, Show the Movie
Print the Cartoons, Show the Movie
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BBC, blogs.bookforum.com, Foreign Policy, New York Magazine, Israel Matzav, Fox News and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Europe Is Under Siege
Europe Is Under Siege
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Wall Street Journal, Israel Matzav and Chicago Boyz
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Manchin: Keystone veto threat ‘not the way a democracy works’ — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Thursday he was disappointed that the White House threatened to veto his legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing the president's move was “not the way a democracy works.”
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Politico, Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Dems' Big Conundrum In GOP Senate: How To Deploy The Filibuster? — When Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) took to his chamber's floor on Wednesday he warned that the now minority Senate Democrats “had no intention of just rolling over” but added that the “gratuitous obstruction …
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Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly, Politico and The Hill
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell is off to a bitter start
Mitch McConnell is off to a bitter start
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Keystone on the brink — Senators are scrambling to keep the project alive.
Keystone on the brink — Senators are scrambling to keep the project alive.
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PoliticusUSA and Washington Post
Philly.com:
Grand jury recommends criminal charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane — The special prosecutor and grand jury investigating allegations that Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane leaked secret information to a newspaper have found evidence of wrongdoing and recommended that she be criminally charged …
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Talking Points Memo, RedState, susiemadrak.com, The PJ Tatler and Clayton Cramer
Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
Roberts's Frost — A few hours before the ball dropped in Times Square, the Supreme Court released Chief Justice Roberts's year-end report on the federal judiciary. — The report is a gem, as are so many of the chief's writings, and its discussion of the court's conservative approach …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
It's All Right with Sam
It's All Right with Sam
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Election Law Blog, Washington Monthly, Lawyers, Guns & Money and SCOTUSblog
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Supreme Court to meet again to decide on hearing gay marriage
Supreme Court to meet again to decide on hearing gay marriage
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Daily Kos
Roberto A. Ferdman / Washington Post:
Most of America's rich think the poor have it easy — There is little empathy at the top. — Most of America's richest think poor people have it easy in this country, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center. The center surveyed a nationally representative group …
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The Politics of Financial Insecurity
The Politics of Financial Insecurity
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Bloomberg Politics and Bearing Drift
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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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer to Retire — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, one of the chamber's most tenacious liberals, announced Thursday she will not seek re-election in 2016 to a fifth term. — A staunch supporter of abortion rights, gun control and environmental protections …
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Derek Willis / New York Times:
Barbara Boxer and the Rise of Democratic Partisan Discipline
Barbara Boxer and the Rise of Democratic Partisan Discipline
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National Review
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The New World Order — The Republican White House field is scrambled earlier than expected — Well, that didn't last long! By that, we mean our pre-Christmas ordering of the GOP presidential field. We shouldn't be surprised. Politics never takes a long holiday break anymore.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson Apologizes For Plagiarism In Book — The book's publisher says it will update future printings. “I apologize, and I am working with my editors to rectify the situation,” Carson tells BuzzFeed News. — Ben Carson Facebook — Dr. Ben Carson apologized Thursday for instances …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Do Americans Have a ‘Right to Rise’? — If Jeb Bush is trying to show Republicans that he's conservative enough to be their nominee, he has a strange way of showing it. Consider the manifesto of his newly created political action committee, The Right to Rise.
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Washington Monthly and No More Mister Nice Blog
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online:
The King, the Conspiracies, and the American Dream — Elvis Presley would have turned 80 today. Letting go of him meant reckoning with part of a nation's identity. — “I have seen Elvis in the supermarket,” the letter said. — It was sent from Bay City, Michigan, to the columnist Ann Landers, who published it in 1988.
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The Dish
Politico:
The GOP's Staten Island headache — National Republicans fear revival of Garner tensions. — National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming New York City special congressional election, as the party is poised to nominate a figure who could thrust the contest …
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The Nation, The New York Observer and Daily Kos
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The Bill de Blasio Marijuana Rumors are Coming from Cops — For the bulk of his tenure, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has been dogged by rumors that he and his wife consume marijuana with some frequency. Yesterday, at a press conference in Brooklyn, he told a Daily Caller reporter that …
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The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Mediaite and Fox News
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
Terror suspects in Charlie Hebdo massacre were on U.S. ‘no fly’ list — Yahoo News 1 hr ago — The two brothers wanted in the terror attack on a French weekly that killed 12 people Wednesday had long been viewed by U.S. officials as potential terror suspects, prompting them to be placed on a …
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Amanda Kowalski / Brookings Institute:
The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act — ABSTRACT — I examine the impact of state policy decisions on the early impact of the ACA using data through the first half of 2014. I focus on the individual health insurance market, which includes plans purchased through exchanges as well as plans purchased directly from insurers.
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality