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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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CANNONFIRE, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Patterico's Pontifications and Reuters
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Washington Post:
French police close in on Paris attack suspects — A security official in France says two suspects in the attack on Charlie Hebdo have stolen a car and are on the move. Security forces swarmed the town of Dammartin-en-Goele Friday with helicopters hovering above a building in the town. (AP)
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The Moderate Voice
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
A Close Call on Publication of Charlie Hebdo Cartoons — Was The Times cowardly and lacking in journalistic solidarity when it decided not to publish the images from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that precipitated the execution of French journalists? — Some readers I've heard from certainly think so.
New York Times:
Al Qaeda Trained Suspect in Paris Terror Attack, Official Says — WASHINGTON — One of the two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical newspaper in Paris traveled to Yemen in 2011 and received terrorist training from Al Qaeda's affiliate there before returning to France, a senior American official said Thursday.
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New York Magazine, Mashable and Bloomberg
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Dean Baquet addresses NYT's republication of anti-Semitic cartoons — New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet decided that his paper would not publish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad primarily because he did not want to insult the paper's Muslim readers.
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Algemeiner.com, The Federalist, Gawker, Mediaite and Ed Driscoll
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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Israel Matzav, NBC News and Ace of Spades HQ, 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
David Hudson / White House.gov Blog:
The President Proposes to Make Community College Free for Responsible Students for 2 Years — Post by The White House. — Today, the President unveiled a new proposal: Make two years of community college free for responsible students across America. — In our growing global economy …
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Gregory Korte / Associated Press:
Obama to propose free community college — WASHINGTON — President Obama will propose two years of free community college for American workers Friday, part of what the White House says is an effort to make community college as universal as high school is today.
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Real Clear Politics and Addicting Info
Allie Grasgreen / Politico:
Obama to propose two free years of community college for students
Obama to propose two free years of community college for students
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TICAS and Weasel Zippers
Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Sen. Barbara Boxer's impending retirement to set off a scramble — Sen. Barbara Boxer's announcement Thursday that she will not seek reelection put an end to years of frustration on the part of a younger generation of California politicians who can now start elbowing their way upward …
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Raw Story, Guardian, Fusion and Washington Post
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Dems' Big Conundrum In GOP Senate: How To Deploy The Filibuster?
Dems' Big Conundrum In GOP Senate: How To Deploy The Filibuster?
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Balloon Juice, Politico and Washington Monthly
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
Philly.com:
Grand jury recommends criminal charges against Kane — The special prosecutor and grand jury investigating allegations that Pennsylvania 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
Fox News:
Pen vs. sword: Cartoonists unite against Islamist terror — Antonio Branco's tribute is entitled “We are all cartoonists now.” — Cartoonists around the world rallied Thursday behind fellow artists killed in a terror attack in Paris because of their satirical drawings mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Martin O'Malley, eyeing 2016, admits progressives' setbacks — Outgoing Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday that he'll decide on whether to run for president after spending a “couple of months” settling his family back into Baltimore, even as he acknowledged Democrats' disastrous showing …
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The PJ Tatler
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Axelrod: Clinton 'wasn't a very good candidate' in 2007 — David Axelrod on Thursday jabbed at Hillary Clinton, saying that she wasn't a very strong candidate during the first part of her campaign for the 2008 presidential nomination. — The chief strategist for Barack Obama's …
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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New York Magazine, Gawker, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, FOX2now.com and ABC News
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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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Liberal Values
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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Pew Research Center, Eschaton and Booman Tribune
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
Roxana Hegemanthe / Associated Press:
Grand jury investigates loans to Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election campaign — A federal grand jury is looking into loans made to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election campaign and has ordered the state's ethics chief to testify next week as part of its investigation, according to a subpoena obtained by The Associated Press.
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Monthly
Aurin Squire / The New Republic:
Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown — For the second consecutive week, New York City police have virtually ceased writing tickets and arresting people for many nonviolent crimes, on the order of a 90 percent drop from a year earlier.
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Washington Post and The Huffington Post
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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US News, Associated Press, Washington Post, Bloomberg Politics, ABC News, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Bill / Catholic League:
CHARLIE HEBDO PERVERTS FREEDOM — Bill Donohue comments on reactions to his news release from yesterday [click here] on the murder of 12 people in Paris: — Being misrepresented is commonplace for public figures. Sometimes it reflects an honest misreading; other times it is a willful distortion.
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Mediaite, Hot Air, CNN, Middle East Eye, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, The Daily Banter and Towleroad News #gay