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Alex Moe / NBC News:
Paul Ryan Won't Run for President in 2016 — In an interview with NBC News, the former VP nominee says he can make a “huge difference” as House Ways and Means Committee chairman instead.
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Romney moves to reassemble campaign apparatus for 2016 — Mitt Romney is moving quickly to reassemble his national political network, spending the weekend and Monday calling former aides, donors and other supporters — as well as onetime foes such as Newt Gingrich.
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By Jake Tapper / CNN:
Story highlights — Jake Tapper is anchor of CNN's “The Lead With Jake Tapper” and chief Washington correspondent. — Paris (CNN)"Thank you," said the man. I was standing outside of the offices of Charlie Hebdo covering the aftermath of the terrorist attacks for CNN.
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Sen. Ted Cruz / TIME:
‘Our President Should Have Been There’ — Cruz is the junior U.S. Senator for Texas. — We must never hesitate to stand with our allies. We should never hesitate to speak the truth. In Paris or anywhere else in the world. — On Sunday, leaders representing Europe, Israel, Africa …
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Mary Bruce / ABC News:
Paris Terror Attack: White House Defends President Obama's No-Show at Rally
Paris Terror Attack: White House Defends President Obama's No-Show at Rally
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Douglas E. Schoen / Fox News:
Obama AWOL in Paris: Message to America, allies is we don't care
Obama AWOL in Paris: Message to America, allies is we don't care
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Barack Obama's French kiss-off
Barack Obama's French kiss-off
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
HISTORY WILL BE VERY KIND — And if it's not, it will be for a highly ironic reason. — Photograph courtesy of the White House — Ten and a half years ago, at the Democratic convention in Boston, Barack Hussein Obama was introduced to America as a youthful, magnetic man who had burst suddenly …
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Christopher Caldwell / New York Magazine:
Why History Will Eviscerate Obama
Why History Will Eviscerate Obama
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Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Hollande asked Netanyahu not to attend Paris memorial march — Absence sought as part of attempt to keep Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of European show of unity; After Netanyahu insisted on coming, French made it clear Abbas would be invited as well. — French President Francois Hollande conveyed …
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday edition to include Prophet Mohammed cartoons — Wednesday's edition of Charlie Hebdo will ‘naturally’ contain cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, the magazine's lawyer has announced — The next edition of Charlie Hebdo, out on Wednesday with a million-copy print run …
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo's New Issue Has Muhammad on the Cover
Charlie Hebdo's New Issue Has Muhammad on the Cover
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Peter Moore / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Free speech more important than protecting religious beliefs
Free speech more important than protecting religious beliefs
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Randy.Today:
A Peaceful Disclosure - I Am Gay — I have read many stories of people who have “come out again” or accepted they are gay after some time in the ex-gay world. Many of their stories are compelling and well-written. But, sometimes I wish they would get to the point right off the bat.
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Washington Post:
Democrats, in a stark shift in messaging, to make big tax-break pitch for middle class — Senior Democrats, dissatisfied with the party's tepid prescriptions for combating income inequality, are drafting an “action plan” that calls for a massive transfer of wealth from the super-rich …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
I read the French far-right party's platform, and it gets one big thing absolutely right — In the wake of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo and a related attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, it's natural to turn attention to Marine Le Pen and her National Front political party …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Federal Government Launches Social Media Audit After CENTCOM Hack — “More than 800 federal managers” ordered to check their social media security after an embarrassing break-in at the Pentagon. — WASHINGTON — Within minutes of the first reports that CENTCOM's social media feeds …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
CENTCOM social media accounts apparently hacked by Islamic State sympathizers
CENTCOM social media accounts apparently hacked by Islamic State sympathizers
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Ben White / Politico:
Antonio Weiss pulls out of 3rd-ranking Treasury slot; will instead serve as counselor — NEW YORK — Antonio Weiss, the Wall Street banker who President Barack Obama had picked to be the third-ranking official at the Treasury Department, has asked that the president not resend his nomination …
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
Not a Single Person Has Donated to Dick Morris's Anti-Hillary Super PAC — Sixteen months ago, to some fanfare, Dick Morris re-entered the anti-Clinton fray with a new PAC. He launched Dick Morris's Just Say No to Hillary PAC, registering it from Tampa. From time to time …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Ben Carson's Troubling Connection — In March of last year, Dr. Ben Carson, the conservative star considered a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, appeared in a video for Mannatech, Inc., a Texas-based medical supplement maker. Smiling into the camera, he extolled the benefits of the company's “glyconutrient” products:
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
House Budget Chair Signals Big Social Security Reforms A-Coming — The new House Budget Committee chairman hinted Monday that he had big plans for Social Security reform in the next two years, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. — A week after the House voted on a rule …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Puts Off Decision On Hearing A Same-Sex Marriage Case For Friday — The justices turned down Louisiana same-sex couples' request to skip over the appeals court and take their case directly, but they had no word on the cases out of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court denies one same-sex marriage case (UPDATED)
Court denies one same-sex marriage case (UPDATED)
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Gavin Newsom / Facebook:
It's always better to be candid than coy. While I am humbled by the widespread encouragement of so many and hold in the highest esteem those who serve us in federal office, I know that my head and my heart, my young family's future, and our unfinished work all remain firmly in the State …
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Melissa Brown / al.com:
‘White genocide’ billboard posted on I-59, similar to ‘anti-white’ sign near Leeds — For the second time in less than a year, a billboard near Birmingham is carrying a racial message connected to a segregationist screed. — Posted along I-59 near Springville in St. Clair county …
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