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10:30 PM ET, January 12, 2015

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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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Washington Post:
Romney moves to reassemble campaign team for ‘almost certain’ 2016 bid  —  Mitt Romney is moving quickly to reassemble his national political network, calling former aides, donors and other supporters over the weekend and on Monday in a concerted push to signal his seriousness about possibly launching a 2016 presidential campaign.
Politico:
The selling of Mitt 3.0  —  Romney is promising he'll be ‘different’ this time.  —  Getty  —  Shortly after Election Day in 2012, a Mitt Romney supporter moaned to POLITICO about the failed GOP nominee's performance: “We had no message, and we gave it to the worst communicator in the world.”
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Paul Ryan rules out presidential run
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday edition to include Prophet Mohammed cartoons
Coralie Febvre / Agence France-Presse:
25,000 attend German anti-Islam march, but counter-protests bigger
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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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By Jake Tapper / CNN:
Story highlights  —  Jake Tapper is anchor of CNN's …
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
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Atty. Gen. Harris to announce U.S. Senate bid on Tuesday  —  California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris will announce Tuesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer, according to a Harris advisor.  —  “She's not testing the waters.  She's charting the course.
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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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Kamala Harris To Run For Senate
Ben White / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren wins on Antonio Weiss nomination  —  Antonio Weiss pulls out of 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 …
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 …
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
The time Obama walked in on a staffer who had a friend in bed  —  Reggie Love knows how to put the body in “bodyman.”  —  In a memoir due out in early February, Love recounts his years working for Barack Obama - in the Senate, on the 2008 campaign and in the White House.
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.
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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Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
Philip Klein's Overcoming Obamacare  —  Let me start off with a full disclosure.  I enjoy Philip Klein's writing immensely.  While I disagree with him often, I've found him to be fair and reasonable.  So when he offered me the chance to read his new book, “Overcoming Obamacare”, I was excited to do so.
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 …
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 …
Radley Balko / Washington Post:
What Dallas's historically low murder rate can teach us about policing  —  Here at The Watch, we've praised Dallas Police Chief David Brown and his staff for the department's community-oriented approach to policing, openness and transparency about excessive force, its rejection of law enforcement …
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 …
Discussion: The Hill
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
CENTCOM social media accounts apparently hacked by Islamic State sympathizers
 
 
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
James Risen, New York Times Reporter, Will Not Be Called to Testify in Leak Case
Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
Eurozone must act before deflation grips
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Paris Terror Attacks: Inside Kosher Grocery Store as Gunman Held Hostages
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Santorum, the Blue-Collar Brawler
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
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Washington Post:
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