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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 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.”
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.
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Bill / The Hill:
Bill Press: New Gold Rush — Barbara Boxer's announcement that she will not seek reelection to the Senate has set off a frenzy in California not seen since the Gold Rush. Anybody could win. All you need is a pick, an ax and the ability to raise or cough up a minimum $40 million. — Wanna play?
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Gavin Newsom's California power play — How one rising star forced another's hand in the high-stakes chess match for the state's top offices. — SAN FRANCISCO — By Sunday evening, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom had made up his mind: He wanted to be governor, not senator.
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Gavin Newsom / Facebook:
It's always better to be candid than coy. While I am humbled …
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo's New Issue Has Muhammad on the Cover — PARIS — At about 9:10 on Monday evening, laughter and a round of applause broke out among the surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo, followed shortly by cries — joyous if ironic — of “Allahu akbar!”
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
The return of Charlie Hebdo: Magazine gets ready to publish again
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Peter Moore / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Free speech more important than protecting religious beliefs
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday edition to include Prophet Mohammed cartoons
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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.
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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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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Texas Rep. Randy Weber compares Obama to Hitler — Texas Rep. Randy Weber, an outspoken conservative hardliner, compared President Barack Obama unfavorably to German dictator Adolf Hitler in a tweet posted Monday night. — Weber bashed Obama for failing to travel to Paris on Sunday …
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Sen. Ted Cruz / TIME:
‘Our President Should Have Been There’ — Cruz is the junior U.S. Senator for Texas.
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Wall Street Journal:
Lafayette, We Are Not Here — It was not a missed public relations opportunity. PR is the showbiz of life, and that is not what this is. — Here are the reasons the president of the United States, or at very least the vice president, should have gone yesterday to the Paris march …
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Mary Bruce / ABC News:
Paris Terror Attack: White House Defends President Obama's No-Show at Rally
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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 …
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
James Risen, New York Times Reporter, Will Not Be Called to Testify in Leak Case — WASHINGTON — James Risen, a New York Times reporter, will not be called to testify at a leak trial, lawyers said Monday, ending a seven-year legal fight over whether he could be forced to identify his confidential sources.
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Coralie Febvre / Agence France-Presse:
25,000 attend German anti-Islam march, but counter-protests bigger — Dresden (Germany) (AFP) - A record 25,000 people joined an anti-Islamic march in Germany on Monday, claiming their stance was vindicated by last week's Paris jihadist attacks. — However, the impressive turnout was dwarfed …
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Christopher Caldwell / New York Magazine:
Why History Will Eviscerate Obama — Democrats nominated Barack Obama in 2008 to extract America from George W. Bush's Iraq misadventure and to spread more fairly the proceeds of a quarter-century-old boom for which they credited Bill Clinton. The Election Eve collapse of Lehman Brothers changed things.
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New York Magazine:
53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama's Legacy
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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.
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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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Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
FBI investigating Central Command Twitter hack — Centcom Twitter, YouTube accounts hacked — CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on the hack on the Centcom Twitter account. — The Twitter account for U.S. Central Command was hacked on Monday, with pro-ISIS messages plastering the account's profile.
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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 …
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