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11:15 AM ET, January 13, 2015

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
I Refuse to Believe Romney '16 Is Real  —  Join the Romney Campaign Truthers.  —  Shares  —  When the Washington Post reported last Friday that Mitt Romney had assembled donors and told them he wants to be president, I refused to believe it.  Then the Post reported last night that Romney has said he …
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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.”
Alex Moe / NBC News:
Paul Ryan Won't Run for President in 2016
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Ted Cruz on Mitt Romney: No need for ‘mushy middle’
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: 'It's fair to say' we were wrong on Paris unity rally  —  The White House said Monday that it made a mistake in not sending President Obama or a top administration official to the weekend unity march in Paris, a rare concession that it had botched the optics of an important international event.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and ABC News
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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 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to business: Share data for cyber-protection  —  President Obama will propose new legislation Tuesday that encourages companies to share sensitive data with the government in a bid to ward off cyber attacks — and protects them from potential lawsuits if they opt to do so.
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Anne Penketh / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad  —  French satirical magazine's surviving columnist says cover is a call to forgive the terrorists who murdered her colleagues last week  —  Warning: this article contains the image of the magazine cover, which some may find offensive.
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo's New Issue Has Muhammad on the Cover
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Dems' next big issue  —  Democrats are seizing on the fight for mandatory paid leave in the United States as their next big pocketbook issue.  —  The Obama administration has for months called upon Congress to require employers to offer paid leave, with Labor Secretary Tom Perez relentlessly pressing …
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Bill Clark / Roll Call:   Can Democrats Win the House in 2016?
Associated Press:
White House to meet with college athletics officials
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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Gavin Newsom's California power play
Bill / The Hill:   Bill Press: New Gold Rush
The Columbus Dispatch:
Tear gas disperses revelers around campus after Ohio State win  —  Authorities used tear gas early today to disperse thousands of Buckeye fans on N. High Street along campus celebrating Ohio State's win over Oregon.  —  Three canisters were used in front of the Ohio Union around 1:15 …
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Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
White People Riot In Columbus After Football Game, Media Calls It A ‘Celebration’  —  Police did not deploy military tanks, or open fire on a bunch of white people began rioting last night after Ohio State's national title win over the Oregon Ducks.  Property was destroyed, fires were started all over town.
Discussion: Liberaland and NBC News
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.
Richard D. Kahlenberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Genius of Obama's Two-Year College Proposal  —  On Friday, President Obama traveled to Tennessee to propose that community college be free for all Americans willing to work hard—just as elementary and secondary schooling has long been universally free to students.
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Obama's College Plan Bows to Elites
Discussion: The Dish and Marginal REVOLUTION
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' inconsistent attacks on Obama's Paris response  —  There is a certain je ne sais quoi in conservatives' criticism of the Obama administration over last week's terrorist attack in France.  —  A decade ago, Republicans in Congress were renaming French fries “freedom fries” …
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Democrats plan tough votes for GOP on Keystone pipeline bill  —  Democrats are poised to make Republicans cast a series of tough votes on legislation approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which the GOP hopes to send to President Obama's desk soon.  —  Obama has vowed to veto the bill …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Scalise voted against apology for slavery  —  Six years before he spoke to a white supremacist group, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) voted as a state lawmaker against a resolution apologizing for slavery, according to a 1996 article from the Times-Picayune.
Discussion: Political Wire
Daily Mail:
Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam tells fellow Muslims who do not appreciate the ‘freedoms’ of living in the West to ‘pack your bags and f*** off’ on live TV  —  The Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam has said Muslim immigrants who do not appreciate the way of life in Western civilisations can ‘f*** off’.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
William F. Buckley Jr / National Review:
Our Mission Statement  —  There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing.  Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW.  But since it will be the policy of this magazine to reject the hypodermic approach to world affairs, we may as well start out at once, and admit that the joy is not unconfined.
 
 
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Tanya Basu / The Atlantic Online:
Who Owns Yoga?  —  Nailing a headstand in yoga class …
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Mark Walker / Associated Press:
Judge rules S.D. same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
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Global outrage at Saudi Arabia as jailed blogger receives public flogging
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FBI investigating Central Command Twitter hack
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Texas Rep. Randy Weber compares Obama to Hitler
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Muslim Leaders to Hold ‘Stand with the Prophet’ Rally in Texas
Discussion: TPNN and The Gateway Pundit
Coralie Febvre / Agence France-Presse:
25,000 attend German anti-Islam march, but counter-protests bigger
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