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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
With New Charlie Hebdo Cover, News Value Should Have Prevailed — Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my post last week about The Times's decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (In fact, I've never had more comments on a post or column.)
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Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
France arrests 54 for defending terror; newspaper sells out — 14 photos — PARIS (AP) — Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn Wednesday around Paris, with some scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the satirical paper fronting the Prophet Muhammad.
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Bloomberg View, Truth Revolt, ABC News, abc11.com and Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
France cracks down on hate speech, sends carrier to Mideast
France cracks down on hate speech, sends carrier to Mideast
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neo-neocon, Guardian, US News and BizPac Review, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Al Qaeda in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack
Al Qaeda in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack
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New York Magazine, Guardian, Deadline and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo attack
Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo attack
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NBC News, Democracy Now, National Review, WHNT-TV, Scared Monkeys and New York Magazine
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Muslim Groups Urge Peaceful Response to New Charlie Hebdo Cover
Muslim Groups Urge Peaceful Response to New Charlie Hebdo Cover
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NBC News and FOX News Radio
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Millions of copies of Charlie Hebdo sell out within minutes
Millions of copies of Charlie Hebdo sell out within minutes
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The PJ Tatler
James Carville / The Hill:
Obama's 2015 — As on most NFL Sundays in south Louisiana, I had one too many bowls of gumbo and a few too many bourbons as I sat parked fully reclined in my leather wingback chair watching my fellow New Orleanian Peyton Manning play. And I dozed off ... I had a dream.
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Wall Street Journal:
Romney Recycled — Mitt would have to explain why he'd be a better candidate now. — If Mitt Romney is the answer, what is the question? We can think of a few worthy possibilities, though one that doesn't come immediately to mind is who would be the best Republican presidential nominee in 2016.
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Bloomberg View, Race 4 2016, Hot Air and National Review
Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Romney crafting a rationale for 2016 run — Focus on poor, foreign policy
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Talking Points Memo, FreakOutNation, Political Insider blog and Chicago
Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Mitt Romney crafting a rationale for 2016 run
Mitt Romney crafting a rationale for 2016 run
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ThinkProgress, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Balloon Juice
Tampa Bay Times:
Mitt Romney making Florida push, setting up clash with Jeb Bush
Mitt Romney making Florida push, setting up clash with Jeb Bush
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Daily Kos, Daily Mail and Balkinization
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Third Chance for Romney? G.O.P. Is Torn
Third Chance for Romney? G.O.P. Is Torn
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The Hill, Washington Post and Washington Examiner
Victor Paul Alvarez / Boston Globe:
Bartender's Threat against John Boehner Thwarted — The FBI says an Ohio bartender planned to kill House Speaker John Boehner last October by poisoning his drink at a country club. — The question is: Would anyone have noticed? Stories about Boehner's drinking have circulated for years.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Hot Air, ABC News, The Daily Caller, Patterico's Pontifications and Politico
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WCPO:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI says John Boehner's West Chester bartender planned to poison him
EXCLUSIVE: FBI says John Boehner's West Chester bartender planned to poison him
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Firedoglake, NY Daily News, Shakesville, Washington Post, TPNN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, PoliticusUSA, Addicting Info, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Scared Monkeys, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, The Stranger …, FOX News Radio, The Gateway Pundit, Little Green Footballs and Raw Story
David Lawder / Reuters:
House passes security funding bill blocking immigration actions — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans drew a hard line against President Barack Obama's executive immigration initiatives, voting to block them as they passed a Department of Homeland Security spending bill on Wednesday.
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National Review and CNN
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
John Thune: No ‘opening’ for a White House run
John Thune: No ‘opening’ for a White House run
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Washington Monthly and The Hill
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
We Need Another Giant Protest — President Obama was criticized for failing to attend, or send a proper surrogate to, the giant antiterrorism march in Paris on Sunday. That criticism was right. But it is typical of American politics today that we focus on this and not what would have …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
DENVER AND THE WEST — FAMILY: LAKEWOOD CHURCH STOPS WOMAN'S FUNERAL BECAUSE SHE WAS GAY — LAKEWOOD — Hundreds of Vanessa Collier's friends and family gathered Saturday at New Hope Ministries, sitting before an open casket holding the woman they loved, when suddenly the minister overseeing her funeral stopped the service.
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Raw Story, KUSA-TV, Addicting Info, Advocate and Jezebel
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Lance Hernandez / TheDenverChannel.com:
Family, friends protest New Hope Ministries' last-minute refusal to host lesbian's funeral
Family, friends protest New Hope Ministries' last-minute refusal to host lesbian's funeral
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Friendly Atheist, Guardian and Daily Mail
Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
PBA's Patrick Lynch spurs yelling, shoving among cops over NYPD-City Hall feud — The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association was not so much on Tuesday as some cops shouted down Lynch regarding his demand that Mayor de Blasio apologize over comments related to race and police relations.
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New York Post, Gothamist, Raw Story, BillMoyers.com, Associated Press, BizPac Review, Mediaite, Liberaland and FOX News Radio
Benjamin Hardy / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Father and son turned away from “Muslim-free” Hot Springs gun range for being brown — When we reported last fall on a Hot Springs firing range that was declared a “Muslim free zone” by its owner, several blog commenters asked, “how will she know who's a Muslim?”
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FreakOutNation, Addicting Info, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and FOX News Radio
Natalie Villacorta / Politico:
Medicaid expansion in doubt — Obama says no need for King contingency plan — Bipartisan senators introduce medical device repeal bill — With help from Jennifer Haberkorn, Susan Levine and Rachana Pradhan — MEDICAID EXPANSION MAY CONTRACT — The Republican tide has swept Obamacare foes …
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CBS News:
Obama's approval rating ticks up in 2015 — Shares - — President Obama's overall job approval rating has risen seven points since last October, although it still remains below 50 percent. Forty-six percent of Americans now approve of the job the president is doing, while just as many disapprove.
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Political Wire, PoliticusUSA and Washington Post
Hugh Son / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan CEO Dimon Says Banks ‘Under Assault’ by U.S. Regulators — Jamie Dimon, grappling with multibillion-dollar legal costs and rising capital requirements at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), lashed out at U.S. regulators for putting his bank “under assault.”
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Forbes, The Huffington Post, Balloon Juice and Booman Tribune
Commentary Magazine:
The Existential Necessity of Zionism After Paris: A COMMENTARY Editorial — I. — The jihadist siege of a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris on January 9 was not the beginning of a new threat to French Jews and the Jews of Europe. Rather, it was the culmination of a decade of crisis.
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Weekly Standard and The Federalist
Andrew Horansky / KHOU-TV:
Armed customer stops restaurant robbery suspects in their tracks — A customer is being called a hero after pulling a gun on two armed robbers at a Houston restaurant. — CONNECT — HOUSTON, Texas — A customer is being called a hero after pulling a gun on two armed robbery suspects at a Houston restaurant.
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TheBlaze.com, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller and TPNN
Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
This Is Obama's Last Foreign Policy Chance — The failure of Obama or Biden to show up in Paris made clear that most of the president's team can't be trusted to conduct U.S national security policy and must be replaced—at once. — Here's why America's failure to be represented at the Paris unity march was so profoundly disturbing.