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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 cracks down on hate speech, sends carrier to Mideast — PARIS (AP) — France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to the Mideast to work more closely …
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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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Guardian:
Dieudonné arrested over Facebook post on Paris gunman
Dieudonné arrested over Facebook post on Paris gunman
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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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The Huffington Post, NBC News, CAIR and FOX News Radio
Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Romney crafting a rationale for 2016 run — Focus on poor, foreign policy
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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.
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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Hot Air, Bloomberg View, National Review and Race 4 2016
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, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, BostonGlobe.com 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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Boston.com's questionable Boehner joke
Boston.com's questionable Boehner joke
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Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Reuters:
U.S. 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 on Wednesday, voting to block them as they passed a Department of Homeland Security spending bill.
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CNN and National Review
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Paul Ryan isn't running for president. He's after something even bigger. — Most politicians who can gin up presidential speculation do (see Gingrich, Newt). It means more reporters covering their speeches, more money for their PAC, more invitations to the Sunday shows.
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CNN, Slate, Political Wire and relinquishment
Numbers / Pew Research Center's Social …:
Women and Leadership — Public Says Women are Equally Qualified, but Barriers Persist — According to the majority of Americans, women are every bit as capable of being good political leaders as men. The same can be said of their ability to dominate the corporate boardroom.
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OnPolitics, Taylor Marsh, Jezebel, Politico, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal
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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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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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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Towleroad News #gay, Friendly Atheist, Guardian and Daily Mail
TMZ.com:
Jimmy Carter — Huckabee's Wrong on Everything ... Not Just Obamas' Parenting Skills — HUCKABEE'S WRONG ON EVERYTHING — Not Just Obamas' Parenting Skills — EXCLUSIVE — Jimmy Carter slammed Mike Huckabee Tuesday for criticizing the Obamas' parenting skills.
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Talking Points Memo, Adweek, Truth Revolt and The Huffington Post
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Ashley Judd: ‘I might run some day’ — Ashley Judd says voters shouldn't count her out of the political arena just yet. — “I might run some day,” she tells ITK, “I don't know.” — The “Divergent” actress famously flirted with a Kentucky Senate bid against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R).
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OnPolitics and The Huffington 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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The Federalist and Weekly Standard
John DiStaso / New Hampshire Journal:
Updated: Paul says Romney was right, ‘somebody new’ should lead GOP in 2016 — “When you do the same thing and expect a different result, it's sort of what Einstein said, that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.”
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Political Wire, Mediaite, Politico and Chicago
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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PoliticusUSA, Political Wire and Washington Post
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
Former highest-ranking U.S. cardinal blames ‘feminization’ for the Catholic Church's problems — Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke is a man with a lot of enemies. The former archbishop of St. Louis, who once said supporters of abortion rights shouldn't receive communion, became the highest-ranking American …
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Shakesville
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Does free media have an obligation to Islam? — In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, both America's paper of record (The New York Times) and its network of record (CNN) have declined to show Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed on the grounds that they might offend Muslims.
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Hot Air, The Dish, Hit & Run, New York Times and Ed Driscoll
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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