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4:15 PM ET, January 15, 2015

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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Joni Ernst to Deliver Republican Response to the State of the Union  —  Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa will be delivering the Republican response to the State of the Union Address, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today in a press conference.  —  The State of the Union is scheduled for next week.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP frets over immigration 2016 backlash
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Rupert Murdoch weighs in on 2016, calls Romney ‘a terrible candidate’
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP stuck on immigration
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Annie Karni / NY Daily News:   EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton advisers feel she has better White House shot against Mitt Romney than Jeb Bush
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Cruz out at Senate campaign arm
Politico:
Chris Christie, odd man out?
Mariano Castillo / CNN:
Report: Two killed in Belgian anti-terror operation  —  Video shows anti-terror raid in Belgium 01:40  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)[Breaking news update, 2:32 p.m.]  —  The group that Belgian authorities confronted Thursday was about to carry out major terrorist attacks in Belgium imminently …
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Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Casualties in Belgium police anti-terror raid in Verviers  —  Three people killed in anti-terror raid in Verviers, after local residents report hearing gunfire and explosions  —  Three people have been killed during a terrorism-related police operation against suspected jihadists in Belgium, a federal prosecutor said.
Fox News:
3 jihadists reportedly killed in counter-terrorism raid in Belgium  —  At least 3 people were killed in an anti-terror raid in Belgium Thursday that one official confirmed was “jihadist related,” and a man suspected of selling guns used in last week's terror attacks in France was being detained …
Sky News:
Two Dead In Anti-Terror Raid In Belgium
Scott Mendelson / Forbes:
Why Ava DuVernay's ‘Selma’ Oscar Snub Matters  —  The Oscar nominations were announced this morning.  There will be plenty of analysis regarding good surprises and bad surprises, and I may dip my toes in later today.  But the most egregious omission is the sadly not-entirely-surprising absence …
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Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression  —  Associated Press 2 hrs ago  —  ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of expression, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.  —  Francis spoke about the Paris terror attacks …
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Mike Allen / Politico:
CHRISTIE'S MATH PROBLEM: Seeking same donors as Jeb, Mitt — COLIN REED to Romney - WHITE HOUSE CATCHES UP WITH COUNTRY, rewires State of the Union — LIESL HICKEY to Teneo  —  By Mike Allen (mallen@politico.com; @mikeallen), with Daniel Lippman (dlippman@politico.com; @dlippman)  —  Good Thursday morning.
Discussion: Washington Post, Adweek and Hot Air
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Is Barack Obama killing the State of the Union?
Peter Baker / New York Times:
U.S. Easing Decades-Old Restrictions on Travel to Cuba  —  WASHINGTON — The United States government on Friday will begin making it easier for Americans to travel to Cuba than it has been for more than half a century, opening the door to a new era of contact between neighbors …
Discussion: Jezebel
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Minutes highlight Scalise efforts to kill resolution apologizing for slavery  —  The minutes from a 1996 Louisiana House committee meeting show the efforts that then-state Rep. Steve Scalise took to water down — and try to kill — a resolution apologizing for the role slavery played in the state's history.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Raw Story
WFTS:
Oops!  “In Dog We Trust” printed within Pinellas County Sheriff's emblem on new rugs  —  Two newly rolled out rugs at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office administration building sure looked nice while they lasted.  —  They were placed at the front entrance— bright green with the sheriff's bold, yellow emblem.
Donna St. George / Washington Post:
Parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone  —  It was a one-mile walk home from a Silver Spring park on Georgia Avenue on a Saturday afternoon.  But what the parents saw as a moment of independence for their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, they say authorities viewed much differently.
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:
Charlie Hebdo Shootings: False Flag?  —  The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation.  The attack on the cartoonists' office was a disciplined professional attack of the kind associated with highly trained special forces; yet the suspects who were later corralled …
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Supreme Court Is Likely To Set Up The Same-Sex Marriage Showdown On Friday  —  A guide.  —  Getty Images/Alex Wong  —  This will be the second time the justices have considered whether to take any of the cases out of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and/or Tennessee.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Does the Democratic Party Have a Future?  —  When Republicans lose an election, the response from the press is immediate and overwhelming: Republicans need to move to the left and be more like Democrats.  But somehow, when the Democrats' power slips away over a series of election cycles, the message is quite different.
Discussion: Associated Press
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
U-Va. Phi Psi members speak about impact of discredited gang rape allegations  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE — The Phi Kappa Psi brothers sat together in a bedroom, turning the glossy magazine pages as they absorbed the account of a gang rape that allegedly took place within the brick walls around them.
Discussion: Daily Mail, Hit & Run and neo-neocon
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How Barack Obama is avoiding becoming George W. Bush  —  President Obama delivers his penultimate State of the Union address on Tuesday — a speech that is expected to set the course for his work with the newly GOP-controlled Congress over his final two years in office.
Discussion: The Dish
Rich Schapiro / NY Daily News:
‘If you snitch, your career is done’: Former Baltimore cop says he was harassed, labeled a ‘rat’ after attempt to root out police brutality  —  Det.  Joseph Crystal witnessed a handcuffed drug suspect beaten and his ankle broken by a fellow Baltimore police officer.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Hullabaloo
 
 
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
Of course it is Islam  —  It is settled: The Paris terror attacks …
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
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Charles Lane: A country trapped in 1965's ambitions
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Tom Steyer looks good in his own Senate 2016 poll
Karma Dickerson / WHAS-TV:
Police call on missing teens to end crime spree and come home
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Kelly Riddell / Washington Times:
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John Futty / The Columbus Dispatch:
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
One of new chairman's first act?: Removing last chairman's portrait
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Andy Puzder / Wall Street Journal:
Shunning ObamaCare  —  Of my company's 5,453 eligible employees …
Discussion: National Review and VodkaPundit
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