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Ryan Ellis / Forbes:
Obama's New State Of The Union Tax Hike On Middle Class 529 College Savers — Hoping to dominate the narrative on a holiday weekend and on the eve of the annual “State of the Union” speech, the Obama White House late Saturday night leaked some of the new tax ideas in their upcoming budget.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
In State of the Union Address, Obama Is to Move Past Hardship and Reset Goals
In State of the Union Address, Obama Is to Move Past Hardship and Reset Goals
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
Your Guide To The State of the Union
Your Guide To The State of the Union
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Jason Russell / Washington Examiner:
Obama has proposed tax hikes in every State of the Union
Obama has proposed tax hikes in every State of the Union
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New Yorker and Washington Free Beacon
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama's Social Media Team Tries to Widen Audience for State of the Union Address
Obama's Social Media Team Tries to Widen Audience for State of the Union Address
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Zap2it, Washington Times, Political Wire, ABC News and The Huffington Post
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
CNN Correspondent Confronts Bobby Jindal Over False Comments About Muslims — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) struggled to substantiate his claims that European cities have been taken over by Muslim extremists during an interview with CNN correspondent Max Foster on Monday in London.
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Julia O'Donoghue / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Bobby Jindal doubles down on ‘no-go zone’ comments, even as Fox News backs off similar statements — Gov. Bobby Jindal was interviewed by a CNN reporter about controversial comments he made about Muslim “no-go zones” in Europe. — Gov. Bobby Jindal continued to claim Muslim “no-go zones” …
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New York Post:
ISIS executes 13 teens for watching soccer — demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State slogans in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, northwest of Baghdad. — ISIS jihadists publicly executed 13 teenage boys for watching a soccer match.
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Luke Baker / Reuters:
Islamic State threatens two Japanese captives in video
Islamic State threatens two Japanese captives in video
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Molly Balkenbush / fox4kc.com:
9-month-old dies after being shot in the head by 5-year-old brother in NW Mo. — ELMO, Mo. - An infant has died after being shot in the head in Northwest Missouri. — According to the Nodaway County Sheriff's Office, the nine-month-old baby boy was shot shortly before nine o'clock Monday morning …
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Brian Burnes / Kansas City Star:
Northwest Missouri boy fatally shoots 9-month-old brother
Northwest Missouri boy fatally shoots 9-month-old brother
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ Poll: No Bump for Romney, Bush After '16 Hints — Both candidates have lost ground since pollsters last measured Americans' feelings towards them.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Like Romney More Than Jeb Bush — WSJ/NBC Poll
Republicans Like Romney More Than Jeb Bush — WSJ/NBC Poll
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama tries to steal GOP thunder — President Obama, no longer handcuffed by worries about vulnerable red-state Democratic senators, has been putting Republicans on their back foot. — The GOP hoped Obama would be humbled by the midterm elections that saw Democrats swept from power in the Senate.
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Politico:
Just another Obama speech
Just another Obama speech
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Majority still supports single-payer option, poll finds — More than five years after the single-payer system was scrapped from ObamaCare policy debates, just over 50 percent of people say they still support the idea, including one-quarter of Republicans, according to a new poll.
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Scott Wise / WTVR-TV:
How a vacuum salesman invited to a birthday party for a child with autism moved the room to tears — CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Ever since he was a two-year-old boy, Dylan Greene has had a passion for vacuum cleaners. Dylan, who has autism, was never into “normal” toys, his mother Jodie said.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama has worst State of the Union record since Ford, study shows … Judging by his recent history, it doesn't really matter what President Obama says in Tuesday's State of the Union address — Congress is going to ignore him anyway. — Mr. Obama has the second-worst record of getting …
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Gavyn Davies:
The Swiss currency bombshell - cause and effect — The completely unexpected decision of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to remove the 1.20 floor on the Swiss franc against the euro on Thursday was one of the biggest currency shocks since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971.
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Soeren Kern / Gatestone Institute:
European ‘No-Go’ Zones: Fact or Fiction? — Part 1: France … The jihadist attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, has cast a spotlight on so-called no-go zones in France and other European countries. — No-go zones are Muslim-dominated …
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Right Wing Watch and RedState
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Is Carol Swain Charlie? or Hateful? — A prominent Vanderbilt University professor published a column last week that is being called hate speech for its critique of Islam in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris. Angry students held a protest Saturday that attracted many critics of the professor …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama trolls, talks trash with a purpose — Politically, President Obama has never been weaker, after losing both House and Senate. At the same time, he has never talked tougher. There is a connection between the two. — Obama recently told Democratic lawmakers that he's going to “play offense” in coming months.
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Holly Yan / CNN:
Up to 50,000 gallons of oil spilled in Yellowstone River; residents told not to drink water — Story highlights — (CNN)A Montana pipeline burst sent as much as 50,400 gallons of oil gushing into the Yellowstone River, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency.
Eclectablog:
VIDEO: Rick Santorum thinks we have an immigration problem ... with LEGAL immigrants (UPDATED) — Rick Santorum's grandfather came to America in 1923 as an immigrant but that fact does not deter him from thinking that we have a big problem in this country that's “almost as bad” as illegal immigration.
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Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
Where Obama Has—and Has Not—Recovered — And what the president's changing fortunes could mean for the 2016 contest. — President Obama heads into his State of the Union address tonight enjoying reviving approval ratings from key groups in his coalition, but still facing entrenched skepticism …
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