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Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told CNN Tuesday she intends to sue Fox News in the wake of the channel's coverage of supposed “no-go zones” for non-Muslims. — Hidalgo said the channel had “insulted” her city. — “When we're insulted …
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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.


MSNBC guest won't apologize for remark about Jindal — An MSNBC guest's assertion that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “might be trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin” sparked criticism on Monday — but not an apology from the guest. — Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights attorney and commentator …
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City of Paris to sue Fox News
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Fox News Becomes the Unwilling Star of a French TV Satire
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Hot Air, Mashable, Right Wing Watch and rubber hose

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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Is Obama More Interested in Progress or Politics? — From his State of the Union address, five ways to judge the president's motives. — Republicans just seized control of Congress. President Obama's job-approval ratings just jumped. Gas prices and the unemployment rate are down.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice, Gawker and The Daily Caller


In State of the Union Address, Obama Is to Move Past Hardship and Reset Goals

Obama has proposed tax hikes in every State of the Union
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Washington Free Beacon and New Yorker


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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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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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
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Islamic State threatens two Japanese captives in video
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Obama in a Word: ‘Good,’ ‘Incompetent’ — Fewer See This Year's State of the Union as More Important — As public perceptions of Barack Obama have changed over the course of his presidency, so too have the words used to describe him. — The national survey by the Pew Research Center …
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Politico, Washington Post and The Week
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Obama has worst State of the Union record since Ford, study shows
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Week


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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Northwest Missouri boy fatally shoots 9-month-old brother
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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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The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Business Insider, Washington Times and Politico
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Republicans Like Romney More Than Jeb Bush — WSJ/NBC Poll
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Politico and Hinterland Gazette


New police radars can ‘see’ inside homes — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies quietly deployed radars that let them effectively see inside homes, with little notice to the courts or the public. — WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped …
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BBC, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, Hinterland Gazette and The Week


America's Middle Class Is Unlucky — At this stage in Obama's presidency, ambitious tax proposals to soak the rich are the political equivalent of desert rain dances—sometimes impressive, often well-meaning, always doomed, and essentially ceremonial. The administration's latest tax-modification ritual …
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Campaign for America's Future, The Dish and Washington Post

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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Why Elizabeth Warren Strikes Such A Chord — It seems like just about everyone these days is talking about Elizabeth Warren. I saw Jay Leno- not a very political guy or especially progressive- the other day on Bill Maher's show, talking about how shocked he was that Elizabeth Warren …
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Hullabaloo and Washington Post


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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Hullabaloo and RedState


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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VodkaPundit and Betsy's Page


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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Washington Monthly


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.