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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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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 …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
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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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
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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Gawker, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
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Politico:
Just another Obama speech
Just another Obama speech
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama tries to steal GOP thunder
Obama tries to steal GOP thunder
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
SOTU Sneak Peek: Obama to Hit Citizens United
SOTU Sneak Peek: Obama to Hit Citizens United
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Talking Points Memo, Sunlight Foundation Blog and PoliticusUSA
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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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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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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Mike Lux / Crooks and Liars:
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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William M. Welch / USA Today:
Pope: Catholics need not breed ‘like rabbits’ — Pope Francis, after a visit to the largest Catholic nation in Asia, says Catholics may have a moral responsibility to limit the number of their children and need not reproduce “like rabbits.” — But the pope also reaffirmed the church's ban …
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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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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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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, Hullabaloo and RedState
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
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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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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Brad Heath / USA Today:
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, Hinterland Gazette and The Week
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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