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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Huckabee compares being gay to drinking, swearing — Washington (CNN)Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says expecting Christians to accept same-sex marriage is “like asking someone who's Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli.”
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Mike Huckabee: Christians Object To Gay Marriage Like Muslims Think Dogs Are Unclean — Possible Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday argued that Christians could have “gay friends,” while still opposing marriage equality because it was a biblical principle.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Our Loud, Proud Left — FOR the last week, liberal journalists have been furiously debating whether a new political correctness has swept over the American left. The instigator of this argument was New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, normally a scourge of Republicans, whose essay on what he dubbed …
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Richard / Sacramento Bee:
Sacto 911 — Students at a UC Davis-affiliated Jewish fraternity house awoke Saturday morning to find two large swastikas spray painted onto their building. — Nathaniel Bernhard, vice president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, said the vandalism took place between 3 and 9 a.m. Saturday.
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Walker Surging in Iowa Poll as Bush Struggles — Hillary Clinton is running away from the potential Democratic field. — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is surging, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is an also-ran and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is dominating in a new poll …
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Jeb Bush has become the GOP front-runner for 2016 — so now what?
Jeb Bush has become the GOP front-runner for 2016 — so now what?
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Scott Walker leads tight GOP pack in new Iowa Poll
Scott Walker leads tight GOP pack in new Iowa Poll
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Gov. Scott Walker — Below is a rush transcript for “This Week” on February 1, 2015. It may contain errors and will be updated. — RADDATZ: And joining us now, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Welcome, Governor. — WALKER: Thanks, Martha. Thanks for having me on.
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
With Romney Gone, Ryan Says He Will Stay Neutral in 2016 — That apparently includes even fellow Wisconsinite Scott Walker. — When it comes to 2016, Representative Paul Ryan says he has to stay above the fray now that Mitt Romney is out. — The Wisconsin Republican …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Disneyland, Measles and Madness — A FEW years back, an acerbic friend of mine who was a recent transplant to Los Angeles told me that she itched to write a satirical novel with the following narrative: — A group of wealthy, educated people in Santa Monica who deliberately didn't vaccinate …
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Nicole Hensley / NY Daily News:
Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate ‘disappear’ with ‘Lord of the Rings’ sorcery — The ring little Aiden brought to school may not have been the true ring of power, but it had enough controversy to get him suspended from a Kermit, Texas, school.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Video: Police Appear To Draw Guns On Black Kids Throwing Snowballs — Talk of The Sound is run by a friend of mine and he's always been very accurate. … You can hear profanity being uttered by the officer holding the gun which is a direct violation of New Rochelle police rules.
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Beenish Ahmed / ThinkProgress:
Why Did Amal Clooney Get Asked About Versace While Taking On Armenian Genocide? — When a reporter jokingly told Amal Clooney that she was expected to wear Versace to a hearing at the European Court of Human Rights on Friday, she made a quick retort. — “I'm wearing Ede & Ravenscroft,” …
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
How Audiences in Iraq Are Reacting to American Sniper — From Michael Moore and Howard Dean to Jesse Ventura and Michelle Obama, we have spent a lot of time discussing the reaction in this country to Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated film American Sniper. But now that the movie has actually …
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New York Times:
Retroactively Authorizing War — They went largely unnoticed, four words President Obama ad-libbed during the State of the Union address last month as he asked lawmakers to provide legal cover for America's military intervention in Iraq and Syria. — “We need that authority,” the president said …
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