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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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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.
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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Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
WATCH: Police Officer Draws Gun On Black Kids Throwing Snowballs — A New Rochelle, New York police office is seen in a disturbing video drawing his firearm then aiming it at a youth who was in a snowball fight with his friends. — The kids are seen kneeling in the snow.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jezebel
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Chickens come home to roost for de Blasio — For Mayor de Blasio, last week was one he'd like to forget. It started with brickbats over a botched plan for a blizzard that fizzled, and it was all downhill from there. — By the end, he was battling something more pernicious than either Mother Nature or Gov. Cuomo.
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The PJ Tatler
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Obama Budget to Seek to Stabilize Deficit and Address Income Inequality — WASHINGTON — President Obama will propose a 10-year budget on Monday that stabilizes the federal deficit but does not seek balance, instead focusing on policies to address income inequality as he adds nearly $6 trillion to the debt.
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Political Wire and The PJ Tatler