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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Christie Says Parents Should Have ‘Choice’ on Vaccinations — Gov. Chris Christie visited the headquarters of One Nucleus, a life science company, in Cambridge, England, on Monday. — Neil Hall/Reuters — Updated, 10:27 a.m. | CAMBRIDGE, England — Amid an outbreak of measles …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Christie clarifies comments on measles vaccine after call for ‘balance’ causes stir — CAMBRIDGE, England - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walked back comments he made here Monday morning calling for “balance” on the measles vaccine debate to allow for parental choice, asserting that “there is no question kids should be vaccinated.”
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
CDC warns of ‘large outbreak’ of measles — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden on Sunday warned that the U.S. could see a “large outbreak” of measles. — “We are very concerned by the growing number of people who are susceptible to measles …
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BuzzFeed:
Carly Fiorina On Vaccinations: “Parents Have To Make Choices For Their Family”
Carly Fiorina On Vaccinations: “Parents Have To Make Choices For Their Family”
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Christie in 2009: ‘I Stand With’ Autism-Fearing Anti-Vaxx Parents
Christie in 2009: ‘I Stand With’ Autism-Fearing Anti-Vaxx Parents
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Christie's Office Does Damage Control On Vaccine Remarks
Christie's Office Does Damage Control On Vaccine Remarks
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Eun Kyung Kim / Today:
President Obama on measles: ‘You should get your kids vaccinated’
President Obama on measles: ‘You should get your kids vaccinated’
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Chris Christie's Long Dance with Anti-Vaxxers
Chris Christie's Long Dance with Anti-Vaxxers
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Politico:
The FCC chair's Internet pivot — Tom Wheeler is poised to propose some of the toughest rules possible. — Tom Wheeler was feeling the heat. — It was August and the head of the Federal Communications Commission was sitting on the deck of his family's vacation home on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
The FCC is moving to preempt state broadband limits
The FCC is moving to preempt state broadband limits
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TMZ.com:
Warren Sapp — Arrested For Soliciting Prostitute (Update) — ARRESTED FOR SOLICITING PROSTITUTE — [Update: Suspended From NFL Network] — EXCLUSIVE — 12:55 PM PT — New details in the Warren Sapp arrest ... Cops say two women told police they were at the hotel “as escorts” …
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Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
God and the G.O.P. — The brief apparition of a third Mitt Romney Presidential bid vanished last Friday, with a conference call to several of his supporters. “You can't imagine how hard it is for Ann and me to step aside,” Romney told them. He added that he thought he would have won …
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National Journal:
If Republicans are smart, they will nominate for president someone in the mold of George W. Bush in 2000. — TO MAKE AN educated guess about whether these trends will continue, it helps to look at how the white working class and middle class have behaved historically.
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Alabama Lawmaker: Same-Sex Couples Don't Deserve Same Financial Benefits As Other Families — Most conservatives who oppose marriage equality will cite the Bible, “nature,” or polygamy and incest to justify their opposition. — But for one Alabama state senator, a reason to oppose marriage equality …
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Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Lawmaker In Alabama: Gay Marriage Is So Expensive! (AUDIO)
GOP Lawmaker In Alabama: Gay Marriage Is So Expensive! (AUDIO)
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Anti-Vaccine Doctor: I Don't Care If My Kids Make Others Gravely Sick (VIDEO) — An Arizona cardiologist told CNN in an interview that went online Monday that he doesn't care if his refusal to vaccinate his kids gives other children grave, preventable diseases. — “I'm not going to sacrifice the well-being of my child.
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New York Post:
Teacher keeps job despite ‘unsatisfactory’ rating 6 years in a row — Six strikes and she's not out. — The city Department of Education has failed to fire a teacher rated “unsatisfactory” for six consecutive years. Ann Legra, 44, a first-grade teacher at PS 173 in Washington Heights …
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
Harry Potter and the Healthcare Statute of Doom — On January 21, 2007, my daughter Maggie and I fought our way into a crowded Dublin bookstore and bought not one but two copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was published worldwide that day.
Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host Shep Smith Blasts Anti-Vaxxers: 'You're Science Deniers!' (VIDEO) — Fox News host Shep Smith slammed parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids as “science deniers” on Monday during his show. — He made the remark during a segment about President Obama's call for parents …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Bennet could break stalemate on schools — “Let me warn you, I don't have the party line — I'm sui generis on this one.” — Those are the first words from Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) as we start to discuss his willingness to antagonize teachers' unions.
Rebecca Leber / The New Republic:
The Kochs Are Already Getting What They Paid for in Congress — What the Keystone debate is really about — Ask progressives what the last three weeks of Senate debate on a Keystone XL bill was really about, and they might mention the Koch brothers. “The Republican's Keystone XL obsession …
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Alanna Petroff / CNNMoney:
Offshore corporate cash piles at risk from Obama tax plan — A slew of big companies, including Apple, GE and Microsoft, are at risk of being slapped with billions in tax bills if President Obama follows through on his plan to tax their overseas cash piles.
Caitlin Nolan / NY Daily News:
‘There was no snowball fight’: Video showing New Rochelle police officer pulling gun on teens not what it seems: cops — WARNING: Graphic language. The footage appears to catch a cop holding a group of teenagers at gunpoint after an alleged snowball fight.
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Associated Press:
Portland strippers head to Salem to lobby for better work conditions — SALEM — Any tourist guide to Portland will tell you about the strip clubs. — There are dozens of them, something for any taste or any neighborhood, helped to ubiquity by Oregon's fierce protection of free speech.
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Vox Sets Out To Prove All Religions Are Equally Violent. And Fails — “This study obliterates the myth that Muslims are more violent” says a trolly headline over at Vox, where Zack Beauchamp combines a strawman and an absurd study to tell us absolutely nothing about Islam. — He begins:
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