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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Rand Paul: Parents ‘own’ children, not the state — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) doubled down on his position that most vaccines should be voluntary, suggesting Monday that mandated immunization is an example of government overreach. — “The state doesn't own your children,” Paul said in an interview with CNBC's “Closing Bell.”
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The Moderate Voice, Little Green Footballs and Bloomberg Business
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson On Vaccinations: We Shouldn't Allow Diseases To Return — “Certain communicable diseases have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not allow those diseases to return by foregoing safe immunization programs, for philosophical …
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National Review, Talking Points Memo and Taylor Marsh
NBC News:
Rand Paul: Vaccines Can Lead to ‘Mental Disorders’ — Republican Sen. Rand Paul is standing by his statement that most vaccinations should be “voluntary,” telling CNBC that a parent's choice not to vac...
CNBC:
Defensive? Sen. Rand Paul on voluntary vaccines — Sen Rand Paul (R-Ky.) thinks the decision to vaccinate should be voluntary. Sen. Paul also discusses tax reform, his proposal to audit the Federal Reserve and his plans for the 2016 presidential election.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Paul shushes CNBC host in testy interview
Paul shushes CNBC host in testy interview
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Vaccination debate flares in GOP presidential race, alarming medical experts
Vaccination debate flares in GOP presidential race, alarming medical experts
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Pew Research Center, Fox News, Power Line, National Review, Bloomberg View, BuzzFeed, ABC News, The Verge, The Atlantic Online, Mediaite and Daily Kos
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
How Rand Paul tried to lead an eye doctors' rebellion
How Rand Paul tried to lead an eye doctors' rebellion
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Politico, Mediaite, Unqualified Offerings, Talking Points Memo, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller and Instapundit
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Chris Christie's Long Dance with Anti-Vaxxers
Chris Christie's Long Dance with Anti-Vaxxers
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CNN, The Daily Beast, New Jersey News …, Raw Story, Today, National Review and The PJ Tatler
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Obama supports vaccines now — but pandered to anti-vaxxers in 2008 — Chris Christie has come under fire for remarks suggesting that parents should have a choice in which vaccines their children do and don't receive. Those remarks got fierce pushback from public health officials …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie just called for ‘balance’ in vaccinations. Uh-oh.
Chris Christie just called for ‘balance’ in vaccinations. Uh-oh.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obamacare will add to Dems' 2016 problems — Next month will mark five years since the Affordable Care Act became law. Obamacare was supposed to be popular by now, but it's not. And as far as President Obama and the Democrats who passed it are concerned, the law's current approval rating might be as good as it gets.
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility In Pittsburgh To Build Self-Driving Cars — Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh, PA to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch.
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The Verge and CBS San Francisco
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Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business:
Exclusive: Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
Exclusive: Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Nerdist, The Verge, Mashable and Hit & Run
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Why Matt Drudge might be more powerful now than ever before — Matt Drudge is currently running a “poll” on his website — it's the Drudge Report if you have paid no attention to politics for the last 17 years — that asks readers to choose their preferred 2016 Republican presidential candidate.
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The GOP: Still the Party of Stupid
The GOP: Still the Party of Stupid
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Daily Kos and Washington Post
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Welp, So Much for Young People — In recent years many progressive political thinkers have focused on the views of so-called millennials. They are more pro-gay rights, more racially inclusive and generally have more progressive political views on a host of issues.
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Althouse and Washington Monthly
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
He's got a 'Downton Abbey'-inspired office, but Rep. Aaron Schock won't talk about it. — The Rayburn House Office Building is a labyrinth of beige offices. — And then, there's . . . Rep. Aaron Schock's new digs. — Bright red walls. A gold-colored wall sconce with black candles.
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New York Times:
In Christie's Career, a Fondness for Luxe Benefits When Others Pay the Bills — As Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey waited to depart on a trade mission to Israel in 2012, his entourage was delayed by a late arrival: Mr. Christie's father, who had accidentally headed to the wrong airport.
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Political Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Prairie Weather and New York Magazine
New York Times:
President Obama's New Budget — President Obama's fiscal 2016 budget, released on Monday, pulls together the themes and policies set forth in his State of the Union address and other recent speeches and gives them a force and coherence — an ambitiousness — that a more piecemeal delivery does not convey.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson's Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died — On a Sunday evening in July 1985, just hours after arriving in Paris from Los Angeles, Rock Hudson collapsed shortly after checking into the famed Ritz hotel. — Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Giant’, 1956.
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Raw Story and Joe. My. God.
Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
‘KKK’ Graffiti At South Carolina High School: ‘Happy Ni**er Month’ — Pictures have surfaced on social media of racist graffiti at a South Carolina high school on the first day of Black History Month. — According to Raw Story, officials at South Pointe High School in Rock Hill confirmed …
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority recants — John Judis, co-author of the 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, now says that majority has come and gone. That's the thesis of his important National Journal article “The Emerging Republican Advantage.”
Daily Mail:
Killed for ‘being gay’: ISIS savages blindfolded man and threw him off tower block - then stoned him to death when he SURVIVED the fall — A man has reportedly been blindfolded and thrown off a tower block in Syria for ‘being gay’ before being stoned to death after surviving the fall.
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Spectator and Pirate's Cove
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Public Health Experts Have Estimated How Many Americans Will Die If the Supreme Court Repeals Obamacare — When conservative American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Strain published an article last week titled, “End Obamacare, and people could die. That's okay.” he made two critical errors …
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Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
A Discredited Vaccine Study's Continuing Impact on Public Health — Vaccines: An Unhealthy Skepticism Vaccines: An Unhealthy Skepticism — An outbreak of measles that started at Disneyland has turned a spotlight on those who choose not to vaccinate their children.
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AGE OF AUTISM and Washington Post
Jessica Donati / Reuters:
U.S. forces declassify data on Afghan troops after watchdog dispute — (Reuters) - The U.S.-led force in Afghanistan is to make recently classified data on the Afghan security forces available to the public after a U.S. government watchdog complained about undue secrecy surrounding reconstruction efforts.
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Mike Huckabee Mocks ‘Bizarre’ Michael Sam Call, Fears Gay ‘Economic Terrorism’ — Mike Huckabee appeared last week on Dave Garrison's “Faith & Liberty” radio show, where he spoke about his new book, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy.” Garrison told Huckabee that he was upset about how Right Wing Watch …
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