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2:00 PM ET, February 10, 2015

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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Axelrod: Obama Misled Nation When He Opposed Gay Marriage In 2008  —  A striking admission of political dishonesty from the keeper of the Obama flame  —  Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
David Axelrod: Obama Was ‘Bullshitting’ Opposition To Gay Marriage In 2008
Discussion: Shakesville and alicublog
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Judicial defiance in Alabama: Same-sex marriages begin, but most counties refuse
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Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Death of Kayla Mueller, ISIS Hostage, Confirmed by Family and White House  —  The parents of Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker abducted in 2013 by the Islamic State, issued a statement Tuesday confirming her death, four days after the militant group claimed she had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike.
ABC News:
American ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Dead, White House Says … President Obama confirmed today that American ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller has been killed, days after the terror group claimed she had died in a Jordanian airstrike.  —  “It is with profound sadness that we have learned of the death …
The White House:
Statement by the President on the Death of Kayla Jean Mueller
The Hill:
Dem boycott of Netanyahu address to Congress grows  —  More than a dozen congressional Democrats say they plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress amid conflicting signals over whether he will pull out from the March 3 address.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Patrick Leahy to skip Benjamin Netanyahu's speech  —  The partisan divide over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March address to Congress deepened further on Tuesday, with the Senate's most-senior lawmaker announcing that he will not attend the speech.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Leahy Will Not Attend ‘Politicized’ Netanyahu Speech To Congress
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Jindal on gay marriage: 'We're a nation of laws'  —  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) says he wants Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution if the Supreme Court decides to overrule state gay marriage bans.  —  “We're a nation of laws, that's why I said I want the Supreme Court …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Clarence Thomas faults Supreme Court for refusing to block gay marriage in Alabama
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Axelrod: Obama knew Prayer Breakfast remarks would provoke  —  President Obama's comments referencing the Crusades and Jim Crow during the National Prayer Breakfast appeared intentionally “provocative,” former adviser David Axelrod said Monday.  —  Obama has faced heated criticism for the comments …
Discussion: Politico
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Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Star Parker: Obama's Prayer Breakfast Speech Was ‘Verbal Rape’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Daily Mail:
Two couples who discovered they had been given the wrong babies TEN YEARS after their daughters were born are awarded 2million euros by French court  —  Two French couples who discovered they had been given the wrong babies ten years after their daughters were born due to a hospital mix …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Fox News:
School worksheet tells kids GOP thinks helping poor ‘waste of money,’ parent claims  —  A Wisconsin mother claims this quiz was administered to her 16-year-old son and his classmates in their 11th-grade U.S. government and politics class at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wisc.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Feds won't release IRS targeting documents  —  The Obama administration is refusing to publicly release more than 500 documents on the IRS's targeting of Tea Party groups.  —  Twenty months after the IRS scandal broke, there are still many unanswered questions about who was spearheading …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Democrats suffering from Clinton fatigue say they're ready for Warren  —  AMES, Iowa — Thirteen Iowa Democrats wearily took their seats here this weekend and discussed among themselves the source of their angst: Hillary Rodham Clinton.  —  “I'm utterly tired, tired of the Clintons …
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Tara Parker-Pope / New York Times:
Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory?
James Hohmann / Politico:
Bobby Jindal vs. the world  —  He says elites can't stand the idea of an Ivy-League-educated pure conservative.  —  AP Photo  —  In the past few weeks, Bobby Jindal has been attacked for insisting that Europe allows Muslims to control special “no-go zones,” belittled by the Weekly Standard for offering a …
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Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:   How Long Will Jeb Bush Hold His Fire on His Republican Rivals?
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Stripping a Professor of Tenure Over a Blog Post  —  Professor John McAdams is being stripped of tenure by Marquette University for writing a blog post that administrators characterize as inaccurate and irresponsible.  —  Academics all over the United States ought to denounce the firing of the 69-year-old …
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Western Illusions Over Ukraine  —  MUNICH — The most difficult thing for a communist, it has been observed, is to predict the past.  I was reminded of this as I listened to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in full Soviet mode at the Munich Security Conference, suggesting …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Targeted GOP senator: ‘I will never vote with my reelection mind’  —  Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is up for reelection this cycle, but he says he's not changing.  Not one bit.  —  “I'll always tell Wisconsinites the truth, to the best of my ability, and I will never vote with my reelection mind.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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