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Mary Brigid McManamon / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president — Mary Brigid McManamon is a constitutional law professor at Widener University's Delaware Law School. — Donald Trump is actually right about something: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is not eligible to be president or vice president of the United States.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Has Started Playing ‘Born In The USA’ At Rallies To Taunt Cruz — Now that he has raised questions about Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) Canadian birth and American citizenship, Donald Trump has started playing Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the USA” before campaign rallies, according to reports in The Weekly Standard and the Texas Tribune.
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New York Times, Political Wire, Trail Blazers Blog, CNN, The Week, Weekly Standard and Hullabaloo
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump/Cruz Close in Iowa; Birther Issue Could Hurt Cruz; Sanders Gaining on Clinton — PPP's newest Iowa poll continues to find a very close Republican race in the state- Donald Trump's at 28% to 26% for Ted Cruz, 13% for Marco Rubio, 8% for Ben Carson, and 6% for Jeb Bush.
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Washington Post, PoliticusUSA and Mediaite
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama, Democrats at odds before State of the Union address — Tensions between liberal Democrats and President Obama are bubbling up as the president heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver his final State of the Union address to a restless Congress.
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Politico, Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Hot Air and Taylor Marsh
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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
President Obama on Donald Trump: ‘Talk to me if he wins’
President Obama on Donald Trump: ‘Talk to me if he wins’
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Hot Air, Wall Street Journal, Politico and Mother Jones
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Obama goes it alone in his last State of the Union
Obama goes it alone in his last State of the Union
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theGrio, RedState, FIRST FREEDOM and Daily Kos
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kim Davis to attend State of the Union
Kim Davis to attend State of the Union
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Cincinnati.com, Little Green Footballs, Mashable, Right Wing Watch, Politico, Vox, Hot Air, Shakesville, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
War over gay marriage to play out at SOTU
War over gay marriage to play out at SOTU
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Right Wing Watch, PinkNews, Towleroad, Mashable, The Week, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and The White House
CNBC:
Pentagon: 2 Navy boats in Iranian custody; Iran assures crew will be returned promptly — The crew of two small Navy craft are being held by Iran, but American officials have received assurances from Tehran that the crew and vessels will be returned safely and promptly.
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NBC News, RedState, Fox News, Hot Air, The Federalist, Liberty Unyielding, Pamela Geller and Mediaite
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Associated Press:
Pentagon: 2 US Navy Boats Held by Iran but Will Be Returned — Iran was holding 10 U.S. Navy sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats had mechanical problems and drifted into Iranian waters, but American officials have received assurances from Tehran that they will be returned safely and promptly.
Ilya Sheyman / MoveOn.Org:
The Top 5 Reasons MoveOn Members Voted to Endorse Bernie (with the Most Votes and Widest Margin in Our History) — With a record-setting 78.6 percent of 340,665 votes cast by the MoveOn membership, Senator Bernie Sanders has won MoveOn.org Political Action's endorsement for president …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Quinnipiac poll: Sanders surges to retake lead in Iowa — Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in a major Iowa poll for the first time since September, the latest sign the Democratic primary race is tightening between the two candidates. — The Vermont senator wins 49 percent of likely caucusgoers …
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Bloomberg Business, ABC News, The Moderate Voice, Power Line, New York Times, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon and Mashable
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's trend line in Iowa polling should scare her campaign
Hillary Clinton's trend line in Iowa polling should scare her campaign
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Political Wire, The Daily Caller, PoliticusUSA and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton in Iowa attacks Sanders health-care plan as a ‘risky deal’
Clinton in Iowa attacks Sanders health-care plan as a ‘risky deal’
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MSNBC, Mother Jones, Hullabaloo, The Week, Washington Monthly, Bernie Sanders, American Prospect, Business Insider, NBC News and Mediaite
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Brutalism of Ted Cruz — In 1997, Michael Wayne Haley was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. This was a crime that merited a maximum two-year prison term. But prosecutors incorrectly applied a habitual offender law. Neither the judge nor the defense lawyer caught the error and Haley was sentenced to 16 years.
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RedState, Salon, Washington Post, The Daily Banter, No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hullabaloo
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
4 Problems With Media Confusion Over Ted Cruz's Quoting Of Scripture
4 Problems With Media Confusion Over Ted Cruz's Quoting Of Scripture
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The Right Scoop
CNN:
Biden says Obama offered financial help amid son's illness — Washington (CNN)As his eldest son faced the prospect of resigning as Delaware's attorney general amid health concerns, Vice President Joe Biden received an offer that floored him: financial support from his boss, President Barack Obama.
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Elizabeth Doran / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Whitesboro residents vote to keep controversial ‘racist’ village seal — The controversial Whitesboro village seal, which residents voted Monday night to keep. (Provided photo) — Whitesboro residents voted Monday night to keep the village's controversial seal, rather than replace it with a new image.
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New York Daily News, Gothamist, WKTV-TV, WCDC-TV, The Week, Mediaite, lohud.com, Talking Points Memo, Fusion, Outside the Beltway and Refinery29
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders: Law enforcement should handle campus rape — Bernie Sanders called for all rape accusations on college campuses to be handled through law enforcement, a controversial stance that puts him at odds with many advocates. — Decrying rape and sexual assault on campuses as an “epidemic …
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Anthony Gockowski / Campus Reform:
USC students required to detail sexual history before registering for classes
USC students required to detail sexual history before registering for classes
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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, New York Magazine and The Federalist
Luke Hammill / Oregonian:
Oregon standoff: Militants say they'll reveal exit plan Friday — BURNS — The armed militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge announced Tuesday morning that they will drive into Burns at the end of the week to hold a community meeting and inform residents when they will leave.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Oregon judge plans to bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day for security costs to county
Oregon judge plans to bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day for security costs to county
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ThinkProgress, liberalamerica.org, Mediaite, KTVZ-TV, addictinginfo.org, KFOR-TV and RT
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida “Jury Recommendation” Death Sentencing Scheme — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down Florida's death sentencing scheme as unconstitutional because the state relied on “a judge's factfinding” and not “a jury's verdict” to sentence a person to death.
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USA Today, SCOTUSblog, New York Times and The Marshall Project
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Speisa:
German police: It's an Arab rape game called Taharrush, and now it has come to Europe — After the NYE mass assaults against women in several European cities, the German Federal Criminal Police Office, BKA, now say that the Arab “rape game” Taharrush has established itself in Europe.
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The Gateway Pundit, Walid Shoebat and Israel Matzav
Sean Rayford / Associated Press:
Ben Carson Calls For Investigation Of Muslim Guests Attending State Of The Union — Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is criticizing President Barack Obama for allowing representatives of a Muslim civic group to attend the State of the Union address, saying their actions are “not pro-American.”
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Daily Kos
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Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Ben Carson: ‘Abnormal’ LGBT People Shouldn't Get ‘Extra Rights’
Ben Carson: ‘Abnormal’ LGBT People Shouldn't Get ‘Extra Rights’
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Gay Star News, liberalamerica.org and Towleroad
The Local:
‘We told you so,’ Eastern Europe tells Germany — Leaders of Eastern European states opposed to Germany's open-door refugee policy have been quick to tell Germany ‘we told you so’ after the Cologne sexual assaults. — Influential politicians across Eastern Europe have pointed to the Cologne attacks …
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Patterico's Pontifications and Vlad Tepes
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CNN:
ISIS member behind deadly Istanbul blast, PM says — Read more about this story at CNN Turk. — Istanbul (CNN)The suicide bomber who killed at least nine foreigners on Tuesday in a popular central Istanbul tourist area belonged to ISIS, officials said — an attack that shows the group's nerve, reach and capacity for terror.
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Washington Post, New York Times, Pamela Geller and ThinkProgress
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Textbook sales leader says national Common Core education standards are ‘all about the money’ as teacher insists bureaucrats created a ‘new f**king system that f**king sucks to sell more books’ — Conservative muckraker group Project Veritas caught a textbook sales executive …
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Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze.com, RedState, NewBostonPost, The Federalist and Liberty Unyielding