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8:00 AM ET, January 21, 2016

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Bob Dole Warns of ‘Cataclysmic’ Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better  —  Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, has never been fond of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.  But in an interview Wednesday, Mr. Dole said that the party would suffer …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What Palin does for Trump, and to Cruz  —  AMES, Iowa — In September, when Donald Trump appeared before a giant rally in Dallas, a person in the Trump circle described the coming months of the campaign.  Sure, a big event like Dallas got headlines, but Trump knew he couldn't do the same rally …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Sarah Palin's Circle of Victimhood  —  In endorsing Donald Trump, Sarah Palin faced a challenge.  How does a woman who has built her brand on hating cultural elites endorse a billionaire, Manhattan TV star?  Her answer: by turning Trump into a victim.  —  She began by reasserting her own victimhood.
ABC News:
Palin's Re-Emergence Underscores GOP Split  —  If the Republican Party is on the verge of an implosion, Sarah Palin may have been the one who lit the fuse.  —  Palin's complicated relationship with GOP leaders over the past eight years is a microcosm of the party's broader struggles with its most restive members.
Discussion: Politico
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
The Most Mystifying Lines of Sarah Palin's Endorsement Speech  —  Sarah Palin's meandering, fiery, sarcastic, patriotic and blustery speech endorsing Donald J. Trump for president on Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, does not easily submit to categorization.  —  Mrs. Palin has always been a singular force on the campaign trail.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
McCain: ‘I respect’ Palin's decision on Trump
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Works to Cut Rubio's Lifeline in New Hampshire
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Palin links son's domestic-violence arrest to Obama's neglect of veterans
Nick Gass / Politico:
Meghan McCain on Palin's Trump endorsement: It was hard to watch
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Sarah Palin Suggests Arrested Son Track Suffers From PTSD
Discussion: Politico and WCDC-TV
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
‘Top Secret’ Email Revelation Changes ‘Nothing,’ Clinton Says  —  Hillary Clinton dismissed a report that emails she sent on her private email server contained a high level of classified material.  —  Speaking to NPR's Ari Shapiro in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday, the Democratic presidential …
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New York Post:
Hillary Clinton blames the vast right-wing conspiracy for her e-mail woes  —  Now the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has its anti-Clinton tentacles all the way into the Obama administration.  At least, that's the new excuse from Team Hillary on why the e-mail mess keeps getting worse.
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Moe Lane / RedState:
CNN announces sudden Democratic town hall debate on a Monday during prime time!  —  The debate will be 9 PM on Monday, January 25th - and on CNN, to boot.  It's going to be a town hall type format, which as Vanity Fair notes is something that the DNC would not normally be involved in anyway.
Discussion: New York Times
Einer Elhauge / Salon:
Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for president: A Harvard Law professor close-reads the Constitution  —  The closer you study the Constitution, the weaker Ted Cruz's case squares with the actual meaning of “natural-born”  —  The argument that Ted Cruz is eligible to run for president initially looked strong …
Kimm Fesenmaier / The California Institute …:
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet  —  Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.  The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth …
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Oregonian:
Oregon standoff: One of protesters has murder conviction  —  Neil Sigurd Wampler (center, green coat), 68, is among the protesters taking part in the armed occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns.  Here is pictured here behind Ammon Bundy, who is speaking at a morning news conference.
Zachary Mider / Bloomberg Politics:
What Kind of Man Spends Millions to Elect Ted Cruz?  —  In 2010, Arthur Robinson, a research chemist, decided to run for Congress in southern Oregon.  Robinson, now 73, was not your average candidate.  In a lab on a sheep ranch in the Siskiyou Mountains, he's spent the last couple of years collecting thousands of vials of human urine.
Adel Bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir / New York Times:
Can Iran Change?  —  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — THE world is watching Iran for signs of change, hoping it will evolve from a rogue revolutionary state into a respectable member of the international community.  But Iran, rather than confronting the isolation it has created for itself …
Discussion: CNN and Algemeiner.com
Chicago Tribune:
Democrats on Rauner CPS takeover plan: ‘Not going to happen’  —  Illinois Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno says the proposal by Republican lawmakers to allow state oversight of Chicago Public Schools is a “lifeline” for the district.  Jan. 20, 2016.  (WGN-TV)
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump On Diversity At Oscars: ‘The Whites’ Don't Get BET Nominations  —  Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he was “sad” that no black actors were nominated for an Academy Award, but noted that white people are not nominated for any Black Entertainment Television Awards.  —  “I think it's a tough situation.
 
 
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Alex Pashley / Climate Home:
Walmart CEO in Davos: Ignore climate sceptics
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Lawmaker: Obama Admin Fueling ‘Campaign to Destroy Israel’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Washington Post
USA Today:
How water crisis in Flint, Mich., became federal state of emergency
Eric Sandy / Scene and Heard:
The Grand Jury in the Tamir Rice Case Did Not Take a Vote on Charges (Updated)
Donna Rachel Edmunds / Breitbart:
VIDEO: Migrant to Sweden Says He'll ‘Kill 10 People’ And ‘Eat Humans’ During Anti-Western Bus Tirade
Discussion: Truth Revolt
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
President Obama May Require Federal Contractors to List Campaign Gifts
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
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Discussion: Daily Mail and Newsalert
 

 
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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
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