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6:50 PM ET, January 22, 2016

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Jeet Heer / New Republic:

National Review Fails to Kill Its Monster — In “Against Trump,” the conservative magazine can't come to terms with the fact that it is partly responsible for the rise of Donald Trump. — National Review is the great intellectual gatekeeper of the American right, a journal of opinion …

Discussion: Vox, CNN, The Moderate Voice, National Review, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Associated Press, RedState, alicublog, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, The Hayride, Daily Kos, The Agonist, FOX News Radio and Hullabaloo

Nat Brown / National Review:

Houston, We Have a Problem — National Review was asked by the RNC to partner in the GOP debates. We agreed. Our initial partner was NBC, with whom we were to help moderate the pre-Super Tuesday debate, originally to be held on February 26 in Houston, then suspended by the RNC in retribution …

Fox News:
RNC Cuts Debate Ties With National Review Over Anti-Trump Issue

Discussion: Washington Post, The Federalist, Daily Wire and The Last Tradition

Hanna Trudo / Politico:
RNC disinvites National Review as debate partner

Discussion: Liberal Values, American Power, Reason, VICE, Allen B. West, Outside the Beltway, Political Wire, The Week, The Gateway Pundit, Vox Popoli, Althouse and The Moderate Voice, more at Mediagazer »

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Jeb Bush Says It's “Not Appropriate” For Palin To Blame Obama For Son's Actions — “It's a national tragedy, all of us I think have a responsibility to roll up our sleeves — I don't think blaming the president is appropriate.” — Don Emmert / AFP / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Politico, Mediaite, CNN, Talking Points Memo, KFOR-TV, Anchorage Daily News and Washington Times

Eliza Collins / Politico:

Trump retweets neo-Nazi's insult of Jeb Bush — Donald Trump on Friday retweeted a message from a Twitter user with the handle @WhiteGenocideTM. — The tweet features a photoshopped picture of Jeb Bush holding a “vote for Trump” sign outside of Trump Tower.

Discussion: RedState, NBC News, TIME, Little Green Footballs, ThinkProgress and Yahoo Politics

Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Former Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett is quietly advising Trump's top aides

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and The Week

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Inside the Carson campaign meltdown

Discussion: Daily Kos and NBC News

Armstrong Williams / Facebook:
God morning : — The unmitigated gall of Barry Bennett …

Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

How Change Happens — There are still quite a few pundits determined to pretend that America's two great parties are symmetric — equally unwilling to face reality, equally pushed into extreme positions by special interests and rabid partisans. It's nonsense, of course.

Discussion: susiemadrak.com, Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Daily Kos, LifeNews.com and Politico

Loras College:
CLINTON MAINTAINS LEAD, NEW LORAS COLLEGE POLL FINDS

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

Associated Press:
Clinton ups attacks on Sanders in final days of campaign

Discussion: Guardian, NBC News, The Intercept, Washington Post, Common Dreams, Weasel Zippers, Talking Points Memo, Crooked Timber, Slate, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Politico and New York Times

Kasie Hunt / MSNBC:
Sanders walks back Planned Parenthood, Clinton ‘establishment’ comments

Discussion: CNN, RH Reality Check, Shakesville, Talking Points Memo, Guardian and The Stranger …

Suffolk University:
Suffolk University Poll Shows Sanders Leading Clinton in NH Democratic Primary

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

What's The Real Reason Ted Cruz Doesn't Have Health Insurance? — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) revealed Thursday that he and his family — including his two young daughters — are not currently covered by health insurance. His reason? The 2016 presidential candidate told his audience …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and Politico

Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:

Ted Cruz Forgets To Sign Up For Health Insurance, Blames Obamacare — GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz says his family is no longer covered by health insurance, and he thinks it's all Obamacare's fault. — “I'll tell you, you know who one of those millions of Americans is who's lost their health care because of Obamacare?

Discussion: CNN, Wall Street Journal, addictinginfo.org, Daily Kos, The Bob and Chez Show and Talking Points Memo

Peter Sullivan / The Hill: Average ObamaCare premium rises to $408 per month

Fox News:

EXCLUSIVE: Clinton email exposed intel from human spying — At least one of the emails on Hillary Clinton's private server contained extremely sensitive information identified by an intelligence agency as “HCS-O,” which is the code used for reporting on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations …

Discussion: Power Line, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Weasel Zippers, Allen B. West, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Free Beacon and Front Page Magazine

Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Gates: ‘Odds Are High’ Russia, China, Iran Accessed Hillary's Unsecure Server

Discussion: RedState, Questions and Observations and The Hill

Jen Steer / fox8.com:

Canton boy stuck in toilet while left home alone; Parents charged … CANTON, Ohio- Two people are facing charges after their son became stuck in the toilet while he was left home alone. — Canton officers were called to an apartment on Kingston Drive Southeast on Thursday.

Discussion: WTVR-TV and KTLA

Lori Monsewicz / Independent: Child stuck in toilet; parents absent; police find marijuana

Oscars.org:

ACADEMY TAKES HISTORIC ACTION TO INCREASE DIVERSITY — Lifetime voting rights reframed; new governor seats added and committees restructured — Goal to double number of diverse members by 2020 — In a unanimous vote Thursday night (1/21), the Board of Governors of the Academy …

Discussion: Mother Jones, WGN-TV, Al Jazeera English, Washington Post, KTLA and New York's PIX11, more at Mediagazer »

Ben Child / Guardian:

Oscars 2016: Charlotte Rampling says diversity row is ‘racist to white people’ — The British actor, who is nominated for the best actress award, says black actors may not have been good enough to make the list of Oscar nominees — Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling has claimed the current campaign …

Discussion: Vox, addictinginfo.org, Truth Revolt, Salon, Fusion, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Los Angeles Times, Shakesville, Variety, The Week, NBC News, Deadline and New Republic

David Mastio / USA Today:

Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone: David Mastio — Before hitting the panic button, remember we are winning the war on lead poisoning — Now that the leaching of poisonous lead into the tap water of Flint, Mich., has been declared a national emergency, it might be time to dial back the panic just a notch (or two).

Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress, NPR and Raw Story

Oliver Milman / Guardian:
US authorities distorting tests to downplay lead content of water

Discussion: CNN, Common Dreams and Truth Revolt

Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Anonymous wants Michigan governor jailed over Flint water crisis

Discussion: Detroit Free Press and Mediaite

Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:

Kansas Senate chairman's rules block female witnesses in revealing attire — Sen. Mitch Holmes targets mini-skirts, necklines on women; he expects men to be ‘professional’ — A Senate committee chairman imposed a dress code on Kansans testifying on elections or ethics bills …

Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire, The Bob and Chez Show, addictinginfo.org, The Slot and New York Magazine

Melissa Leon / The Daily Beast:

Gillian Anderson: I Was Offered Half Duchovny's Pay for ‘The X-Files’ Revival — The award-winning actress discusses the return of Dana Scully in Fox's beloved supernatural series and her epic battle to be treated equally on the show. — Gillian Anderson was just 25 years old when she walked …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Slantpoint, The Stranger …, The Verge, Mashable, The Week and The Frisky

Boze Herrington / The Atlantic:

The Seven Signs You're in a Cult … November 2, 2012, was a beautiful Friday in Kansas City—clear and cool and sunny. I had spent the afternoon reading in the library at an unaccredited college affiliated with the International House of Prayer, an evangelical Christian organization commonly referred …

Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Ted Cruz Welcomes Endorsement Of Mike Bickle, Who Believes Oprah Is A Forerunner To The Antichrist

Discussion: Cruz for President, Raw Story and Mediaite

Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:

Hillary Clinton angers Iowa fans who waited hours for five-minute speech — Not even a special performance by singer Demi Lovato improved the mood of some supporters who were unimpressed by Democratic candidate's brevity — Hillary Clinton left her audience cold in Iowa City on Thursday night …

Discussion: Post and Courier, naked capitalism, Raw Story, USA TODAY College and Informed Comment

Speaker.gov:

Watch Live: Snowfall from the Speaker's Balcony — Here's something from Washington, DC, that won't make you want to throw your phone across the room. No speeches. No politicians. No media pundits. It's just a pure, uninterrupted livestream of the snow falling on the National Mall …

Discussion: Mashable and Engadget

Fred Lucas / TheBlaze.com:

Obama Administration: ‘Possible, If Not Likely,’ That Some of the Billions in Iran Sanctions Relief Will Fund Terrorism — Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that some of the $55 billion in sanctions relief for Iran will likely fund acts of terrorism, and the White House later backed him up on that point.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Scared Monkeys