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9:50 PM ET, January 13, 2011

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Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Palin to Do TV Interview Monday  —  Sarah Palin is scheduled to sit for her first extended interview since the Tucson shooting rampage on Monday night, on the Fox News Channel.  —  An executive at Fox News Channel said that Ms. Palin would appear on the program of the conservative host Sean Hannity …
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Richard PéRez-PeñA / The Caucus:
Christie Says Palin Needs to Go Unscripted to Contend for 2012  —  Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey says it's way too early to handicap the field of his fellow Republicans who might run for president in 2012, but on Wednesday he voiced a few sharp words about the most famous one.
Michael Shear / The Caucus:
Obama and Palin, a Tale of Two Speeches  —  President Obama spoke Wednesday night at an event at the McKale Memorial Center honoring the shooting victims in Tucson.  —  Wednesday was bookended by two remarkable — and remarkably different — political performances that demonstrated the vast expanse of America's political landscape.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Barack Obama takes opportunity Sarah Palin missed
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama recaptures his 2004 voice
Discussion: Weigel and The Democratic Daily
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Conservatives Accuse Obama Of Lying About Giffords Opening Eyes; Her Doctors Disagree  —  In one of the most cynical displays in recent memory, following the lead of Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, several conservative websites - including Fox Nation and MRC arm CNS News - suggested that President Obama lied …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Giffords' Eye Opening News  —  President Obama's dramatic news at last night's memorial service in Tucson that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' has just minutes before opened her left eye for the first time since the shooting has created some confusion in light of news from doctors that Giffords “could open her eyes” on Sunday.
Arizona Republic:
Black bag found may be tied to Giffords shooting, authorities say
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison won't seek re-election in 2012  —  gjeffers@dallasnews.com  —  Kay Bailey Hutchison will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate.  —  In a letter to supporters, Hutchison said she enjoyed serving Texas.  —  “I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner Didn't Really Snub Obama, Tucson Memorial  —  House Speaker John Boehner is catching a lot of flak for missing last night's memorial service in Tucson, reportedly declining an Air Force One invitation from President Obama in order to slap backs and clink glasses at an RNC event.
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
McCarthy unveils strict gun-control bill
Discussion: Valley Fever and Weigel
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
King will push ahead with gun bill despite GOP leaders' opposition
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems settle on branding for GOP repeal effort: “The Patient's Rights Repeal Act”  —  “The Patient's Rights Repeal Act.”  —  At a House Dem leadership meeting last week, Dem leaders decided that this is the phrase they will officially use to brand the House GOP's push to repeal health reform, aides tell me.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House GOP to move quickly on healthcare 1099 tax repeal
Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
GOP in a bind over healthcare repeal vote
Alex Wagner / Politics Daily:   Health Care Law Repeal Bill Rescheduled by Republicans for Next Week
Jason Millman / The Hill:
House to hold delayed vote on healthcare repeal next week
Discussion: FrumForum
Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
If Elected President, Pawlenty Tells Fischer He'll Reinstate Don't Ask, Don't Tell  —  There are few Religious Right leaders active today who can compete with the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer in terms of openly hostile bigotry against gays, Muslims, and all those who do not share his radical worldview:
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Homophobia First.  —  Kyle at Right Wing Watch transcribes …
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
First Lady Michelle Obama / White House.gov Blog:
An Open Letter to Parents Following the Tragedy in Tucson  —  Like so many Americans all across the country, Barack and I were shocked and heartbroken by the horrific act of violence committed in Arizona this past weekend.  Yesterday, we had the chance to attend a memorial service and meet …
Discussion: The Caucus, Pajamas Media and Althouse
Daisy Hernandez / NPR:
Across America, Latino Community Sighs With Relief … Daisy Hernandez (no relation to Daniel Hernandez) is the co-editor of Colonize This!  Young Women on Today's Feminism.  —  I wasn't the only person on Saturday who rushed to her Android when news came of the Tucson shooting.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama speech undercuts federal charge for judge's murder
Amy Rutledge / MyFOX8.com:
Charity worker fired over Facebook comments  —  Director of Chicago chapter of Coats for Kids fired after commenting about Arizona shootings  —  Glen Busch has been a director of the Chicago chapter of Coats for Kids since he and his wife began their charter in 2005.
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Tears and Rain  —  I've been thinking about the president's speech all night and this morning, how something about it left me feeling left out.  Obama's presence—physical, moral, emotional—was palpable.  It carried the charge of authority, of mastering a moment.
Ezra Klein:
Politics to a child  —  There's a line from the president's speech last night that I've not been able to get out of my head.  It comes in the section about Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old who was killed last Saturday in Tucson.  “She was off to meet her congresswoman,” Obama said, “someone she was sure was good and important.”
Joyce Wadler / New York Times:
Don't Try This at Home: Adultery in the Marital Bed  —  THE woman who came to see Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer, had reason to be enraged: her husband was not only having an affair, he was also having an extravagant, money's-no-concern, fabled-and-faraway-beaches affair.
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
CAIR Says Poster Warning Against Helping FBI is Misinterpreted  —  Image from the CAIR website that uses a poster encouraging people not the talk to the FBI to promote an upcoming conference.  —  The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it will remove a poster from the group's website promoting …
Wall Street Journal:
S&P, Moody's Warn On U.S. Credit Rating  —  LONDON—Two leading credit rating agencies on Thursday cautioned the U.S. on its credit rating, expressing concern over a deteriorating fiscal situation that they say needs correction.  —  Moody's Investors Service said in a report Thursday …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
NICK GILLESPIE: Palin's Not Complicit in Loughner Shooting, but She Sure Ain't Presidential, Either.  Has any other public figure ever had to try to act “Presidential,” though, while being accused of complicity in mass murder?  —  On the other hand, if (as isn't clear to me) …
Discussion: The Other McCain
Garry Wills / New York Review of Books:
Obama's Finest Hour  —  During the 2008 presidential campaign, I wrote a comparison of Barack Obama's Philadelphia speech on race with Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union address during his own 1860 campaign.  I noted that both men had to separate themselves from embarrassing associations …
David Dayen / news.firedoglake.com:
Banks, Allies Circling Wagons After Ibanez Ruling  —  According to the Treasury Department's schedule, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan met with “leaders of unions, civil rights and minority advocacy groups to discuss the Administration's foreclosure prevention efforts.”
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Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Romney Locks in Beeson, Newhouse for '12 Bid  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has secured both a pollster and a political director for his near-certain presidential bid this coming cycle, according to sources connected to Romney's 2008 presidential effort.
Neal Ungerleiderwed / Fast Company:
Saudi Arabia Now Forcing News Bloggers to Obtain Licenses, Promote Islam  —  The Middle Eastern kingdom has just enacted one of the world's most stringent sets of blogging regulations: Non-citizens can't write about news, chat room users are encouraged to register with the government …
Discussion: Elder of Ziyon and Weasel Zippers
Wall Street Journal:
Why the Left Lost It  —  The accusation that the tea parties were linked to the Tucson murders is the product of calculation and genuine belief.  —  There has been a great effort this week to come to grips with the American left's reaction to the Tucson shooting.
 
 
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The Politico:
House learns to handle a shooter
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
‘Blood Libel’ and Beyond
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Booker, Christie would fight to a draw
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Megan Carpentier / TPMDC:
Sen. Gillibrand, Rep. Wasserman Schultz Describe Giffords Opening Her Eyes
Discussion: Blog For Arizona and The Politico
Tim Kane / The Atlantic Online:
Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Congressman's wife gets 30 days in jail for tax conviction
Discussion: Boston Globe
 Earlier Items: 
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
GOP's Gohmert plans to introduce bill to allow firearms on House floor
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Why Not Regulate Guns as Seriously as Toys?
James Rosen / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Gingrich visits South Carolina as presidential decision looms
Discussion: CNN and TPMDC
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
What the left did wrong
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Facing Challenge, Obama Returns to Unity Theme
Wall Street Journal:
A Fifth Star for David Petraeus