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4:05 PM ET, January 15, 2011

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Los Angeles Times:
Loughner video with ‘genocide’ and ‘torture’ ramblings is released  —  The YouTube video, which is no longer on the website, prompted the suspension of the Tucson shooting suspect from Pima Community College last year.  —  A YouTube video that prompted the suspension of Tucson shooting …
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Los Angeles Times:
School releases YouTube post from Loughner  —  Jared Lee Loughner, now accused in the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, walked through campus last fall rambling about his ‘genocide school.’ The video led Pima Community College to suspend him.
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Pima Community College Releases Jared Lee Loughner's ‘Genocide/Scam’ YouTube Video
Discussion: FrumForum
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Wingnut Blogger Jim Hoft Mistakes Closed Caption for Applause Prompt at Tucson Memorial  —  Just when you think popular right wing blogger Jim “Dim” Hoft (Gateway Pundit) couldn't possibly post anything more stupid than his last post, he finds a way to take it to the next level of numbskullitude.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally …
Discussion: Doug Ross
Monte Kuligowski / American Thinker:
Gibbs ‘surprised’ at pep-rally atmosphere of ‘memorial speech’
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Power Again Changes Hands in Tunisia as Chaos Remains  —  TUNIS — Power in Tunisia changed hands again Saturday morning in the aftermath of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali's flight from the country as soldiers kept the city under a tight lockdown, sporadic nighttime riots simmered …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Eschaton
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Evgeny Morozov / Foreign Policy:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
Michael Shields / Reuters:
Schwarzenegger says governorship cost him $200 million  —  VIENNA (Reuters) - Serving as California governor cost Arnold Schwarzenegger at least $200 million, the bodybuilding star turned actor and politician told a newspaper in his native Austria, insisting 'it was more than worth it.
Discussion: The Hill and Outside the Beltway
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez  —  For those who regularly write and read about civil liberties abuses, it's sometimes easy to lose perspective about just how extreme and outrageous certain erosions are.  One becomes inured to them, and even severe incursions start to seem ordinary.
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Homeland Security Cancels ‘Virtual Fence’ After $1 Billion Is Spent
Discussion: The Confluence, TalkLeft and Gawker
Washington Post:
GOP picks Reince Priebus to lead as it regroups  —  GOP leaders began a weekend of strategizing Friday as the Republican National Committee voted out its controversial chairman, Michael S. Steele, in favor of Reince Priebus, the Wisconsin Republican Party chairman, and House members plotted their future at a party retreat in Baltimore.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Americans Split on What to Cut from Government  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  A new CBS News poll finds that Americans strongly prefer cutting spending to raising taxes to reduce the federal deficit.
Mark Rudd / Washington Post:
An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence  —  In 1970, when I was 22 years old - the same age as Jared Loughner - I was a founder of the Weather Underground, an offshoot of the antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society.
Discussion: The Mahablog
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Tucson Witch Hunt  —  Tragedy in Tucson.  Six Dead.  Democratic congresswoman shot in the head at rally.  —  Immediately after the news broke, the air became thick with conjecture, speculation and innuendo.  There was a giddy, almost punch-drunk excitement on the left.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama Administration Eases Travel, Remittance Restrictions With Cuba  —  The White House announced last night a series of changes to travel and remittance policies with Cuba, that will allow more visitation and transfer of funds to the island 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Obama loosens Cuba travel policy, drawing mixed reactions
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: “Before We are Democrats or Republicans, We are Americans”  —  As Congress returns to work, the President calls on them — and all of us — to debate our differences vigorously but to live up to the spirit of common cause we felt following the tragedy in Arizona.  —  Click here to see the video.
 
 
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