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6:45 PM ET, January 15, 2011

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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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Doug Ross
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally... Why Did They Ask For It On Jumbotron?  —  On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they were surprised by the applause at the pep rally on Wednesday for the victims of the Tucson shootings. … Oh really?
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Monte Kuligowski / American Thinker:
Gibbs ‘surprised’ at pep-rally atmosphere of ‘memorial speech’
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Tunisians Help “Expand Our Moral Imaginations”  —  Map of Tunisia, located along the north central portion of the continent of Africa.  (source: CIA World Factbook)  —  One of the first stories to replace the killings in Tucson and the national response as the lead story in the New York Times …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Power Again Changes Hands in Tunisia as Chaos Remains
Discussion: New York Magazine and Eschaton
Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
Joy as Tunisian President Flees Offers Lesson to Arab Leaders
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: Pajamas Media and The Mahablog
Sarah Palin / MediaCurves.Com:
Americans View Sarah Palin as more Sincere and Believable after Watching Speech  —  Speech does little to increase voter support for potential run in 2012  —  Flemington, NJ, January 14, 2011 - A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed …
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.
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.
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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.
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, Gawker and TalkLeft
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Call for Bipartisan Seating at the State of the Union  —  If they're not careful, the “We are the World” people are going to sue for copyright infringement: … This could be the first State of the Union to end with a loud reminder from the Sergeant at Arms: “Everybody's invited to a pajama party at Olympia Snowe's place!”
Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Woman fights bank fees, missed final house payment  —  PHILADELPHIA - An elderly New Jersey woman billed $5,800 after missing the final payment on her 30-year mortgage can pursue her lawsuit against the debt collectors.  —  Lawyers for 85-year-old Dorothy Rhue Allen say the fees charged …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Retreat of the ‘Tiger Mother’  —  TRY this at a dinner party in one of the hothouses of Ivy League aspiration — Cambridge, Scarsdale, Evanston, Marin County:  —  Declare that the way Asian-American parents succeed in raising such successful children is by denying them play dates and sleepovers …
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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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Rep. Giffords off ventilator after doctors perform tracheotomy, still critical
Discussion: The Politico
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama Administration Eases Travel, Remittance Restrictions With Cuba
Evgeny Morozov / Foreign Policy:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Quick Return to Constituents, in Tribute and Also Defiance
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Alix Spiegel / NPR:
Fame Through Assassination: A Secret Service Study
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: “Before We are Democrats or Republicans, We are Americans”
Discussion: Politics Daily, CNN and Althouse
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
‘How to be Civil’: The Finale!
Discussion: Prairie Weather
 

 
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