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11:45 AM 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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Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Pima Community College Releases Jared Lee Loughner's ‘Genocide/Scam’ YouTube Video  —  “Alright, so here's what we're doing,” says the man behind the camera as he navigates through a dark parking lot.  “We're examining the torture of students.  We're looking at students who have been tortured.
Discussion: FrumForum
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.
Discussion: Associated Press and TMZ.com
ThinkProgress:
Meet Newly-Elected RNC Chair Reince Priebus  —  Reince Priebus just became the 65th Chairman of the RNC by garnering 97 votes in the seventh round of voting.  After the fourth vote, Michael Steele dropped out of the running and said, “It's very clear that the party wants to do something different.”
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Ballot Box:
Steele drops out of race; Priebus is the new Republican Party chairman
Discussion: The Politico and The Other McCain
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Michael Steele bows out of RNC Chair race, endorses Maria Cino
Fox News:   Steele Bows Out of Race for RNC Chief
The Huffington Post:
Michael Steele Defeated In RNC Election For Chairman
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
RNC bounces Steele, taps Wisconsin GOP leader as new chairman
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Reince Priebus wins RNC Chairmanship
Discussion: Capitol Watch
First Read / msnbc.com:
Reince Priebus elected new RNC chairman
Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
Joy as Tunisian President Flees Offers Lesson to Arab Leaders  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hours after President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on Friday, a Lebanese broadcaster, in triumphant tones, ended her report on the first instance of an Arab leader to be overthrown in popular protests by quoting a famous Tunisian poet.
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Greg Scoblete / RealClearWorld:
Coverage of Tunisia  —  George Brock explains why the coverage …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
‘How to be Civil’: The Finale!  —  Previous installments here and here.  The question is whether the even-now ever so slightly fading talk about “civil” discourse means anything in practice.  Today we have one more set of suggestions from readers.  First, from a reader on the stakes in changing the political tone:
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Glenn Davis / Mediaite:
Bill Maher To “Teabaggers”: “The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Your Guts”  —  Bill Maher closed out tonight's season premiere of Real Time with one of his go-to bits: Tea Party (or, as he'd say, Teabagger) bashing.  He hit on his usual points on the subject, like what he sees …
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.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Nineteen senators back bipartisan State of the Union seating  —  A plan that would have Republicans and Democrats sit side-by-side during this month's State of the Union address has picked up support from nearly one-fifth of the Senate as well as a handful of House members, including a top House Republican.
Discussion: Daily Kos and New York Times
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Murkowski joins Udall in leading bipartisan seating at State of the Union
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Homeland Security Cancels ‘Virtual Fence’ After $1 Billion Is Spent  —  The Department of Homeland Security on Friday canceled a project to build a technology-based “virtual fence” across the Southwest border, saying that the effort — on which $1 billion has already been spent — was ineffective and too costly.
Discussion: The Confluence, TalkLeft and Gawker
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.
Discussion: Politics Daily and CNN
Yglesias:
Changing the Tone  —  By request from Joseph Benaiah Cox: … I have definitely said some things over the years which I regret.  But I draw a distinction here.  I don't think people should pretend to like people they dislike or avoid saying what they mean.
Discussion: TalkLeft
New York Times:
Police Describe Busy Hours Before a Gunman's Attack  —  TUCSON — Investigators revealed that Jared L. Loughner appeared to pull a frantic all-nighter last week to prepare for the shooting that killed six people, including a federal judge.  —  The judge, John M. Roll, was honored Friday at an emotional funeral Mass.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Maine gov tells NAACP to ‘kiss my butt’  —  Maine's governor on Friday told a major African American organization to “kiss my butt” after the group complained he wasn't taking part in Martin Luther King Day events next week.  —  Paul LePage, a newly elected Republican …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Maine governor says NAACP can ‘kiss my butt’
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.  —  Last month, Gawker published a series of messages that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had once written to a 19-year-old girl he'd become infatuated with.  Gawker called the e-mails “creepy,” “lovesick,” and “stalkery”; I'd add overwrought, self-important, and dorky.
 
 
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Stephanopoulos, NYT, CNN, WaPo decline to correct erroneous Giffords reporting
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Alex Wagner / Politics Daily:
Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton Pay Tribute to Richard Holbrooke at Memorial
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and NY Daily News
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sanders warns Obama not to agree with GOP on Social Security benefit cuts
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
A Modest Proposal: What If We Required Mandatory Gun Insurance?
Discussion: Discourse.net
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Shelby Proposes $1 Trillion In Budget Cuts ‘Across The Board’
Ned Resnikoff / Media Matters for America:
Why Are There So Many Jews In Beck's Rogues Gallery?
Discussion: Politics Daily
John McCain / Washington Post:
After the shootings, Obama reminds the nation of the golden rule
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