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12:55 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  —  “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
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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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
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
The Huffington Post:
Michael Steele Defeated In RNC Election For Chairman
Fox News:   Steele Bows Out of Race for RNC Chief
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 …
Discussion: Eunomia
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Tunisia Leader Flees and Prime Minister Claims Power
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 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 …
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Ssumner / TheMoneyIllusion:
Recalculation vs. the data  —  There's no question that Arnold Kling's recalculation view is more intellectually appealing than the messy arguments about wage stickiness used by us “GDP factory” proponents: … Yes, macroeconomics should be all about specialization and trade.
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.
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
 
 
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Alix Spiegel / NPR:
Fame Through Assassination: A Secret Service Study
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Stephanopoulos, NYT, CNN, WaPo decline to correct erroneous Giffords reporting
Discussion: Verum Serum
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Obama loosens Cuba travel policy, drawing mixed reactions
Discussion: Pajamas Media and The Politico
Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
Reading the tea leaves
Wall Street Journal:
Will Freedom Come for Sudan's Slaves?
Discussion: Israpundit
Alex Wagner / Politics Daily:
Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton Pay Tribute to Richard Holbrooke at Memorial
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and NY Daily News
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
Iowa Legislator Seeks to Criminalize Cocktails
Discussion: Modeled Behavior
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Murkowski joins Udall in leading bipartisan seating at State of the Union
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Maine gov tells NAACP to ‘kiss my butt’
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
New York Times:
Police Describe Busy Hours Before a Gunman's Attack
 

 
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