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2:40 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
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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The Huffington Post:
Michael Steele Defeated In RNC Election For Chairman
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 …
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
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.
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Stephanopoulos, NYT, CNN, WaPo decline to correct erroneous Giffords reporting
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.
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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Evgeny Morozov / Foreign Policy:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
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
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.
Alix Spiegel / NPR:
Fame Through Assassination: A Secret Service Study … It's well known that in March 1981, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan.  What is not well known is that several years later, the life of President Reagan and the life of his vice president, George H.W. Bush, were threatened again — in fact, not just once.
Discussion: Pajamas Media
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.
 
 
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Quick Return to Constituents, in Tribute and Also Defiance
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Greg Scoblete / RealClearWorld:
Coverage of Tunisia  —  George Brock explains why the coverage …
Yglesias:
Changing the Tone  —  By request from Joseph Benaiah Cox:
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
 Earlier Items: 
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
Iowa Legislator Seeks to Criminalize Cocktails
Discussion: Modeled Behavior
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Maine gov tells NAACP to ‘kiss my butt’
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
Ned Resnikoff / Media Matters for America:
Why Are There So Many Jews In Beck's Rogues Gallery?
Discussion: Politics Daily
 

 
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