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11:40 AM ET, January 25, 2011

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Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Bachmann: SOTU rebuttal is not a ‘competition’ with Ryan  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said her rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address tomorrow isn't a “competition” with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who's delivering the official Republican response.  —  “This is not a competition,” Bachmann said.
Discussion: Pajamas Media
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Paul says Bachmann response not a problem
Discussion: Washington Post
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans wrestle with dissent on budget cuts
Discussion: The Agonist
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DUELING SOTU RESPONSES, CONT'D.... Late last week, after New Jersey …
Discussion: The Fix and Prairie Weather
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Obama won't endorse raising retirement age or reducing Social Security benefits
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Scalia: No plans to attend Obama's State of the Union address  —  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told The Hill on Monday evening that he does not plan on attending the State of the Union address on Tuesday.  —  The conservative-leaning jurist said that he hasn't “gone to the State …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Thomas Cites Failure to Disclose Wife's Job  —  WASHINGTON — Under pressure from liberal critics, Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court acknowledged in filings released on Monday that he erred by not disclosing his wife's past employment as required by federal law.
Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
White House Lawyer Tapped for Solicitor General
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Fix
Chicago Tribune:
Judicial arrogance  —  With startling arrogance and audaciously twisted reasoning, two appellate judges ignored more than 100 years of legal precedent, invented a new definition of “residency” and ordered Rahm Emanuel off the Feb. 22 mayoral ballot.  —  With the election just four weeks away …
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Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
Obama wants Rahm Emanuel back on the Chicago mayor ballot  —  President Barack Obama wants former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to stay on the Chicago mayoral ballot, a top presidential confidante said Tuesday.  —  “I think that [Obama] believes that [Emanuel] is eligible …
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Emanuel takes steps to stay in Chicago mayoral race  —  Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's legal team has begun an eleventh-hour blitz to keep the candidate on the mayoral ballot in Chicago after an appellate court ruled he is ineligible.  —  Lawyers for Emanuel filed a motion …
Discussion: CNN and Ben Smith's Blog
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Let Rahm Run!  —  The Illinois courts should let the voters …
Discussion: Election Law
The Note:
The Note: Your Guide To The State Of The Union
Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN and Chicago Tribune
National Archives and Records Administration:
National Archives Discovers Date Change on Lincoln Record  —  Thomas Lowry Confesses to Altering Lincoln Pardon to April 14, 1865  —  Washington, DC...Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced today that Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, VA …
The Hill:
GOP to push for D.C. gay marriage ban  —  House conservatives say they will pursue legislation that would ban gay marriage in the nation's capital.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), told The Hill that he will push for a vote on the controversial issue in the 112th Congress.
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Says Chinese Folk Song Played During State Dinner Was Not An Insult; Experts Divided  —  Ivories that were tickled last Wednesday night at the White House are, to some conservative media, no laughing matter.  —  At the White House State Dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao …
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Report: George W. Bush aides violated Hatch Act  —  During the 2006 midterm elections, White House political aides to President George W. Bush engaged in widespread violations of a federal law which limits partisan political activity by government employees, a long-running federal investigation has found.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Bush White House Broke Elections Law, Report Says
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Raising False Alarms  —  If there's a better government program than Social Security, I'd like to know what it is.  —  It has gone a long way toward eliminating poverty among the elderly.  Great numbers of them used to live and die in ghastly, Dickensian conditions of extreme want.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Poll: Cut Social Security benefits or raise payroll cap?  Not even close
Discussion: Open Left, Wonk Room and ThinkProgress
Ross McGuinness / Metro.co.uk:
Dentist uses sexy dresses to distract patients  —  Advanced drugs can cure many ills, new technology can revolutionise surgery but sometimes a low-cut, sorry lo-tech, solution is all you need - one dentist has bought herself and her ten nurses tight-fitting, cleavage-maximising dresses to distract worried patients while they work.
Jim Miklaszewski / msnbc.com:
NBC: U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange  —  Military also denies allegations that Bradley Manning is being mistreated  —  Below:  —  U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected …
Teri Buhl / The Atlantic Online:
E-mails Show Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions  —  Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America …
Discussion: The Big Picture
Reuters:
Financial Crisis Commission Finds Cause For Prosecution Of Wall Street  —  The bipartisan panel appointed by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has concluded that several financial industry figures appear to have broken the law and has referred multiple cases to state or federal authorities …
Amy Forliti / Associated Press:
Ventura sues over body scans, pat-downs  —  Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Discussion: Mediaite and Pirate's Cove
CNN:
CNN Poll: Americans more optimistic on state of nation  —  Washington (CNN) - Hours before President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address before Congress, a new national poll indicates a surge in optimism about the state of the nation.  —  According to a CNN/Opinion Research …
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Politics Insider: Nevada Republican to attend film release  —  Sharron Angle, the tea party-backed candidate who mounted a hard-fought campaign against U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last fall, will attend the national premiere in Johnston of a film that highlights the intersection of faith and science.
 
 
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Gustavo Valdes / CNN:
Paper: Governor pictured as Nazi
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Matthews Ties Tea Partiers to ‘Nazi Stuff’ …
Discussion: Fox Nation
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
SOTU Address: The Real Story of Obama and Corporate America
Discussion: Hit & Run
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Pitch for Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
Discussion: Washington Monthly and TPMDC
KABY-TV:
South Dakota legislators set State of the Union expectations
Discussion: GOP 12
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
GOP House stands ‘unapologetically for life,’ says Cantor
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
A Hefty Price for Entry to Davos
Discussion: driftglass and Big Peace
Syracuse Post-Standard:
Two states, including New York, take aim at distracted walkers, runners
Discussion: Right Wing News
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Discussion: CNN and GOP 12
Tom Parfitt / Guardian:
Moscow bomb: a massive boom, and then a wave of heat
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Nicholas Casey / Wall Street Journal:
Drug Gangs Are Focus of Clinton's Mexico Visit
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