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5:35 PM ET, January 18, 2012

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Washington Post:
Obama administration to reject Keystone pipeline  —  The Obama administration will announce this afternoon it is rejecting a Canadian firm's application for a permit to build and operate a massive oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border, according to sources who have been briefed on the matter.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama's jobs council report says ‘drill’  —  President Obama's jobs council called Tuesday for an “all-in approach” to energy policy that includes expanded oil-and-gas drilling as well as expediting energy projects like pipelines.  —  “[W]e should allow more access to oil …
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
President Obama: ‘Rushed And Arbitrary Deadline’ Of GOP Forced Me To Reject Keystone XL  —  President Barack Obama issued a statement on the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, blaming the “rushed and arbitary deadline” for a decision set by Congressional Republicans.
Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
AFL-CIO's Trumka slams Obama's jobs council  —  One union leader on President Obama's jobs council drew attention Tuesday by abstaining from part of the panel's latest report, but the panel's only other labor leader is voicing even more profound disagreement with the committee's stance on taxes, regulation and job creation.
The White House:   Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline
Ed Henry / The Huffington Post:
Keystone XL Pipeline: Obama Administration Announcing It Will Not Go Forward With Controversial Plan
John Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Keystone Pipeline Delay Sparks Outrage on Capitol Hill
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Obama administration to reject controversial Keystone pipeline
Wallacegw / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Race for South Carolina tightening  —  Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) - With three days to go until the first-in-the south primary, Mitt Romney remains in the lead in the Palmetto State, but according to a new poll, his advantage over Newt Gingrich is rapidly shrinking.
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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Rick Perry's Final Act: King Maker?  —  “Rick Perry's campaign has come to an end.  But he could leave on an unexpected high note — helping conservatives unite around one not-Romney”  —  Barring a miracle, this is Rick Perry's final act in the 2012 elections.  On Saturday, he will come in last in South Carolina.
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
The bitter backstory between Newt Gingrich and Romney backer, Susan Molinari
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Jimmy Carter Tells Piers Morgan That Newt Gingrich ‘Has That Subtlety Of Racism’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Newt-mentum: Can Gingrich Make a Comeback?
Discussion: USA Today
Jennifer Martinez / The Politico:
SOPA blackout leads co-sponsors to defect  —  Amid online protests that include major websites like Wikipedia blacking out their sites, a few co-sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act in Congress are defecting.  —  Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.), originally a co-sponsor of the bill, pulled his name from the list of sponsors on Tuesday.
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Marjorie Connelly / The Caucus:
G.O.P. in Congress Gets Blame for Gridlock  —  The public is not assigning blame equally between President Obama and Republicans in Congress for the partisan gridlock over key legislation.  —  In the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 60 percent say Mr. Obama is attempting to work …
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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: What to Make of Obama's Approval Bounce?  —  You might have noticed recently that Barack Obama's job approval has ticked up slightly in the last few weeks.  What to make of this?  —  Here is the RealClearPolitics average:  —  Two months ago, the president's job approval was 43.7 percent.
Michelle Malkin:
Editor's Note of the Day  —  This was attached to the end of a nauseating Boston Globe article celebrating the amorous relations between Occupy protesters: … Oops.  —  The Boston Herald called out the Globe for its lazy vetting: … Bias?  What bias?  Congrats, Boston Globe.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
Key fact fails to occupy Globe story
Discussion: Poynter and The Daily Caller
Esquire:
Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On  —  Even his staunchest enemies now regard his presidency as the good old days.  He has become the rare consensus figure in a country that has lost all sense of consensus.  So we talked to him about where it went, and how we might get it back.
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Bill Clinton: MSNBC is ‘our version of Fox’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Romney Caricatures Himself  —  Mitt Romney, in all likelihood, is going to walk away with his party's presidential nomination.  Yet from the standpoint of positioning himself for the general election, the primary season has been a disaster for him.  Romney's campaign has worked hard …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
When polished meets clumsy
Opinionator:
David Brooks: Gail, I'm sorry we missed each other in South Carolina, but I've moved on to the next primary state, Florida, in search of people who pay Mitt Romney's 15 percent tax rate.  I'm in Palm Beach now.  I think I've found them.  —  By the way, why do we make candidates release their tax forms?
Paul Polls / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Unpopular Nationally, Romney Holds Solid GOP Lead  —  OVERVIEW  —  Days ahead of the South Carolina primary, Mitt Romney maintains a substantial lead nationally in the race for the GOP nomination.  Yet his image among all voters has slipped since November and he runs no better …
Elizabeth Williamson / Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich's College Records Show a Professor Hatching Big Plans  —  A year into his first full-time teaching job, Newt Gingrich applied to be college president, submitting with his application a paper titled “Some Projections on West Georgia College's Next Thirty Years.”
Rolling Stone:
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview  —  Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism  —  It's a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Recess appointments might not hold  —  Some legal experts, including those who have sided with President Obama on other constitutional issues, think there is a good chance the courts could overturn his recent recess appointments.  —  Legal experts said courts could invalidate Obama's appointments …
 
 
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Kari Huus / msnbc.com:
Prosecutors aim new weapon at Occupy activists: lynching allegation
Discussion: Don Surber and Weasel Zippers
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
DCCC chairman: Dems have put 76 seats in play
Discussion: The Politico
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
DCCC chairman decries GOP ‘hypocrisy’ on Countrywide
Discussion: CNN
Steven Sotloff / Time:
In Libya, a Fundamentalist War against Moderate Islam Takes Shape
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Money Flows to G.O.P. Backers of Gay Marriage
Discussion: The Stranger … and ThinkProgress
Philly.com:
Corbett aide who edited journal resigns
Discussion: ECHIDNE of the snakes
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Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Considering Summers for World Bank
Discussion: Felix Salmon
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How to Access Wikipedia During the Blackout
Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
Why Does Buffalo Pay for Its Teachers to Have Plastic Surgery?
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
In Brooklyn, Suspicious Passenger, With a Tail
Discussion: Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
Reuters:
Obama's not-so-super PAC
Discussion: The Politico
ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney Sent Millions to Mormon Church
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Did Rick Santorum Win the Iowa Caucuses, Not Mitt Romney?
 

 
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