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2:40 PM ET, January 21, 2013

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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Lupe Fiasco Thrown Off Stage At Inauguration Concert After Bashing Obama  —  At the StartUp RockOn event in Washington, the rapper's performance upsets the hosts.  Video, tweets, and the statement from organizers. … A statement from one of the concert's sponsors:
Discussion: The Raw Story, Hot Air and Althouse
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StartUp RockOn / HyperVocal:
Lupe Fiasco: Official Statement From StartUp Rock On Organizers  —  StartUp RockOn is all about startups helping startups.  At Sunday night's Inauguration Celebration at the Hamilton Live, organizers set out to honor innovative visionaries with grants, accolades and a party worthy of the success …
Jade Walker / The Huffington Post:
Lupe Fiasco, Rapper, Thrown Off Stage At Inaugural Concert (VIDEO)  —  FOLLOW:  —  Barack Obama , Video, Fighter Interactive, Kelli Jo, Matt Dornic, StartUp RockOn, Eventfarm, Hypervocal, Inaugural Concerts, Josh Rogin, Lupe Fiasco, Lupe Fiasco Inaugural Concert, Entertainment News
Taylor Bigler / The Daily Caller:
Rapper Lupe Fiasco thrown offstage during pre-inauguration event after anti-Obama rant [VIDEO]  —  Rapper Lupe Fiasco was thrown offstage and escorted off the premises of a Washington, D.C. concert hall during a pre-inauguration concert Sunday night, after going on an anti-war, anti-Obama rant, according to concertgoers.
Washington Post:
(APPLAUSE)  —  That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
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Washington Wire:
President Obama's Second Inaugural Address
Discussion: Guardian
President Barack Obama / The Atlantic Wire:
Read and Watch Obama's Second Inaugural Address
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Text of Obama's Second Inaugural Address
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Unemployment Rate Same Today As It Was When Obama First Took Office  —  WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Even though much has changed the past four years, President Barack Obama begins his second term with one thing that hasn't: the unemployment rate.  —  When Obama first took office in January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent.
Discussion: PolicyMic and Poor Richard's News
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Obama's second inauguration: Is the thrill gone?
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and This Just In
Associated Press:
Quick Hits, Lighter Moments From Inaugural
Discussion: Politico
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama Speech Sets Stage for Looming Policy Fights
Discussion: Politico and Liberal Values
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama: Inauguration a chance to celebrate ‘this incredible nation’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Deal  —  On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, an exuberant Vice President Biden famously pronounced the reform a “big something deal” — except that he didn't use the word “something.”  And he was right.  —  In fact, I'd suggest using this phrase to describe the Obama administration as a whole.
Tony Nitti / Forbes:
Golfer Phil Mickelson May Call It Quits Due To Climbing Tax Rates  —  LA QUINTA, CA - JANUARY 20: Phil Mickelson hits his second shot on the tenth hole at the Nicklaus Private Course at the PGA West during the second round of the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Startling Second Inaugural  —  This was the most sustainedly “progressive” statement Barack Obama has made in his decade on the national stage.  —  I was expecting an anodyne tone-poem about healing national wounds, surmounting partisanship, and so on.
Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Fix and Hullabaloo
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Averages 49% Approval in First Term  —  Approval has been climbing in recent quarters  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama averaged 49.1% job approval during his first term in office, among the lowest for post-World War II presidents.  Only Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford had lower job approval averages.
Talking Points Memo:
Obama Takes One Last Look At Inauguration Crowd: 'I'll Never See This Again'  —  Departing the West Front of the U.S. Capitol after delivering his second inaugural address on Monday, President Obama wanted to take one last glance of the hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered to celebrate his second term.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture  —  In the early days of 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learned that it had an intruder.  Worse, it believed the intruder had been there before.  —  Months earlier, the mysterious visitor had used …
Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:
Atari U.S. operation files for bankruptcy  —  The U.S. operations of pioneering video game company Atari Inc. is seeking to break free from French parent Atari S.A. and in the next few months find a buyer to take the company private.  (Strong National Museum of Play / January 20, 2013)
Mark Silva / Political Capital:
Obama Tweets from Church: 'Let's Go'  —  Obama's Tweets.  Photo by Bloomberg News  —  It's said that the Twitter messages actually thumbed by President Barack Obama @BarackObama are signed ‘BO.’  —  The one this morning came from St. John's, the church across Lafayette Park from the White House …
Daily Mail:
Wanted: ‘Adventurous woman’ to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby  — His ambitious plan requires a human volunteer willing to allow the DNA to be put into stem cells, then a human embryo  —  They're usually thought of as a brutish, primitive species.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Obama Becomes A “Great” President  —  And Republicans start looking for ways to embrace him.  Liberals should be prepared to lose him.  —  Image by Pool / Reuters  —  This time about 12 years from now, President Tagg Romney will, with a mixture of exasperation and amusement …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
After French Criticism, Washington Drops Payment Demand  —  By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS in Paris and ADAM ENTOUS in Washington  —  France is increasingly upset by what it sees as limited Obama administration support for the war it is waging in Mali against al Qaeda militants …
Discussion: Via Meadia and Right Turn
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
GOP wants budget; Schumer warns they will get one  —  Associated Press/J. Scott Applewhite, File - FILE - This Jan. 1, 2013 file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walkig past reporters after a closed-door meeting meeting of House Republicans on Capitol ...more
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Broken viewing screen frustrates thousands on the National Mall  —  Tens of thousands of people who flocked to the Mall to watch Monday's inaugural ceremony will have to watch a replay to hear what President Obama said.  —  A television set up just north of the Washington Monument was streaming terribly …
 
 
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Obama Looks Over The Capitol One Last Time: “I'm not going to see this again”
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Colin Powell: Republicans should halt voter ID push
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
First Term: Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’ Increased 8,332,000
Associated Press:
At Least 13 Suspected Al-Qaida Men Killed in Yemen
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bigstory.ap.org:
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Inauguration 2013: Ralph Nader sees ‘political bulls—’
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