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12:30 AM ET, January 29, 2013

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Marsha Blackburn / CNN:
TRENDING: Doubting congresswoman challenges Obama to skeet shooting match  —  (CNN) - It's about time for some bipartisan...skeet shooting?  —  Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, joined a chorus of skeptics who questioned President Barack Obama's recent comments about his hobby of skeet shooting …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Hill
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CNN:
Sources: Congressional Hispanic Caucus members urged Obama not to unveil immigration bill  —  Washington (CNN) - Some senior Democratic members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus used a private White House meeting Friday to urge President Obama not to unveil his own immigration legislation …
Rush Limbaugh:
Fear Rules the GOP on Immigration  —  RUSH: Daniel in Sierra Vista, Arizona.  Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.  Hello.  —  CALLER: Hey, Rush.  Thanks for taking my call.  —  RUSH: Yes, sir.  I'm a long-time listener and first-time caller.  —  RUSH: Well, it's great to have you here.
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Politico and Hullabaloo
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Carney ‘not sure how often’ Obama goes skeet shooting
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Donovan Slack / Politico:
White House takes credit on immigration deal
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
What did Republicans win in the immigration deal?  —  It's has been widely assumed this morning by some immigration advocates (and by yours truly, too) that the new immigration reform plan's process of citizenship for the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants is contingent on a commission …
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Politico:
Immigration tough sell in GOP House
Discussion: CNN and americanthinker.com
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
The House Has Its Own Bipartisan Immigration Plan In The Works, Republicans Say
Discussion: Ross Douthat and Hot Air
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
The U.S. Border Is More Secure Than Ever Before
Joshua Green / Business Week:
Obama's Parting Gift to Hillary Clinton  —  Last week campaign disclosure reports revealed that Hillary Clinton had finally retired the debt from her 2008 presidential campaign—with a little help from the guy who beat her, Barack Obama.  Clinton's debt once totaled more than $20 million …
Discussion: Truthdig and Booman Tribune
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Marc Ambinder / The Week:
Hillary SuperPAC readies launch  —  Long-time supporters of Hillary Clinton have opened a SuperPAC to lay the groundwork for a 2016 presidential campaign, even though Clinton, just finishing a four-term as Secretary of State, has said nothing about her future plans.
Pete Williams / U.S. News:
Exclusive: Boy Scouts close to ending ban on gay members, leaders  —  The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation's largest private youth organizations, is actively considering an end to its decades-long policy of banning gay scouts or scout leaders, according to scouting officials and outsiders familiar with internal discussions.
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Bay Buchanan quits TV punditry, takes online real estate class after Romney's ‘brutal’ loss  —  A former top aide to Mitt Romney says that she quit her career as a television pundit and began taking online real estate classes after the former Republican presidential nominee's “brutal” loss to President Barack Obama.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Rumproast
Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
The Price of Palin: $15 per Word Spoken During FOX Contract  —  Sarah Palin uttered more than 189,000 words over 150 appearances on various FOX broadcasts during her three years as an analyst at the network, or $15.85 per word  —  With the three-year contract now expired between FOX News and Sarah Palin …
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
We'll Miss You, Sarah Palin
The Atlantic Wire:
The Truth About Little Women Carrying Big Wounded Men in Combat  —  One of the recurring arguments against women serving in combat appears on its face to be just good common horse sense: women just don't have the upper body strength to carry a heavy male soldier out of combat.
Mark Leccese / Gatekeeper:
Scott Brown's Twitter trouble  —  Most politicians delegate their Twitter account to platitude-producing staffers, all of whom excel in a genre of writing I think of as Bland Earnestness.  I'm looking at you @MarkeyMemo, @JohnBoehner and @DevalPatrick.  —  After U.S. Sen. Scott Brown lost …
Discussion: msnbc.com, Ballot Box and The Fix
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Bill would legalize cohabitation in Virginia  —  RICHMOND — Under an old law, it's illegal in Virginia for unmarried couples to live together.  Now, a state senator and delegate are trying to wipe it off the books.  —  A law dating to the late 19th-century makes it a misdemeanor for …
nbclosangeles.com:
Doctor Fatally Shot at Office in Newport Beach  —  A doctor was fatally shot and the suspected gunman was in custody on Monday after a shooting at a doctor's office in Newport Beach, police said.  —  The shooting happened at 2:45 p.m. in a second floor patient room at 520 Superior Avenue …
Wynton Hall / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: JOURNALIST ACCOSTED BY SECURITY OVER MAYOR BLOOMBERG GUN CONTROL QUESTION  —  In an explosive exchange outside the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., security guards for billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg accosted senior Talk Radio Network …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Office Working to Close Guantánamo Is Shuttered  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement.
TMZ.com:
20/20 Co-Anchor Chris Cuomo — I'm Moving to CNN!  —  I'm Moving to CNN!  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Chris Cuomo is calling it quits at “20/20” — TMZ has learned ... he's moving to CNN very soon.  —  Sources connected with CNN tell us ... Cuomo will host a morning show.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Prominent House Dem: “Madness” To Pass Immigration Reform Without LGBT Protections  —  “I feel certain that Democrats would not move forward with a bill that was not fully inclusive,” Nadler says.  Pressure mounts on Democrats.  —  Nadler  —  WASHINGTON — The leading House advocate …
Justin Cronin / New York Times:
Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner  —  I AM a New England liberal, born and bred.  I have lived most of my life in the Northeast — Boston, New York and Philadelphia — and my politics are devoutly Democratic.  In three decades, I have voted for a Republican exactly once, holding my nose …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Alistair Dawber / The Independent:
Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent  —  NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE.  PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES  —  Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving …
Dalton Caldwell / App.net:
Announcing the App.net File API  —  The promise of “unbundling”  —  Imagine a world in which your social data (e.g. messages, photos, videos) was easier to work with.  For instance, imagine you could try out a new photo sharing service without having to move all of your photos and social graph.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama, Out of the Closet  —  It has been amusing, in a black-humor sort of way, to see various media figures finally admit that Barack Obama is a far-left, out of the mainstream political figure.  Just kidding; they don't actually admit that.  But at least they are now willing to acknowledge-most of them, anyway-that he is a liberal.
Mary Beth Marklein / Associated Press:
Study: Nearly half are overqualified for their jobs … Nearly half of working Americans with college degrees are in jobs for which they're overqualified, a new study out Monday suggests.  —  The study, released by the non-profit Center for College Affordability and Productivity …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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Mark Pazniokas / ctmirror.org:
An elusive consensus on guns after Newtown
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Lee Smith / Weekly Standard:
Israel Shores Up Its Defenses, While Iran Remains Quiet
Discussion: The Times and Daily Mail
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
B&N Aims To Whittle Its Stores For Years
Peter Walker / Guardian:
Timbuktu library is treasure house of centuries of Malian history
Discussion: FP Passport and The Raw Story
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Plans Base for Surveillance Drones in Northwest Africa
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