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9:35 PM ET, January 28, 2013

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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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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
The U.S. Border Is More Secure Than Ever Before  —  The bipartisan framework for immigration reform proposed by a bipartisan group of 8 senators would provide 11 million undocumented immigrants with a pathway to citizenship only “upon securing the border and combating visa overstays.”
Discussion: The Plum Line
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: Politico, ABCNEWS and Hullabaloo
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Senators Offer a New Blueprint for Immigration
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Carney ‘not sure how often’ Obama goes skeet shooting  —  White House press secretary Jay Carney says he's not “sure how often” President Obama goes skeet shooting.  —  In an interview with The New Republic, the president was asked if he had ever fired a gun.
Discussion: CNN and Jammie Wearing Fools
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CNN:
Sources: Congressional Hispanic Caucus members urged Obama not to unveil immigration bill
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and BuzzFeed
Politico:
Immigration tough sell in GOP House
Discussion: CNN, americanthinker.com and First Read
Donovan Slack / Politico:
White House takes credit on immigration deal
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
The House Has Its Own Bipartisan Immigration Plan In The Works, Republicans Say
Discussion: Hot Air and Ross Douthat
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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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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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
What Hillary Clinton's saying about 2016  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has repeatedly been asked about a second run at the White House, and her answers have changed over time - from flatly denying she intended to run to evading the question - culminating in Sunday night's joint …
Marc Ambinder / The Week:
Hillary SuperPAC readies launch
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.
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
Charlie Brennan / Daily Camera:
JonBenet Ramsey grand jury voted to indict parents in 1999, but DA refused to prosecute  —  Legal expert: Alex Hunter may have been legally obligated to sign indictment  —  John Ramsey looks on as his wife, Patsy, holds an advertisement promising a reward for information leading to the arrest …
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
The New Republic Reimagines Its Future  —  WASHINGTON — There are not many firsts for a politically savvy, 98-year-old publication like The New Republic.  But Franklin Foer, its 38-year-old editor, experienced one recently when he passed a Hudson News store at Union Station here and saw …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Reading the new New Republic  —  Last week, I attended a panel …
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 …
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 …
Mark Pazniokas / ctmirror.org:
An elusive consensus on guns after Newtown  —  Not even among parents of the dead was there a consensus Monday on how the General Assembly should respond to the murder of 26 students and staff last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  —  Among the 1,300 people who lined up to testify on gun control …
Discussion: The Raw Story and New York Times
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.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Makers, Takers, Fakers  —  Republicans have a problem.  For years they could shout down any attempt to point out the extent to which their policies favored the elite over the poor and the middle class; all they had to do was yell “Class warfare!” and Democrats scurried away.
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 …
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
Jonathan Van Meter / New York Magazine:
Madam Would-Be Mayor  —  Hanging out with the crude, playful, openhearted front-runner, Christine Quinn.  —  Christine Quinn, Irish to the core, is possessed of the booming voice of a concrete-truck operator, the bada-bing timing of an outer-borough wiseguy, and the laugh of a pirate.
Manu Raju / Politico:
Democrats, tea party unite vs. Mitch McConnell  —  Tea party activists looking to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a GOP primary may get some help from an unlikely source: Democrats.  —  Big Democratic donors, local liberal activists and a left-leaning super PAC in Kentucky …
WHOTV:
The Insiders: Republicans Come Out  —  Dave Kochel, a veteran Iowa Republican strategist and 2012 Romney Iowa Campaign Senior Adviser, is now behind a new effort that could prove controversial with some Republican activists.  —  Kochel helped to organize an event for the Iowa Republicans for Freedom.
 
 
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