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4:50 AM ET, February 3, 2013

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Larry O'Connor / BREITBART.COM:
White House Warns: Don't Photoshop Obama Gun Pic  —  The White House has released a picture purporting to show President Obama “skeet shooting” at Camp David.  An activity he claims he does “all the time.”  —  The White House also warns all you mischievous internet types to not mess around with the picture:
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SOOPERMEXICAN:
Sooper Skeet Shoot NON-Photoshop!!
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
MEDIA FOLLOWS OBAMA'S ORDERS TO MOCK SKEET-GATE SKEPTICS
Donovan Slack / Politico:
W.H. releases Obama skeet shooting photo
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Keith Laing / The Hill:
White House releases photo of Obama skeet shooting in 2012
Fox News:
Sheriff thanks suspect for taking care of boy held hostage, as Alabama standoff continues  —  MIDLAND CITY, ALA. - The Alabama mother of the 5-year-old boy held hostage in an underground bunker for five days is ‘hanging on by a thread,’ said a local politician who visited the woman.
Discussion: Viral Read
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Bob Owens:
Red-handed: Associated Press caught inserting “assault rifle” into Alabama hostage standoff  —  Jimmy Lee Dykes has no business having firearms.  A violent Vietnam vet with PTSD who beat a neighbor's dog to death, threatened to shoot school children, and did shoot into an occupied vehicle …
Discussion: Viral Read
Omaha World-Herald:
Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy issues resignation  —  LINCOLN — Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned his post abruptly Saturday after questions were raised by The World-Herald about improper cell phone calls to four women, other than his wife, during the past four years.  —  An investigation …
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Associated Press:
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Sheehy resigns from office  —  LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned Saturday after “breaking the public trust,” Gov. Dave Heineman said.  —  Heineman announced Sheehy's resignation in a hastily called news conference Saturday morning.
Discussion: CNN
Jason Whitely / WFAA-TV:
Elite Navy SEAL slain in Erath County; suspect arrested  —  Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL who became known as the deadliest U.S. sniper, was one of two men murdered on Saturday afternoon at a gun range in Erath County.  —  Three sources confirmed to News 8 that Kyle …
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Robert Watts / Telegraph:
Conservative party ripped apart by gay marriage vote  —  The full scale of this week's revolt by Conservative MPs against David Cameron's plans to introduce same-sex marriage became clear on Saturday.  —  The Roman Catholic Church has launched a final push against the Government's plans for gay marriage
Discussion: Guardian, BBC and American Power
TIME:
The Fallout from the Air Raid on Syria: Why Israel is Concerned  —  An Israeli soldier walks by an ‘Iron Dome’ short-range missile defense system positioned near the northern city of Haifa on Jan. 31, 2013 in Israel.  The Iron Dome missile defense system is designed to intercept …
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Katherine Landergan / The Boston Globe:
Harvard students linked to cheating scandal to withdraw  —  In an apparent disclosure about the Harvard cheating scandal, a top university official said Friday that more than half of the Harvard students investigated by a college board have been ordered to withdraw from the school.
Discussion: The Hill
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Johanns will support Hagel nomination  —  Sen. Mike Johanns said Saturday he will support Chuck Hagel's nomination for U.S. secretary of defense.  —  The statement came after a bruising Thursday confirmation hearing in which Johanns' fellow Senate Republicans grilled Hagel on his ideas for foreign policy and defense.
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Report: Johanns to back Hagel nomination
Discussion: CNN
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Top G.O.P. Donors Seek Greater Say in Senate Races  —  COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts …
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Brooklyn College's academic freedom increasingly threatened over Israel event |  Glenn Greenwald  —  New York politicians join the Alan Dershowitz-led campaign to dictate to colleges what academic events they can hold  —  (updated below)  —  On Tuesday, I wrote about a brewing controversy …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Out of Ammo  —  I really, really wanted to shoot today, but wasn't able to.  Why, you might ask?  Was I backed up with work?  Nope.  Did I have a long list of chores to do, to stay in my wife's good graces?  Nope.  I was free as a bird.  But I couldn't shoot because …
 
 
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Rosa Parks, Revisited
Discussion: Washington Monthly
BBC:
French MPs endorse gay marriage
Discussion: Truthdig and Joe. My. God.
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
Republican Tisei will not seek Kerry's Senate seat
Discussion: Politico
Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
U.S. Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook Top 1,280
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Soda, candy out under USDA's proposed school snack rules
Brooke Berger / US News:
Fashion Advice at the DIA: ‘Makeup Makes You More Attractive’
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
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New York Times:
Another Reset With Russia in Obama's Second Term
Discussion: Via Meadia and JustOneMinute
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
GOP to Filibuster Obama's Consumer Watchdog Pick
Discussion: msnbc.com, Hullabaloo and Reuters
Reuters:
Video of protester stripped and beaten fires Egypt fury