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9:55 AM ET, January 23, 2014

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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Virginia to fight same-sex marriage ban  —  Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring will announce Thursday that he believes the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and that Virginia will join two same-sex couples in asking a federal court to strike it down …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Mark Herring explains gay marriage shift  —  New Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring says his decision to challenge his state's ban on gay marriage, rather than defend it on behalf of the state, is part of an evolution in his views on the subject.  —  Herring announced his decision to side …
Eyder Peralta / NPR:
Virginia's New Attorney General Will Not Defend Gay-Marriage Ban … Virginia's new attorney general has decided to switch sides in an important case that is challenging the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage.  —  In an interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Guardian
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer seeks to poison Tea Party  —  Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the Senate Democrats' political guru, has a plan to poison the Tea Party by driving a wedge between its rich funders and its blue-collar rank and file.  —  Schumer, one of the Democrats' most influential strategists …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:   Cochran's Tea Party challenger raises $500K in 10 weeks
James A. Barnes / The Atlantic Online:
Can Anyone Stop Hillary?  Absolutely  —  Time magazine's cover this week asks, “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?”  The answer to that question is yes, but you'd never know it judging by the overwhelming belief among Democratic insiders that the party's 2016 presidential nomination is simply Hillary Clinton's for the asking.
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Kristen Soltis Anderson / The Daily Beast:
It's 1,000 Days Too Early to Talk Hillary vs. Christie for President
Discussion: Bloomberg
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End  —  WASHINGTON — An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency's program to collect bulk phone call records has provided only “minimal” benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal and should be shut down.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end  —  An independent executive branch board has concluded that the National Security Agency's long-running program to collect billions of Americans' phone records is illegal and should end.
Discussion: The Verge and Mashable
The Hill:
Obama State of the Union to focus on income inequality  —  President Obama will try to pump some vitality into a lackluster second term on Tuesday when he delivers his State of the Union address.  —  The address will include a “healthy dose” of the income inequality message the White House …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Backstage SOTU peek on Instagram
Discussion: White House.gov Blog
Reuters:
Angry Geithner once warned S&P about U.S. downgrade - filing  —  Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner angrily warned the chairman of Standard & Poor's parent that the rating agency would be held accountable for its 2011 decision to strip the United States of its coveted “triple-A” rating, a new court filing shows.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:   Treasury Secretary Sends Warning on Debt Limit
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Antiabortion movement faces a cold reality  —  James Dobson's Focus on the Family asked Christians to pray for rain to fall on Barack Obama in 2008 when he accepted the presidential nomination.  Various religious conservatives have said that hurricanes, earthquakes and other meteorological phenomena …
USA Today:
Poll: United we stand on wealth gap  —  INCOME INEQUALITY AND THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE  —  A USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll explores attitudes toward income inequality and poverty in the United States.  —  RICH GETTING RICHER? HOW AMERICA WORKS GOVERNMENT ROLE  —  POVERTY  —  RICH VS. POOR
Gregory N. Hicks / Wall Street Journal:
Gregory Hicks: Benghazi and the Smearing of Chris Stevens  —  Shifting blame to our dead ambassador is wrong on the facts.  I know—I was there.  —  Last week the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued its report on the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Amanda Marcotte / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's Birth-Control Trojan Horse  —  The right wants to use religion as an excuse to legally discriminate against gays and unmarried women—and, ultimately, anyone who doesn't share their Christian faith.  —  Ever since the Obama administration included contraception in the list of services …
Discussion: Fox News
Jerusalem Post:
‘US perceives Israel as encouraging anti-Obama backlash among Jews’  —  Israeli diplomats tell Israel Radio: Netanyahu government seen by Obama, Kerry as encouraging US Jewish leaders to criticize White House.  —  A US official close to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
The Atlantic Online:
What Obama's Next Three Years Will Look Like—for Better or Worse  —  Imagining the best- and worst-case scenarios for the rest of the president's term  —  On the cusp of his 2014 State of the Union message, President Obama is not exactly floating on air.  —  His fifth year …
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate 2014: A Coin-Flip  —  Political news in the opening weeks of 2014's midterm year has been dominated not by the upcoming national election, but instead by the one coming after it, in 2016.  The year's biggest political story is Gov. Chris Christie's (R-NJ) bridge controversy …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep.: Wife Should ‘Voluntarily Submit’ To Her Husband  —  Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) believes that although a wife is supposed to “voluntarily submit” to her husband, she is not inferior to him, according to the Washington Post.  —  “The wife is to voluntarily submit …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Althouse
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
GOP congressman's book: ‘The wife is to voluntarily submit’ to her husband
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
The Heritage Foundation Might Be Shedding Some Of Its Crazy Soon  —  2013 wasn't exactly been a banner year for the Heritage Foundation, Washington's most well-known and influential conservative think tank.  —  In its first year under former senator and tea party godfather Jim DeMint …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Iran on what it didn't agree to do  —  Watch CNN's full interview with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Sunday at 10 a.m. on “Fareed Zakaria GPS”  —  (CNN) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted Wednesday that the Obama administration mischaracterizes concessions by his side …
Nick Swartsell / Trail Blazers Blog:
Hannity to attend State of the Union with Rep. Gohmert, may run for office in Texas  —  Sean Hannity on Fox News, Jan. 21, 2014  —  WASHINGTON — The guest list for President Obama's upcoming State of the Union address just got more interesting.  —  Yesterday, Sean Hannity said he'd be attending as a guest of Rep. Louie Gohmert.
Discussion: BOR and The Gateway Pundit
Brian Beutler / Salon:
The real problem with the American right: Aging, white radicals  —  But less understood is the true reason why  —  The Republican Party's total failure to make even cosmetic changes to its image and policy agenda last year has at this point become the kind of cliché-cum-running joke …
Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Where Is Rep Steve Stockman?  —  The Texas congressman mounting a long shot campaign for Senate hasn't appeared on Capitol Hill for weeks.  —  Judge Crater, Jimmy Hoffa and Steve Stockman?  —  The Tea Party Texas congressman challenging incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in March's primary …
 
 
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
US psychology body declines to rebuke member in Guantánamo torture case
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
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Corky Siemaszko / NY Daily News:
Bernie Madoff recovering from heart attack, battling kidney cancer as he rots in federal prison
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Miami Beach mayor: Take your tech start-up gospel, and shove it
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Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
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