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1:40 AM ET, January 9, 2015

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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
New York Times Reports On Muslim Proselytizing During Charlie Hebdo Attack, Then Deletes It  —  When Islamic terrorists expressly tell their victims why they're being attacked, our mainstream media will do anything to cover it up.  They'll change the subject, they'll blame the victims... they'll even stealth-edit their own copy.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
A Close Call on Publication of Charlie Hebdo Cartoons  —  Was The Times cowardly and lacking in journalistic solidarity when it decided not to publish the images from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that precipitated the execution of French journalists?  —  Some readers I've heard from certainly think so.
Fox News:
Pen vs. sword: Cartoonists unite against Islamist terror  —  Antonio Branco's tribute is entitled “We are all cartoonists now.”  —  Cartoonists around the world rallied Thursday behind fellow artists killed in a terror attack in Paris because of their satirical drawings mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Dean Baquet addresses NYT's republication of anti-Semitic cartoons  —  New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet decided that his paper would not publish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad primarily because he did not want to insult the paper's Muslim readers.
Discussion: Power Line, Gawker, Mediaite and Ed Driscoll
Liz Alderman / New York Times:
Survivors Retrace a Scene of Horror at Charlie Hebdo
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
After Charlie Hebdo attack, U.S. Catholic group says cartoonists ‘provoked’ slaughter
Shanifa Nasser / National Post:
In wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks, secularist groups to seek end of Canada's blasphemy law
CNNMoney.com:
The Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoons: Media outlets shy away or take a stand
David Hudson / White House.gov Blog:
The President Proposes to Make Community College Free for Responsible Students for 2 Years  —  Post by The White House.  —  Today, the President unveiled a new proposal: Make two years of community college free for responsible students across America.  —  In our growing global economy …
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Gregory Korte / Associated Press:
Obama to propose free community college  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will propose two years of free community college for American workers Friday, part of what the White House says is an effort to make community college as universal as high school is today.
Discussion: Addicting Info and KFOR-TV
Allie Grasgreen / Politico:
Obama to propose two free years of community college for students
Discussion: TICAS and Weasel Zippers
Philly.com:
Grand jury recommends criminal charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane  —  The special prosecutor and grand jury investigating allegations that Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane leaked secret information to a newspaper have found evidence of wrongdoing and recommended that she be criminally charged …
Roberto A. Ferdman / Washington Post:
Most of America's rich think the poor have it easy  —  There is little empathy at the top.  —  Most of America's richest think poor people have it easy in this country, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center.  The center surveyed a nationally representative group …
Discussion: Eschaton and Booman Tribune
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
The Politics of Financial Insecurity
Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Sen. Barbara Boxer's impending retirement to set off a scramble  —  Sen. Barbara Boxer's announcement Thursday that she will not seek reelection put an end to years of frustration on the part of a younger generation of California politicians who can now start elbowing their way upward …
Discussion: Fusion
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Full Tamir Rice Video Released: Attorney Calls It 'Cruelest Thing I've Ever Seen,' And You Will, Too
Discussion: Mediaite
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Axelrod: Clinton 'wasn't a very good candidate' in 2007  —  David Axelrod on Thursday jabbed at Hillary Clinton, saying that she wasn't a very strong candidate during the first part of her campaign for the 2008 presidential nomination.  —  The chief strategist for Barack Obama's …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Manchin: Keystone veto threat ‘not the way a democracy works’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Thursday he was disappointed that the White House threatened to veto his legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing the president's move was “not the way a democracy works.”
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The New World Order  —  The Republican White House field is scrambled earlier than expected  —  Well, that didn't last long!  By that, we mean our pre-Christmas ordering of the GOP presidential field.  We shouldn't be surprised.  Politics never takes a long holiday break anymore.
Discussion: Liberal Values
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Do Americans Have a ‘Right to Rise’?  —  If Jeb Bush is trying to show Republicans that he's conservative enough to be their nominee, he has a strange way of showing it.  Consider the manifesto of his newly created political action committee, The Right to Rise.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Martin O'Malley, eyeing 2016, admits progressives' setbacks  —  Outgoing Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday that he'll decide on whether to run for president after spending a “couple of months” settling his family back into Baltimore, even as he acknowledged Democrats' disastrous showing …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Amanda Kowalski / Brookings Institute:
The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act  —  ABSTRACT  —  I examine the impact of state policy decisions on the early impact of the ACA using data through the first half of 2014.  I focus on the individual health insurance market, which includes plans purchased through exchanges as well as plans purchased directly from insurers.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson Apologizes For Plagiarism In Book  —  The book's publisher says it will update future printings.  “I apologize, and I am working with my editors to rectify the situation,” Carson tells BuzzFeed News.  —  Ben Carson Facebook  —  Dr. Ben Carson apologized Thursday for instances …
Aurin Squire / The New Republic:
Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown  —  For the second consecutive week, New York City police have virtually ceased writing tickets and arresting people for many nonviolent crimes, on the order of a 90 percent drop from a year earlier.
Roxana Hegemanthe / Associated Press:
Grand jury investigates loans to Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election campaign  —  A federal grand jury is looking into loans made to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election campaign and has ordered the state's ethics chief to testify next week as part of its investigation, according to a subpoena obtained by The Associated Press.
Discussion: FreakOutNation
Politico:
The GOP's Staten Island headache  —  National Republicans fear revival of Garner tensions.  —  National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming New York City special congressional election, as the party is poised to nominate a figure who could thrust the contest …
Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
Roberts's Frost  —  A few hours before the ball dropped in Times Square, the Supreme Court released Chief Justice Roberts's year-end report on the federal judiciary.  —  The report is a gem, as are so many of the chief's writings, and its discussion of the court's conservative approach …
 
 
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
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