memeorandum: Morning Plum: After terror attack, GOP rethinks showdown over Homeland Security (Greg Sargent/Washington Post)

5:30 PM ET, January 8, 2015

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Charlie Hebdo staff vow to publish next week with 1m print run — Writer for satirical magazine says ‘stupidity will not win’ as Google pledges to donate €250,000 to support the publication — Surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo have vowed to publish the satirical weekly next Wednesday …

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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:

After Charlie Hebdo attack, U.S. Catholic group says cartoonists ‘provoked’ slaughter — In the aftermath of the deadly assault on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, much of the world has rallied in solidarity with the publication, its irreverent cartoonists and their right to free speech.

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George Packer / New Yorker:

The Blame for the Charlie Hebdo Murders — The murders today in Paris are not a result of France's failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They're not about French military action against the Islamic State in the Middle East, or the American invasion of Iraq before that.

Daily Mail:

Attack came less than 24 hours after 12 people were shot dead at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, also in Paris — French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve - pictured second left, at the site of the shooting in Montrouge - said the shooter was still at large

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Shanifa Nasser / National Post:
In wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks, secularist groups to seek end of Canada's blasphemy law

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Liz Alderman / New York Times:
Survivors Retrace a Scene of Horror at Charlie Hebdo

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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Europe Is Under Siege

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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Is Islam to Blame for the Shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris?

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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Muslims segregated from French society in growing Islamist mini-states

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Erin Polgreen / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting

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USA Today:
French police hunt door to door for terror suspects

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New York Times:
The Charlie Hebdo Massacre in Paris

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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Print the Cartoons, Show the Movie

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Arthur Goldhammer / Fact-Based, In-Depth News:
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo

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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:

Dems' Big Conundrum In GOP Senate: How To Deploy The Filibuster? — When Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) took to his chamber's floor on Wednesday he warned that the now minority Senate Democrats “had no intention of just rolling over” but added that the “gratuitous obstruction …

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell is off to a bitter start

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: After terror attack, GOP rethinks showdown over Homeland Security

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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 …

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USA Today:

People know the consequences: Opposing view — Why did France allow the tabloid to provoke Muslims? — Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression …

Cory Shaffer / Plain Dealer:

Extended Tamir Rice shooting video shows officers restrained sister — CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland police officers forced Tamir Rice's 14-year-old sister to the ground, handcuffed her and placed in the back of a Cleveland police car steps away from her wounded 12-year-old brother.

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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 …

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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
The Politics of Financial Insecurity

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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:

California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer to Retire — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, one of the chamber's most tenacious liberals, announced Thursday she will not seek re-election in 2016 to a fifth term. — A staunch supporter of abortion rights, gun control and environmental protections …

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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:

It's All Right with Sam — Samuel A. Alito Jr. may be the least recognizable of Supreme Court justices. I doubt if one American in a thousand could pick him out of a lineup. Those who do know the name, if not the face, of the 64-year-old justice most likely lump him with the other conservatives …

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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Supreme Court to meet again to decide on hearing gay marriage

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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.”

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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Keystone on the brink — Senators are scrambling to keep the project alive.

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John Parkinson / ABC News:

Boehner Says It Hurts to Be Called ??? Spineless or a Squish??? … House Speaker John Boehner said today that he found it painful to be described as “spineless or a squish,” but said the worst comments about him was that he was “the establishment.” — Boehner's comments came during …

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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Boehner: I'm the ‘most anti-establishment speaker’

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Cory Bennett / The Hill:

House Dem revives major cyber bill — A senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday will reintroduce a controversial bill that would help the public and private sectors share information about cybersecurity threats. — “The reason I'm putting bill in now is I want to keep …

Discussion: The Verge

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi taps Rep. Schiff as top Dem on Intel panel

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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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Alana Semuels / The Atlantic Online:

Suburbs and the New American Poverty — NORCROSS, Ga.—Every weekday around 3:15 p.m., a big, yellow school bus stops on Pelican Drive outside Norcross Extended Stay, near the intersection with Best Friend Drive. — Dozens of children file out, carrying their heavy backpacks away …

Discussion: The Dish

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 …

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