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6:10 PM ET, January 14, 2015

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Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
France cracks down on hate speech, sends carrier to Mideast  —  PARIS (AP) — France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to the Mideast to work more closely …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
With New Charlie Hebdo Cover, News Value Should Have Prevailed  —  Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my post last week about The Times's decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.  (In fact, I've never had more comments on a post or column.)
Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Romney crafting a rationale for 2016 run  —  Focus on poor, foreign policy
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James Carville / The Hill:   Obama's 2015  —  As on most NFL Sundays in south Louisiana …
Fox News:
House votes to overturn Obama immigration actions, bill heads to Senate  —  House Republicans voted Wednesday to overturn President Obama's immigration actions from last November — and to unravel a directive from 2012 affecting immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children …
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Reuters:
U.S. House passes security funding bill blocking immigration actions
Discussion: National Review and CNN
National Journal:
House GOP Centrists Push Back on Immigration
TMZ.com:
Jimmy Carter — Huckabee's Wrong on Everything ... Not Just Obamas' Parenting Skills  —  HUCKABEE'S WRONG ON EVERYTHING  —  Not Just Obamas' Parenting Skills  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Jimmy Carter slammed Mike Huckabee Tuesday for criticizing the Obamas' parenting skills.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Jimmy Carter Defends Obama Letting Daughters Listen To Beyoncé  —  Former President Jimmy Carter defended Barack Obama's parenting skills Wednesday, after former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expressed dismay that the President would let his teenage daughters listen to singer Beyoncé.
Victor Paul Alvarez / Boston Globe:
Bartender's Threat against John Boehner Thwarted  —  The FBI says an Ohio bartender planned to kill House Speaker John Boehner last October by poisoning his drink at a country club.  —  The question is: Would anyone have noticed?  Stories about Boehner's drinking have circulated for years.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Boston.com's questionable Boehner joke
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Paul Ryan isn't running for president.  He's after something even bigger.  —  Most politicians who can gin up presidential speculation do (see Gingrich, Newt).  It means more reporters covering their speeches, more money for their PAC, more invitations to the Sunday shows.
CBS News:
Obama's approval rating ticks up in 2015  —  Shares -  —  President Obama's overall job approval rating has risen seven points since last October, although it still remains below 50 percent.  Forty-six percent of Americans now approve of the job the president is doing, while just as many disapprove.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Obama Job Rating Ticks Higher, Views of Nation's Economy Turn More Positive
Numbers / Pew Research Center's Social …:
Women and Leadership  —  Public Says Women are Equally Qualified, but Barriers Persist  —  According to the majority of Americans, women are every bit as capable of being good political leaders as men.  The same can be said of their ability to dominate the corporate boardroom.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
4 top Secret Service executives told to leave their posts in agency shake-up  —  Members of the Secret Service follow President Obama as he arrives at Northwestern University on Oct. 2, 2014, in Evanston, Ill. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)  —  The Secret Service has decided …
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
Former highest-ranking U.S. cardinal blames ‘feminization’ for the Catholic Church's problems  —  Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke is a man with a lot of enemies.  The former archbishop of St. Louis, who once said supporters of abortion rights shouldn't receive communion, became the highest-ranking American …
Discussion: Shakesville
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Howard Dean's Advice to White House Hopefuls: Look the Part  —  Howard Dean knew his 2004 presidential campaign was in big trouble weeks before he punctuated a third-place Iowa caucus finish with the infamous “scream speech.”  —  By that point Mr. Dean, then the Vermont governor who went …
Discussion: Political Wire
Commentary Magazine:
The Existential Necessity of Zionism After Paris: A COMMENTARY Editorial  —  I.  —  The jihadist siege of a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris on January 9 was not the beginning of a new threat to French Jews and the Jews of Europe.  Rather, it was the culmination of a decade of crisis.
Discussion: The Federalist
Jason Silverstein / NY Daily News:
Donald Trump suing Florida county for $100 million for allegedly flying planes over his oceanside mansion  —  A Jan. 6 lawsuit says the Palm Beach County airport is deliberately rerouting planes over Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion as revenge for past legal squabbling.
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Ashley Judd: ‘I might run some day’  —  Ashley Judd says voters shouldn't count her out of the political arena just yet.  —  “I might run some day,” she tells ITK, “I don't know.”  —  The “Divergent” actress famously flirted with a Kentucky Senate bid against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R).
Discussion: OnPolitics and The Huffington Post
Mike Clary / Sun-Sentinel:
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Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN and WGN-TV
Hugh Son / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan CEO Dimon Says Banks ‘Under Assault’ by U.S. Regulators  —  Jamie Dimon, grappling with multibillion-dollar legal costs and rising capital requirements at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), lashed out at U.S. regulators for putting his bank “under assault.”
Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
This Is Obama's Last Foreign Policy Chance  —  The failure of Obama or Biden to show up in Paris made clear that most of the president's team can't be trusted to conduct U.S national security policy and must be replaced—at once.  —  Here's why America's failure to be represented at the Paris unity march was so profoundly disturbing.
Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
The new anti-Semitism: Majority of British Jews feel they have no future in UK, says new study  —  More than half of British Jewish people fear Jews have no future in the UK, according to a new study which also reveals that antisemitic sentiments are more prevalent than widely believed.
Discussion: Spectator and Vox Popoli
 
 
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Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
Mayor de Blasio and Rabbis Near Accord on New Circumcision Rule
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz Was Once Ticketed For Possession Of Alcohol As A Minor
Sam Knight / THE DISTRICT SENTINEL:
Gohmert Says US Leaders Should Emulate Egypt's Killer Dictator
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Rene Stutzman / Orlando Sentinel:
Gay couple win name dispute, get new driver's licenses
Discussion: Advocate and Joe. My. God.
Reuters:
Kerry and Zarif unexpectedly resume nuclear talks in Geneva
Discussion: Twitchy and American Spectator
John DiStaso / New Hampshire Journal:
Updated: Paul says Romney was right, ‘somebody new’ should lead GOP in 2016
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Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Virginia lawmaker wins election from jail
Natalie Villacorta / Politico:
Medicaid expansion in doubt — Obama says no need for King contingency plan — Bipartisan …
Discussion: Hot Air and Hit & Run
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
In a Safer Age, U.S. Rethinks Its ‘Tough on Crime’ System
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
We Need Another Giant Protest