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3:15 PM ET, January 14, 2015

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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.)
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Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
France arrests 54 for defending terror; newspaper sells out  —  14 photos  —  PARIS (AP) — Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn Wednesday around Paris, with some scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the satirical paper fronting the Prophet Muhammad.
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 …
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Muslim Groups Urge Peaceful Response to New Charlie Hebdo Cover
Discussion: NBC News and FOX News Radio
Wall Street Journal:
Romney Recycled  —  Mitt would have to explain why he'd be a better candidate now.  —  If Mitt Romney is the answer, what is the question?  We can think of a few worthy possibilities, though one that doesn't come immediately to mind is who would be the best Republican presidential nominee in 2016.
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Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Romney crafting a rationale for 2016 run  —  Focus on poor, foreign policy
James Carville / The Hill:
Obama's 2015  —  As on most NFL Sundays in south Louisiana, I had one too many bowls of gumbo and a few too many bourbons as I sat parked fully reclined in my leather wingback chair watching my fellow New Orleanian Peyton Manning play.  And I dozed off ...  I had a dream.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Third Chance for Romney? G.O.P. Is Torn
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  —  An article (since changed) on Boston.com questioned if “anyone would have noticed” had a bartender succeeded in his alleged plot to poison House Speaker John Boehner.  —  The original headline (and still current URL) reads: Would anyone have noticed bartender succeeded poisoning John Boehner?
Discussion: ABC News
WCPO:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI says John Boehner's West Chester bartender planned to poison him
David Lawder / Reuters:
House passes security funding bill blocking immigration actions  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans drew a hard line against President Barack Obama's executive immigration initiatives, voting to block them as they passed a Department of Homeland Security spending bill on Wednesday.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
John Thune: No ‘opening’ for a White House run
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Hill
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
We Need Another Giant Protest  —  President Obama was criticized for failing to attend, or send a proper surrogate to, the giant antiterrorism march in Paris on Sunday.  That criticism was right.  But it is typical of American politics today that we focus on this and not what would have …
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George Friedman / Stratfor:
A War Between Two Worlds
Discussion: The Glittering Eye and Vox Popoli
Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
DENVER AND THE WEST  —  FAMILY: LAKEWOOD CHURCH STOPS WOMAN'S FUNERAL BECAUSE SHE WAS GAY  —  LAKEWOOD — Hundreds of Vanessa Collier's friends and family gathered Saturday at New Hope Ministries, sitting before an open casket holding the woman they loved, when suddenly the minister overseeing her funeral stopped the service.
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Lance Hernandez / TheDenverChannel.com:
Family, friends protest New Hope Ministries' last-minute refusal to host lesbian's funeral
Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
PBA's Patrick Lynch spurs yelling, shoving among cops over NYPD-City Hall feud  —  The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association was not so much on Tuesday as some cops shouted down Lynch regarding his demand that Mayor de Blasio apologize over comments related to race and police relations.
Benjamin Hardy / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Father and son turned away from “Muslim-free” Hot Springs gun range for being brown  —  When we reported last fall on a Hot Springs firing range that was declared a “Muslim free zone” by its owner, several blog commenters asked, “how will she know who's a Muslim?”
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.
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.”
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 and Weekly Standard
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.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Does free media have an obligation to Islam?  —  In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, both America's paper of record (The New York Times) and its network of record (CNN) have declined to show Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed on the grounds that they might offend Muslims.
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.
Natalie Villacorta / Politico:
Medicaid expansion in doubt — Obama says no need for King contingency plan — Bipartisan senators introduce medical device repeal bill  —  With help from Jennifer Haberkorn, Susan Levine and Rachana Pradhan  —  MEDICAID EXPANSION MAY CONTRACT — The Republican tide has swept Obamacare foes …
Discussion: Hit & Run
 
 
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Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Virginia lawmaker wins election from jail
Discussion: ABC News
Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
This Is Obama's Last Foreign Policy Chance
New York Times:
In New Congress, Wall St. Pushes to Undermine Dodd-Frank Reform
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Common Dreams and The Hill
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
In a Safer Age, U.S. Rethinks Its ‘Tough on Crime’ System
Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
The new anti-Semitism: Majority of British Jews feel they have no future in UK, says new study
Discussion: Spectator and Vox Popoli
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Rand Paul announces campaign manager for likely 2016 campaign