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3:30 PM ET, January 28, 2015

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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
A Note To My Readers  —  One of the things I've always tried to do at the Dish is to be up-front with readers.  This sometimes means grotesque over-sharing; sometimes it means I write imprudent arguments I have to withdraw; sometimes it just means a monthly update on our revenues and subscriptions …
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Mitt Romney Will Portray Hillary Clinton As ‘Clueless’ on Jobs, Foreign Policy … Mitt Romney will speak about poverty in a speech in the nation's poorest state this evening — while directly taking aim at Hillary Clinton, saying she “cluelessly pressed a reset button for Russia.”
Discussion: Politico
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Mitt Romney to Attack Hillary Clinton in Speech
Discussion: Business Insider
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
What to call a president's husband? Bill Clinton has ideas
Discussion: New York Magazine and OnPolitics
Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Romney began building expensive homes after 2012 loss
Discussion: CNN, Hot Air, abc7news.com and Politico
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Obama Is Setting Up Hillary Clinton to Fail
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and Politico
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, panel's ranking Dem says
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican leaders look for escape plan on immigration  —  Republican leaders in the House and Senate are boxed in on immigration and searching for a way out.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are struggling to find a way to fund the Department …
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Politico:
Homeland Security funding on the brink  —  House has no solution for funding cliff.  —  The border security bill that the House was slated to bring up this week could now be delayed until sometime in late February.  Getty  —  Top Republicans are increasingly unworried about missing …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Hill and Weekly Standard
Alex Roarty / National Journal:
The ‘War on Women’ Isn't Over Yet
Discussion: Washington Post and Instapundit
Politico:
Koch donors give Marco Rubio early nod  —  Straw poll at donor summit rates 5 GOP hopefuls.  —  Getty  —  The Koch brothers' conservative network is still debating whether it will spend any of its massive $889-million budget in the Republican presidential primaries, but the prospect …
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Stephanie Smith / Page Six:
Marco Rubio's wife crashes family car at 2016 summit
Discussion: Politico and American Spectator
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama forgoes a headscarf and sparks a backlash in Saudi Arabia  —  Barack Obama was in Riyadh on Tuesday to pay his respects to the late Saudi King Abdullah.  His visit, for which he cut short a much-hyped trip to India, underscores how important the U.S.-Saudi relationship remains to the American leadership.
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Noah Rothman / Hot Air:
Politico invents nasty Mike Huckabee quote, mocks it  —  Mike Huckabee's approach to winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 has been ... perplexing.  —  He has taken to running as a culturally conservative candidate, but has defined cultural conservatism as that which stands …
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Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Mike Huckabee complains of ‘trashy’ women at Fox News  —  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a recent radio appearance that while in New York for his Fox News show, he experienced significant culture shock from all the “trashy” women swearing in a professional setting.
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: January 2015  —  Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann Brodie … The Public's Views Of King V. Burwell And Exchanges  —  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case, King v. Burwell, in March about whether the health care law says people in all states …
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Domenico Montanaro / PBS NewsHour:
Republicans to vote on repealing Obamacare ... again
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
You Betcha I Was Wrong About Sarah Palin  —  It's time to admit that, whatever their motivation was at the time, the Alaska governor's critics always had a point.  —  Has conservative genuflection at the altar of Sarah Palin finally come to a halt?  —  In case you missed it …
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
U-Va. sorority sisters ordered to stay home Saturday night for their own safety - while fraternity brothers party  —  Sorority sisters at the University of Virginia were ordered by their national chapters to avoid fraternity events this weekend — a mandate that many of the women said was irrational …
Spokesman.com:
Testimony: ‘Ramifications upon my church,’ questions on bathroom use, ‘parading their genitalia’  —  The first four people to testify this morning at the HB 2 hearing all spoke against the bill, including Pastor Jeff Estes of Fellowship Baptist Church in Meridian, who said …
Discussion: KTFT, Addicting Info and Raw Story
Walt Hunter / CBS Philly:
Sources: Probe Into On-Duty Sex In Philadelphia Fire Department  —  Walt Hunter  —  Eyewitness News Reporter Walt Hunter is one of the market's ...  PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Sources tell CBS 3 allegations of sexual activity on-duty involving as many as a dozen male members of the Philadelphia Fire Department …
WJXT-TV:
Judge: Marissa Alexander released to house arrest  —  Marissa Alexander must wear GPS ankle monitor for next 2 years  —  Author: Vic Micolucci, General assignment reporter, vic@wjxt.com … Marissa Alexander, a woman whose case helped bring national attention to Florida's stand your ground …
Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Anti-tank missile fired at Israeli military vehicle on Lebanon frontier: army  —  (Reuters) - An anti-tank missile was fired at an Israeli military vehicle near the Lebanon border on Wednesday, wounding four soldiers, a military source said.  —  The incident came several hours after Israel launched …
Politico:
GOP lawmakers confront Jim DeMint over ratings  —  Conservatives accuse his group of being too harsh on them.  —  Long-simmering tensions between the Heritage Foundation, its sister political arm and House Republicans erupted Tuesday during a weekly meeting of conservatives …
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael Kimmelman / New York Times:
A Chance to Salvage a Master's Creation  —  Unless county legislators act quickly, a paragon of midcentury American idealism will be lost.  —  Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center, in Goshen, N.Y., announces itself as a civic hub.  It's made of corrugated concrete and glass …
Discussion: Althouse
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Says Radio Host Should Have Personally Arrested Michelle Obama's Guest To The SOTU  —  This July 28, 2011 file photo shows Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., left, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite  —  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) had a lighthearted moment during …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
KTLA:
Young Utah Family Poisoned Themselves; Feared ‘Pending Apocalypse’: Police … The mysterious deaths of five Utah family members in their Springville home baffled authorities at first.  —  Benjamin and Kristi Strack were found dead on their bed on September 27.
Discussion: FreakOutNation and FOX News Radio
 
 
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
Latina Teen Shot And Killed By Denver Cops Leads To Questions, Anger
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The Hill:
Tea Party lawmakers may take on McCain
Discussion: National Review
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
ACLU moves to block return of ‘torture report’ to Hill
Discussion: classifiedsection …
James Glanz / New York Times:
N.F.L. Investigator Seeks to Consult Columbia Physicist Over Patriots' Deflated Footballs
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Loretta Lynch defends Obama's immigration action
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Politico:
The importance of being Ernst  —  The just-elected Iowa senator aims …
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Obama drops proposal to cut tax benefits of 529 college savings plans
Discussion: Eschaton, The Week and New York Times
Austin American-Statesman:
Rick Perry loses second request to dismiss case against him