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2:35 PM ET, January 31, 2015

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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb Bush's Former Classmates Say He Was A Hash-Smoking Bully  —  Thanks to the Boston Globe, we know what it's like to get high with Jeb Bush.  —  The newspaper spoke with several of Bush's former classmates from the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., who portrayed the former Florida governor as a stoner and a bit of a bully.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael KranishGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Jeb Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years  —  Possible presidential candidate had tumultuous four years at Andover school
Michael KranishGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Jeb Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years  —  Possible presidential candidate had tumultuous four years at Andover school
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Jeb ‘put me through hell’
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Reihan Salam / Slate:
The Upper Middle Class Is Ruining America  —  And I want it to stop.  —  I first encountered the upper middle class when I attended a big magnet high school in Manhattan that attracted a decent number of brainy, better-off kids whose parents preferred not to pay private-school tuition.
Discussion: Althouse and New York Times
CNN:
Mary Cheney: Why is drag ‘socially acceptable’ and blackface isn't?  —  Washington (CNN)Mary Cheney wants to know why it isn't “socially acceptable” for a white person to “put on blackface and act out offensive stereotypes of African-Americans” if drags queens are allowed to imitate female stereotypes?
BBC:
Greece economy: Merkel rules out more debt relief  —  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out cancelling any of Greece's debt, saying banks and creditors have already made substantial cuts.  —  But Mrs Merkel told the Die Welt newspaper she still wanted Greece to stay in the eurozone.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Greek Test
Discussion: Washington Post
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
Shoveling Science  —  Were you hit this week by all the climate change?  We here in the Baltimore/Washington area received just a light dusting, but Boston was covered in it.  Actually, thanks to the mainstream media, the whole nation was covered in climate change.
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
The Next Anti-Abortion Strategy Lurking Around The Corner  —  In what could represent their next major effort to dismantle the protections under Roe v. Wade, abortion opponents are laying the groundwork for a new attack on reproductive rights that borrows a page out of their old playbook.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and LifeSiteNews
New York Times:
A Strained Alliance: Obama-Netanyahu Rift Grew Over Years  —  WASHINGTON — For six years, the pattern has been the same.  A dispute between American and Israeli leaders spills out into the open.  Analysts declare the relationship in crisis.  Then the two sides try to tamp down emotions …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged  —  Bernie Sanders is in his natural state - of agitation.  —  It's just 9 a.m., but the socialist senator, contemplating a presidential run as a Democrat or as a populist independent, is red in the face and his white hair askew.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Michael Moore: Clint Eastwood Once Threatened to Kill Me  —  Does this explain why Michael Moore has been so critical of American Sniper?  In a long Facebook post Thursday night, the filmmaker recounted the time 10 years ago this month that Clint Eastwood allegedly threatened to kill him.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016  —  WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney told his supporters Friday that he will not run for president a third time in 2016, abruptly ending a three-week flirtation that illuminated a conflict between his White House dreams and the prospect of a highly taxing campaign …
Discussion: National Review and Mediaite
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker is Out of Mitt's Shadow—But Staying In the Spotlight Is A Challenge
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Althouse and Politico
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Time Magazine's Jeffrey Kluger writes what might possibly be the stupidest article about climate ever - climate change causes volcanoes  —  The stupid, it burns like a magnesium flare.  —  Excerpt from the article: … Riiight.  —  Here's the money quote:
Discussion: Climate Depot
Brendan Bordelon / National Review:
State Dept Won't Call Taliban Murder of American Contractors ‘Terrorism’  —  In the latest round of verbal gymnastics over the Taliban, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki refused to categorize the murder of American civilians at Kabul International Airport an act of “terrorism.”
 
 
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Republican Congress Meets Reality
Discussion: Politico