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4:15 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
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
John B. Geer had hands up when shot by Fairfax County police, documents show  —  John B. Geer stood with his hands on top of the storm door of his Springfield townhouse and calmly said to four Fairfax County police officers with guns pointed right at him: “I don't want anybody to get shot . . .
Discussion: CBS DC
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
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
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
G.O.P. Campaigns Scramble to Add Romney Donors  —  Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida plunged into all-out battle this weekend for the biggest unclaimed prize in American politics and the decisive advantage that could go with it: the billion-dollar donor network once harnessed by Mitt Romney.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016
Discussion: National Review and Mediaite
Robert Pear / New York Times:
White House Seeks to Limit Health Law's Tax Troubles  —  WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials and other supporters of the Affordable Care Act say they worry that the tax-filing season will generate new anger as uninsured consumers learn that they must pay tax penalties and as many people struggle …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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?
CNN:
Whitney Houston's daughter found unresponsive, taken to hospital  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive Saturday morning in a bathtub full of water in Roswell, Georgia, police in that Atlanta suburb said.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Joe. My. God.
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
NYC to Pay $3.9 Million to Family of Unarmed Teen Killed by Cop  —  The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed teenager shot and killed in his grandmother's bathroom by an NYPD officer in February 2012, has agreed to a $3.9 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against the city, the New York Daily News reports.
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
 
 
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Time Magazine's Jeffrey Kluger writes what might possibly be the stupidest article about climate …
Discussion: Climate Depot
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Republican Congress Meets Reality