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10:55 AM ET, February 1, 2015

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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Walker Surging in Iowa Poll as Bush Struggles  —  Hillary Clinton is running away from the potential Democratic field.  —  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is surging, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is an also-ran and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is dominating in a new poll …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Scott Walker leads tight GOP pack in new Iowa Poll  —  In a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll of likely Republican caucusgoers, Rand Paul is just a point behind.  With Mitt Romney out, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush round out the top tier.  The Register  —  CONNECT
Washington Post:
Jeb Bush has become the GOP front-runner for 2016 — so now what?  —  Mitt Romney's decision to forgo a third try at the White House has settled the question of whether the 2016 GOP presidential field has a front-runner — bestowing a coveted status on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that also raises new challenges and perils.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Disneyland, Measles and Madness  —  A FEW years back, an acerbic friend of mine who was a recent transplant to Los Angeles told me that she itched to write a satirical novel with the following narrative:  —  A group of wealthy, educated people in Santa Monica who deliberately didn't vaccinate …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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New York Times:
Retroactively Authorizing War  —  They went largely unnoticed, four words President Obama ad-libbed during the State of the Union address last month as he asked lawmakers to provide legal cover for America's military intervention in Iraq and Syria.  —  “We need that authority,” the president said …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Our Loud, Proud Left  —  FOR the last week, liberal journalists have been furiously debating whether a new political correctness has swept over the American left.  The instigator of this argument was New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, normally a scourge of Republicans, whose essay on what he dubbed …
Nicole Hensley / NY Daily News:
Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate ‘disappear’ with ‘Lord of the Rings’ sorcery  —  The ring little Aiden brought to school may not have been the true ring of power, but it had enough controversy to get him suspended from a Kermit, Texas, school.
Discussion: Raw Story and BizPac Review
Heather Saul / The Independent:
Stephen Fry explains what he would say if he was ‘confronted by God’  —  Staunch atheist Stephen Fry left a television host stunned when he explained what he would say if he was “confronted by God”.  —  The actor and author, who recently married his partner Elliot Spencer …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Ratings Now Cut Both Ways, So Don't Sass Your Uber Driver  —  People routinely use the Internet to review services from plumbers to hairdressers.  Now the tables are turned.  Companies are rating their customers, shunning those who do not make the grade.  —  Hussein Kanji insists he is not a bad Uber passenger.
Discussion: Althouse
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Obama pledges ‘new era of medicine’  —  President Obama on Friday made a major commitment to a new field of medical research that he said will “lay the foundation for a new generation of life-saving discoveries”  —  The $215 million initiative, which was first unveiled during the State …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rand Paul slams Bush ‘hypocrisy’ on pot  —  DALLAS — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) accused Jeb Bush of hypocrisy after The Boston Globe reported the former Florida governor was a heavy marijuana smoker while at an elite prep school.  —  Bush opposed a Florida medical marijuana ballot initiative …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
JIM WEBB AND THE MERITS OF BEING HALF-RIGHT … Prospective presidential candidate Jim Webb has said something that has made some people very angry, some other people a little angry, and some people simply disturbed at the way he said something that's more than half-true, but not a lot more than half-true.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Horizons
Alexandra Klausner For / Daily Mail:
New York birth certificates now ask the mother if she is a male or a female  — The change in form is aimed at transgender women who may identify as male but still are able to give birth because of their female anatomy  — In 2008 Governor David Patterson changed the form everywhere …
 
 
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
How Audiences in Iraq Are Reacting to American Sniper
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Humberto Fontova / Townhall.com:
Michael Moore's Long Tradition of Defaming Heroes
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
Daily Mail:
Woman says she was pushed to the floor by a GHOST after security cameras filmed her being thrown …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Sean Kelly / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
Man Claims To Have Spotted Bigfoot At Prospect Park In New York City (Video)
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Carl Djerassi, 91, a Creator of the Birth Control Pill, Dies
Discussion: Jezebel
Reiji Yoshida / Japan Times latest:
Goto beheaded by Islamic State militants
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
New Legislation Introduced to Stop DHS “Catch and Release” Policy For Dangerous Criminal Aliens
Robert Pear / New York Times:
White House Seeks to Limit Health Law's Tax Troubles
Discussion: RedState and The PJ Tatler
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
John B. Geer had hands up when shot by Fairfax County police, documents show
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS DC