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Milo Yiannopoulos / Facebook:
I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim.  —  I would like to restate my utter disgust at adults who sexually abuse minors.  I am horrified by pedophilia and I have devoted large portions of my career as a journalist to exposing child abusers.  I've outed three of them, in fact -\-\ three more than most of my critics.
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Milo Yiannopoulos / Facebook:
A note for idiots (UPDATED):  —  I do not support pedophilia.  Period.  It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst.  There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject.
The Daily Beast:
CPAC Disinvites Milo Yiannopoulos, Despite His Attempt at Contrition  —  Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative provocateur and face of the alt-right, has been disinvited from the Conservative Political Action Conference after a recording surfaced where he appeared to defend pedophilia.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Milo Yiannopoulos disinvited from CPAC slot amid tape controversy  —  Milo Yiannopoulos lost his keynote speaking slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference after tapes surfaced of the right wing provocateur and senior Breitbart editor advocating for sexual relationships between “younger boys and older men.”
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
CPAC Blasted for Milo Yiannopoulos Invite After Pedophilia Remarks Resurface
DN.SE:
Swedish police featured in Fox News segment: Filmmaker is a madman  —  Trump's comments about Sweden during his rally in Melbourne, Florida, spawned headlines in newspapers all around the world.  The American president later clarified on Twitter, saying that he was referring to a segment …
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Fox News:
Trump may have been unclear, but Sweden experiencing a migrant crime wave  —  Police investigator Peter Springare isn't likely to be among those mocking President Trump for his remarks about refugees in Sweden.  —  Trump's comments during a Florida campaign rally on Saturday …
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Former Swedish PM: More murders in Florida where Trump spoke than in Sweden last year
Discussion: The Guardian, RedState and Joe.My.God.
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Former Aide Concedes There Was No Voter Fraud In New Hampshire  —  Corey Lewandowski is not reading from the same script.  —  In a rare bit of message contradiction within the ranks, Donald Trump's first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, conceded there was no evidence …
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Palegroove / CNN:
Ep. 123 - Corey Lewandowski | The Axe Files with David Axelrod
Discussion: Mediaite
Tim Skoczek / CNN:
Lewandowski: Trump's staff is letting him down
Discussion: RedState
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:   Lewandowski says he didn't see evidence of Trump's voter fraud claims in New Hampshire
Bill Neely / NBC News:
Russia Compiles Psychological Dossier on Trump for Putin  —  MOSCOW — A dossier on Donald Trump's psychological makeup is being prepared for Russian President Vladimir Putin.  —  Among its preliminary conclusions is that the new American leader is a risk-taker who can be naïve, according to a senior Kremlin adviser.
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
NBC: Russia setting up dossier on Trump
Discussion: RedState
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
33 questions about Donald Trump and Russia
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and New York Times
Mickey White / RedState:
The Usual People Plan 'Not My President's Day' Protests in the Usual Places  —  Hey, Hillary Clinton supporters are having another protest.  Today it's called the “Not My President's Day” Rally.  NBC News also lumped the protests over the weekend into the event.
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Chelsea Bailey / NBC News:
President Trump Officially Won't Be the Shortest-Serving U.S. President
Jamie Schram / New York Post:
Russian ambassador to UN rushed to hospital  —  Russia's ambassador to the United Nations was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Monday morning after suffering heart problems, sources told The Post.  —  Vitaly Churkin was at the Russian embassy on East 67th Street when he became sick with a …
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CNN:
Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to UN, dies suddenly at 64
Discussion: alan.com
Thomas E. Ricks / Foreign Policy:
Last man standing: McMaster for NSA?  —  I think Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will be the next national security advisor.  Like Vice Adm. Bob Harward, General David Petraeus reportedly has withdrawn over the issue of being able to bring in his own staff.  And Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg …
Discussion: Axios
ABC News:
Trump tries to move past controversies, toward legislating  —  As President Donald Trump begins his second month in office, his team is trying to move past the crush of controversies that overtook his first month and make progress on health care and tax overhauls long sought by Republicans.
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
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Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Justin Amash Emerges as Leading Critic of Fellow Republican Donald Trump
Discussion: Liberal Values and Cafe Hayek
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Va. Democrats to challenge GOP state lawmakers in each district Clinton won  —  Buoyed by a wave of progressive activism that began after the election of President Trump, Virginia Democrats plan to challenge 45 GOP incumbents in the deep-red House of Delegates this November …
Discussion: Political Wire and Balloon Juice
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Joe Piscopo Considers Running for Governor of New Jersey.  No Joke.  —  He found fame in the 1980s impersonating Frank Sinatra, President Ronald Reagan and countless others on “Saturday Night Live,” followed by numerous Hollywood gigs, stand-up routines and a drive-time radio show.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
In Trump's Volleys, Echoes of Alex Jones's Conspiracy Theories  —  Way back on Friday, President Trump declared that several news organizations — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The New York Times — were “the enemy of the American people.”  You know who's not the enemy, in his book?  —  Alex Jones.
Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
Trump's White House: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight  —  The Constitution-straining conflicts surrounding the president, his top aides, some of his children, and his licensing-and-development business are a problem with no end in sight.  —  We aren't even a third of the way through …
Jeb Lund / Esquire:
Dispatches from the Saturday night Trump rally.  —  If people told you that MAGA hats come 25 percent off when you look peevish and 50 percent off when you're already wearing a sneer, the line snaking out of the airport hangar and a quarter mile down S. Apollo Blvd. in Melbourne, Florida …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Steve Berman / The Resurgent:
The Hill reported Monday morning: … I'm still smarting from the decision by ACU to invite Milo to begin with.  It was a bonehead move worthy of a group that decided suicide would be better than actual conservative thought.  —  We will now dispense with further discussion of Milo Yiannopoulos.
 
 
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Trump and the crisis of the meritocracy: Glenn Reynolds
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