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That genius of semantics seems to have deserted the Right for now.
Sam Tanenhaus talks about divisions in the GOP on yesterday’s “To the Point.”  

President Obama looked comfortable in his first State of the Union speech since his re-election.  Many of his themes were familiar from last year’s campaign—and so is the Republican reaction. We hear excerpts and different versions of what the future might hold.  Also, a possible end to the Christopher Dorner manhunt. On Reporters Notebook, the Olympic Games — without wrestling?

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brooklynmutt:

That’s tough to swallow. 

Hashtag water.

Samuel Popkin, a professor at the University of California, San Diego and author of  “The Candidate: What It Takes to Win – and Hold – the White House,”  responds to the State of the Union.

When I finished school, I owed over 100,000 dollars in student loans, a debt I paid off just a few months ago.
Sen. Marco Rubio 

What does “citizen” mean to you?

In the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun.
President Obama