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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The Era of GOP Hostage-Taking Just Ended

Today: Obama Could Legally Stop Immigrant Deportations , Will Today's Closeted NFL Stars Let Michael Sam Be the First Out Player? , WA Gov. Suspends Death Penalty
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

February 11, 2014
CAVED

Word came down this morning that John Boehner and company are going to present to the House a clean bill to increase the debt ceiling. No demands, no strings attached. Standing firm works, Michael Tomasky writes, and Obama secured a win for sanity.

SHIPPING OUT

The White House is deporting more than 1,100 illegal immigrants per day, topping the rate of any of President Obama's predecessors. Sally Kohn says that Obama legally can—and should—stop sending away would-be Americans. But does he have the political guts to do it?

PARTY TIME

The moment Michael Sam is drafted, he will make history and millions in endorsements. Football players are notoriously competitive and with 1,700 in the league, it's certain that there are a few gay ones on the gridiron. Evin Demirel writes one of them may want to come out before they have to follow a rookie as the league's first openly gay player.

REPRIEVE

Death Row let in a little more light in Washington state on Tuesday, when Gov. Jay Inslee announced his opposition to capital punishment and suspended its use during his term. "Equal justice under the law is the state's primary responsibility," he said at a press conference. "And in death-penalty cases, I'm not convinced equal justice is being served." Inslee promised to issue a reprieve to any death-penalty cases that cross his desk, and the Attorney General's Office said he had the power to do so "for good cause shown, and as the governor thinks proper." There are nine men on Death Row at the Washington State Penitentiary.

MOBBED UP

It's like Goodfellas meets Scarface. FBI officials in New York arrested seven members of a heroin and cocaine smuggling ring with ties to one of Italy's most powerful criminal rings, the 'Ndrangheta. Some members reportedly also had connections with the infamous Gambino and Bonanno crime families in America. The FBI sting was part of a joint operation with the Italian National Police, who made 17 arrests as well. Officials said the group had plans to transport drugs to South America via Guyana to a port in Calabria by hiding the narcotics among frozen fish or pineapples in container ships. The FBI says the ring also handled counterfeit money and illegally trafficked guns, but that's small potatoes compared to hiding $7 million worth of cocaine in coconut milk.


KICK THE CAN
Obamacare Delayed for Small Biz
Coverage not mandatory until 2016.
ERASING HISTORY
Army Purged Bin Laden Death Photos
After AP asked for them.
GULP
Court: Keep Force-Feeding at Gitmo
No temporary injunction.
SCOUT'S HONOR
Gay Eagle Scout May Lose Rank
When he turns 18 in August.

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