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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Romney leads McCain in Michigan poll — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who badly needs to win Tuesday's Michgian primary, has an eight-point lead over Sen. John McCain of Arizona in a McClatchy-MSNBC poll of Michigan voters to be released Sunday. — Romney had a narrower lead …
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Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News:
Romney, McCain duel for lead in Michigan GOP primary race — With just two days left before the primary, Michigan's volatile Republican presidential race is going down to the wire for frontrunners John McCain and Mitt Romney. — And Mike Huckabee is still a factor.
Chris Christoff / Detroit Free Press:
Romney is top choice for GOP in Tuesday primary, poll shows — McCain close second, but much rests on undecided voters — Republican primary voters whose greatest concern is the economy could give Bloomfield Hills native Mitt Romney his first major state victory in Tuesday's Michigan presidential primary …
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Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
The Media Does It Again — Today, the NY Times has the first part of a special series - War Torn:Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles. It appears that the troops are coming home and becoming murderers. … And we're presented with a litany of tragedy.
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Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
NYT's Vet Bashing Series (UPDATE) — The New York Times starts a new series, called “War Torn": “A series of articles and multimedia about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have committed killings, or been charged with them, after coming home.”
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Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles — Late one night in the summer of 2005, Matthew Sepi, a 20-year-old Iraq combat veteran, headed out to a 7-Eleven in the seedy Las Vegas neighborhood where he had settled after leaving the Army. — This particular 7-Eleven sits in the shadow …
Little Green Footballs:
Outrage of the Week: Canadian Publisher Persecuted for Mindcrime — An excellent opening statement by Ezra Levant, at his Canadian Human Rights Commission “hearing” for publishing the Danish cartoons of blasphemy. This hearing is an outrage, and Levant is brilliant here.
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AMERICAN DIGEST, Wizbang, Ezra Levant, Hot Air, Maggie's Farm, Dhimmi Watch, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, The Jawa Report, Knowledge is Power and Ed Driscoll.com
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Brendan Montague / Times of London:
Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study — A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros. — Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal.
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Jonah Goldberg / Washington Post:
Cloudy Fortunes for Conservatism — Well, this wasn't the plan. — As pretty much everyone has noticed, the Republican race hasn't exactly followed any of the scripts laid out for it. Mitt Romney has been hacked apart like the Black Knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
Todd Beeton / MyDD:
Barack Obama Townhall In Las Vegas — Yesterday I drove from LA to Vegas and due to a car fire on the 15, I arrived at Obama's townhall meeting an hour and a half after doors were scheduled to open. I knew I wasn't late, though, when I saw the enormous lines of people waiting to get in …
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Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
White House Secrecy Starts to Give — As Congress Intensifies Efforts for Openness, Administration Accedes — After years of hammering on the walls of secrecy surrounding the Bush White House, activists and Congress have begun, slowly, to open some cracks.
Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
McCaskill to endorse Obama — WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill will endorse Barack Obama's presidential bid Sunday, a boost that comes as the Democratic presidential showdown intensifies in Missouri and the raft of other states set to vote on Feb. 5th. — McCaskill had intended …
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New York Times:
Clinton Accuses Obama Camp of Distorting Her Words — RENO, Nev. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday accused Senator Barack Obama's campaign of distorting remarks she made to suggest that she had cast aspersions on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Caitlin Flanagan / New York Times:
Sex and the Teenage Girl — THE movie “Juno” is a fairy tale about a pregnant teenager who decides to have her baby, place it for adoption and then get on with her life. For the most part, the tone of the movie is comedic and jolly, but there is a moment when Juno tells her father about her condition …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Durbin warns Bill Clinton — Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking party leader in the Senate, says President Bill Clinton's comments about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) are getting “too personal” and called on the former president to refrain from attacking Obama's integrity.
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