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Herman Cain wins Tea Party presidential live straw poll at Phoenix summit — Phoenix (CNN) - Which Republican should become the next president? Herman Cain, according to a number of Tea Party activists gathered at a weekend summit in Phoenix. — Cain, a conservative talk show host …
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LifeNews.com, Outside the Beltway and Tim Pawlenty's Freedom …
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Tim Pawlenty Supports Government Shutdown: ‘A Dramatic Month’ Is ‘What We Need’ — ThinkProgress filed this report from the Tea Party Patriots Policy Summit in Phoenix, AZ. — As the threat of a government shutdown looms over the nation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) …
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Herman Cain wins Tea Party straw poll — According to CNN, Herman Cain, the dynamic and possible 2012 candidate, won the the American Policy Summit's presidential live straw poll on Sunday held by the Tea Party Patriots conference. — Capturing 22% of the 1600 votes cast, Cain …
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Liberty Pundits Blog and Pirate's Cove
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Long-shot GOP candidate wins Tea Party straw poll — Former pizza executive Herman Cain won on Sunday a 2012 presidential straw poll of attendees of a Tea Party conference in Arizona. — Cain won 22 percent of the vote in a straw poll of in-person attendees at the American Policy Summit …
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Weasel Zippers
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Live Updates: Police to Clear Protestors from Wisconsin Capitol Building — I'm collecting live coverage of events as police prepare to clear out the Wisconsin Capitol Building in Madison, WI on the 14th day of protests against Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting bill.
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Crooks and Liars and naked capitalism
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Althouse and Meade return to the Veterans Memorial and encounter apologetic protesters, the police, and a rudeness expert. — I took this video yesterday — Saturday, February 26th — at the Wisconsin Capitol building. Meade wanted to go back to see if the protesters had followed through …
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Patterico's Pontifications, Pajamas Media, The Lonely Conservative and The Gateway Pundit
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Roger Ailes to be Indicted — Last week, the NY Times broke the story that Roger Ailes had urged various colleagues to lie to Federal investigators; (David Corn explains the background to this here). — NYT: … Here's what I learned recently: Someone I spoke with claimed that Ailes …
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Arab World Embraces Israeli's YouTube Spoof of Qaddafi Rant — JERUSALEM — A satirical YouTube clip mocking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's megalomania is fast becoming a popular token of the Libya uprising across Middle East. And in an added affront to Colonel Qaddafi, it was created by an Israeli living in Tel Aviv.
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Mish's Global Economic …, Jihad Watch and New York Magazine
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The Only Chart You Need To See To Understand Why The US Is Screwed — We're still working our way through Kleiner Perkins' partner Mary Meeker's excellent analysis of the financial condition of the United States. — We'll be breaking out some key sections in the next few days.
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TigerHawk and Pajamas Media
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Judicial Watch Obtains Previously Redacted Material from the FBI File of the Late Senator Ted Kennedy — While in Santiago, Kennedy “made arrangements to ‘rent’ a brothel for an entire night”; Sought meetings with “communists and others who had left-wing views”
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Doug Ross, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, Babalú Blog and Gawker
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Libya's Gaddafi clings to Tripoli — With much of the oil-producing regions in opposition hands, Gaddafi's power base shrinks to the capital's periphery. — As more cities fall into the hands of the pro-democracy protesters, Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is hanging on to the capital …
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Sky Dancing, New York Times, The Agonist and Truthdig
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Regulation Lax as Gas Wells' Tainted Water Hits Rivers — The American landscape is dotted with hundreds of thousands of new wells and drilling rigs, as the country scrambles to tap into this century's gold rush — for natural gas. — The gas has always been there, of course …
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Walker's Over-Reach, Ctd — Dick Morris's latest poll shows Wisonsin voters where the Dish is - in favor of Walker's specific requests of public sector unions, but unwilling to remove most collective bargaining rights. By slipping this collective bargaining provision into the bill …
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Defend Wisconsin and Balloon Juice
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Experts say Gov. Christie is making all the right moves for a place on national stage — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie doesn't travel light when he rolls in for one of his town hall meetings. — A staff of three or four arrives in a box truck packed with gear: risers for the crowd …
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Taegan Goddard's …
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Christie: Palin needs ‘unscripted moments’ if she wants to prove she's serious
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The Politico
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Exclusive: Amanpour Interviews Gadhafi's Son — Saif Gadhafi Says Libya Is Not America's ‘Business’ — In an exclusive interview with “This Week” host Christiane Amanpour, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi and one of his chief advisers, insisted Libya was calm …
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Guardian, Crooks and Liars, CNN, FrumForum and Libya February 17th
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AFL-CIO chief blesses Obama's handling of Wisconsin labor battle — AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gave his blessing Sunday to President Obama's handling of the labor standoff in Wisconsin. — Amid some criticism on the left that Obama could do more to boost unions in their demonstrations …
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Don Surber, Weasel Zippers and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Left presses Obama to take a firmer stand on heated labor battles
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JammieWearingFool
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Why Wouldn't the Tea Party Shut It Down? — NO one remembers anything in America, especially in Washington, so the history of the Great Government Shutdown of 1995 is being rewritten with impunity by Republicans flirting with a Great Government Shutdown of 2011.
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AMERICAblog News, The Political Carnival, American Power and Prairie Weather
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Three Sunday Shows Fail To Include Democrats As Featured Guests — Two weeks ago, the Washington Monthly's Steve Benen noted that the lineup for the Sunday shows were stacked with Republicans and didn't feature a single Democratic guest. Last Sunday also tilted heavily toward GOP voices.
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Washington Monthly