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Governor Romney's Remarks at the Carroll County Lincoln Day Dinner — Good to be among so many friends. — Good to be in Carroll County, even in the winter. I didn't know just how cold it could get in Carroll County until Ann and I bought our home on Lake Winnipesaukee.
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Cold Fury
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's prescription for ‘Obamacare’: Repeal it
Mitt Romney's prescription for ‘Obamacare’: Repeal it
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New York Times, Fox News, Outside the Beltway, Eunomia and The Gateway Pundit
John Distaso / UnionLeader.com:
John DiStaso's Primary Status: Romney gets two major endorsements on eve of return to NH
John DiStaso's Primary Status: Romney gets two major endorsements on eve of return to NH
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Los Angeles Times, Politics Daily and The Politico
New York Times:
State Workers and N.Y.'s Fiscal Crisis — At a time when public school students are being forced into ever more crowded classrooms, and poor families will lose state medical benefits, New York State is paying 10 times more for state employees' pensions than it did just a decade ago.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Pirate's Cove, Don Surber and Right Wing News
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
A Liberal Is a Villager Who's Been Screwed By a Mortgage Servicer — Dana “the mark” Milbank of the Washington Post — The past week has seen a pronounced evolution in the writing of Dana Milbank. Earlier in the week he severely criticized the incestuous relationship between the political …
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Tea Partiers Clean-Up Mess Left By Union Protesters in Wisconsin — Tea party supporters in Wisconsin have created a Facebook group designed to organize an event called “It's Time to Take Out the Trash!”. They will be in Madison tomorrow to clean-up the disaster left by the anti-union protesters over the past two weeks.
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Another Black Conservative and Nice Deb
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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
Former French President Chirac to stand trial — PARIS - After years of claiming presidential immunity to avoid legal proceedings, Jacques Chirac is finally facing a court. — The former president, a bugaboo for George W. Bush during his rush to war in Iraq, on Monday becomes France's …
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POWIP
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Fox Hosts Hate-Church Lawyer Who Claims Obama Is ‘The Beast Spoken Of In The Revelation’ — Earlier this week, the Supreme Court held that even the most repulsive hate speech — Westboro Baptist Church's anti-gay rallies at military funerals — is entitled to First Amendment protection.
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Prairie Weather
CNN:
TRENDING: Sen. Alexander: Donald Trump has ‘no chance of winning’ — (CNN) - Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said Donald Trump has “absolutely no chance of winning” in a presidential contest during an interview with CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley on Sunday.
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The Daily Caller
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Republicans in solid shape to take control of Senate next year — An early spate of Democratic Senate retirements has put Republicans in solid shape to retake the majority in the upper chamber next year. — The first edition of The Hill's 2012 race ratings puts five Democratic-held seats in the toss-up column.
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Scared Monkeys, Wake up America and Don Surber
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Bush adviser defends ‘difficult’ but ‘good’ deal on Libya relations — A former national security adviser to President George W. Bush on Sunday defended that administration's decision to normalize relations with Libya during Bush's second term. — Stephen Hadley called the move …
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CNN
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama's 2012 reelection team gets moving — As Republicans dither, debating who is and who isn't in the 2012 race for the White House, President Obama and his team are moving swiftly to dive into the business of winning reelection. — No office space has yet been rented. No committee has been formed.
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Pundit Press
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
It's Time to Face the Fiscal Illusion — FISCAL policy debates often focus on technocratic questions about how much money the government should spend and when, yet the actual course of events depends not on the experts but on politics. The more that our government runs up unfunded obligations and debt …
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Marginal Revolution and EconLog
Tennessean.com:
Teachers rally draws thousands to Capitol — More than 3,000 people marched on downtown Nashville to protest legislation that would end collective bargain for teachers in Tennessee. — Democratic lawmakers, union representatives and education activists denounced the Republican-sponsored bills …
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Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Sarah Palin gets snippy when O'Reilly tries to press her on aid cutbacks to Alaska's poor — It's hard to say why it happened, but all of a sudden Bill O'Reilly decided last night to stop tossing Sarah Palin the usual softball questions and Hannity Jobs she's become accustomed to during her tenure at Fox News.
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LexisNexis, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Conservatives4Palin and The Reaction
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin to Bill O'Reilly: Don't interrupt!
Sarah Palin to Bill O'Reilly: Don't interrupt!
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The Jawa Report, Right Pundits and The Moderate Voice