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Palin fires shot at Romney at Bunker Hill — By NBC's Shawna Thomas, Alex Moe, and Mark Murray — In remarks made at Bunker Hill in Massachusetts — of all places — Sarah Palin fired a shot at Mitt Romney over the health-care mandate that Romney signed into law in the state in 2006.
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Why Going Rogue Won't Work — Sarah Palin is dominating the political conversation. But if she really wants to be president, she's going about it all wrong. — Even before donning biker leather and mounting a Harley-Davidson for a motorcycle rally in Washington last weekend …
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Romney, Palin lead the way
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Palin attacks Romney's record on his announcement day
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Romney Talks to ABC News About Health Care, Jobs, Ties and Red Sox
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Someday, Romney will pick a persona and stick with it
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Sarah Palin to collide with Mitt Romney rollout in New Hampshire
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Romney will say Obama ‘has failed America’ in 2012 launch speech
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Mitt Romney's strange counting of pages to distinguish ‘Romneycare’ from ‘Obamacare’
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Romney Makes His Run for President Official
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Palin: Timing of New Hampshire visit ‘coincidental’
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The Wolfe At Anthony Weiner's Front Door — Paranoid Twitter mystery man fears pol's “Clinton connections” … The prescient Twitter provocateur who, weeks ago, somehow divined that a lewd photo scandal was looming for Rep. Anthony Weiner claims he is fearful that his leading role in …
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Embarrassing emails from Weiner tweeter leaked — The intrigue surrounding the Anthony Weiner crotch shot story, Andrew Breitbart and a mystery Twitter user deepens — Did Andrew Breitbart leak embarrassing personal emails sent to him by the mystery Twitter user at the center of the Anthony Weiner crotch shot scandal?
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Probe could give Weiner more headaches: expert — CBS News Legal Analyst says politician likely not pursuing official law enforcement investigation to avoid statements under oath — New York City Congressman Anthony Weiner has not asked the FBI or U.S. Capitol Police to investigate …

GOP's Cantor urges Weiner to ‘come clean’ on controversy
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(AUDIO) MILLER: Anthony Weiner's lewd jokes
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Employment Data May Be the Key to the President's Job — WASHINGTON — No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent. — Seventeen months before the next election, it is increasingly clear …
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Why Barack Obama may be heading for electoral disaster in 2012 — On a recent visit to London I was struck by how much faith many British politicians, journalists and political advisers have in Barack Obama being re-elected in 2012. In the aftermath of the hugely successful Special Forces operation …

Presidents, unemployment rates, and context
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Gov. Christie Thinks A Family Making $6,000 A Year Is Too Rich To Qualify For Medicaid — Despite recent polls that show Americans are just as protective of Medicaid as they are of Medicare, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is trying to gut the popular program in his state and prevent 23,000 people from receiving benefits.
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Christie refuses to reimburse N.J. for traveling by helicopter to see son's baseball game — TRENTON — Facing broad criticism for flying by helicopter to watch his son's high school baseball game in Bergen County, Gov. Chris Christie refused today to refund the state for Tuesday's $2,500-an-hour flight.
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Gov. Christie reimburses N.J. for use of state helicopter to attend son's baseball games
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Abramson to Replace Keller as The Times's Executive Editor — Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, will become the paper's executive editor, succeeding Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer for the paper.


Exclusive: Glenn Beck's Last Day On Fox News Will Be June 30th — Mediaite has learned that Glenn Beck's last day on Fox News is currently scheduled to be June 30th. Fox News has confirmed this information to Mediaite. — In the past month, ratings for Beck's ratings saw a double digit decline …
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Moody's Will Review U.S. Credit Rating if No Debt Limit Progress in the Coming Weeks — ABC News' Dan Arnall (@abcmoneyguy) reports: In a release this afternoon, the Moody's ratings agency said it would put the U.S. credit rating under review if Congress and the Obama administration don't make progress on increasing the debt limit.
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Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy. — A general note for men: — Over the weekend, it was revealed that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), or someone pretending to be Weiner, allegedly sent a photo of his bulging briefs to one of his Twitter followers.

The Lame Justification For Debt Ceiling Hostage-Taking — John Taylor, the Hoover Institute economist who always supports the Republican position, has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal supporting the Republican position on the debt ceiling. How could an economist justify a policy …
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Making the hostage strategy explicit
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GOP blocks Obama land grab — Map via Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps blog/Big Think — Yes, dear readers, corruptocrat Interior Secretary Ken Salazar can be stopped. — Since day one of the Obama administration, I've chronicled Loathsome Cowboy Ken Salazar's War on the West, War on Jobs, and War on Science/Rule of Law.
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Steve Breen Political Cartoons — Townhall Cartoons Steve Breen — Stephen Paul Breen (born April 26, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and 2009. — He graduated from Huntington Beach High School in 1988 …
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GOP drafts alternative Libya resolution — House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote on Friday on U.S. participation in the NATO-led effort to topple Muammar Qadhafi, but what lawmakers will be voting on is still unclear. — Top House Republicans are drafting an alternative proposal …
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Ensuring your information is safe online — The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world—opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression. But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things. Today, despite the efforts …

Judge refuses to toss out lawsuit over gay softball — A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by three men who claim they were disqualified from the 2008 Gay Softball World Series near Seattle for not being gay enough. — The men, members of a San Francisco softball team …
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