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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Weinergate Bombshell: New Woman Comes Forward Claiming Cache of Intimate Photos and Online Communications with Beleaguered Congressman — A new woman has come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). These appear to undermine severely …
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Patterico's Pontifications:
More Weiner Messages to Young Girls? Evidence the Media Was Duped into Dropping the Investigation — There are new reasons to question whether Rep. Anthony Weiner sent DMs to young girls besides Gennette Nicole — and whether he sent Nicole more flirtatious DMs than just that one picture.
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Lisa Graas, POWIP, Runnin' Scared, TBogg, American Power and alicublog
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
New #Weinergate info revealed: Porn star Miss Ginger Lee appears to have gotten more than one private message from Weiner — Newly uncovered information in the ongoing #Weinergate scandal raises more questions as to just how much private communication New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner …
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Big Government and Patterico's Pontifications
Michael Alan / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Wasserman-Schultz on Weinergate: It's Okay, He's a Democrat
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Moe Lane, Scared Monkeys, GayPatriot, americanthinker.com and Verum Serum
Peter A. Diamond / New York Times:
When a Nobel Prize Isn't Enough — LAST October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to the Republican senators who have blocked my nomination. How can this be?
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Letting a Diamond slip away — Last year, the Senate Banking Committee twice approved Peter Diamond's nomination to the Federal Reserve. And twice, the Senate wasn't allowed to vote on Diamond because Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and a handful of his far-right colleagues threw tantrums for unknown reasons.
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Exclusive - Rick Santorum Will Run for President: 'We're In It to Win' — And with that another Republican challenger jumped into the 2012 race this morning on “GMA.” — “We are ready to announce that we are going to be in this race and we're in it to win,” Rick Santorum told me.
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The Moderate Voice and Boing Boing
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The Note:
Candidates Fighting For The Conservative Heart And Soul In 2012 (The Note) — By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) — Nearly every major declared or potential Republican presidential candidate made a pilgrimage to an annual conference of social conservatives in Washington …
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The Hill and Washington Post
Sydney Morning Herald:
The dangers of bone-headed beliefs — Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. — Not necessarily on the forehead; I'm a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, “Really?
Ben Tracy / CBS News:
Chronic unemployment worse than Great Depression — The unemployed have, on average, remained unemployed longer than in the 1930s; Employers wary of job gaps in resumes — There is an unfortunate adage for the unemployed: The longer folks are out of a job, the longer it takes them to find a new one.
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and HotAirPundit
James Slack / Daily Mail:
40 UK universities are now breeding grounds for terror as hardline groups peddle hate on campus — England's universities have become a breeding ground for extremism and terrorist recruitment, according to a disturbing government report. — Officials have identified 40 English universities …
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Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Universities ‘complacent’ over Islamic radicals, Theresa May warns
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Guardian and Jihad Watch
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Vouchercare Is Not Medicare — What's in a name? A lot, the National Republican Congressional Committee obviously believes. Last week, the committee sent a letter demanding that a TV station stop running an ad declaring that the House Republican budget plan would “end Medicare.”
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The Politico, Washington Post, Prairie Weather, The Incidental Economist, Connecting.the.Dots and Paul Krugman
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
How Bad Is The Employment Picture? This Bad — Via Business Insider, it's been called the scariest jobs chart you'll ever see, and every month it gets updated it just looks worse. — In other words, we are in the worst jobs recession since the Great Depression and we've just recently reached …
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Scared Monkeys, AMERICAN DIGEST, The Lonely Conservative and Power Line
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
THE WARREN COURT — Elizabeth Warren may well be the most popular person in Washington. When she was head of the Congressional Oversight Panel on tarp, her willingness to go after Wall Street, the Treasury Department, and the Fed made her a liberal icon. And her folksy, Midwestern air …
Andy Soltis / New York Post:
Court's dynamic NY duo — They're in a New York state of mind. — The newest members of the nation's highest court — local Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — have agreed with each other in all 23 cases they've voted on, which is a supreme rarity, observers said.
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City Room
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Steeper Pullout Is Raised as Option for Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — President Obama's national security team is contemplating troop reductions in Afghanistan that would be steeper than those discussed even a few weeks ago, with some officials arguing that such a change is justified …
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ThinkProgress, msnbc.com, Guardian and The Caucus
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John T. Bennett / The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: Many voters expect to become poorer — More than one in three likely voters expect to be worse off when they go to the polls a year from this November, a somber fact for President Obama's reelection campaign, while just 25 percent believe they will be better off, according to this week's The Hill poll.
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