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Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Two separate and reliable source in Texas tell me serious preparations are being made for Governor Rick Perry, 61, to seek the Republican nomination for president. — Dave Carney and Rob Johnson — the former top Perry aides who on Thursday left Newt Gingrich's campaign …
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Perry Very Likely to Run
Perry Very Likely to Run
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Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Fox Nation
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The fall of the house of Newt
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The Note, Ben Smith's Blog, MN Progressive Project, The Moderate Voice and The New Republic
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
What the Newt Gingrich staff implosion means for the 2012 Republican race
What the Newt Gingrich staff implosion means for the 2012 Republican race
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The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Freakonomics and The Moderate Voice
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Sarah Palin emails set for release — The state of Alaska will release 24,199 pages of Sarah Palin's government e-mails on Friday, nearly three years after the initial public records requests were made. — At 9 a.m. Alaska time (1 p.m. Eastern), 17 media organizations and individuals …
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Sarah Palin is “Evil”? [Update] — [Update] The last sentence seems to have been removed from below the image now. Thanks to whoever listened to my complaint. — That's right; according to whoever writes the copy over at Yahoo! New Zealand, Sarah Palin is “evil”.
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Pajamas Media and Mediaite
ProPublica:
A Reader's Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails
A Reader's Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails
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Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Little Green Footballs, msnbc.com, News Desk, The Note, Gawker, Washington Wire and Lynn Sweet, more at Mediagazer »
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Alaska Releases Palin E-Mails
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Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, USA Today and Taylor Marsh
Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing
Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing
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The Moderate Voice, Swampland, The Gateway Pundit, Shakesville, Salon, Boing Boing, New York Times and The Caucus
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Weiner can't afford to quit the DC day job — Even if scandal-stained Rep. Anthony Weiner didn't want to stay in office, he needs to stay in office. — Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn't have a business or even a law degree to fall back on.
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Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air, New York Magazine, The Jawa Report, Althouse, RADAR and JammieWearingFool
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EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS NAILED BY DEAD WIFE's VIDEO TESTIMONY! — IN a devastating act of ultimate revenge, a dying Elizabeth Edwards recorded a bombshell secret videotape for prosecutors - nailing her cheating husband John as he will stand trial on charges that could land him behind bars for 30 years.
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Gawker, Taylor Marsh, Balloon Juice, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Althouse
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Pawlenty benefits from turbulence in Republican presidential field — A successful economic speech, one rival's campaign implosion and another's decision to skip an influential Iowa straw poll have given Tim Pawlenty a very good week. — His campaign hopes to keep the momentum going …
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CNN, Eunomia, AmSpecBlog and FrumForum
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Palin vs. the GOP establishment
First Thoughts: Palin vs. the GOP establishment
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PR Newswire, New York Times, Associated Press and Hot Air
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Companies Spend on Equipment, Not Workers — Companies that are looking for a good deal aren't seeing one in new workers. — Workers are getting more expensive while equipment is getting cheaper, and the combination is encouraging companies to spend on machines rather than people.
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ThinkProgress, Swampland, Booman Tribune, The Awl, Truthdig, The Impolitic, Pajamas Media and FrumForum
The Huffington Post:
Tracy Morgan's Homophobic Remarks In Anti-Gay Stand Up Set UPDATE: Morgan Apologizes … Tracey Morgan , Tracy Morgan , Tracy Morgan Homophobic , Tracy Morgan Homophobic Standup Set , Tracy Morgan Kill His Son If He Were Gay , Tracy Morgan Stand Up Comedy , Tracy Morgan Anti-Gay …
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The Price of Taxophobia: Inefficient Taxes — Ever since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, American politics has been dominated by the presence of a large and powerful ideological movement that's primarily dedicated to the cause of tax cuts. One result, as shown by my econ team colleagues' suite …
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Rocky start for DNC chairwoman — Democrats knew they were getting an outspoken partisan when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz took over the reins of the Democratic National Committee a month ago. — But they might not have known just how outspoken. — In the four weeks since she succeeded Tim Kaine …
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Hot Air, The Other McCain, Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers, The Note, iOwnTheWorld.com and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
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Weiner finds a friend in Charlie Rangel — Randy rep Anthony Weiner has finally found a friend. — His congressional colleague Rep. Charles Rangel — who's been on the wrong side of his own House ethics probe — said today that things could be a lot worse for the pervy pol.
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Ben Smith's Blog
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Azi Paybarah / PolitickerNY:
Anthony Weiner's Problem is the Media, Says Rangel [Video]
Anthony Weiner's Problem is the Media, Says Rangel [Video]
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TPMDC, Capital Tonight and Gothamist
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rule by Rentiers — The latest economic data have dashed any hope of a quick end to America's job drought, which has already gone on so long that the average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks. Yet there is no political will to do anything about the situation.
Washington Post:
Stewardship? Or ideology? — The Republicans swept November's midterm election by making it highly ideological, a referendum on two years of hyper-liberalism — of arrogant, overreaching, intrusive government drowning in debt and running deficits of $1.5 trillion annually. It's not complicated.
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The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, The New Republic, The Confluence and Washington Monthly
Jim Garamone / American Forces Press Service:
Gates: NATO Has Become Two-tiered Alliance — NATO has turned into a two-tiered alliance of members who consume security and those who produce it, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today. — Gates spoke to NATO's Security and Defense Agenda assembly the day after a meeting of the alliance's defense ministers concluded.
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democracyarsenal.org and Hit & Run
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Defense Secretary Warns NATO of ‘Dim’ Future
Defense Secretary Warns NATO of ‘Dim’ Future
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Mother Jones, Newshoggers.com and Booman Tribune
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EXCLUSIVE: Obama extends protections to gay couples under Medicaid — Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (Blade file photo by Michael Key) — The Obama administration is set on Friday to issue policy guidance to states expanding their ability to offer same-sex couples …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos and Feministing
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AT & T gave cash to merger backers — AT&T is lining up support for its acquisition of T-Mobile from a slew of liberal groups with no obvious interest in telecom deals — except that they've received big piles of AT&T's cash. — In recent weeks, the NAACP, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance …
Yahoo! News Canada:
China ratings house says US defaulting: report — A Chinese ratings house has accused the United States of defaulting on its massive debt, state media said Friday, a day after Beijing urged Washington to put its fiscal house in order. — “In our opinion, the United States has already been defaulting …
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Pajamas Media
Josh Barro / City Journal:
Pawlenty's Fuzzy Budget Math — On Monday, presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty gave a major speech on economic policy in which he laid out his plan to get America's fiscal house back in order. The proposal, which includes huge cuts in personal income-tax rates and ambitious spending restraints …
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PERRspectives, AmSpecBlog, Ben Smith's Blog, The Daily Dish and Capital Gains and Games blogs
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Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because His Behavior Offends ‘Culturally Backward’ Christian Conservatives — On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews determined that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner could be in danger of being forced out of Congress by Blue Dog Dems who face uphill battles …
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The Other McCain, The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart.tv
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God Caught Backing Multiple GOP Candidates for President — Photo: Cain:Steve Pope/Getty; Santorum: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images; Bachmann: Darren McCollester/Getty Images; sky: iStockphoto — After a thorough investigation, Daily Intel has discovered that God is separately backing …
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Don Surber, Salon, Liberal Values, Outside the Beltway, Wonkette and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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'I'm a Marxist,' Dalai Lama tells Chinese students — Usually what we hear from the Dalai Lama is an insistant yet soothing voice for compassion and peace. — So Tsering Namgyal, a journalist based in Minneapolis, was jolted by the Dalai Lama's talk to 150 Chinese students this month at the University of Minnesota.
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and FrumForum
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Say Fleeing Police by Car Is a Violent Felony — WASHINGTON — Fleeing from the police in a car is a violent felony that can subject criminals to mandatory 15-year prison terms, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 6-to-3 decision. — The decision was the court's fourth encounter since 2007 …
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SCOTUSblog, Gawker, Courthouse News Service, The Volokh Conspiracy and ABA Journal Daily News