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Jana Winter / Fox News:
Exclusive: Weiner's Messages to Teenage Girl in Delaware Draw Police Attention — DEVELOPING: NEW CASTLE, Del. — Police on Friday afternoon came to the home of a 17-year-old high school junior to ask her about direct online communications she has had with Rep. Anthony Weiner.
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The Politico:
Anthony Weiner admits contact with girl, 17 — New potential Twitter-related troubles arose for Rep. Anthony Weiner on Friday, after Delaware police reportedly spoke with a 17-year-old high school girl about “direct online communications” she's had with the disgraced congressman.
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Little Green Footballs, Room Eight and Patterico's Pontifications
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Alaska Releases Palin E-Mails — Boxes filled with more than 24,000 printed pages of e-mails Sarah Palin sent as governor have been piled onto dollies and teams of reporters have just begun wheeling them away from an Alaska state building for a Twitter-fueled race to determine whether they contain anything interesting.
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I.M Fletcher / New Zealand Conservative:
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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John / Power Line:
Another Embarrassment for the Legacy Media — We wrote last night about the frenzy surrounding the State of Alaska's release of emails from Sarah Palin's tenure as governor. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post turned the release into a major media event, enlisting their readers …
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Washington Post and Minneapolis Star Tribune
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn't Want You To Know About Him — With widespread discontent on the right over their current presidential field, all eyes are trained on a likely new entrant: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R). — Perry, who has been elected governor three times and served …
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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 …
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Perry Very Likely to Run
Perry Very Likely to Run
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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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Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Pawlenty benefits from turbulence in Republican presidential field
Pawlenty benefits from turbulence in Republican presidential field
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National Enquirer:
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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Open Channel / msnbc.com:
Here's your live blog for the Palin email release. New emails are online now. — Thousands of pages of email from Sarah Palin's time as Alaska Governor have been digitized and made public online. Both journalists and the general public pore through her personal correspondence with top aides …
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Richard Adams / Guardian:
Thousands of Palin's emails released
Thousands of Palin's emails released
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Los Angeles Times, Top of the Ticket, The Gateway Pundit, Wonkette, The Note, Salon and Don Surber
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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Mark Landler / The Caucus:
Qaddafi Writes to Congress — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has written to members of Congress thanking them for criticizing President Obama last week over his involvement in the NATO-led military campaign in Libya. — “I want to express my sincere gratitude for your thoughtful discussion of the issues …
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Libya's Gadhafi writes Congress for cease-fire
Libya's Gadhafi writes Congress for cease-fire
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Washington Post and FrumForum
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
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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Chuck Bennett / New York Post:
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
McKinsey refuses White House request for info on study faulting Affordable Care Act — The other day, the consulting company McKinsey released a startling study claiming that 30 percent of employers are planning to stop giving health insurance to their workers as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
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TPMDC, ThinkProgress, The Incidental Economist, Daily Kos and Paul Krugman
Tony Mauro / The BLT:
Just In: Katyal Resigning from SG's Office at End of Supreme Court Term — The BLT has learned that Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal today submitted his resignation, effective at the end of the current Supreme Court term — which will likely be at the end of this month.
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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 …
CNN:
Weiner pens apology to neighbors — (CNN)-See full contents of the note after the jump. — To our neighbors: — Please forgive the inconvenience of all the press outside. — I am sorry for all I have done that has now impacted you. — Hopefully it will soon pass. —Anthony
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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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Paul Krugman:
Joe Lieberman's Plan to Make Health Care Worse and More Expensive — So Joe Lieberman is proposing that we raise the Medicare eligibility age. That's a truly cruel idea; as it happens, I know several people who are hanging on, postponing needed medical care, hoping that they can make it to 65 before something terrible happens.
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Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org blogs:
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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Todd Gregory / Media Matters for America:
Another Episode Of Stossel , Another Ridiculous Stunt — Thursday night on Fox Business, John Stossel used about seven minutes of his show to host a “debate” between former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and an actor who impersonates President Obama. — This follows up a similar “debate” …
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Salon
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
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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The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos and Feministing
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
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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Economix, Booman Tribune, ThinkProgress, The Awl, Truthdig, The Impolitic, Swampland, Pajamas Media and FrumForum
Cathy Lynn Grossman / USA Today:
'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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John Stossel / FoxBusiness.com:
The Money Hole (TUNE IN THIS SUNDAY @8PM and 11PM on the FOX NEWS CHANNEL) — Fox News gave me an hour for another special. — I titled it after this cute Onion clip: “Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?” — We will soon spend ourselves into oblivion. But finally... movement!
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Hit & Run and National Review
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The fall of the house of Newt — Former House Speaker REUTERS/Jason Reed/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS HEADSHOT)The presidential campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was rocked late Thursday by the resignation of more than a dozen senior staffers and key operatives in states like South Carolina and Iowa.
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