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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 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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The Note, Ben Smith's Blog, MN Progressive Project, The Moderate Voice and The New Republic
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Perry Very Likely to Run
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
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
Andy Barr / The Politico:
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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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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ProPublica:
A Reader's Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails
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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Alaska Releases Palin E-Mails
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Atlas Shrugs, USA Today and Taylor Marsh
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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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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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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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Palin vs. the GOP establishment
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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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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 …
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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David Seifman / New York Post:
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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Azi Paybarah / PolitickerNY:
Anthony Weiner's Problem is the Media, Says Rangel [Video]
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TPMDC, Capital Tonight and Gothamist
Molly Ball / The Politico:
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, iOwnTheWorld.com, Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers, The Note and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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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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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Defense Secretary Warns NATO of ‘Dim’ Future
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos and Feministing
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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Eliza Krigman / The Politico:
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 …
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ThinkProgress, The Bilerico Project, The Gist, Firedoglake, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, Ben Smith's Blog and AMERICAblog News
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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The Other McCain, The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart.tv
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
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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Salon, Liberal Values, Outside the Beltway, Wonkette and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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New York Times:
Brash Style Alienates Weiner From Peers — Even as top Democrats intensified pressure on him to resign, Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York tried to power through the day on Thursday and suggest things were getting back to normal. — “I'm going to go back to my community office …
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Balloon Juice and New York Magazine
Wall Street Journal:
The Lone Star Jobs Surge — The Texas model added 37% of all net U.S. jobs since the recovery began. — Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, dropped by our offices this week and relayed a remarkable fact: Some 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created in Texas.
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