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The Atlantic Online:
CNN's Crazy, No-Holds-Barred, Social-Media Debate — It's got more bells and whistles than a video game and could send the candidates into anaphylactic shock — Manchester, N.H. — By nature, I'm a debate skeptic. They're hard to differentiate, and the last one is usually forgotten as soon as the next one rolls around.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP DEBATE: Bachmann grabs spotlight with filing announcement — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced during Monday evening's presidential debate that she'd filed paperwork to run for president. — “I filed today my paperwork to run for president of the United States ... I wanted you to be the first to know,” she said.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Support Up; Widens Advantage in 2012 Preferences
Romney Support Up; Widens Advantage in 2012 Preferences
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
While we do not encourage drinking, it sometimes makes debates more fun.
While we do not encourage drinking, it sometimes makes debates more fun.
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Outside the Beltway, Wizbang and Feministing
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN Republican debate: 5 things that could shape the 2012 race
CNN Republican debate: 5 things that could shape the 2012 race
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Hot Air, Anderson Cooper 360, ABCNEWS, PERRspectives, The Nation and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
msnbc.com:
Obama: ‘I would resign’ in Weiner's situation — President talks scandal, debt ceiling in an exclusive interview with TODAY's Ann Curry — Below: — In an exclusive interview with TODAY's Ann Curry that will air on Tuesday's show, President Barack Obama said that if he were Democratic …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Democratic source: Weiner ‘on the fence’ about resigning, in state of ‘despair’
Democratic source: Weiner ‘on the fence’ about resigning, in state of ‘despair’
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Hot Air, The Hill, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and Mediaite
Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Joe Scarborough To RNC Chairman: ‘Shut Up’ With ‘Cheap Shots’ On Rep. Weiner — On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough previously shared his hesitancy to cover the Anthony Weiner scandal at all until it had real political developments. Now that the Democratic leadership in the House is calling …
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Salon
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House won't say Weiner should resign
White House won't say Weiner should resign
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The Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Pajamas Media
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama on Weiner: ‘If it was me, I would resign’
Obama on Weiner: ‘If it was me, I would resign’
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The Politico and The Note
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RNC chair struggles to defend double standard
RNC chair struggles to defend double standard
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Balloon Juice, Washington Post, Comments from Left Field and Right Wing Watch
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Nevada's Law on Conflict of Interest — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously rejected a First Amendment challenge to a Nevada law that barred officials there from voting on matters in which they had a conflict of interest.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Dictionary Citations by Justices Rise Sharply
Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Ethics rules don't violate free speech, Supreme Court says
Ethics rules don't violate free speech, Supreme Court says
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Washington Post
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WI Democrat Tells Female Constituent He Wants to “Smack Her Around” in Message (Audio) — Typical democrat. — A Wisconsin democrat running in a recall election left a message on a woman's answering machine. The democrat said he ought to smack her around in a message he didn't know was being recorded.
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City Room:
In Reversal, 3 Democratic Senators Will Back Gay Marriage — ALBANY — Three wavering Democratic lawmakers in the State Senate have agreed to support legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, several people with knowledge of the negotiations said on Monday, marking a potential turning point for the long-debated measure.
Washington Post:
‘Paula Brooks,’ editor of ‘Lez Get Real,’ also a man — Just one day after the author behind a popular Syrian lesbian blog admitted to being a married, American man named Tom MacMaster, the editor of the lesbian news site Lez Get Real, with the tagline “A Gay Girl's View on the World,” acknowledged that he is also a man.
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Pajamas Media, Gawker, Harry's Place, Shakesville, Council of Conservative …, Crooks and Liars, Feministing, AMERICAN DIGEST, Queerty and Althouse
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Gov. Perry: Economic Crisis Is Part of God's Plan To Return Us To Biblical Principles — For the past week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has been roundly criticized by religious and LGBT groups alike for inviting other governors to join him at an anti-gay prayer event hosted by stridently bigoted American Family Association.
Brobinson / Fox Nation:
Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: ‘Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected’ — President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met today in Durham, NC at Cree Inc., a company that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting. One of the Council's recommendations to President Obama …
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Power Line, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, Pajamas Media and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say — U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war. — Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills, pictured last month, has held hearings on waste and fraud in Iraq.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US Is in Even Worse Shape Financially Than Greece: Gross — When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC Monday.
David Weigel / Weigel:
Pawlenty: Bush Tax Cuts “Didn't Fully Serve Their Intended Purposes” — DERRY, N.H. — Addressing a packed, boisterous room at Halligan Tavern here, accompanied by half a dozen state legislators (not all had endorsed him), Tim Pawlenty made a mostly economics, competence-based case against the Obama administration.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Pawlenty sees Bush agenda as far too liberal
Pawlenty sees Bush agenda as far too liberal
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No More Mister Nice Blog
John / Power Line:
As the GOP Presidential Debate Begins... ...we were reminded again today that Barack Obama is eminently beatable. The 2012 election will be mostly a referendum on the success or failure of his administration's economic policies. Every day, more voters are becoming convinced that the verdict is in, and Obama is a failure.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Sarah Palin's letter from God — Two items of note this morning on America's most interesting, reviled and adored politician who isn't a candidate for anything and probably won't be in 2012 — Sarah Palin. — Up first is Toby Harnden, a prolific author and correspondent for the Daily Telegraph of London.
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John Garvey / Wall Street Journal:
Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms — Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up. — My wife and I have sent five children to college and our youngest just graduated. Like many parents, we encouraged them to study hard and spend time in a country where people don't speak English.
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Outside the Beltway and ThinkProgress
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Neocon flack: Weiner may have converted to Islam — (UPDATED) We thought everything that could be said about Anthony Weiner's lewd photo scandal had been said. But Eliana Benador, a former influential neoconservative public relations operative, has proved us wrong.
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Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
McLean woman ‘involuntarily committed’ in alleged Red Line bomb threat — [This story was originally posted at 8:39 a.m. with updates at 12:15 p.m., 1:50 p.m. and 2:33 p.m. Stay with PostLocal.com as more information becomes available.] — A 51-year-old Mclean woman was “involuntarily committed” …
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The Jawa Report
rebelpundit:
Indiana Senate Candidate Mourdock's Campaign Assaults Citizen Journalist — This weekend we attended a Tea Party event in Kokomo, Indiana. As we were interviewing Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock; his campaign manager, Chief Deputy & General Counsel for Indiana …
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Moe Lane, Big Journalism, Ballot Box and The Gateway Pundit
ucsusa.org:
Scientific Consensus on Global Warming — Scientific societies and scientists have released statements and studies showing the growing consensus on climate change science. A common objection to taking action to reduce our heat-trapping emissions has been uncertainty within the scientific community …
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The Atlantic Online:
Herman Cain's Anti-Muslim Bigotry Should Be Disqualifying — The loyalty test he proposes for Muslim Americans isn't just discriminatory and unconstitutional — it would never work — Presidential candidate Herman Cain has reiterated his position that any Muslim serving in his administration …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Campaign Advised White House Staff To Give Top Donor Sense Of Access … Obama Rouse , Campaign Haddock , Donor Meeting White House , Ed Haddock , Ed Haddock Meeting , Haddock Pete Rouse , Memo Rouse , Money In Politics Obama , Obama Bundler , Obama Bundler Memo , Obama Campaign Donor …
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Los Angeles Times:
Palestinian statehood: What is the U.N.'s role? — A divisive showdown is almost certain. — A Palestinian protester holds a Palestinian flag in one hand and a stone in the other hand on the 44th Anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Six Day War of the Middle East. (David Vaaknin / Getty Images)
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Israel Matzav and National Review
Lawrence Summers:
The jobs crisis — By Lawrence H. Summers — The opinions expressed are his own. — Even with the massive 2008-2009 policy effort that successfully prevented financial collapse and Depression, the United States is now half way to a lost economic decade.
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