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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Debate Swings Door Open for Perry, Closed for Palin — Most people have better things to do than to watch a presidential debate eight months in advance of the Iowa caucuses. So when considering a debate like the one that took place among Republican candidates in New Hampshire tonight, it's important to be mindful of the following:
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
New Hampshire Republican debate: Winners and losers — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answers a question as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, left, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, listen during the first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, June 13, 2011.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann steals the show at GOP debate — “Assume the position!” CNN's John King ordered the candidates as they approached their lecterns just before airtime for Monday night's debate. — The Republican presidential contenders did as the moderator told them.
The Politico:
Pawlenty beats hasty N.H. retreat — GOFFSTOWN, N.H. - Tim Pawlenty's puzzling decision at Monday's debate to abandon a new line of attack on Mitt Romney's healthcare record is prompting fresh doubts among members of his own party about his readiness to confront the GOP frontrunner.
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — My take on the New Hampshire debate — Senior Political Analyst Follow Him @MichaelBarone — My Washington Examiner colleagues have given their ongoing reactions to the CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union Leader two-hour debate at St. Anselm's College (what a fab auditorium! …
The Note:
The Note: Obama Remains The Bogeyman As GOP Candidates Pull Punches — For Now
The Note: Obama Remains The Bogeyman As GOP Candidates Pull Punches — For Now
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The Politico and The Daily Caller
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — GOP debate winners: Romney, Bachmann and Rick Perry
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — GOP debate winners: Romney, Bachmann and Rick Perry
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Commentary Magazine, Datechguy's Blog, FrumForum, National Review, Ross Douthat and Pundit & Pundette
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP DEBATE: Bachmann grabs spotlight with filing announcement
GOP DEBATE: Bachmann grabs spotlight with filing announcement
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James A. Barnes / NationalJournal.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Political Insiders Give Debate Nod to Romney, Bachmann
EXCLUSIVE: Political Insiders Give Debate Nod to Romney, Bachmann
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The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
Obama: My family would be fine with just 1 term — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says his wife and daughters aren't “invested” in him being president and would have been fine had he decided against running for re-election. But he says they believe in what he's doing for the country.
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The Politico:
FLOTUS tells of Obama's worry — 'I see the sadness and worry that's creasing his face,' Michelle Obama said of her husband. — AP Photo — First lady Michelle Obama on Monday told a fundraiser in Southern California of the toll the presidency has taken on her husband Barack Obama.
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Weasel Zippers, National Review and The Gateway Pundit
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama: My family is ‘fine’ with one term
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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Mark Steyn / National Review:
Is Every Lesbian Blogger a Middle-Aged Man? — We're one lesbian away from a bona fide Fleet Street “trend”. Further to yesterday's post, a lesbian blogger who helped unmask the Syrian lesbian blogger as a middle-aged American male has herself been revealed to be a middle-aged American male:
CNNMoney.com:
Wingnut debt ceiling demands — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A lot of politicians are weighing in with demands before they'll support raising the debt ceiling. Most of their conditions are related to debt, such as put in place a debt reduction plan or cut spending.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Pundit Under Protest — I'll be writing a lot about the presidential election over the next 16 months, but at the outset I would just like to remark that I'm opining on this whole campaign under protest. I'm registering a protest because for someone of my Hamiltonian/National Greatness perspective …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama fundraiser underwhelms — The empty seats at President Obama's fundraiser in Miami, Fl. were hard to miss. — MIAMI, Fla. — A low-dollar fundraiser here Monday felt like a throwback to the 2008 campaign. — There was the same old soundtrack - including “City of Blinding Lights” …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In 5-4 Vote, Supreme Court Limits Securities Fraud Suits — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a mutual fund's investment adviser may not be sued for securities fraud over misstatements in fund prospectuses. — The 5-to-4 decision split along ideological lines.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words
Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words
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ABCNEWS:
Newt Gingrich Charity Paid Cash To Gingrich For-Profit Business — A non-profit charity founded by Newt Gingrich to promote freedom, faith and free enterprise also served as another avenue to promote Gingrich's political views, and came dangerously close, some experts say …
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National Review
The Hill:
OVERNIGHT ENERGY: High noon for ethanol — Tuesday's Big Story: The Senate is slated to vote on Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) plan to eliminate a major ethanol industry tax break and the ethanol import tariff. — Ethanol backers are battling the amendment and seeking to pull support from Coburn.
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Green, The Washington Independent and The Hill
Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:
Hillary Clinton, the Comic Book — It reads more like a soap opera than a comic book, with its down-and-dirty details involving two of the most powerful political figures of our time: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. — A new 32-page comic book entitled “Political Power: Hillary Rodham Clinton” …
Ron Klain / Bloomberg:
About Ron Klain — Ron Klain is a senior executive with a private investment firm in Washington. From 2009 to 2011, he was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and a senior adviser to President Barack Obama on the Recovery Act, judicial selection, and other policy matters.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama stresses ‘need to accelerate the recovery’ — President Obama was in North Carolina yesterday, touring a fast-growing manufacturer of clean energy lighting, and convening a meeting of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Of particular interest, though, were the president's comments …
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The New Republic and The Moderate Voice
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
DeMint ‘not considering’ presidential run — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Tuesday closed the door to a run for president, saying he's not considering getting into the race. — Some conservative activists have urged DeMint to jump into the race due to their dissatisfaction with the current crop of candidates.
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Politico's VandeHei: ‘Not Any Single Reporter At Any Media Organization Thinks Palin Should Be President’ — People know that the MSM despises Sarah Palin. Still, it was shocking to hear the beans so blithely spilled . . . Jim Vandehei of Politico, on Morning Joe today:
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The Politico and Riehl World View
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Bankruptcy Court: DOMA Unconstitutionally Limits Same-Sex Married Couples From Joint Bankruptcy Filing — Today, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, released an opinion finding Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking the GOP debate in New Hampshire — That was some collection of facts and statistics during the GOP debate in New Hampshire on Monday night that aired on CNN. — We're going to take an instant stab at some of them, and then perhaps come back later this week with a more extended look at other assertions.
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host.madison.com:
Capitol Report: ‘Extraordinary’ session never before used to pass budget — If top Republican lawmakers move forward Tuesday with a plan to pass the state budget in “extraordinary session,” it will be the first time lawmakers have used this speedy political maneuver to pass a budget in at least 80 years.
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Firedoglake, TPMDC and Balloon Juice
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
High Hopes at Miracle-Gro in Medical Marijuana Field — Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has long sold weed killer. Now, it's hoping to help people grow killer weed. — In an unlikely move for the head of a major company, Scotts Chief Executive Jim Hagedorn said he is exploring targeting medical marijuana …
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Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Clarence Thomas takes hard line on defendants — WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago, when a senator asked then-appellate Judge Clarence Thomas why he wanted to be on the Supreme Court, Thomas said he often looked out his courthouse window at arriving prisoners and said to himself, “But for the grace of God, there go I.”