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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.
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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! …
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A.Killough / CNN:
5 things we learned tonight
5 things we learned tonight
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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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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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New York Times:
7 in G.O.P., Civil to Each Other, Hit at Obama Instead
7 in G.O.P., Civil to Each Other, Hit at Obama Instead
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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
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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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
FLOTUS tells of Obama's worry
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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” …
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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Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Taxpayers pay Weiner for “sex-rehab” vacation?
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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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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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.
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 …
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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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CNN:
CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL — Republican Debate — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the first Republican presidential debate in this first-in-the-nation primary state.
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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.”
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Almost a month of Palin's emails missing from releases — Nearly a month of former Gov. Sarah Palin's emails are missing from the documents released to media organizations last week, a gap that raises questions about what other emails might also be missing from what's being nationally reported as her record as Alaska governor.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
GLAAD's Troup Coronado Helped Put Bush Judges On the Bench — The story of how GLAAD took AT&T money, then sent an AT&T-written form letter to the FCC on their behalf, just keeps getting more and more sordid. Central to the saga appears to be former AT&T lobbyist Troup Coronado, who sits on the board of GLAAD.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Can Heterosexuality Be Cured? — “Congressman Weiner departed this morning to seek professional treatment.” — Unlike homosexuality, heterosexuality is amenable to therapeutic remedies—or so Anthony Weiner and his fellow House Democrats would like us to believe.
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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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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 …