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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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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.
David Frum / FrumForum:
Pawlenty Is Debate's Biggest Loser
Pawlenty Is Debate's Biggest Loser
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Ross Douthat, No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Magazine
Rand Simberg / National Review:
An Out-of-This-World Debate Question
An Out-of-This-World Debate Question
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
John Boehner invokes War Powers Act — House Speaker John Boehner is warning President Barack Obama that he may be in violation of the War Powers Act if Obama refuses to ask Congress for authorization to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi. — In a letter to Obama today …
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Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
CREW Files Complaint Over House DOMA Defense, Boehner Spokesman Calls It “Stupid”
CREW Files Complaint Over House DOMA Defense, Boehner Spokesman Calls It “Stupid”
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CREW, ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Group files ethics complaint against Boehner over DOMA defense
Group files ethics complaint against Boehner over DOMA defense
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ThinkProgress
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 …
NY Daily News:
NY's top Catholic officials seek to halt Senate vote on legalizing gay marriage — ALBANY - New York's top Catholic sought to slow momentum Tuesday toward a state Senate vote to legalize gay marriage. — “The stampede is on,” Archibishop Timothy Dolan wrote in a blog post.
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Aharding / CNN:
Court upholds gay judge's ruling on Proposition 8
Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Gay jurist in Proposition 8 case had no legal obligation to remove himself, judge rules [Updated]
Gay jurist in Proposition 8 case had no legal obligation to remove himself, judge rules [Updated]
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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.
hellomagazine.com:
HELLO! exclusive: Mildred Baena, the housekeeper who had a child with Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks out for the first time — When it was revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger had a 13-year-old child with a trusted member of the family's domestic staff, the world let out a collective gasp.
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Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:
Rick Perry Says Voters Want More Options In GOP Field — Keywords: — Enlargephoto by: Bob Daemmrich — Texas Governor Rick Perry carries his bags off a private plane at the San Antonio International Airport on November 1, 2010. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in New York …
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A.Killough / CNN:
Perry hits New York amid talk of possible presidential run
Perry hits New York amid talk of possible presidential run
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The Politico
Matthew Hendley / The Daily Pulp:
Allen West Violates Federal Law During Weekend Diving Trip — There's nothing really bad to say about Rep. Allen West going diving off the coast of Deerfield Beach with a bunch of military veterans — except for the fact that he violated U.S. federal law in the process, and provided pictorial of himself doing so.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Politico, TPMDC, The Washington Independent and Gawker
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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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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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Senate keeps $6B in ethanol subsidies in blow to Sen. Coburn — The Senate on Tuesday voted against killing off $6 billion in tax breaks for ethanol producers in a vote highlighting the power of anti-tax groups. — The measure was backed by Sen. Tom Coburn, a fiscally conservative Republican …
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The New Republic and FrumForum
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Koch Brothers, Grover Norquist Split On Ethanol Subsidies
Koch Brothers, Grover Norquist Split On Ethanol Subsidies
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The Raw Story, The Politico and Open Congress
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Bachmann says she won't seek re-election to Congress, while running for president — MINNEAPOLIS - U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's not running for re-election in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District while she's campaigning for the Republican nomination for president.
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Hotline On Call, Daily Kos, The Impolitic, Indecision Forever, ThinkProgress and The Hill
Tammy Bruce / Big Government:
Why Sarah Palin Must Run in 2012 — One of the prevailing debates in the GOP these days (if not the only one) is whether or not Governor Sarah Palin will, or should, run for president. Not only should she, she must if the GOP has any hope of having a legitimate nominee whom everyone can support for the 2012 election.
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Wake up America, The Sundries Shack and Taylor Marsh
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 …
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:
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Citing his own past, Barney Frank declines to judge Rep. Weiner — Citing his own brush with sexual scandal, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Tuesday that he's in no position to judge the lurid actions of colleague Anthony Weiner. — “Given these circumstances, where I was myself engaged …
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The Politico, JammieWearingFool and National Review
Archbishop Dolan / The Gospel in the Digital Age:
The True Meaning of Marriage — The stampede is on. Our elected senators who have stood courageous in their refusal to capitulate on the state's presumption to redefine marriage are reporting unrelenting pressure to cave-in. — The media, mainly sympathetic to this rush to tamper …
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ThinkProgress, Politics on the Hudson, National Review and Shakesville
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.
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney: Federal Disaster Relief For Tornado And Flood Victims Is ‘Immoral,’ ‘Makes No Sense At All’ — Obama meets victims of the Joplin tornado. — Asked about federal disaster relief for recent tornado and flood victims at last night's GOP debate, candidate Mitt Romney called the spending …
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CNN, The Mahablog and The Reality-Based Community
Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Boycott Huffington Post — As some but by no means all progressives know, the Newspapers Guild and the National Writers Union have called a boycott against Huffington Post for refusing to pay its writers. Unlike unionized workplaces like the New York Times, Huffington Post exploits laborers desperate …
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ThinkProgress and Cato @ Liberty
Robert Kuttner / TAPPED:
What Larry Summers Can't Bring Himself to Say — If you want to understand why the Obama administration's heart is in the right place but it suffers from a chronic lack of political nerve, you need look no further than former chief economic advisor Larry Summers.
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Eschaton and Real Time Economics
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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Sam Dillon / New York Times:
U.S. Students Remain Poor at History, Tests Show — American students are less proficient in their nation's history than in any other subject, according to results of a nationwide test released on Tuesday, with most fourth graders unable to say why Abraham Lincoln was an important figure …
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ThinkProgress, Joanne Jacobs, Truthdig and Prairie Weather
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
National poll: Anthony Weiner's got to go — As Rep. Anthony Weiner continues to face calls for his immediate resignation, a new poll finds six in 10 Americans agree with those who want him out of Congress - and only eight percent have a favorable view of the lawmaker.
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Weasel Zippers and Verum Serum