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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.
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! …
David Frum / FrumForum:
Pawlenty Is Debate's Biggest Loser
Pawlenty Is Debate's Biggest Loser
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking the GOP debate in New Hampshire
Fact-checking the GOP debate in New Hampshire
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Rand Simberg / National Review:
An Out-of-This-World Debate Question
An Out-of-This-World Debate Question
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
New Hampshire Republican debate: Winners and losers
New Hampshire Republican debate: Winners and losers
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Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
CREW Files Complaint Over House DOMA Defense, Boehner Spokesman Calls It “Stupid” — Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) regarding the $500,000 contracted by the Office …
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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
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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Kasie Hunt / Reuters:
Jon Huntsman's launch to take page from Reagan playbook — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will join the race for president next Tuesday. — “I intend to announce that I will be a candidate for the presidency a week from today,” Huntsman told an audience gathered for a China policy discussion …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Statue of Liberty redux
Statue of Liberty redux
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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 …
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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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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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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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.
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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