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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Weiner Tells Friends He Will Step Down — WASHINGTON — Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House in the wake of revelations of his lewd online exchanges with women, said a person told of Mr. Weiner's plans.
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Weiner resigns at rowdy press conference — In the same room where he launched his first campaign for City Council two decades ago, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) announced his resignation from Congress on Thursday. — “Today I'm announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Weiner Gives Up the Ghost — So, Anthony Weiner is set to resign from Congress. Since I said I hoped he wouldn't do so, I feel obliged to comment on his decision. — What stands out to me about all this aren't Weiner's juvenile and mortifying ‘offenses,’ but the bizarre and almost inexplicable …
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Publius / Big Government:
Rep. Weiner to Resign — BigGovernment has been informed by trusted sources that Rep. Anthony Weiner will step down today. — From The New York Times: … From Politico:
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
ALL Major Cable Nets Cut Away When Pelosi Talks Jobs Over Weiner (VIDEO) — The DC media's jaw-dropping obsession with the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal will peter out when the New York congressman officially resigns this afternoon. But there's no better illustration of how this story came to consume the press than the video below.
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Rachel Rose Hartman / Yahoo! News:
Rep. Anthony Weiner stepping down
Rep. Anthony Weiner stepping down
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Weiner resigns after “sexting” scandal
Weiner resigns after “sexting” scandal
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Rep. Anthony Weiner to Resign From Congress
Rep. Anthony Weiner to Resign From Congress
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James Risen / New York Times:
Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic — WASHINGTON — A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him.
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Ret'd. CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to “Get” Cole — Eminent National Security correspondent at the New York Times James Risen has been told by a retired former official of the Central Intelligence Agency that the Bush White House repeatedly asked the CIA to spy …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Romney: 'I'm Also Unemployed' — TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Romney jokes about being ‘unemployed’
Romney jokes about being ‘unemployed’
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Rasmussen Reports:
Romney, Bachmann, Cain Lead The Pack Among GOP Primary Voters — Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues to lead the race for the Republican nomination, but Michele Bachmann has surged into second place following her Monday night entry into the campaign.
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Feifei Sun / The Page:
The Big Questions: Why Bachmann? — Mark Halperin's Big Questions in the new issue of TIME on the rise of the Gentlelady from Minnesota. — Why has Michele Bachmann suddenly become the It candidate? — With her impressive New Hampshire debate performance, Bachmann has gone …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dems hit Pawlenty for paid speech on healthcare — Democrats went after Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on Thursday for giving a paid speech on healthcare reform. — Pawlenty will address insurance executives as the annual convention of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) in San Francisco.
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Pawlenty Bets That His Debate Performance Fades
Pawlenty Bets That His Debate Performance Fades
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Niall Stanage / Ballot Box:
‘Wimp factor’ could pose threat to some 2012 GOP contenders
‘Wimp factor’ could pose threat to some 2012 GOP contenders
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner says House could move to cut off funding for Libya — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday said the Obama administration failed to answer all his questions about the U.S. mission in Libya and raised the possibility that the House would move to cut off funding for the operation.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?
Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Criticizing Obama, Kucinich credits Bush for asking Congress to go to war
Criticizing Obama, Kucinich credits Bush for asking Congress to go to war
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Our Lefty Military — As we search for paths out of America's economic crisis, many suggest business as a paradigm for cutting costs. According to my back-of-the-envelope math, top C.E.O.'s earn as much as $1 a second around the clock, partly by cutting medical benefits for employees.
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Jgalloway / Political Insider:
Your morning jolt: Atlanta office left $13,000 in drawer, says Newt Gingrich — GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich this morning pushed back against his former staff, accusing his Atlanta office of neglecting $13,000 in checks to his campaign. — Gingrich may want to be careful.
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Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
Bachmann Said To Have Deal For Memoir — Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota has made a deal to publish her memoir, selling a book to Sentinel, a conservative imprint at Penguin Group USA, two people familiar with the negotiations said on Thursday.
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Sajid Farooq / NBC Bay Area:
San Francisco Mulls Goldfish Ban — First kittens, then puppies and hamsters and now goldfish? — San Francisco's Animal Control and Welfare Commission is recommending that the City ban the sale of goldfish, tropical fish and guppies in its borders, according to Matier and Ross.
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Investor's Business Daily:
Return Of The Dreaded Misery Index — Economy: As if the picture weren't bleak enough, here's one more data point to worry about — the Misery Index is on the rise. — Conceived by economist Arthur Okun in the early 1970s, the Misery Index simply adds together the inflation and unemployment rates …
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Bruce Japsen / Chicago Tribune:
AMA to reconsider support of health insurance requirement — Faction contends key tenet of overhaul legislation is “a matter of individual responsibility to be encouraged by the use of tax incentives and other noncompulsory measures” — A divided American Medical Association …
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Exclusive: Jimmy Henchman Associate Admits to Role in Robbery/Shooting of Tupac; Apologizes To Pac & B.I.G.'s Mothers — (AllHipHop News) A man has admitted to being involved in the attack on rap star Tupac Shakur in 1994, inside Manhattan's Quad Studios in November of 1994 …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Mufti of Lebanon: Palestinians are ‘trash’, not welcome — Sheikh Qabbani tells visiting Palestinian delegation for refugees, “We've hosted you and no longer want you... You will never be victorious.” — Talkbacks (37) — The mufti of Lebanon, Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani …
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Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Czechs withdraw from US missile-defense plans — Count the Czech Republic out of any American missile-defense system in Europe. The Czechs formally withdrew from the missile-defense partnership with the US, prompting one lawmaker in Prague to complain that “the current administration doesn't take the Czech Republic seriously.”
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NBC New York:
Possible Al-Qaida Hit List Targets Specific Americans — An al-Qaida-linked website has posted a potential hit-list of sorts. It has the names and photos of several U.S. officials and business leaders. The site prompted the FBI to send out a new terror bulletin.
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