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Sarah Palin's Unlikely Supporter — ABC News' Sheila Marikar (@SheilaYM) reports from Pella, Iowa: — There's the stereotype of the Sarah Palin supporter, and then there's Sonnie Johnson. — The 30-year-old African-American mother and wife is featured in “The Undefeated” …
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Big Government, Conservatives4Palin, Hollywood Reporter, The Lonely Conservative, Victory Film Group, CNN and The Hill
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Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin Vows “110 Percent” Commitment to Iowa — If She Runs — PELLA, Iowa — Though she indicated that she is still not close to announcing her decision on whether to run for president, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Tuesday said that she would fully commit to the traditional process leading …
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Hot Air, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, New York Times, GOP 12, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, Reuters and Victory Film Group
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
As film debuts in Iowa, Sarah Palin gives no hint of presidential plans
As film debuts in Iowa, Sarah Palin gives no hint of presidential plans
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Guardian and The Iowa Republican
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Palin doesn't deny that she's decided on 2012
Palin doesn't deny that she's decided on 2012
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Hotline On Call, The Note and Salon
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama Gay Marriage Stance a Nod to 2012 Battlegrounds — Gay pride month celebrations hit the White House today as President Obama welcomes some of his gay and lesbian supporters and renews his commitment to helping them “win the future.” — But don't expect the president to flash …
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Towleroad News #gay
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
On same-sex marriage, Obama still has cold feet — Hillary Clinton, addressing a gay-pride celebration at the State Department this week, was in spirits as festive as her robin's-egg-blue pantsuit. — The “historic vote in New York” legalizing same-sex marriage …
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US Department of State, The Huffington Post and Towleroad News #gay
Brian Brown / NOM Blog:
Reversing SSM in New York: The Campaign Begins
Reversing SSM in New York: The Campaign Begins
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An Enduring Vision and Pam's House Blend
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama's Position on Gay Marriage Faces New Test
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
N.Y. town clerk: I won't sign gay wedding license
N.Y. town clerk: I won't sign gay wedding license
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ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay, An Enduring Vision, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Raid by Afghan Forces and NATO Ends Attack on Hotel in Kabul — KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine suicide bombers managed to elude several rings of security and reach one of the capital's premier hotels, which was busy with guests, many of whom had come from the provinces to the city for a conference …
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FrumForum
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Surprise: HHS drops plan to snoop on doctors — A follow-up to Ed's post from yesterday. No worries: The program's not really dead, it's just ... resting. It'll be back in a few years, once ObamaCare goes into effect and millions more Boomers have landed on the Medicare rolls.
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ABCNEWS, Healthwatch, Pajamas Media, Michelle Malkin and Wizbang
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Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
White House dumps ‘secret shopper’ survey of doctors
White House dumps ‘secret shopper’ survey of doctors
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Questions and Observations, Gawker, The Lonely Conservative, FrumForum and Weigel
Dan Fitzpatrick / Wall Street Journal:
BofA Nears Huge Settlement — $8.5 Billion Payment to Investors in Mortgage Securities Would Be Biggest Yet — Bank of America Corp. is close to an agreement to pay $8.5 billion to settle claims by a group of high-profile investors who lost money on mortgage-backed securities purchased …
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FT Alphaville, naked capitalism and New York Magazine
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Bank of America Near $8.5 Billion Deal on Mortgage Securities
Bank of America Near $8.5 Billion Deal on Mortgage Securities
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Calculated Risk
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ethics watchdog calls for FBI to investigate Rep. Richardson — Allegations of ethics violations within the office of Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.) are worthy of a criminal investigation, a leading ethics watchdog group charged Tuesday. — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics …
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The Last Tradition, iOwnTheWorld.com and FrumForum
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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson could face jail time for ethics violations
Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson could face jail time for ethics violations
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CREW and Washington Post
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Kucinich has language problem in Syria — Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) gave a press conference in Syria this week and appeared to heap praise upon Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is being widely criticized for the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in that country.
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Top Democrats reject new plan to cut Medicare spending — View Photo Gallery — The United States may have run up a huge debt, but it is not a poor country by any stretch of the imagination. The federal government owns roughly 650 million acres of land, a million buildings …
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The Hill, ThinkProgress, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Firedoglake
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Broadly Favor Obama's Afghanistan Pullout Plan — Fewer than half agree with specific troop reduction goals — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans broadly support President Barack Obama's plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces in Afghanistan this year, with additional troops scheduled …
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The Politico and RealClearWorld
Quinnipiac University:
Catholic New Yorkers Approve Of Cuomo 3-1, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Cuomo Tops Other Governors, Over Christie By 20 Points — New York State voters approve 64 - 19 percent of the job Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doing, 20 points better than New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie and leading governors …
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The Politico and Washington Post
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Price of U.S. wars: $4.4 trillion? — The final bill for U.S. military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan could be as high as $4.4 trillion, according to a comprehensive new report Tuesday. — In the 10 years since American troops were sent into Afghanistan …
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Outside the Beltway
Jeff Shesol / New York Times:
Should Justices Keep Their Opinions to Themselves? — ARE there really only nine Supreme Court justices? — It seems that everywhere you look, you see one popping up: giving speeches, signing books, leading workshops, posing for pictures at charity functions.
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Washington Post and Prairie Weather
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Tearful Glenn Beck Describes How He And His Family Were Attacked In New York Park — “These people were some of the most hateful people I have ever seen,” said a distraught Glenn Beck this morning as he described an altercation he and his family had last night while watching a screening …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Gawker, The Last Tradition, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Speakeasy, Wonkette and iOwnTheWorld.com
Jack Doyle / Daily Mail:
The joke of ‘secure Britain’: Vile banned militant extremist strolls through Heathrow immigration as 200 Somalian criminals are allowed to stay due to human rights — European Court ruling stems from appeals by two asylum seekers convicted of offences including burglary, making threats to kill and drug dealing
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Weasel Zippers, Guardian, Harry's Place and Jihad Watch
Biz Stone:
It's So Obvious — Believe it or not, Jason is the smartest of the trio. — My career in developing large scale systems that allow people to express themselves and communicate started in 1999 with Xanga. I left after a couple years and got more academic about the democratization of information on the web.
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Guardian, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Atlantic Online, Fortune, AllThingsD, GigaOM and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Bachmann plays Petty tune again — MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—Maybe Tom Petty's cease-and-desist letter hasn't arrived yet. — The singer was reportedly nonplussed that Michele Bachmann played his “American Girl” classic when she officially kicked off her presidential campaign in Iowa Monday.
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Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, NPR, The Raw Story and New York Magazine
The Economist online / Daily chart:
Two thousand years in one chart — An alternative timeline for the past two millennia — SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person's life is just as much a part of mankind's story as another's.
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Free exchange, The TrogloPundit, ThinkProgress and FT Alphaville
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Tea Party Finds Power Leads to Policy Splits — HARRISBURG, Pa. — When Tea Party groups celebrated their victories here in November — they had helped take the governor's office and the legislature — it seemed that one of their priorities, school choice legislation, would have an easy time passing.
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Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, Swampland and Salon
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Mainstream media covers up horrifying Obama mistake — No one in mainstream media seems inclined to mention Barack Obama's horrifying mistake last Thursday when, speaking at Fort Drum, he said that SFC Jared Monti was “the first person who I was able to award …
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The Hill, American Power, The Lonely Conservative, Wizbang and George's Bottom Line
The Independent:
How the demise of a trusted adviser could bring down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — Iran's President has survived mass uprisings, but a corruption row engulfing his inner circle may soon be his undoing. Robert Fisk reports from Tehran — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's irascible …
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FrumForum
Invitation / Economist:
Economics — Join our invited guests to debate economics — A response to: — Don't base monetary policy decisions on estimates of “slack” — THE Bank for International Settlements argues that due to high levels of structural unemployment there is less slack in the global economy than is commonly believed.
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Marginal Revolution
Romalley / Fox Nation:
Alec Baldwin Spews Hate on Bachmann: ‘Inarticulate and Full of *&$#%’ — Tuesday night Alec Baldwin took to twitter to spew hatred Michele Bachmann's way: — Fear Bachman bc she is raising so much money. Anyone that inarticulate and full of *&$#% who is raising money that fast.. — See the Tweet here
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Big Hollywood and Weasel Zippers