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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Perry calls global warming an unproven, costly theory — The Texas governor says scientists have ‘manipulated data’ to win research dollars. — Reporting from Bedford, N.H.— Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday reaffirmed his view that global warming is an unproven scientific theory …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Perry faces some jeers, pointed questions in NH appearance — Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) faced some jeers and tough questions during a meet-and-greet on Thursday in New Hampshire. — During another day of stumping in the first-in-the-nation primary state, Perry was met by supporters, but also faced jeers from some in the crowd.
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Bashing E.P.A. Is New Theme in G.O.P. Race — WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is emerging as a favorite target of the Republican presidential candidates, who portray it as the very symbol of a heavy-handed regulatory agenda imposed by the Obama administration that they say is strangling the economy.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Perry and Romney split on global warming
Perry and Romney split on global warming
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Louise Story / New York Times:
U.S. Inquiry Is Said to Focus on S.&P. Ratings — The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation's largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor's, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed …
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Wall Street Journal:
Perry's Public Service — Behold, a hard-money Texas politician. — All the world's right-thinkers are denouncing Rick Perry for suggesting this week that Texans would get “pretty ugly” with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke if he guns the money supply any more between now and the 2012 election.
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Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg:
Subdued Perry Courts Support in New Hampshire After Barb Aimed at Bernanke
Subdued Perry Courts Support in New Hampshire After Barb Aimed at Bernanke
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A.Killough / CNN:
‘Liberty lovers’ flock to Paul event
‘Liberty lovers’ flock to Paul event
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Mediaite, msnbc.com, Washington Wire and The Politico
Amy Teibel / Associated Press:
3 attacks target Israelis near Egypt, 6 dead — JERUSALEM (AP) — Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen more, officials said.
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Carl / Israel Matzav:
Liveblog: Coordinated terror attacks near Egyptian border
Liveblog: Coordinated terror attacks near Egyptian border
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Justin Elliott / Salon:
“Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?” — An Austin Ron Paul supporter has taken out a full-page ad in the local alt weekly newspaper seeking any “stripper ... escort ... or ‘young hottie’” who has slept with Rick Perry, part of his single-minded jihad against the presidential candidate.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Taegan Goddard's … and Althouse
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
New Low of 26% Approve of Obama on the Economy — Ratings on Afghanistan and foreign affairs have also declined — PRINCETON, NJ — A new low of 26% of Americans approve of President Barack Obama's handling of the economy, down 11 percentage points since Gallup last measured it in mid …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
71% disapprove Obama on economy
71% disapprove Obama on economy
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Gallup, The Heritage Foundation and Right Wing News
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
West: I'll lead you off ‘plantation’ — Rep. Allen West says he is a “modern-day Harriet Tubman” who wants to lead black voters away from the “plantation” of the Democratic Party. — There is a “21st century plantation” of African-American voters unwaveringly supporting Democrats …
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Chicago Tribune:
GOP candidate Michele Bachmann: I'll bring back $2 gas — President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas. — “Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,” Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. “That will happen.”
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Jim Davenport / Illegal Immigration:
Michele Bachmann plays up immigration, hits Warren Buffett
Michele Bachmann plays up immigration, hits Warren Buffett
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
S.E.C. Files Were Illegally Destroyed, Lawyer Says — WASHINGTON — An enforcement lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission says that the agency illegally destroyed files and documents related to thousands of early-stage investigations over the last 20 years, according …
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Balloon Juice and Gretawire
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A.Killough / CNN:
O'Donnell walks out of CNN interview — (CNN) - Christine O'Donnell, the former Delaware GOP Senate candidate, walked off the set of CNN's “Piers Morgan Tonight” Wednesday when asked about her views on sexual abstinence and gay marriage. — “I'm not talking about policies.
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USA Today and The Moderate Voice
Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Phone hacking: News of the World Hollywood reporter is arrested — James Desborough is arrested by London police investigating UK hacking allegations — James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone-hacking scandal.
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Reginald Fields / Plain Dealer:
Gov. John Kasich asks union leaders to compromise on Senate Bill 5; union group says repeal it, then we'll talk — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. John Kasich backtracked on Senate Bill 5 on Wednesday, asking union leaders to negotiate a compromise on the collective bargaining law he championed and end efforts to repeal it.
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Joe Vardon / The Columbus Dispatch:
Kasich, fellow Republicans propose SB 5 deal to unions
Kasich, fellow Republicans propose SB 5 deal to unions
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Coburn: Good thing I can't pack a gun — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) ripped his colleagues during a tour of northeast Oklahoma, calling them “career elitists,” “cowards” and said, “It's just a good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor.” — Coburn's gun-on-the- floor comment comes less …
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Todd Gregory / Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh's “Or-Bam-eo” Slur — Today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh described a new Oreo that will have both chocolate and vanilla cream as a “biracial” cookie and said that “it isn't going to be long before it's going to be called the Or-Bam-eo or something like this.”
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The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, field negro and Gawker
CBS News:
Presidential vacations: How does Obama compare? — President Obama and his family will be staying at the 28-acre Blue Heron Farm in Martha's Vineyard. (Ivy Ashe for the Vineyard Gazette) — Following his three-day bus tour to promote his economic agenda — and not to mention …
weaskamerica.com:
Top 10 Least Wanted — “Oh, there's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you, — When we treat you which we may not do at all. — There's an Iowa kind of special chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. — We've never been without that we recall. -"Iowa Stubborn" from The Music Man
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GOP 12, Politics in Minnesota and The Political Carnival
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Dirty Thirties — Larry J. Sabato, Director, U.Va. Center for Politics — President Obama has found himself in the cellar for the first time since taking office: He fell to 39% in Gallup Poll tracking over the past weekend. Obama may or may not have a month or months when his average is below 40%.