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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Of Dystopias and Alphas — President Obama was on the way to Alpha when a plea came for him to be, well, more alpha. — LuAnn Lavine, a real estate agent from Geneseo, a rural town just up the road from Alpha, Ill., the last stop on the president's Midwestern bus tour, told The Times's Jeff Zeleny …
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Sixty-five arrested outside White House in oil pipeline protest — Police arrested 65 environmentalists outside the White House Saturday as they staged a demonstration urging President Obama to block a proposed pipeline that would bring oil from Canada's oil sands projects to Gulf Coast refineries.
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Taylor Marsh
Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Obama's Beach Reading
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Obama dangerously close to a ‘Killer Rabbit’ moment — President heads for Martha's Vineyard vacation as unemployment lines grow — Is President Barack Obama on the verge of being attacked by a bunny wabbit? — Absolutely. — All the signs suggest that Obama is in immediate danger of a rabbit attack.
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americanthinker.com, alicublog, Moe Lane and The Lonely Conservative
ABCNEWS:
On ‘This Week’: Jon Huntsman and David Axelrod — He served in the Obama administration but now he wants to bring it to an end. Sunday, in a “This Week” exclusive, Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman talks with ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper about his plan to win his party's nomination.
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Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney showcase a Republican divide — Perry and Romney — brash populist versus starchy elite — illustrate a perpetual Republican cultural gap that may define the GOP presidential contest. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on the stump in Iowa.
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Sky Dancing
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Koch Responds To Buffet: ‘My Business And Non-Profit Investments Are Much More Beneficial To Society’ — America's current tax system forces people making $50,000 a year to pay a higher rate than hedge fund managers making $2.4 million an hour. Warren Buffett penned an op-ed last week declaring …
New York Times:
Perry Mines Texas System to Raise Cash — Two years ago, John McHale, an entrepreneur from Austin, Tex., who has given millions of dollars to Democratic candidates and causes, did something very unusual for him: he wrote a $50,000 check to a Republican candidate, Rick Perry, then seeking a third full term as governor of Texas.
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Texas on the Potomac and Prairie Weather
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Perry criticizes government while Texas job growth benefits from it
Perry criticizes government while Texas job growth benefits from it
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Don Surber, thomaspmbarnett.com and State of the Union
Washington Post:
Smacked by big market swings, investors should alter their outlook — With these whopping 4 percent swings — up 500 points, down 500 points, up another 500 points, down another 500 points — traders have whiplash. We saw another huge move down Thursday, when the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P all lost big …
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The Big Picture
Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Rep. Maxine Waters: ‘The tea party can go straight to hell’ — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) came out swinging against Republicans in Congress on Saturday as she addressed the unemployed during a forum in Inglewood. — The event occurred a day after new statistics were released showing …
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Rhymes With Right and Weasel Zippers
SignOnSanDiego.com:
Romney to quadruple La Jolla home size — The GOP contender plans local fundraisers for president this weekend — View from the beach of the 3,009-square-foot Romney home in La Jolla , which the GOP contender plans to demolish and replace with an 11,062-square-foot home. — Meg Roussos
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Cummings: Black community wants Obama to ‘fight harder’ — Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said Sunday that African-Americans want President Obama to “fight harder” to create jobs in the struggling U.S. economy. — Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, Cummings said the black community …
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Peter Walker / Guardian:
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates — • Tripoli calm as Gaddafi says ‘rats’ have been repelled — • Rebels claim it is ‘zero hour’ for Gaddafi as they tighten noose — • Syria's Assad to respond to calls for his removal in TV interview
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Kareem Fahim / New York Times:
Heavy Fighting Reported in Tripoli; Rebels Encircle City
Heavy Fighting Reported in Tripoli; Rebels Encircle City
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Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Nature Without the Nanny State — CHECKING the Forest Service Web site before a hike this weekend into the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, I noticed a curious warning: “Aggressive mountain goats have been reported. Use caution and move away.” No. Really? But they're so photogenic — snow-white …
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The Mahablog
Hossein Jaseb / Reuters:
Iran jails U.S. “hikers” as spies for 8 years — (Reuters) - Two Americans held in Iran for more than two years have been convicted as spies and sentenced to eight years' jail, Iranian TV reported on Saturday, a verdict that will further strain already very poor relations with Washington.
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