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First Read / msnbc.com:
Perry ‘taken aback’ by debate crowd reaction — TAMPA, FL — The morning after a sometimes-rocky appearance in front of a Tea Party debate audience, Gov. Rick Perry said he was “taken aback” by cheers from some crowd members on a hypothetical question of whether a young man who decides …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bachmann: Gardasil causes “mental retardation” — Earlier today, I noted that Michele Bachmann finally scored points on Rick Perry by hitting him on his ties to Merck and linking that to the Gardasil mandate Perry imposed through executive order in Texas. This is a fair point on Perry's record …
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Bachmann: I'm A-Goin' to Go Ahead and Push This Lunatic Vaccines=Autism Lie — Precious bodily fluids. — That's not just a throwaway movie line. There is strain of “body paranoia,” for lack of a better term, that infects the public from time time; first it was fluoridation …
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Pajamas Media, RedState and Outside the Beltway
Henry I. Miller / National Review:
Gardasil and the GOP — More than an hour into last night's debate, Rep. Michele Bachmann attacked Gov. Rick Perry on the HPV vaccination controversy — or more accurately pseudo-controversy. It stems from an executive order issued by Perry in 2007 that required all Texas girls to receive Gardasil …
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The Right Scoop:
Rush: Bachmann jumped the shark over Gardasil causing mental retardation — Rush had high praise for Bachmann's performance last night, but in the clip below he says she's gone too far today, jumping the shark over repeating the anecdote she heard last night after the debate that suggested that Garadasil might cause mental retardation:
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Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
HPV, Perry, and Bachmann — HPV is an acronym for human papillomavirus, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls “the most common sexually transmitted infection.” Some twenty million Americans carry the virus and there are about six million new cases each year.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Rick Perry and HPV vaccine-maker have deep financial ties
Rick Perry and HPV vaccine-maker have deep financial ties
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Bachmann claims HPV vaccine might cause ‘mental retardation’
Bachmann claims HPV vaccine might cause ‘mental retardation’
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David Weigel / Slate:
Bachmann Asks: Can Gardisil Make Your Kids Retarded?
Bachmann Asks: Can Gardisil Make Your Kids Retarded?
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Gardasil Flap — I can't make up my mind over this whole controversy.
The Gardasil Flap — I can't make up my mind over this whole controversy.
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Campaign 2012
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Perry Better Get Better — I don't think Rick Perry lost …
Perry Better Get Better — I don't think Rick Perry lost …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Social Security hurting Perry? — Americans strongly disagree with the statements Rick Perry made about Social Security in last week's Republican Presidential debate, and Barack Obama has nearly doubled his lead over Perry nationally in the span of just 3 weeks.
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Jaime Fuller / TAPPED:
Today in SAT Prep: Romney Is to Clinton as Perry Is to Obama
Today in SAT Prep: Romney Is to Clinton as Perry Is to Obama
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Ross Douthat:
Rick Perry as Howard Dean
Rick Perry as Howard Dean
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No More Mister Nice Blog and A plain blog about politics
NationalJournal.com:
Is Rick Perry Making Mitt Romney a Better Candidate?
Is Rick Perry Making Mitt Romney a Better Candidate?
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Dustin Ingalls / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads Romney by 4, Perry by 11 nationally
Obama leads Romney by 4, Perry by 11 nationally
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The New Republic, The Politico and National Review
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The frontrunner has no clothes — The applause identified Rick Perry …
The frontrunner has no clothes — The applause identified Rick Perry …
Rasmussen Reports:
Romney 43%, Obama 40% — Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney …
Romney 43%, Obama 40% — Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Perry Leads but Romney Gaining in GOP Favorability
Perry Leads but Romney Gaining in GOP Favorability
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ABCNEWS:
Emails: Obama White House Monitored Huge Loan to ‘Connected’ Firm — Chris Gronet, right, talks about solar technology with President Barack Obama on a tour of the Solyndra solar panel company, in this May 26, 2010 file photo, in Fremont, Calif. (Paul Chinn/Pool/Getty Images)
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The Hill:
House GOP widening scope of Solyndra probe, wants answers from White House
House GOP widening scope of Solyndra probe, wants answers from White House
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Ronald D. White / Money & Company:
Energy Department expects solar energy project to create 900 jobs
Energy Department expects solar energy project to create 900 jobs
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Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and National Review
U.S. Census Bureau News:
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010 — Summary of Key Findings — The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2010, median household income declined, the poverty rate increased and the percentage without health insurance coverage was not statistically different from the previous year.
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Yahoo! News:
Census: US poverty rate swells to nearly 1 in 6
Census: US poverty rate swells to nearly 1 in 6
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Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
The Great Recession in five charts
The Great Recession in five charts
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
In NY-9 special election, Dems race to stave off an upset — NEW YORK - Democrats here spent Tuesday in the final throes of a frantic, last-ditch effort to stave off a loss in the special election race to replace Anthony Weiner. — Democrat David Weprin, trailing Republican Bob Turner in multiple polls …
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Jennifer Gould Keil / New York Post:
Weiner flees amid Dem panic over vote today
Weiner flees amid Dem panic over vote today
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Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
White House Already Spinning Feared New York Loss
White House Already Spinning Feared New York Loss
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Elizabeth Warren Officially Launching Senate Campaign Against Scott Brown — Former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren will officially launch her campaign for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts on Wednesday, challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown, a source close to Warren told TPM on Tuesday.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren To Announce Senate Run Wednesday
Elizabeth Warren To Announce Senate Run Wednesday
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Warren to officially announce Senate bid
Warren to officially announce Senate bid
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann: U.S. Immigration ‘Worked Very, Very Well’ Under The Asian Exclusion Act — Under Bachmann's Immigration Policy, Lt. Hikaru Sulu Would Not Be Allowed In The United States — In 1924, Congress passed a package of immigration laws — including the National Origins Act …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
West to Bachmann: Everglades are off limits
Todd Gregory / Media Matters for America:
Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip — In the annals of mindless partisan sniping, this may place at the top. — This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip. Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip.
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Paul Krugman:
The Death of the Confidence Fairy — In the first half of last year a strange delusion swept much of the policy elite on both sides of the Atlantic — the belief that cutting spending in the face of high unemployment would actually create jobs. I went after this stuff early and hard …
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
IMF: Austerity boosts unemployment, lowers paychecks
IMF: Austerity boosts unemployment, lowers paychecks
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Indecent — The moment from last night that keeps haunting me: — Look: in some ways the honesty is refreshing. Yes, failing to get your own health insurance creates an obvious free-rider problem, and this is at the heart of the health insurance debate.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Liberal Democrats announce jobs platform to the left of Obama's — Liberal House Democrats on Tuesday announced a jobs proposal to the left of President Obama's jobs package. — At a news conference, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said Obama's proposal was a good start …
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Instapundit, Daily Kos and Weasel Zippers
ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden's Last Message to America: Beware Capitalism? — A day after Americans observed the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks by al Qaeda, a new video featuring the terror group's now-deceased leader surfaced in which Osama bin Laden warns the American people …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: President gets no bounce from speech, but disapproval rating peaks — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama didn't score any political points with his speech on jobs to a joint session of Congress last Thursday. According to a new CNN/ORC International poll released Tuesday …
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Shebshi / the Heartland:
Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit — Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up …