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Obama and Perry, geese and ganders — The New York Times has an item this morning about tonight's Republican debate, and it featured this Getty Images photograph, taken before the start of last week's debate. — It wouldn't be especially interesting, except I also remember seeing this photograph several hundred times four years ago.
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The Caucus and Joe. My. God.
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McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination — Washington— Livonia Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told The Detroit News this afternoon that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination after he failed to win access to the Republican presidential debates.
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National Review, Iowa Caucuses, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …

More Voters Considering Romney Than Obama, Perry — Sixty-two percent would definitely vote for Romney or consider doing so — PRINCETON, NJ — More registered voters say they would definitely vote for Mitt Romney or might consider doing so (62%) than say the same about his two main rivals …
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Washington Post, Top of the Ticket, Outside the Beltway, FiveThirtyEight, Business Insider and Boy in Bushwick


Handicapping the GOP Debate — The candidate with the best economic platform likely will prevail. — As Republicans gather in Florida for Thursday's Fox News-Google presidential debate in Orlando, the contest remains very fluid, raising the stakes (and hopes) for all nine candidates.
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Mediaite, New York Magazine, Politics, The Hill, Hot Air and The Right Scoop

McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination — Livonia Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told The Detroit News this afternoon that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination. — McCotter says he will give his support to former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney …
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GOP 12, Ballot Box, The Daily Caller and Business Insider


Romney discusses Perry, Palin and the polls
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Iowa Caucuses, Washington Wire, The Politico, Business Insider, GOP 12 and Rasmussen Reports

TPaw: Romney is electable
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National Review, The Washington Independent and Washington Post

Why Do Liberals Have Such a Soft Spot for Cop Killers Like Troy Davis? — Mumia Abu-Jamal killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Leonard Peltier murdered FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Liberals enthusiastically supported both of them.
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Slate Magazine, Salon, Confederate Yankee and Hullabaloo
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Bill Clinton Weighs In On Troy Davis Execution … Bill Clinton , Capital Punishment , Death Penalty , Video , Clinton Global Initiative , Troy Davis Case , Bill Clinton Capital Punishment , Bill Clinton Death Penalty , Bill Clinton Troy Davis , Troy Davis , Troy Davis Execution , Troy Davis Execution Date , Politics News
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The Politico and This Just In


The Great $16 Muffin Myth — I've been reading all day about the $16 muffins the Department of Justice served at one of its conferences, and I finally got curious about this. Is it really true? So I went to the DOJ Inspector General's website, got the report, and searched for “muffin.”
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Runnin' Scared, Outside the Beltway, The Impolitic, FP Passport, Nation Now and New York Magazine
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Sen. Grassley Says Heads Should ‘Roll’ Over Non-Existent $16 Muffin Scandal
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The Politico, CNN and Hit & Run

Boehner chastises conservatives: You voted to spend more money — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) delivered a tough message to conservatives who rejected his government funding bill on Wednesday: You voted to spend more money. — Four dozen House Republicans broke ranks and opposed …
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The Politico and Guardian
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Vote shows Boehner's lack of control
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Firedoglake, CNN, Washington Post, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, Left Coast Rebel, FrumForum, TPMDC, Salon, Booman Tribune, Little Green Footballs and Balloon Juice


House Republicans Regrouping on CR, Pondering Two Options
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ThinkProgress

Conservatives Stop New Boehner CR That Permitted Funding for Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, Palestinian Authority
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Weasel Zippers

CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured … GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world's largest physics lab say they have clocked subatomic particles traveling faster than light, a feat that - if true - would break a fundamental pillar of science. — The readings have so astounded researchers …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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CERN scientists ‘break the speed of light’ — Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the universe. — Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers …
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Vox Popoli

Gunning for Rick Perry — Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt is putting GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry in his crosshairs ... he'll be offering up to $1 million for anyone who can prove Perry has had an illicit sexual liaison ... TMZ has learned. — The ad — which Flynt …
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Business Insider
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Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession
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Washington Monthly and The Atlantic Online

Explosive Email Shows Anti-Palin Author McGinniss, Random House Likely Published Literary Hoax — The awful launch week for the over-hyped, expected bestseller The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by controversial author Joe McGinniss, just got worse. Much worse.
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Conservatives4Palin, Don Surber, All American Blogger and The Right Scoop


Who Benefited from Job Growth In Texas? — A Look at Employment Gains for Immigrants and the Native-Born, 2007 to 2011 — Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research and Ashley Monique Webster a demographerat the Center for Immigration Studies. — Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) …
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Firedoglake, Campaign 2012, Business Insider, Vox Popoli and National Review
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Palestine Logo Suggests Elimination of Israel — The logo of “the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations” - on their website and on top of their official statements at the U.N. - shows the Palestinian Authority's claim to a Palestine that stretches throughout …
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americanthinker.com, National Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion


MAP: Which Countries Enlist Gay Soldiers? — The United States is now one of 26 countries worldwide that welcome gays and lesbians in the military, according to the Palm Center. — The United States is now one of 26 countries worldwide that welcome gays and lesbians in the military, according to the Palm Center.
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ThinkProgress

Republicans demand Buffett's tax returns — The GOP is making a concerted effort to pressure billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett to release his tax returns to the public. — Republicans say Buffett — the public face of Obama's proposed “Buffett Rule” to increase taxes on the wealthy …
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Politics, TPMDC and Mother Jones

At hearing, supercommittee members display eagerness to tackle tax reform — The members of the new deficit-reduction supercommittee were hopeful Thursday that they could step up to the plate and tackle tax reform, saying it could be key to driving job growth.
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The Politico

The great euro swindle — Finally, the Eurosceptics have been vindicated. But will their dishonest opponents ever be held to account? — Very rarely in political history has any faction or movement enjoyed such a complete and crushing victory as the Conservative Eurosceptics. The field is theirs.
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National Review


Judicial Diva Gone Wild? Chief Judge Jones Tells Judge Dennis to ‘Shut Up’ — Chief Judge Edith Jones: Underneath her robe beats a judicial diva's heart. — Can you enforce civility by being... uncivil? That's the question being raised, over and over again, by federal judges from Texas these days.
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JONATHAN TURLEY

By ‘sheer coincidence,’ Obama targets Boehner, McConnell — President Obama upped the political ante over the jobs bill Thursday, flying to Northern Kentucky to target Republican leaders personally. — Obama's visit to the Brent Spence bridge that connects Kentucky to Cincinnati was a …
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The Politico


Dr. John C. Eastman — Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, former Dean — Dr. John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University School of Law …
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ThinkProgress, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay

Meh — And I Mean That — OK, the Fed moved. It was a bit stronger than expected — and BB and company stood up to the GOP. — But seriously, they're trying to use a water pistol to stop a charging rhino. — Conventional monetary policy operates by changing the supply of monetary base, which is a unique, uniquely liquid asset.
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Grasping Reality …, Tim Duy's Fed Watch and TheMoneyIllusion


Is Irish Austerity Paying Dividends? — Last year, the failure of Irish austerity was on the lips of every left-wing wonk in America. Paul Krugman, the leader of this school of thought, has compared austerity to bloodletting and other such primitive medical quackery (a comparison he repeated a couple of days ago).
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Marginal Revolution