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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Pushes Radical Bill To Restrict Discussion Of Abortion Over The Internet — Instead of focusing on job creation, congressional Republicans have spent their time passing socially conservative legislation like the “Let Women Die” bill that would allow hospitals that receive federal funds …
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Herman Cain Tells Piers Morgan That He Is Anti-Abortion, Yet Pro-Choice? — Tonight, Herman Cain sat down with CNN's Piers Morgan to discuss his stance on a variety of issues. And it would appear that, where abortion is concerned, Cain is “anti-abortion in all cases,” yet “pro-choice.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Race 4 2012
Thomas / Blog for Choice:
Anti-Choice Senator: No Talking about Abortion on the Internet
Anti-Choice Senator: No Talking about Abortion on the Internet
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Liberal Values and Shakesville
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Obama still flush with cash from financial sector despite frosty relations — View Photo Gallery — President Obama's reelection campaign and DNC together raised $70 million in the third quarter of 2011. Outside of fundraising, the president is ramping up support for his reelection …
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The Politico:
Barney Frank supports protesters, raises Wall St. cash — Rep. Barney Frank might sympathize with the Occupy Wall Street protesters, but he's still got friends in the financial world. — The Massachusetts Democrat is heading to New York hoping to raise tens of thousands of dollars Thursday …
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New York Magazine and Hot Air
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
West counters Obama: MLK would not have backed Wall Street protests
West counters Obama: MLK would not have backed Wall Street protests
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The Politico, The Political Carnival and Weasel Zippers
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Misfire: Romney Ad Targets Rick Perry's Jobs Record — I think it's safe to say the Romney campaign is going for the kill with its latest attack on Rick Perry. The former Massachusetts Governor has already gotten a fair amount of mileage out of attacking his Texan rival from the left on Social Security …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mitt Romney aide: He stood up to ‘bully’ Rick Perry at debate
Mitt Romney aide: He stood up to ‘bully’ Rick Perry at debate
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Weasel Zippers and FiveThirtyEight
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Perry to Propose a National Flat Tax
Perry to Propose a National Flat Tax
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Gothamist, The Daily Caller, ThinkProgress, Sister Toldjah and msnbc.com
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Romney still the best at this, Perry not as bad, and the loser? Anderson Cooper
Romney still the best at this, Perry not as bad, and the loser? Anderson Cooper
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Mediaite, Daily Kos, Political Mojo, ThinkProgress, A plain blog about politics and The Huffington Post
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Perry Commits to Flat Tax, Reforming Entitlements
Perry Commits to Flat Tax, Reforming Entitlements
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National Review
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Moment of Candor From Harry Reid — Every once in a while a liberal says what he really thinks. Today Harry Reid explained why the Democrats prefer funding public sector jobs rather than permitting private sector job creation: … Yes, the private sector is doing just great.
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Washington Post:
Washington Post-Pew Research Center Poll — This poll was conducted for The Washington Post and the Pew Research Center by telephone October 13 to 16, 2011, among a random national sample of 1,007 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones.
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Charles Babington / Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Public unsettled on Obama challenger
AP-GfK Poll: Public unsettled on Obama challenger
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Hotline On Call
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Poll: Half of Americans believe Obama doesn't deserve reelection
Poll: Half of Americans believe Obama doesn't deserve reelection
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The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Paul Krugman:
Getting Nominal — “Market monetarists” like Scott Sumner and David Beckworth are crowing about the new respectability of nominal GDP targeting. And they have a right to be happy. — My beef with market monetarism early on was that its proponents seemed to be saying that the Fed …
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J. Bradford DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
What Needs to Happen for the Fed to Successfully Target the Level of Nominal GDP?
What Needs to Happen for the Fed to Successfully Target the Level of Nominal GDP?
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Modeled Behavior
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Energy Department Altered Loan-Related Releases — Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found. — The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department …
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National Review, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, TPMDC, Betsy's Page, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Lonely Conservative
Jason Mattera / Human Events:
All Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP — Vice President Joe Biden now says he didn't make a reference to rape, and got testy with HUMAN EVENTS when we asked if he would like to retract his comments that the number of sexual assaults would increase if Republicans don't sign on to Barack Obama's latest “jobs” proposal.
ABCNEWS:
Transcript: ABC News' Jake Tapper's Exclusive Interview With President Obama — President Obama sits down with ABC News' senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper for an exclusive interview in Jamestown, N.C. (Courtesy the White House) — The following is a transcript …
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Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
Obama: “All the choices we've made have been the right ones”
Obama: “All the choices we've made have been the right ones”
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UrbanGrounds, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and Pat Dollard
Ron Scherer / CNBC:
A Long, Steep Drop for Americans' Standard of Living — Think life is not as good as it used to be, at least in terms of your wallet? You'd be right about that. The standard of living for Americans has fallen longer and more steeply over the past three years than at any time since …
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Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative
Sasha Chavkin / The New York World:
Women ride in back on sex-segregated Brooklyn bus line — On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide berth.
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NPR host is Occupy DC spokeswoman — National Public Radio host Lisa Simeone appears to be breaking the taxpayer-subsidized network's ethics rules by acting as a spokeswoman for Occupy D.C. group “October 2011,” which is currently “occupying” Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
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War Is A Crime .org, NewsBusters.org blogs and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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Neda Semnani / Roll Call:
Heard on the Hill: Breaking the Code of Ethics
Heard on the Hill: Breaking the Code of Ethics
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The Daily Caller
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Supercommittee's lack of progress on debt reduction raises alarms on Hill — With a Thanksgiving deadline fast approaching, a powerful congressional panel devoted to debt reduction is running in rhetorical circles, unable to break the impasse over taxes that has long blocked aggressive action to tame the national debt.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: 'It's Not Okay, It's A License To Do Things' — Rick Santorum pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception, during a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart, arguing that birth control devalues the act of procreation.
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Man living as an ‘adult baby’ is cleared of Social Security fraud — The California man who lives part of his life as an “adult baby” and collects Social Security disability payments says the federal agency has cleared him of wrongdoing and will continue sending checks.
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Right Wing News, Don Surber, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and The Gateway Pundit
Anjeanette Damon / Las Vegas Sun:
Pressure building for Nevada GOP to give up its early caucus date — Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, in Las Vegas for the Western Republican Leadership Conference, is reportedly pushing hard to broker an early-state compromise that would push Nevada's caucus date back to Feb. 4.
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The Daily Caller, Race 4 2012 and The Politico
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP debate crowd cheers idea that jobless are to blame for their plight — This caused a dust up on Twitter last night. But it deserves more attention today. This moment from last night's debate, in which the audience cheered the idea that the unemployed are solely to blame for not having a job …
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Washington Monthly, US Politics, Economist's View and A plain blog about politics
Damian Kahya / BBC:
Rising energy bills causing fuel poverty deaths — Charlene Franklin talks to Simon Gompertz about fuel poverty: “There have been times when I wouldn't eat two or three times in the week” — Thousands of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty, according to an independent report.
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Newshoggers.com, Guardian and Biased BBC