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CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL — Full Transcript of CNN NATIONAL SECURITY DEBATE, 20:00-22:00 — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — WOLF BLITZER, DEBATE MODERATOR AND CNN LEAD POLITICAL ANCHOR: Live from Washington, DC, for the Republican National Security Debate.
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The Politico:
Gingrich relies on fading Newt Inc. — During his decade on the political sidelines, Newt Gingrich got rich by building a network of companies and think tanks that pulled in more than $115 million in contributions and fees from powerful corporations and individuals.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
GOP debate: Newt Gingrich beats back immigration critique
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Mark Krikorian / National Review:
The Gingrich Amnesty — Missed the debate because of wrestling …
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The PJ Tatler
Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Video of the Day: Romney Likes Illegals, Too? A Newt-Mitt Twitter Fight
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Romney (Wild) and Gingrich (Mild) Swap Roles at Foreign Policy Debate
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Gingrich, Immigration and ‘What Would Reagan Do?’
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Iowa Caucuses, Hot Air and The Hill
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
In the Land of the Salamanders, the Newt is King
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Marbury, PolitickerNY, The Atlantic Online, The Daily Dish and The Politico
Shannon Travis / CNN:
First on CNN: Key social conservatives secretly meet to stop Romney in Iowa — Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) — Representatives for leading social conservative groups in Iowa held a secret meeting Monday as part of an effort with one main goal: find and support a Republican presidential candidate who can stop Mitt Romney in Iowa.
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Reuters:
“Disastrous” bond sale shakes confidence in Germany — (Reuters) - A “disastrous” German bond sale on Wednesday sparked fears that Europe's debt crisis was even starting to threaten Berlin, with the leaders of the euro zone's two biggest economies still firmly at odds over a longer-term structural solution.
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americanthinker.com and Spiegel Online
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
German Bond Auction Fails — A year ago, Germany and France could probably have saved the euro—at least for a time—by stepping in to guarantee all the debts of the peripheral euro zone nations. To be sure, this would have created quite a lot of other problems, but it would have saved their banks and their currency union.
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Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Katehi: Campus police were told not to use force against students — As the tent city on the University of California, Davis, tripled in size, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi insisted Tuesday that the school's police department defied her orders when it used force against students in last week's pepper-spray fiasco.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Pepper Spray's Fallout, From Crowd Control to Mocking Images — Some women carry it in their purses in a pink, lipstick-shaped container. Hikers use it to deter bears. People in most states can buy a small canister of it on a quick-release key ring on Amazon.com for $7.07.
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Cadie Thompson / CNBC:
Demonstrators Plan to Occupy Retailers on Black Friday — Some demonstrators are planning to occupy retailers on Black Friday to protest “the business that are in the pockets of Wall Street.” — Organizers are encouraging consumers to either occupy or boycott retailers that are publicly traded …
Associated Press:
Medicare chief Don Berwick steps down in standoff with GOP senators over his confirmation — WASHINGTON — The point man for carrying out President Barack Obama's health care law will be stepping down after Republicans succeeded in blocking his confirmation by the Senate, an official said Wednesday.
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New York Times:
New Trove of Stolen E-Mails From Climate Scientists Is Released — The anonymous hacker who shook the world of climate science two years ago by posting a trove of stolen e-mails delivered a new batch on Tuesday, stirring up climate-change contrarians a little more than a week before global negotiations …
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The Volokh Conspiracy, LewRockwell.com Blog, JunkScience.com, News Desk, American Power and Guardian
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life:
Romney's Mormon Faith Likely a Factor in Primaries, Not in a General Election — Many Americans continue to see the Mormon faith as unfamiliar and different. Half say they know little or nothing about Mormonism, half say it is a Christian religion while a third say it is not …
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New York Times, CNN, Guardian, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Yochi J. Dreazen / NationalJournal.com:
FACT CHECK: How Serious is the Threat to Pakistan's Nuclear Program? — Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann serves on the House Intelligence Committee, so her comments on Pakistan's nuclear program represent either a news-making leak of previously unknown classified information or another …
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Max Read / Gawker:
Did Bachmann Leak Classified Intel During the Debate?
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Mediaite and The Atlantic Online
Eric Pfeiffer / Yahoo! News:
Man catches 881-pound tuna, seized by feds — A Massachusetts fisherman pulled in an 881-pound tuna this week only to have the federal authorities take it away. It sounds like a libertarian twist on the classic novella by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, but for Carlos Rafael, the saga is completely true.
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New York Times:
Military Moves to End Clashes in Egyptian Square — CAIRO — The Egyptian military moved Wednesday to end a fifth day of clashes between police and protesters that left at least 31 dead, in a confrontation that has plunged the Arab world's most populous country into crisis and underscored …
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Danger Room
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Barry Rubin / Rubin Reports:
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Versus Army: Disastrous Elections or Bloody Civil War?
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Melanie Phillips, New York Times and Washington Post
Julie Satow / New York Times:
Visions of LoLo, a Neighborhood Rising From Landfill — New Yorkers are fond, perhaps overly so, of assembling ever-creative names for newly hot neighborhoods, from NoMad (north of Madison Square Park) to SoBro (the South Bronx) to BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens). — Multimedia
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The Big Picture, Latest from Crain's …, ANIMAL and The Awl
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats ready to move $400 billion in new legislation — After failing to reach a deal to reduce the deficit, the Senate will move next month to take up legislation that could add more than $400 billion to the deficit. — All of the proposals, such as the extension of the payroll tax cut …
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Weasel Zippers, The Heritage Foundation and americanthinker.com
CNN:
Fallon apologizes to Bachmann — (CNN) - TV show host Jimmy Fallon apologized to GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann via Twitter Tuesday for a song played as the presidential candidate walked on stage for her Monday interview on NBC's “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”
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Campaign 2012 and The Page
BBC:
Yemeni President Saleh signs deal on ceding power — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared jovial as he put pen to paper — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed a deal under which he will step down after months of unrest. — Mr Saleh signed the agreement …
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Cross removed at base in Afghanistan — A large cross that had been prominently displayed outside a chapel on an isolated military base in northern Afghanistan was taken down last week, prompting outrage from some American service members stationed there. — “We are here away from our families …
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The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Howard Megdal / Salon:
The GOP needs a brokered convention — New rules mean Romney's rivals can save the party from an unpopular nominee — Mitt Romney and the candidates of the Not Mitt Romney movement (Credit: Chris Keane / Reuters) — It has been a tumultuous year for those eager to handicap the 2012 GOP race for president.
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Taegan Goddard's … and A plain blog about politics
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Newt Gingrich won't appear on Missouri ballot — Newt Gingrich speaks at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire Nov. 21, 2011 (Adam Hunger / Reuters) — Newt Gingrich may be a top-tier contender in the latest polls …
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