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Joseph W. McQuaid / unionleader.com:
For President, Newt Gingrich — This newspaper endorses Newt Gingrich in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. — America is at a crucial crossroads. It is not going to be enough to merely replace Barack Obama next year. We are in critical need of the innovative …
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David Frum / National Post:
In the Republican race, it's Romney, Huntsman or bust — Yesterday, 11 National Post contributors named their preferred Republican nominee in less than 250 words. — Being more indecisive and longer-winded, I needed 24 extra hours and 500 more words. — I'm looking for two chief things in a candidate for 2012:
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
N.H. Union Leader backs Gingrich
N.H. Union Leader backs Gingrich
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Gingrich wins Union Leader endorsement
Gingrich wins Union Leader endorsement
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Serafin Gomez / Fox News:
Newt Gingrich Gets Big New Hampshire Endorsement
Newt Gingrich Gets Big New Hampshire Endorsement
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James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Kimberly Webb Joyner, 1970 to 2011 — My wife, Kimberly Webb Joyner, died this morning in her sleep from unknown causes. She was 41. — She leaves behind two little girls she loved more than anything, Katie, who turns 3 on New Year's Eve, and Ellie, who was born June 21.
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Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse — In virtually all the debates about the eurozone I have been engaged in, someone usually makes the point that it is only when things get bad enough, the politicians finally act - eurobond, debt monetisation, quantitative easing, whatever.
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Associated Press:
Teen tweeter won't apologize to Sam Brownback — KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas teenager who wrote a disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback said Sunday that she is rejecting her high school principal's demand for a written apology. — Emma Sullivan, 18, of the Kansas City suburb of Fairway …
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Jonathan Wynne-Jones / Telegraph:
Christian worker loses her job after being ‘targeted’ by Islamic extremists — A Christian worker has launched a landmark legal action after she lost her job when she blew the whistle on what she says was a campaign of “race hate” by fundmentalist Muslims. — Nohad Halaoui is claiming …
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Ben Casselman / Wall Street Journal:
Help Wanted: In Unexpected Twist, Some Skilled Jobs Go Begging — DENVER—Ferrie Bailey's job should be easy: hiring workers amid the worst stretch of unemployment since the Depression. — A recruiter for Union Pacific Corp., she has openings to fill, the kind that sometimes seem to have all but vanished …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama's toughest critic: Obama — President Barack Obama has plenty of critics — Republicans, liberals, the media — but the person hardest on the president, his administration and the Democratic Party is, at times, Barack Obama. — Obama has admitted that he's “screwed up,” is “frustrated” …
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Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Newt Gingrich Mocks President Barack Obama in Naples
Newt Gingrich Mocks President Barack Obama in Naples
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Romney calls on Obama to block $600B in defense cuts — Mitt Romney on Sunday called for President Obama to halt the $600 billion in automatic cuts aimed at the Defense department as a consequence of the failed debt supercommittee. — “I'm calling on the president to say no way for those cuts …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Craven Political Crudités — BARACK OBAMA hates Thanksgiving and all that it represents. — Don't believe me? Then consider his own words. On Wednesday, previewing our annual overconsumption of fowl, the president said, “Tomorrow is one of the worst days of the year to be American.”
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David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
But Nobody Pays That: Estée Lauder Heir's Tax Strategies Typify Advantages for Wealthy — As he stood in the opulent marble foyer of a Fifth Avenue mansion late last month, greeting the coterie of prominent guests arriving at his private art gallery, Ronald S. Lauder was doing more than just being a gracious host.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Powell: Tea Party presidential candidate can't win in 2012 — Former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday dismissed chances for a Tea Party candidate to win the presidential election, criticizing the hard-line stance taken by the majority of the grassroots movement …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
President as Piñata — A YEAR before President Obama faces re-election, take a look at what has happened to other Western leaders confronting voters in this economic vortex. — Spain's Socialist government was defeated in a crushing landslide vote a week ago, leaving the party …
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