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Dale Russell / MyFox Atlanta:
Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain — Ginger White's exclusive interview with the I-Team — ATLANTA, Ga. - An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
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Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Cain Accused of Affair by Ginger White — An Atlanta woman came forward in an interview broadcast Monday night with details about what she called a 13-year affair with Herman Cain, the Republican presidential contender whose campaign was already struggling to overcome damage from accusations of sexual harassment.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Ginger White accuses Herman Cain of a 13-year affair — A Georgia woman says that she and Herman Cain engaged in a 13-year affair, but the GOP presidential candidate issued a preemptive denial on Monday. — In an interview with the local Fox affiliate in Atlanta, Ginger White said she met Cain …
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Scogginsj / CNN:
Herman Cain on new claim of a long-term extramarital affair, “I have done nothing wrong.” — In a CNN exclusive interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Herman Cain announces that a new accuser will soon claim that she had an affair with him. — Please credit all usage of the interview to CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
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CNN:
Cain says he has been accused of an affair
Cain says he has been accused of an affair
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CBS News:
Woman claims 13-year affair with Herman Cain
Woman claims 13-year affair with Herman Cain
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Woman says she and Cain had 13-year affair; Cain denies accusation
Woman says she and Cain had 13-year affair; Cain denies accusation
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Telemarketer Abuse Statute Confounds Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — “This is the strangest statute I have ever seen,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said near the end of a Supreme Court argument on Monday. — The justices had spent most of the previous hour trying to puzzle out the meaning …
Michelle Malkin:
Did you miss the Thanksgiving White House visitor log document dump? — Just like clockwork, the Obama administration never misses an opportunity to unload thousands of records it hopes no one will ever bother sifting through during the holidays. — On Black Friday, the White House released …
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Doug Ross and The Huffington Post
Paul Krugman:
Mission Not Accomplished — Matt Yglesias and Kevin Drum say the right thing about revelations that big banks got very easy terms during the financial crisis: the real scandal isn't so much that those banks got rescued as that the rest of the population didn't.
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Kevin Drum / Political Mojo:
How 2008 Should Have Radicalized Us All
How 2008 Should Have Radicalized Us All
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Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Gingrich nabs high-profile endorsement in South Carolina
Gingrich nabs high-profile endorsement in South Carolina
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The Politico, Moe Lane and Associated Press
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Frank: Gingrich against Obama ‘best thing’ for Dems since Goldwater
Frank: Gingrich against Obama ‘best thing’ for Dems since Goldwater
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CNN, The Politico and The Atlantic Online
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Chris Christie: President Obama's just a ‘bystander’ — Gov. Chris Christie on Monday tore into President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the supercommittee's failure to reach an agreement on debt reduction last week, asking the president, “What the hell are we paying you for?”
Colleen Owens / Big Government:
Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor — Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party.
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BBC:
Arrest over video of ‘racist rant’ on Croydon to Wimbledon tram — The clip shows a woman swearing at passengers on the tram — A woman has been arrested after an online video apparently showed a woman abusing ethnic minority passengers on a packed south London tram.
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Yossi Melman / Reuters:
Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility — Semi-official Fars news agency says blast heard distinctly in several parts of the western Iran city; a uranium conversion plant near Isfahan went online in 2004. — An explosion rocked the western Iranian city …
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
More On Climategate II — The Science & Environmental Policy Project comments on the Climategate II emails: … SEPP offers a series of links to commentators who have analyzed the Climategate II emails: — You can search the Climategate I and II emails here: http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Voting Rights Advocate Held At Gunpoint By SWAT Team With No Warrant — Last Monday, attorney Barbara Arnwine was rudely awakened by the sounds of a police raid on her home. Arnwine is not really the type you'd expect SWAT teams to be targeting. She's the Executive Director …
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Crew of 42 and The Agitator
Richard Teitelbaum / Bloomberg:
How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan. It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting. Four months earlier …
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Business Insider and Mish's Global Economic …
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Obama administration, GAO appear to have ignored group's ACORN affiliation to award $700K — A newly released internal audit appears to indicate that the Government Accountability Office and President Barack Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development incorrectly argued that a specific organization wasn't ACORN-affiliated.
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Weasel Zippers and Wizbang
Jim Lacey / National Review:
Scientists Behaving Badly — Global-warming skeptics spend much of their time knocking down the fatuous warmist claim that the science is settled. According to the warmists, this singular piece of settled science is attested to by hundreds or thousands of highly credentialed scientists.
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Alana Goodman / Commentary Magazine:
Leaked Emails Raise Questions About NYT's ClimateGate Coverage
Leaked Emails Raise Questions About NYT's ClimateGate Coverage
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Climategate 2 FOIA …, Don Surber and The Irish Economy
ABCNEWS:
Obama Says U.S. ‘Stands Ready to Do Our Part’ for Eurozone Crisis — As the European debt crisis continues to escalate, President Obama urged European Union leaders today to act quickly to resolve the eurozone crisis, saying that “the United States stands ready to do our part to help them resolve this issue.
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americanthinker.com, Sky Dancing and Weasel Zippers
Kos / Daily Kos:
Congress is close to destroying the internet (no hyperbole) — Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web, including Daily Kos. — This is no hyperbole. Watch the video above.
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Karen Finney / The Hill:
Politics: Inch by inch — While trying to motivate his team for a grueling second half in the film “Any Given Sunday,” Al Pacino implores them, “Life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small.” — The same can be said about politics.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Washington Post Blogger Asks for Dirt About Newt Gingrich on Twitter — Still in the camp that doesn't believe the media are liberally biased? — Check out what the Washington Post's Aaron Blake tweeted moments ago on Twitter: — For those unfamiliar, Blake writes for the Post's The Fix political blog …
Bshaw / Orlando Sentinel:
Senate congressional map has big - and not-so-big- changes — The Florida Senate's Reapportionment Committee released its long-awaited maps drawing new districts for the state Senate and adding two congressional seats to Florida's existing 25. Eyeballing the congressional maps (available here) …
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