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ABCNEWS:
Gingrich Tells ABC News: 'I'm Going to Be The Nominee' — WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — A very confident New Gingrich asserted to ABC News Thursday afternoon that he will be the Republican presidential nominee. — “I'm going to be the nominee,” the former Speaker told ABC News.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Florida shows perils of Gingrich for GOP — If the Newt surge persists over the next few months the biggest winner is going to be Barack Obama. We can see that pretty clearly in our newest Florida poll. — If Mitt Romney's the Republican nominee, Obama's in a lot of trouble in the Sunshine State.
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, Indecision Forever, GOP 12 and Campaign 2012
Nmcalvanah / Florida Democracy 2012:
Christie: Gingrich Has Never Run Anything — With Newt Gingrich's popularity growing in Florida, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came to South Florida today to campaign for Mitt Romney and dismissed the former House speaker as the “newest flavor of the two weeks.”
Discussion:
Opinion L.A. and Los Angeles Times
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Mitt Romney preps Newt Gingrich attack — Mitt Romney's campaign advisers insist they're no more scared of Newt Gingrich than the candidates who've surged before — but they're already rolling out a playbook that show they know the latest alarm isn't a drill.
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New York Magazine, CNN, Ballot Box, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Washington Post, Daily Kos, The Atlantic Online, News Desk, Indecision Forever, New York Times, The Daily Dish, Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, Taylor Marsh, Prairie Weather, The Caucus and National Review
Morgen / Verum Serum:
Unearthed: Gingrich Makes the Case for GSE's on Freddie Mac's Web Site in 2007/2008 — I'm a little late with this - it's been at least a couple of weeks since Bloomberg broke the story that Newt Gingrich received $1.6 million in consulting fees from Freddie Mac over a decade or so.
Dylan Byers / Ben Smith's Blog:
Fox's temptation: Newt
Fox's temptation: Newt
Discussion:
Washington Post and Business Insider
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Chris Christie Slams Newt Gingrich
Chris Christie Slams Newt Gingrich
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Gingrich Instructs Team Not to Attack Romney
Gingrich Instructs Team Not to Attack Romney
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Pat Dollard and GOP 12
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Gingrich Says He Was Acting as a Citizen, Not a Lobbyist
Gingrich Says He Was Acting as a Citizen, Not a Lobbyist
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, LobbyComply, Rod Dreher, The Loyal Opposition, PERRspectives and The New Republic
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gingrich's hand ‘always six inches from the self-destruct button’
Gingrich's hand ‘always six inches from the self-destruct button’
Discussion:
GOP 12, msnbc.com, National Review and Washington Post
Fergus Cullen / New Hampshire Journal:
Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann Fail to File Full Slates of NH Delegates
Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann Fail to File Full Slates of NH Delegates
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The Politico, CNN, Washington Wire, The Hill, Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times and msnbc.com
John DiStaso / unionleader.com:
Cain: Wife didn't know about friendship, ‘financial assistance’ to Ginger White — MANCHESTER - Herman Cain acknowledged Thursday that he repeatedly gave Ginger White money to help her with “month-to-month bills and expenses” without telling his wife. — In fact, the embattled presidential candidate …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cain accuser's phone records sought — At least 70 messages reportedly exchanged recently between White, Cain cellphones — Just days before coming forward with allegations of a 13-year affair with Herman Cain, Ginger White was repeatedly having contact with the presidential candidate, according to her cellphone records.
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ABCNEWS, Nice Deb, The PJ Tatler, Roger Ailes, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Mad Kane's Political Madness and The Other McCain
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street — ORLANDO, Fla. — The Republican Governor's Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up …
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ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, Washington Post, OccupyWallSt News, Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gawker, Taylor Marsh, Wonkette, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, True Blue Liberal, The Impolitic, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Little Green Footballs, Business Insider, The Mahablog, Corrente, Los Angeles Times and Ben Smith's Blog
Andy Stern / Wall Street Journal:
China's Superior Economic Model — The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash heap of history. — Andy Grove, the founder and chairman of Intel, provocatively wrote in Businessweek last year that, “Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated …
Nick Hanauer / Bloomberg:
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer — It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop. — Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong.
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PoliticusUSA, Business Insider, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo and Political Mojo
Byron Tau / The Politico:
Group calls for Bush arrest — Amnesty International is calling for the arrest of former President George W. Bush while he is travelling overseas in Africa. — The human rights group issued a statement Thursday calling for the governments of Ethiopia, Tanzania or Zambia to take the former president into custody.
Discussion:
Agence France Presse, CNN and ThinkProgress
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Judson Berger / Fox News:
Amnesty International Under Fire for Demanding Bush's Arrest During Trip to Africa
Amnesty International Under Fire for Demanding Bush's Arrest During Trip to Africa
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Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Gingrich: Poor kids have bad work habits 'unless it's illegal' — GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday that “really poor children” have bad work habits and no knowledge of how to make an income “unless it's illegal.” — Doubling down on his argument that children …
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Daily Kos
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich's disgusting remarks about ‘really poor children’
Newt Gingrich's disgusting remarks about ‘really poor children’
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Fox News and MyFox Atlanta
Jason Noble / Iowa Caucuses:
Michele Bachmann debates same-sex rights with high-school students in Waverly — Waverly, Ia. - Amidst a breezy appearance before an enthusiastic crowd at pizza restaurant here, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann debated two high school students over whether civil rights included the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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Business Insider, pandagon.net, ThinkProgress, The Daily Dish, The Raw Story and Joe. My. God.
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Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
Suskind's Confidence Men Raises Questions About Obama's Credibility — Barack Obama , Larry Summers , Bill Daley , Gene Sperling , Peter Orszag , Robert Rubin , Tim Geithner , White House Economic Team , Confidence Men , Jack Lew , Ron Suskind , Politics News
Discussion:
Taylor Marsh and Verum Serum
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The strange GOP embrace of Simpson-Bowles — The Republican National Committee today sent out what has to be the strangest press release I've seen in a long while. The RNC, in turns out, is outraged that President Obama hasn't embraced the Simpson-Bowles debt-reduction plan.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Rep. Ryan: Calculate the true cost of Energy Dept. loan guarantees — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is wading into the politically charged issue of Energy Department loan guarantees. — Ryan urged the head of an independent probe of the department's loan programs …
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Rahm Emanuel / NBC Chicago:
Emanuel ‘Will Testify’ in Solyndra Scandal
Emanuel ‘Will Testify’ in Solyndra Scandal
Discussion:
The Hill and The Politico
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry 2012 video: 'I'm Rick Perry and...what's that line again?' — Rick Perry is heading to Jay Leno's couch tonight, and he's making the most of it - airing this campaign ad in Iowa, in which he takes on his own “oops” moment from the CNBC debate in which he couldn't remember the third agency he'd cut …
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Los Angeles Times, CNN, msnbc.com, Sister Toldjah, The Caucus, Florida Democracy 2012, BuzzFeed and Business Insider
CBS Washington:
New Gun Company Advertisement Compares Obama to Hitler, Stalin — WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS Washington) — A gun company advertisement that warns of impending gun control compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. — The USAAmmo ad shows side-by-side pictures of Obama with Hitler …
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American Glob
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
New Hampshire GOP Speaker Discourages Students From Voting Because They'll Vote ‘Liberal’ — New Hampshire Speaker William O'Brien (R) — As ThinkProgress has been reporting, the slew of unnecessary voter ID laws passed by Republicans in many states this year are a transparent attempt …
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Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Students hit by voter ID restrictions
Pew Hispanic Center:
Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of Parenthood — OVERVIEW — Nearly two-thirds of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants in the United States have lived in this country for at least 10 years and nearly half are parents of minor children …
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ABCNEWS, Navel Gazing, Univision News Tumblr, The Caucus, Reuters, Political Mojo and Hit & Run
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner calls on Obama to help Congress alter automatic cuts — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday called on President Obama to intercede in the growing push to change the automatic spending cuts to military and domestic programs triggered by the congressional supercommittee's failure to strike a deficit-reduction deal.
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Prairie Weather
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Eyes Amazon on Shipping — In a potential strike against Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. is in talks with major retailers and shippers to create a service that lets consumers shop for goods on the Web and receive orders within a day for a low fee, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, Digits, The Verge and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dear Ta-Nehisi — Dreher weighs in on the popular IQ and race thread: … TNC's final thoughts on the subject, which are difficult to excerpt and should be read in full, are here. They deserve a final response from me. — Let me first suggest he is conflating two separate issues.
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The Atlantic Online, Rod Dreher, driftglass and Patterico's Pontifications