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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.
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The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, Indecision Forever, GOP 12 and Campaign 2012
Nick Kalman / Fox News:
Newt: Poor Children Have “No Habits of Working” — GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich defended his stance against certain child labor laws during a campaign stop in Iowa Thursday, saying that children born into poverty aren't accustomed to working unless it involves crime.
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MyFox Atlanta and The Lonely Conservative
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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DISSENTING JUSTICE and Daily Kos
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich's disgusting remarks about ‘really poor children’ — Newt Gingrich, the know-it-all former Speaker of the House who now rides atop the polls for the Republican nomination for president, has been shooting his mouth off lately. He called himself a celebrity who makes $60,000 a speech.
Nmcalvanah / Florida Democracy 2012:
Christie: Gingrich Has Never Run Anything
Christie: Gingrich Has Never Run Anything
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Los Angeles Times and Opinion L.A.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Chris Christie Slams Newt Gingrich
Chris Christie Slams Newt Gingrich
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Morgen / Verum Serum:
Unearthed: Gingrich Makes the Case for GSE's on Freddie Mac's Web Site in 2007/2008
Unearthed: Gingrich Makes the Case for GSE's on Freddie Mac's Web Site in 2007/2008
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Mitt Romney preps Newt Gingrich attack
Mitt Romney preps Newt Gingrich attack
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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
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’
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GOP 12, National Review, msnbc.com and Washington Post
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
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LobbyComply, The Moderate Voice, Rod Dreher, The Loyal Opposition and PERRspectives
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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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.
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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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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.
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Agence France Presse, The Gateway Pundit, 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
John E. Kramer / ij.org:
Cancer Patients Win Bone Marrow Legal Fight Against U.S. Attorney General — Cancer Patients in California and Elsewhere May Now Offer Modest Compensation for Bone Marrow Donors — Nearly 3,000 Americans Die Each Year Waiting to Find a Bone Marrow Donor Match, Minorities Hit Hardest by Lack of Donors
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PointOfLaw Forum
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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
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, Hot Air, The Caucus, Navel Gazing, Reuters, Univision News Tumblr, Political Mojo and Hit & Run
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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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
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Taylor Marsh and Verum Serum
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
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The unintended consequences of racial preferences — The Supreme Court faces a discomfiting decision. If it chooses, as it should, to hear a case concerning racial preferences in admissions at the University of Texas, the court will confront evidence of its complicity in harming …
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Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog, americanthinker.com, Rod Dreher and The Mahablog
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
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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Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Obama: My kids will succeed, even if USA doesn't — President Obama believes that Republican leadership of the country would ruin the United States as a land of opportunity, but he's (justifiably) confident that his daughters will have plenty of opportunities, no matter what.
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