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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Why Republicans like Newt Gingrich — Things sure do change fast around here. One week it's Rick Perry, the next it's Herman Cain. Now it's . . . Newt Gingrich? — The Republican voter is like a starving man at a free buffet. He gorges on this, then that …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, The Politico, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
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Reid Pillifant / Capital New York:
- Architect of Obama's health care plan fears a ‘political’ decision by the Supreme Court, says Romney's lying — When Representative Peter King called me between votes on Thursday afternoon to talk about his party's current presidential front-runner, Newt Gingrich, he joked that the conversation …
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
One month before Iowa, GOP field wide open — One month before the first votes are cast, it's anybody's guess who will come out on top in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sits at the top of recent polls in Iowa …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney looks to outlast and outwork Gingrich to GOP nomination
Mitt Romney looks to outlast and outwork Gingrich to GOP nomination
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, PolitickerNY and The New Republic
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Occupy Richmond Stands Up For Local Tea Party Group — The two sides are joining forces. — The Richmond Tea Party has been alleging that it is being singled out for unfair treatment from the city of Richmond, Virginia after officials have opened a tax audit of the group.
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Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
LAPD undercover cops infiltrated Occupy camp before raid, source says — The Los Angeles Police Department's effort to evict Occupy L.A. protesters from their camp at City Hall included using Occupy undercover officers in the weeks leading up to Wednesday's raid, a police source said.
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Guardian, MyFox Atlanta and Prairie Weather
Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Occupy Richmond to Tea Party: We're on Your Side Against City Hall
Occupy Richmond to Tea Party: We're on Your Side Against City Hall
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MyFox Atlanta and Verum Serum
The Politico:
Decision day for Herman Cain — The party scheduled for the opening of Herman Cain's new campaign headquarters Saturday may end up a wake. — After nearly a week of reassessing his campaign, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO will be in Atlanta to tell his supporters whether the accumulation …
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The Spectacle Blog and The Other McCain
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Herman Cain 2012:
ENCOURAGEMENT for HERMAN CAIN
ENCOURAGEMENT for HERMAN CAIN
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The Moderate Voice, The Atlantic Online, Political Mojo, Daily Kos, Gawker, The Impolitic, Mediaite and Campaign 2012
Fox News:
Cain Plans ‘Announcement’ on Saturday About Future
Cain Plans ‘Announcement’ on Saturday About Future
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Sister Toldjah, Los Angeles Times, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, CBS News, Washington Post and PolitickerNY
unionleader.com:
Assessing Cain: Charisma isn't enough
Assessing Cain: Charisma isn't enough
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, ABCNEWS and The Hill
CNN:
Cain to make campaign announcement Saturday
Cain to make campaign announcement Saturday
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CANNONFIRE, New York Magazine and The Politico
Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
Here's The Huntsman Campaign's Awesome RSVP To The Trump Debate — Tim Miller, a spokesman for Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign, had this response when asked if his candidate would participate in the Dec. 27 Newsmax debate moderated by Donald Trump: — “Lol.
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Slate, The Mahablog, Wake up America, Pirate's Cove, The Atlantic Online, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, The Political Carnival, nation.foxnews.com, The Moderate Voice, The Lonely Conservative, Balloon Juice, PopWatch, Gothamist, msnbc.com, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Hot Air, The Spectacle Blog, Firedoglake, entertainment.time.com and Michelle Malkin
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CNN:
Huntsman and Gingrich agree to debate
Huntsman and Gingrich agree to debate
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The Politico, The Political Carnival, The Hill and Towleroad News #gay
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Does Romney Have a Moderate Problem?
Does Romney Have a Moderate Problem?
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JustOneMinute, The Huffington Post and The New Republic
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Jon Huntsman will skip presidential debate moderated by Donald Trump
Jon Huntsman will skip presidential debate moderated by Donald Trump
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The Reaction, Outside the Beltway and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Romney Declines Lincoln-Douglas Debate Against Gingrich
Romney Declines Lincoln-Douglas Debate Against Gingrich
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Business Insider, Hot Air, Don Surber, American Power, M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …, GOP 12, Campaign 2012, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Guardian
Charles Grassley / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. details how it got statements wrong — on Friday provided Congress with documents detailing how department officials gave inaccurate information to a U.S. senator in the controversy surrounding — , the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border.
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and nation.foxnews.com
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William Lajeunesse / Fox News:
Memo Shows Early ATF Concern on Fast and Furious Probe Despite Claims
Memo Shows Early ATF Concern on Fast and Furious Probe Despite Claims
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MyFox Atlanta, Big Government, americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers
Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
SEC targets Marlins' shady business — For two decades now, Major League Baseball has funded its rise from corporate slacker to gilded cash cow on the backs of taxpayers bullied into building new stadiums. It's a marvel the government took so long to sniff out the rot that emanates from these deals …
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:
British Austerity: The Past Weighs Like a Nightmare on the Brains of Cameron and Osborne Blogging — Note that Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats in Britain could end this farce tomorrow, and give their country a chance. It would be the end of Nick Clegg's political career, of course—but his career is over already.
Charles Moore / Telegraph:
Jacques Delors interview: Euro would still be strong if it had been built to my plan — Former president of the European Commission Jacques Delors talks to Charles Moore about the fate of the euro. — It was Jacques Delors whose report produced the plan for what we now call the euro
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Belmont Club, EU Referendum and Business Insider
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Alabama red-faced as second foreign car boss held under immigration law — Judge drops charges against Japanese Honda executive Ichiro Yada trapped by Alabama's tough new anti-immigration laws — To arrest one foreign car-making executive under Alabama's new tough immigration laws …
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The Raw Story, The Birmingham, The Impolitic, Balloon Juice and ImmigrationProf Blog
Front Page Magazine:
Non-Muslim Muslims and the Jihad Against the West — My name is Bosch and I'm a recovering Muslim. — That is, if Muslims don't kill me for leaving Islam, which it requires them to do. That's just one of the reasons I've been writing and drawing against Islam and its Jihad for a number of years now.
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The Jawa Report