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First Read / msnbc.com:
Gingrich opens up big leads in South Carolina and Florida — Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls isn't limited to just the early presidential-nominating contest of Iowa. — According to new NBC News-Marist polls, the former House speaker has now opened up commanding leads in South Carolina and Florida …
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Matthew Putney / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Blast Newt Gingrich in First Video Ad as ‘Original Tea Partier’ — For the first time in the presidential primary campaign, Democrats are turning their web video and “rapid response” email attack machine on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. — Just hours after the ABC News …
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Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and The Caucus
David Weigel / Slate:
The Iowa Debate: Newt Wins the Dress Rehearsal
The Iowa Debate: Newt Wins the Dress Rehearsal
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Eunomia, Daily Pundit and Mediaite
John T. Bennett / The Hill:
Perry, Huntsman pledge major changes for Congress — Two long shot Republican presidential candidates took aim at the nation's capital on Sunday, vowing to make major changes to Congress as they search for traction with GOP voters. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman …
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CNN and Outside the Beltway
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Michael Barone / Campaign 2012:
Thoughts on the ABC/Drake debate
Thoughts on the ABC/Drake debate
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americanthinker.com, Iowa Caucuses, Los Angeles Times and National Review
Kim Geiger / Los Angeles Times:
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich spar over moon mining, child labor
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich spar over moon mining, child labor
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Balloon Juice, Guardian and No More Mister Nice Blog
Laird Harrison / Reuters:
Anti-Wall Street activists look to block West Coast ports — (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters, hoping to briefly cripple a key supply chain of American commerce and re-energize their movement, plan to attempt to block major West Coast ports on Monday.
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The Gateway Pundit and The Lonely Conservative
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Opposition grows to Occupy's port shutdown plan — Occupy Oakland's plan to shut down the city's bustling port on Monday for the second time in as many months is facing a complicating wrinkle nowhere in sight last time - opposition from several unions and some within the Occupy movement itself.
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Firedoglake
Barry Rubin / Rubin Reports:
Fact-Checking Newt Gingrich and the Fact-Checkers on the Middle East — ABC News “fact-checked” Newt Gingrich's Middle East statements and some readers asked me to fact-check ABC, so here is my view: — Gingrich said Palestinians are an “invented” people. ABC says: Not true.
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The PJ Tatler, American Power, Israel Matzav, Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com and Associated Press
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front — Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates. — A Predator drone spy plane helped police make arrests after a North Dakota family's run-in with a local sheriff.
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LewRockwell.com Blog, The Jawa Report, The Impolitic, Global Guerrillas, msnbc.com, Balloon Juice and Newshoggers.com
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rick Perry: 'I Don't Have Memorized' The Names Of All 9 Supreme Court Justices — During a meeting with the Des Moines Register editorial board on Friday, Rick Perry asserted there were eight justices on the Supreme Court and mispronounced Sonia Sotomayor's name.
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bustardblog, The Political Carnival, Booman Tribune, Iowa Caucuses and Washington Post
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Jason Clayworth / Iowa Caucuses:
Rick Perry campaign clarifies context on Supreme Court count
Rick Perry campaign clarifies context on Supreme Court count
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Hot Air, Don Surber, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, Burnt Orange Report, Campaign 2012 and Washington Post
Christopher Sherman / Associated Press:
US proposes unmanned border crossing with Mexico — BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (AP) — The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid rising fears of spillover violence. — This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing …
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PoliPundit.com and The Lonely Conservative
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
Candace Gingrich-Jones Questions Whether Brother Newt Gingrich Really Believes His Own Anti-Gay Rhetoric … Gay Marriage , Newt Gingrich , Same-Sex Marriage , Video , 2012 Presidential Race , Candace Gingrich-Jones , Candace Gingrich-Jones Gay Marriage , Michelangelo Signorile …
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Crooks and Liars
Washington Examiner:
Why Americans no longer trust Washington — Survey after survey in recent months has shown an alarming decline in public confidence in the nation's chief federal institutions, as well as a deepening pessimism about America's future. Congressional approval is at an all-time low of 13 percent …
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The Other McCain
New York Post:
Rev. Al deep in the red — The Rev. Al Sharpton's nonprofit paid him nearly $242,000 — even as it carried $1.6 million in debt, according to documents obtained by The Post. — In all, the controversial activist and his empire, including the National Action Network and two for-profit companies …