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Michael Savage / michaelsavage.wnd.com:
SAVAGE OFFERS GINGRICH $1 MILLION TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE — WILL ANNOUNCE ON SHOW TODAY — THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL FIELD HAS COME DOWN TO TWO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE A REAL CHANCE OF GETTING THE NOMINATION: NEWT GINGRICH AND MITT ROMNEY. WHILE IT'S TRUE THAT ROMNEY IS NOT AS STRONG …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Mitt Romney on Newt Gingrich: He's the front-runner — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mitt Romney, who just a month ago had hoped to seal the GOP presidential nomination with Florida's primary on Jan. 31, tells POLITICO that he now foresees an epic fight with Newt Gingrich that could last through the California primary on June 5.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Radio host offers Gingrich $1 million to drop out of GOP race
Radio host offers Gingrich $1 million to drop out of GOP race
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Mediaite, The Political Carnival and Weasel Zippers
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Newt Strikes Back — In Monday Londderry press availability …
Newt Strikes Back — In Monday Londderry press availability …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Newt takes no-adultery pledge — When the Iowa social conservative group The Family Leader unveiled a sweeping pledge on marriage and abortion over the summer, Newt Gingrich was one of the candidates who passed on signing it. — Now, Gingrich has answered the pledge with a lengthy written response …
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Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America:
Today In Dishonest Fox News Charts — It looks like Fox is trying to mislead its viewers on the unemployment rate. Again. — On Monday, Fox News displayed a chart illustrating changes to the unemployment rate during 2011: — Note how the 8.6 percent unemployment rate in November looks higher …
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Math Fail: Fox News Says 8.6 Percent Unemployment Is Greater Than 8.8 And Equal To 9
Math Fail: Fox News Says 8.6 Percent Unemployment Is Greater Than 8.8 And Equal To 9
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The Political Carnival
Elizabeth Mendes / Gallup:
In U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level — Democrats lead increase in concerns about big government — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' concerns about the threat of big government continue to dwarf those about big business and big labor, and by an even larger margin now than in March 2009.
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Campaign 2012 and The Lonely Conservative
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Supreme Court in 2012 election is an ‘enormous issue’ — The Supreme Court, which has faded as a major campaign issue in recent years, could make a resurgence in 2012: The justices just keep adding to the hot-button political issues they plan to tackle before the election.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
NRC ‘Coup’ Leader, Bill Magwood, Consulted For Fukushima Parent Company … Energy , Video , NRC Coup , Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Regulatory Commission , Gregory Jaczko , Gregory Jaczko Nrc , Gregory Jaczko Nuclear Regulatory Commission , Nrc , Nuclear-Power , Green News
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
White House: Nuke commission infighting won't jeopardize nuclear safety
White House: Nuke commission infighting won't jeopardize nuclear safety
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Oakland port workers stay home as protesters rally — (12-12) 18:22 PST OAKLAND — Triumphant protesters marched and rallied and celebrated outside the Port of Oakland tonight after apparently derailing the evening shift at the nation's fifth-busiest port. — Although officials had not declared …
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Mike Pearson / CNN:
Protesters try to shut down ports
Protesters try to shut down ports
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Leonardo Mejia / Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports:
AN OPEN LETTER FROM AMERICA'S PORT TRUCK DRIVERS ON OCCUPY THE PORTS — We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. — We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama Administration Coordinating With Left-Wing Groups on Voter Fraud? — I wrote yesterday about the lightly-attended march in New York, ostensibly on behalf of voting rights, which was sponsored by a broad coalition of left-wing groups and was addressed by several Democratic politicians.
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Sarah Palin Pitching New Reality Show About Husband Todd's Snowmobile Adventures (Exclusive) … Sarah Palin announced in October that she would not run for president, leaving her free to focus on her media career. But the GOP kingmaker and Fox News contributor is having some trouble selling …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A radical embrace of nullification — On “Fox News Sunday” yesterday, Chris Wallace asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) about Republicans refusing to allow lawmakers to vote on Richard Cordray's nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Ben Smithand Juana Summers / The Politico:
Newt, Huntsman agree, seriously — MANCHESTER, N.H. — The meeting of two presidential candidates here today was billed as a successor to the Lincoln Douglas debates, but turned out to be a festival of self-congratulation intended less to tease out differences between Newt Gingrich …
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Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Recession Crimped Incomes of Richest Americans — WASHINGTON—Hold the condolence cards, but the recession cost the rich. — The share of income received by the top 1 percent—that potent symbol of inequality — dropped to 17 percent in 2009 from 23 percent in 2007, according to federal tax data.
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner: House to vote Tuesday on payroll tax — The House will vote on the GOP proposal to extend the payroll tax cut on Tuesday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has announced. — At a Monday press conference, Boehner said the bill should be approved with bipartisan support.
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Political winds shift to Democrats
Political winds shift to Democrats
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
DNC chair: Unemployment didn't go up under Obama! — Denial — it ain't just a river in Egypt. Appearing on Fox News this morning, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz insisted that unemployment didn't go up in Barack Obama's term of office, a hilarious argument on several levels.
Reid Cherlin / GQ:
Obama 2012 Headquarters Upbeat but Phasers Set to Kill — Don't be fooled by the shiny, happy staffers and peppy slogans. The president's re-elect is trained on the enemy, whoever that will be — Campaign offices are typically cluttered and uncomfortable, harshly lit windowless spaces …
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Michael J. Crosbie / The Atlantic Online:
Why the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Failed—and How to Fix It — The design vision was strong, and the artist accomplished, but a couple of key changes were made between conception and execution — Nearly 15 years after President Clinton signed legislation for the construction …
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William J. Broad / New York Times:
Gingrich's Electromagnetic Pulse Warning Has Skeptics — Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful, wants you to know that as commander in chief he is ready to confront one of the most nightmarish of doomsday scenarios: a nuclear blast high above the United States that would instantly throw the nation into a dark age.
Sofia Resnick / The Washington Independent:
National Organization for Marriage's 2010 financial records raise questions — National for Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown speaks to a crowd during NOM's 2010 Summer for Marriage Tour, July 27, 2010 (Photo: Flickr/Lost Albatross). — In 2010, the National Organization for Marriage …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Republicans Don't Nominate Swells — Don't pull a silver dollar out of that ear! Don't! — The political press corps has decided that the “moment” of Saturday night's Republican presidential debate occurred when Mitt Romney decided to challenge Rick Perry to a $10,000 bet.
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Were the Debates a Mistake? — If you can get past the attacks on President Obama, the disregard for actual economic conditions, and the assertion of “philosophical decreptitude” in American liberalism, you'll find a smart point about the GOP presidential debates in Fred Barnes's latest op-ed for The Weekly Standard.
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