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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich commits a capital crime — Newt Gingrich — the friend of his detractors, to whom he offers serial vindications — provided on Monday redundant evidence for the proposition that he is the least conservative candidate seeking the Republican presidential nomination: He faulted Mitt Romney for committing acts of capitalism.
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell: I like Mitt Romney's flip — Talk about a backhanded compliment. — Christine O'Donnell, who has endorsed Mitt Romney, appeared on CNN Wednesday and inadvertently drew attention to one of the charges against the former Massachusetts governor from his critics - flip-flopping.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Gingrich's Iowa political director leaves campaign after Mormonism ‘cult’ remark
Gingrich's Iowa political director leaves campaign after Mormonism ‘cult’ remark
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Paul closes in on Gingrich
Paul closes in on Gingrich
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Kevin Hall / The Iowa Republican:
TIR Focus Group: Evangelicals Will Revolt Against Romney Nomination
TIR Focus Group: Evangelicals Will Revolt Against Romney Nomination
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Washington Post:
Romney blasts Gingrich as ‘extremely unreliable’ conservative leader
Romney blasts Gingrich as ‘extremely unreliable’ conservative leader
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Ross Douthat / Campaign Stops:
Ron Paul Rising
Ron Paul Rising
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Newtzilla to the rescue — Many feel that a Gingrich victory might …
Newtzilla to the rescue — Many feel that a Gingrich victory might …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell endorses Romney
Christine O'Donnell endorses Romney
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Kurt Andersen / Time:
The Protester — Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Back then, when citizen multitudes took to the streets without weapons …
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Phyllis Furman / NY Daily News:
Milk Street Cafe, FiDi eatery that lost business due to Occupy Wall Street barricades, to close for good — Thursday is last day for popular Financial District restaurant that opened in June — Milk Street Cafe owner Marc Epstein, on steps of City Hall in November, complained about Occupy Wall Street barricades hurting business.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Time's POTY: “The Protester” — Really? The most influential and newsworthy person of the year currently occupies space in urban downtown areas, unless you're on the West Coast, where you can find them hanging out at the docks, blocking traffic and making your cost of goods needlessly increase.
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Time's Person of the Year: ‘The Protester’
Time's Person of the Year: ‘The Protester’
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Time magazine honors ‘the protester’ as 2011 Person of the Year
WISN Milwaukee's Channel 12:
Mickey Mouse, Adolf Hitler Allowed On Wis. Recall Petitions — GAB Rules Address, Date More Important Than Names — MADISON, Wis. — The signatures of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler will be counted on recall petitions targeting Gov. Scott Walker as long as they are properly dated and include …
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
‘Mickey Mouse’ OK for Walker recall
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2.5 Million Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act — This Issue Brief is available on the Internet at: — Printer Friendly version in PDF format (2 pages) — [Free PDF reader ] — How to Obtain a Printed Copy — Results released today [12/14/11] …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: 2.5M Young Adults Got Insurance from Obamacare
BREAKING: 2.5M Young Adults Got Insurance from Obamacare
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CNBC:
Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years — Data on sales of previously owned U.S. homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought.
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New York Times:
House Passes Extension of Cut to Payroll Taxes — WASHINGTON — Defying a veto threat from President Obama, the House on Tuesday passed a bill extending a cut in Social Security payroll taxes for 160 million Americans for another year. But the Democratic majority in the Senate vowed to reject …
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
House Republicans pass payroll tax bill, gain leverage on Senate Dems
House Republicans pass payroll tax bill, gain leverage on Senate Dems
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Holder's Voting Rights Speech Part II: Real Legislation To Fight Real Election Fraud — This post is the second in a three-part series on last night's voting rights speech by Attorney General Eric Holder. Part I is here. — Republicans justify their vote suppressing “voter ID” …
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Matthew Lynn / MarketWatch:
This slump won't end until 2031 — Commentary: Our predicament parallels the Long Depression of 1870s — LONDON (MarketWatch) — In retrospect, it wasn't hard to see that the markets were becoming dangerously unstable. Germany had just adopted a new monetary system, and Europe was being flooded with cheap German money.
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Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back — Something extraordinary has happened in the Chinese village of Wukan. — Thousands of Wukan's residents gathered for a second day in front of a triple-roofed pagoda that serves as the village hall — For the first time on record …
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Wall Street / Chicago Tribune:
U.S. Mint halts production of $1 coins — no one wants them — The U.S. government, its vaults stuffed with 1.4 billion one-dollar coins bearing the likenesses of dead presidents, has had enough of them. It is going to curtail production. — “Nobody wants them,” Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
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The Jewish Week:
My Tim Tebow Problem — I've got a Tim Tebow problem. — I want to root for the guy, but I'm afraid of what will happen if the hulky Denver Bronco quarterback continues to pull off what is fast becoming the Greatest Gridiron Story Ever Told. Since taking over as starting quarterback earlier this season …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A First Iowa Forecast: Race Is Still Wide Open — We're a few days away from releasing the official version of our polling-based forecasts for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. But the statistical work behind the model is done, so I can give you a preview of what the forecasts will look like.
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Monthly:
The GOP policy problem — Ezra Klein has an excellent point to make about Republicans and policy this morning. He's writing about how many policies Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich once supported that turned out to be Kenyan socialism once Barack Obama adopted them.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Democratic balanced budget amendment fails in Senate vote, 21 to 79 — A balanced budget amendment sponsored by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) has failed in the Senate by a vote of 21 to 79. — Just as the Senate started voting on the Democratic version of a balanced budget amendment Wednesday …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dem Senators to Obama administration: On Plan B, it's put up or shut up time — It isn't every day that 14 Senators aggressively call out their own party's Health and Human Services Secretary, imply that a major decision made their own party's adminstration was not based on science, and demand proof to the contrary.
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