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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.
The Caucus:
Romney Warns of Nominating ‘Zany’ Gingrich — Mitt Romney is sharpening his warning to Republicans about the consequences of nominating Newt Gingrich as the party's presidential candidate, declaring in an interview on Wednesday: “Zany is not what we need in a president.” — “Zany is great in a campaign.
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The Page, USA Today, New York Times and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry, Mitt Romney internals show Newt Gingrich slippage, sources say — A weeklong blitz of negative ads from Ron Paul and “Restore Our Future,” the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC, have taken a toll on Newt Gingrich's standing in Iowa, internal numbers from the Rick Perry and Romney camps show, according to multiple sources.
The Iowa Republican:
Focus Group Fallout — A participant in a focus group organized by TheIowaRepublican.com and McClatchy newspapers lost his job because of comments he made during the event last week. Shortly after participating in the focus group, Craig Bergman was hired as the Iowa political director for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign.
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The Other McCain, Iowa Caucuses, Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Wire, The Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and Shakesville
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Paul reacts to positive poll fortunes, nagging questions about electability
Paul reacts to positive poll fortunes, nagging questions about electability
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The Hill
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Monthly:
Stepping back and watching a mugging
Stepping back and watching a mugging
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Prairie Weather and National Review
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Romney's Eerie Post-Flip-Flop Consistency
Romney's Eerie Post-Flip-Flop Consistency
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The Politico and The Reaction
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Monthly:
The GOP policy problem
The GOP policy problem
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Washington Post, The New Republic and Eschaton
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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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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americanthinker.com, The Week, Taylor Marsh and Patterico's Pontifications
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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Hot Air, Mediaite, Althouse, The Daily Caller, The Impolitic, The Jawa Report, Instapundit and The PJ Tatler
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Office of the Assistant Secretary …:
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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ThinkProgress, White House.gov Blog, The Hill, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and Booman Tribune
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
More Obamacare News: 2.5M Young Adults Got Insurance
More Obamacare News: 2.5M Young Adults Got Insurance
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American Prospect, ThinkProgress, Taegan Goddard's … and White House.gov Blog
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner gets tough with Senate: Time to act on House payroll tax extension — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday implored the Senate to act on the House-passed payroll-tax bill, making a bid to wrap up Congress's work for the year and head home for the holidays.
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The Politico and CNN
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell blocks Senate vote on House payroll-tax-cut package
McConnell blocks Senate vote on House payroll-tax-cut package
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Daily Kos
Robert / KAYAK:
We Handled This Poorly — We would like to apologize to anyone who was offended by how we handled our decision not to continue advertising on All-American Muslim when it returns in January. We decided to advertise on it in the first place because we adamantly support tolerance and diversity.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and National Review
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Stephanie Hallett / The Huffington Post:
Marriage Rate In America Drops Drastically … Barely half of Americans over the age 18 are married, according to a new report from the Pew Research Institute. The number of married couples dropped a startling five percent between 2009 and 2010 and has declined by more than 20 percent since 1960.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Blames Gays For Plummeting Marriage Rate
Santorum Blames Gays For Plummeting Marriage Rate
Discussion:
Towleroad News #gay
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Balanced-budget amendments fall short in Senate — The Senate rejected two competing versions of a balanced-budget amendment on Wednesday, sending the proposals to defeat 14 years after the chamber fell one vote short of passing such a measure. — Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) sponsored a version of a balanced-budget amendment.
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Washington Monthly and Hot Air
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Democratic balanced budget amendment fails in Senate vote, 21 to 79
Democratic balanced budget amendment fails in Senate vote, 21 to 79
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The Politico and CNN
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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New York Times, Outside the Beltway, The Lede, Global Spin, americanthinker.com, Vox Popoli and msnbc.com
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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Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com, Balloon Juice and KVOA-TV
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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Outside the Beltway, Newshoggers.com and The Agonist
KSL-TV:
Middle school student is ‘outed’ to parents — LEHI — The Alpine School District is in the national spotlight after a middle school apparently “outed” a student as gay to his parents over safety concerns. — District spokeswoman Rhonda Bromley told KSL students in a class …
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Towleroad News #gay and ThinkProgress
Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
Obama Campaign Collecting GOP Emails — The Obama presidential campaign is launching an effort to collect Republican email addresses by inviting its supporters to submit information about their Republican associates to the Obama 2012 website. — The effort could help the Obama campaign build …
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Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Business Insider, Sister Toldjah, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Pundit
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Obamney Fail: Fox News Mistakenly Uses Barack Obama Photo On Mitt Romney Poll Graphic — On America Live Wednesday with Megyn Kelly, Fox News's graphics department had a bit of a problem. While displaying a poll graphic with the portraits of all the GOP presidential contenders in Iowa …
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The Right Scoop, Inside Cable News, The Daily What and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
BBC:
Obama speech at Fort Bragg marks end of Iraq war — President Barack Obama: “You have shown why the US military is the fighting force in the history of the world” — US President Barack Obama has marked the end of the Iraq war with a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, telling troops, “welcome home!”
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
At Fort Bragg, Obama hails the end of the Iraq war
At Fort Bragg, Obama hails the end of the Iraq war
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The Moderate Voice and White House.gov Blog
Investor's Business Daily:
Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra — Ecofanaticism: SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon. — The massive Obama stimulus …
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Moonbattery and TigerHawk