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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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USA Today, The Page, Business Insider, New York Times and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking good in Virginia — PPP has polled Virginia four times in 2011 and has come to the same conclusion every time: Barack Obama just hasn't slipped there to the extent he has nationally. That's a finding with major, major implications for his reelection prospects …
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The Politico, Ballot Box, Hot Air and USA Today
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Monthly:
Stepping back and watching a mugging — Newt Gingrich, as far as I can tell from 1000 miles away (I'm in San Antonio), is just getting hammered right now in Iowa. Either in ads or in their stump speech, at least four of Newt's competitors are slamming him hard. — There are two theories about how this will play out.
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Prairie Weather and National Review
The Iowa Republican:
Focus Group Fallout
Focus Group Fallout
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USA Today, The Other McCain, Washington Wire, Washington Post, Iowa Caucuses, The Raw Story, Shakesville, Wall Street Journal and Taylor Marsh
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry, Mitt Romney internals show Newt Gingrich slippage, sources say
Rick Perry, Mitt Romney internals show Newt Gingrich slippage, sources say
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 Chait / New York Magazine:
Romney's Eerie Post-Flip-Flop Consistency
Romney's Eerie Post-Flip-Flop Consistency
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The Reaction and The Politico
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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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, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, 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 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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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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Roll Call, Wake up America and Daily Kos
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
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Towleroad News #gay
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.
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, msnbc.com and The Glittering Eye
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
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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Hit & Run, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Sister Toldjah and Daily Pundit
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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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Balanced-budget amendments fall short in Senate
Balanced-budget amendments fall short in Senate
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Washington Monthly and Hot Air
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
Reuters:
Analysis: Europe's austerity zeal risks killing the patient — (Reuters) - Europe's “no pain no gain” attitude to solving its sovereign crisis risks exacerbating the bloc's problems, choking off the very growth needed to raise the money to pay down the debt.
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Important Election News from Across the Pond
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
Robert Costa / National Review:
Ryan to Gingrich: ‘This Is Not the 1990s’ — Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the influential Budget Committee chairman, has kept his distance from the GOP primary. But after reading Newt Gingrich's latest comments about entitlement reform, he says the contenders must seriously address the debt crisis, not play political games.
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Time, The Hill, RedState, Ricochet Conversations Feed, The Enterprise Blog and American Spectator
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
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
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.