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11:40 AM ET, January 7, 2012

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Los Angeles Times:
Rick Santorum focuses on gay marriage  —  He suggests to a New Hampshire audience that an imprisoned father is preferable to a same-sex parent.  —  Mitt Romney leaves a campaign event outside an old peanut warehouse in Conway, S.C. (David Goldman, AP / January 6, 2012)
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msnbc.com:
NBC/Marist Poll: Romney has 20-point lead in N.H.; Santorum gets Iowa bounce  —  A new NBC News-Marist poll of NH Republicans shows Romney with a 20-point lead.  NBC's Chuck Todd reports.  —  Just four days until Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney …
ABCNEWS:
Republican Candidates Ready to Rumble in Key New Hampshire Debate  —  CHICAGO - With the race for the Republican presidential nomination at its most critical moment to date, only days before the crucial New Hampshire primary, the six candidates will square off Saturday night in Manchester …
Discussion: Power Line
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney pushing for four-state streak to steamroll GOP opponents
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Michelle Obama and the Evolution of a First Lady  —  Michelle Obama was privately fuming, not only at the president's team, but also at her husband.  —  In the days after the Democrats lost Edward Kennedy's Senate seat in January 2010, Barack Obama was even-keeled as usual in meetings …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
‘The Obamas’: Book Reveals Friction Between Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Obama (UPDATE) … Barack Obama , Michelle Obama , Rahm Emanuel , White House , Obama , Video , Jodi Kantor , Obama White House , The Obamas , Obama Marriage , Obamas Marriage , The Obamas Jodi Kantor , Politics News
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Rick Santorum's baby—and mine.  —  The latest intra-pundit flap of Campaign 2012: a couple of my liberal colleagues have called Rick and Karen Santorum “crazy,” or “very weird” for wrapping and caressing the body of their baby, who died only two hours after emerging from 20 weeks in utero …
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Universal Uclick / uExpress:
SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES UNITE FOR SANTORUM  —  On Tuesday night in Iowa, he stood before the cheering throngs like a Republican Rocky, or better yet, a latter-day Rudy suddenly lifted above his Notre Dame teammates in a fantastic storybook finish.  —  On Tuesday night, for the first time, Rick Santorum was a contender.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and National Review
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:   Ron Paul Suggests Third Party Presidential Run Still An Option
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul blasts Santorum as ‘serial hypocrite’
Discussion: The Politico
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
All We Are Saying . . .  The establishment usually wins.  That, after all, is what it means to be an establishment.  But not always.  Three of the last six presidents—Jimmy Carter in 1976, Ronald Reagan in 1980, and Barack Obama in 2008—ran against their own party's powerbrokers …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Government: The redistributionist behemoth  —  Liberals have a rendezvous with regret.  Their largest achievement is today's redistributionist government.  But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself.
Discussion: Campaign 2012 and Maggie's Farm
The Right Scoop:
Hilarious!  McCain mistakenly refers to Romney as Obama  —  Oh man, this is classic.  McCain totally referred to Romney as “President Obama” and went on for a few seconds before Gov. Haley corrected him.  Hilarious!  You know what they say about drunk people being more truthful, right?
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Sydney Morning Herald:
Climate change castaways consider move to Australia  —  Ben Doherty in Male, Maldives  —  Threat ... much of the Maldives could be lost to climate change.  —  THE President of what could be the first country in the world lost to climate change has urged Australia to prepare for a mass wave …
Elizabeth McNeil / People.com:
Kristy McNichol Wants to ‘Be Open About Who I Am’  —  Kristy McNichol has been out of the public eye for 20 years.  Now she's chosen to come out - to try to help kids who are being bullied.  —  McNichol, 49, who has lived with her partner Martie Allen, also 49, for the past two decades …
Jill Schlesinger / CBS News:
December employment report: 200K new jobs, 8.5% unemployment  —  2011 ended on a high note for jobs.  The December jobs report showed that 200,000 new jobs were created in the month, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5, the lowest rate since February 2009.
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Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
Jobs Report, Second Impressions: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Discussion: Firedoglake
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
The Sultriest Members of Congress  —  If you're the best-looking member in Congress, that won't guarantee you a high-ranking committee chair but it will bring you coveted media attention.  —  That's the finding from a new study by two Israeli professors in the journal of Political Communication.
Paul Conner / The Daily Caller:
Labor unions primary recipients of Obamacare waivers  —  Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president's health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer.  —  Documents released in a classic Friday …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Another Romney layoff victim, this one a conservative, speaks out  —  Reuters published a blockbuster story today on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City that was acquired by Bain Capital, leading to the layoffs of some 750 workers.  In this case, the workers lost promised severance pay …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bain, Barack and Jobs
Discussion: Business Insider, ABCNEWS and Daily Kos
New York Post:
This power grab's a sign of weakness  —  President Obama's executive power-grab this week — making four “recess” appointments when the Senate isn't in recess — is a mark not of his strength, but of his relative weakness.  He is asserting an authority he does not possess through the Constitution …
Discussion: Belmont Club
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Barry Rubin / RubinReports:
Why Is an Anti-American Islamist Obama's Favorite Middle East Leader?
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CNN:
U.S. Navy rescues Iranian sailors
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Mike Pflanz / Telegraph:
20 killed as Nigerian gunmen attack Christian mourners
Holly Robichaud / Lone Republican:
Wall Street money for Warren
Ben W. Heineman Jr / The Atlantic Online:
Super PACs: The WMDs of Campaign Finance
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Rick Perry Unwinds Before New Hampshire Debate At Texas Shooting Range
Ry Rivard / Charleston Daily Mail:
Redistricting battle to be appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
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Beth Stebner / Daily Mail:
Pictured: Home invader teen widow shot dead who 'was coming for her dead 58-year-old husband's drugs'
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Barnes & Noble Rages Against The Dying Of The Light
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