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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Poll: Romney slipping in South Carolina, holds just 2 point lead over Gingrich — Despite a historic sweep of the first two nominating contests in the GOP field, Mitt Romney holds just a two percentage point lead in South Carolina, his smallest lead of 2012.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘When Mitt Romney Came to Town’ — We knew the short film from Newt Gingrich's Super PAC, targeting Mitt Romney's private-sector work, was on the way. We didn't know just how devastating it would be. — Probably the easiest-to-see version of “When Mitt Romney Came to Town” …
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Gingrich's ‘Bain bomb’ fizzles — The “Bain bomb” is full of wet fuses. — We've been keeping regular track of claims made about Mitt Romney's business history over at our Mitt Meter, but today's video “documentary” from the Gingrich-affiliated Winning Our Future PAC requires its own post.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Giuliani to Newt: ‘What the hell are you doing?’ — Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has recently called Mitt Romney “a man without a core,” defended the GOP frontrunner's record as an executive at Bain Capital, calling the attacks against him “ignorant and dumb.”
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Riehl World View and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Makes History — South Carolina is the last chance for most of his rivals, but the front-runner needs to better answer the Bain attacks. — In an open race for the GOP nomination, no Republican has won both Iowa and New Hampshire, as Mitt Romney has.
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Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Mitt Romney readies Bain Capital counterattack
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's extreme defense of capitalism
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Brad DeLong, FAIR Blog, Sky Dancing, Washington Monthly, The Daily Dish, Riehl World View and Applesauce
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich: South Carolina will be ‘Armageddon’
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The Politico, Guardian, Booman Tribune and Daily Kos
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Sarah Palin on Mitt Romney: Needs Bain show & tell
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M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S … and Daily Kos
Arthur S. Brisbane / The Public Editor's Journal:
Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante? — I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. — One example mentioned recently by a reader: As cited in an Adam Liptak article on the Supreme Court …
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Jim Romenesko:
NYT public editor on reaction to Truth Vigilante post — What I was trying to ask was whether reporters should always rebut dubious facts in the body of the stories they are writing. I was hoping for diverse and even nuanced responses to what I think is a difficult question.
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New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
So whaddaya think: should we put truthtelling back up there at number one? — Somewhere along the way, telling truth from falsehood was surpassed by other priorities to which the press felt a stronger duty. Arthur Brisbane, public editor of the New York Times, was unaware of this history …
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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Yes, The New York Times Should Definitely Be a Truth Vigilante — Updated (3:55 p.m.): Journalists flooded Twitter with side-splitting remarks about New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane's latest column, (provocatively?) wondering in the headline, “Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?”
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The Public Editor's Journal, Balloon Juice and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
3 billionaires who'll drag out the race — Meet the three billionaires who could drag out the GOP presidential primary, bloody up front-runner Mitt Romney and weaken the odds of defeating President Barack Obama: Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess and Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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Hot Air, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Wire, Big Journalism, Media Decoder, Applesauce, CNN, ABCNEWS and Taylor Marsh
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Fox News:
Panetta orders probe of video allegedly showing Marines urinating on dead Taliban — The top commanders of the Marine Corps U.S. forces in Afghanistan are investigating a video that purports to show U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered …
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Washington Post:
Panetta: Apparent Marine desecration of Taliban corpses is ‘utterly deplorable’
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Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
U.S. Soldiers Give Ammo to Taliban
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Little Green Footballs
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
President Obama's got sons? — President Obama, speaking last night in Chicago at a fundraiser at a private home, unloaded this bombshell: — Obama, according to the White House transcript, talked about “The first bill I signed — a bill that said that we're going to have equal pay …
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Weasel Zippers, Sense of Events, The Daily Caller and Jammie Wearing Fools
Jeremy Wallace / HT Politics:
Laura Bush wanted Jeb to run for president in 2012 — SARASOTA — Former first lady Laura Bush wishes there were one more candidate in the Republican presidential primary: Jeb Bush. — Speaking to a sold-out Sarasota audience on Wednesday, Bush said she had hoped that her brother-in-law …
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GOP 12, Indecision Forever, Outside the Beltway, Guardian, CNN, The Daily Caller and Saint Petersblog
Dan Savage / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:
Canada's Conservative Government Turns My Husband Back Into My Boyfriend — After issuing thousands of marriage licenses to same-sex couples from United States and other nations where same-sex marriage is not yet legal—marriage licenses that did not come with a disclaimer or an asterisk …
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Kirk Makin / Globe and Mail:
Despite legal about-face, Harper has ‘no intention’ of reopening gay marriage
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ThinkProgress, Poliglot and Firedoglake
Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
Justice Department approved recess appointments — President Barack Obama's decision last week to snub Congress and make a series of recess appointments while the Senate claimed it was technically in session had the legal blessing of the Justice Department, according to a formal legal opinion released Thursday.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Justice Department memo argues Obama recess appointments were legal
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The Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers, Congressman Diane Black and The Huffington Post
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
President Obama requests $1.2T debt hike over GOP objections — President Obama on Thursday made an official request that Congress raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion over the objections of several House Republicans. — Obama's formal notification gives both chambers 15 days to vote on whether to approve the hike.
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Big Government and Weasel Zippers
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama asks Congress for debt limit hike
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The Gateway Pundit
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservatives Remain the Largest Ideological Group in U.S. — Overall, the nation has grown more polarized over the past decade — PRINCETON, NJ — Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.
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The PJ Tatler and The Big Picture
The Onion:
Scandalous Photos Reveal Grover Norquist Carried On Secret Affair With Taxes For Years — WASHINGTON—In a scandal that strikes at the very heart of the American anti-tax movement, a series of incriminating photos surfaced online Thursday, revealing that, for decades, leading Republican power …
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The Atlantic Online and The Hill
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Ron Paul's Delegate-Focused Campaign Strategy Came From Obama '08 … GOP Convention , Mitt Romney , Republican Primary , Ron Paul , Ron Paul 2012 , South Carolina Primary , Mitt Romney 2012 , Paul Puerto Rico , Ron Paul Delegates , Ron Paul Money Ball , Politics News
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