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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads in SC, Paul gaining — Mitt Romney continues to hold a modest lead in South Carolina's Republican primary for President. He's at 29% to 24% for Newt Gingrich, 15% for Ron Paul, 14% for Rick Santorum, 6% for Rick Perry, 5% for Jon Huntsman, and 1% for Buddy Roemer.
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Don Surber, newt.org, The Politico, nation.foxnews.com, Hot Air, GOP 12, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Ballot Box
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Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Judge rules against Rick Perry's Virginia ballot suit
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Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake, Los Angeles Times, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Guardian
Frank Green / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
U.S. judge rules against presidential primary ballot challenge
ABCNEWS:
Coming Up on ‘This Week’: Gov. Rick Perry and Stephen Colbert
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The Politico and CNN
Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
PPP: Mitt first, Newt second in South Carolina
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CNN, American Prospect and Ballot Box
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Allen West on the Marines Incident: ‘Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell’ — Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the Marines' video, and has given us permission to publish it. — “I have sat back and assessed the incident …
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Media Matters for America:
UPDATED: CNN Contributor On Marines Urinating On Dead Bodies: “Supposed To Be A Scandal”? “I'd Drop Trou And Do It Too” — On her radio show, CNN contributor and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch cheered on an Internet video reportedly showing U.S. Marines urinating on what appear to be dead Afghans …
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The Daily Caller and ThinkProgress
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA — The public outcry over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act seems to have gotten so loud that even members of Congress can hear it. On Thursday we covered the news that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was expressing second thoughts about SOPA's DNS provisions.
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Mashable!, VentureBeat, Threat Level and Balloon Juice, more at Techmeme »
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents — In a move the technology sector will surely see as a victory, a controversial antipiracy bill being debated in Congress will no longer include a provision that would require Internet service providers to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy.
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PC Magazine, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Techdirt, The Raw Story, Firedoglake and Patrick Leahy, more at Mediagazer »
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Chronicling Mitt's mendacity — Paul Krugman noted this morning that Mitt Romney tells so many falsehoods so often, he seems determined to rehabilitate George W. Bush's reputation “by running a campaign so dishonest that it makes Bush look like a model of truth-telling.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Balloon Juice, cbpp.org and Political Mojo
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Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
Everyone's Got a Right to Their Own Opinions...
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Applesauce
Henry / Crooked Timber:
The New Gmail Sucks — Doesn't it though? It looks horrible. The interface is badly designed. Keyboard short cuts do unexpected things like e.g. make your email disappear irrevocably. And while you can temporarily revert back to the old look, they make it clear that they are going to impose …
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Kevin Drum / Political Mojo:
Beyond Good and Google — I don't use Gmail, but Henry Farrell does and he's pretty unhappy with its latest iteration: … Just out of curiosity, did anyone ever really believe that “don't be evil” stuff? I mean, Google's a big corporation. They've been a big public corporation for nearly eight years.
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Modeled Behavior, American Prospect and Slate
Mark Perry / Foreign Policy:
False Flag — A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. — Buried deep in the archives of America's intelligence services are a series of memos …
The Daily:
TV chef famous for Southern-fried decadence to reveal she has diabetes — Paula Deen's “brunch burger” uses a donut instead of a bun. — Deen, with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,” could make millions endorsing a Novartis diabetes drug, sources say. — Paula Deen — the queen of high-calorie …
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The Hinterland Gazette, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, BuzzFeed, Boing Boing and Gothamist
CNBC:
S&P Cuts Credit Ratings for Nine Euro Zone Nations — Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of nine euro zone countries, stripping France and Austria of their coveted triple-A status but not EU paymaster Germany, in a Black Friday 13th for the troubled single currency area.
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Firedoglake, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post and Questions and Observations
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Activist Group Posts Personal Information of Media Executives — The online activist group known as Anonymous, which has targeted opponents of the Occupy Wall Street movement and businesses that stopped providing services to WikiLeaks, has set its sights on a new adversary: media executives.
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Deadline.com and The Snitch
A.Killough / CNN:
Rep. Trent Franks backs Gingrich — (CNN) - Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, who served as former Congressional co-chairman for Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign, announced on Friday he's now throwing his support behind Newt Gingrich. — “America cannot afford another four years of Barack Obama …
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The Politico
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A.Killough / CNN:
Romney back on top in new CNN national poll
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Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Telegraph:
France credit rating cut puts eurozone bail-out fund at risk — The €440bn (£365bn) eurozone bail-out fund faced fresh threats last night after France, its second-largest contributor, was stripped of its AAA credit rating for the first time. — The French downgrade casts …
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Guardian
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep. Berates Student Concerned About Pell Grant Cuts, Tells Her To Join The Military — To avoid a government shutdown at the end of 2011, Republicans succeeded in their campaign to cut the federal Pell Grant program by effectively kicking up to 100,000 low-income students off the rolls.
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Crooks and Liars and Campus Progress
New York Times:
Obama Asks Congress for Powers to Trim Government — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday announced an aggressive campaign to shrink the size of the federal government, a proposal less notable for its goal — the fight against bloat has been embraced by every modern-day president …
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Applesauce and Capital New York
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