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Newt Gingrich: If Mitt Romney Wins South Carolina, It's Over … South Carolina Primary Election , South Carolina Primary Election 2012 , Politics News — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Newt Gingrich came clean Tuesday afternoon, admitting that if he can't win this state's primary on Saturday …
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First Thoughts: Newt-mentum returns? — Is Newt-mentum returning?... Even if so, Gingrich faces two challenges: time and math... Romney's wealth and Bain Capital have been THE story in the GOP race for the past 10 days (and counting)... Are the first Obama TV ads going up?
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SC evangelicals split, frustrated — ‘Who gets to tell the other two that they should drop out?’ — More than two-thirds of South Carolina's evangelical voters do not want Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney to become the GOP's nominee for president, according to a new poll from Monmouth University.
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2012 Decoded and msnbc.com

Not the Bane of His Existence — Newt Gingrich's closing argument …
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Washington Monthly, Mail Online, The Huffington Post and Fox News

Palin: I'd vote for Gingrich in South Carolina
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Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum set South Carolina expectations
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Other McCain, CNN and Alan Colmes' Liberaland


SOPA blackout leads co-sponsors to defect — Amid online protests that include major websites like Wikipedia blacking out their sites, a few co-sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act in Congress are defecting. — Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.), originally a co-sponsor of the bill, pulled his name from the list of sponsors on Tuesday.
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Unbowed by protests, Lamar Smith to move ahead on piracy bill — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) vowed to push forward with his controversial anti-piracy bill on Tuesday as popular websites prepared to go dark in protest. — “I am committed to continuing to work …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, The Politico, Media Decoder, Networking Blog, RedState, The American Independent and Instapundit


Web Site Will Shut Down to Protest Antipiracy Bills
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Bits, Gizmodo, Media Decoder, Gawker, msnbc.com, Campaign 2012 and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

SOPA protests shut down Web sites
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Scientific American, The Mahablog, The BLT and US Politics

Google will protest SOPA using popular home page
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Terry to remove name from bill
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Romney Caricatures Himself — Mitt Romney, in all likelihood, is going to walk away with his party's presidential nomination. Yet from the standpoint of positioning himself for the general election, the primary season has been a disaster for him. Romney's campaign has worked hard …
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Chris Christie: Mitt Romney should release tax returns
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Perry: It's ‘important’ for Mitt to release tax returns now
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Romney says he is taxed at around 15 percent rate
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Romney Reveals his Tax Rate is ‘Probably Closer to 15 Percent’
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Mitt Romney Sent Millions to Mormon Church — Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney walks toward his campaign plane, Jan. 11, 2012 in Bedford, Mass. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) — Underscoring the prominent, if little discussed role that Mitt Romney played …
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New Obama OMB director a Bain alum
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Obama's not-so-super PAC — Last spring, Sean Sweeney — a co-founder of Priorities USA Action, Barack Obama's not-so-super super PAC — rode an elevator up to a donor's office atop a Chicago skyscraper, hoping to ride down with a big check. — His pitch: Sure, Obama has made a career …
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Obama's jobs council report says ‘drill’ — President Obama's jobs council called Tuesday for an “all-in approach” to energy policy that includes expanded oil-and-gas drilling as well as expediting energy projects like pipelines. — “[W]e should allow more access to oil …
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Recess appointments might not hold — Some legal experts, including those who have sided with President Obama on other constitutional issues, think there is a good chance the courts could overturn his recent recess appointments. — Legal experts said courts could invalidate Obama's appointments …
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americanthinker.com and Prairie Weather

‘Occupy’ protesters suspected of throwing smoke bomb over White House fence — WASHINGTON - The Secret Service was responding Tuesday night to an escalating protest that may have involved one or more smoke bombs being thrown over the White House fence. — An estimated 1,000 protesters have gathered.
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Taxpayers on Hook for D.C. Protester's Potties
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Protest Sapped of Cash
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Why They Stood and Cheered — Gingrich confronts the left's insidious theory of racial supremacy. — Bye-Ku for Jon Huntsman — Call me crazy, but — I think insulting voters — Will warm them to me — The live-audience reaction to Republican presidential debates is a matter …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Raw Story and Wake up America

The bitter backstory between Newt Gingrich and Romney backer, Susan Molinari — Later today, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign will host a Newt Gingrich-bashing conference call with two surrogates, former Rep. Susan Molinari and former Sen. Jim Talent. — Molinari's dislike for Gingrich spans more than a decade.
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Dear Andrew Sullivan: Why Focus On Obama's Dumbest Critics? — A major defense of the president exaggerates Obama's accomplishments and misses the point: his scandalous transgressions against rule of law. — After reading Andrew Sullivan's Newsweek essay about President Obama, his critics …
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Did Rick Santorum Win the Iowa Caucuses, Not Mitt Romney? — Incorrect precinct numbers from one Iowa town, and a 20-vote misallocation to Mitt Romney, casts his eight-vote victory in question—along with his claim to be the only candidate to win both Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Key fact fails to occupy Globe story — Featured protester a convicted sex offender — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + Bio — Looks like somebody forgot to Google. — The Monday Boston Globe featured a photo on the front page of its Metro section of a lip-locked couple who “found romance” at Occupy Boston.
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