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Daniel Strauss / Ballot Box:
Pelosi's office says she has no new dirt on Newt Gingrich — Rep. Nancy Pelosi's office on Wednesday said the minority leader doesn't have any dirt on Newt Gingrich. — Pelosi has suggested in two interviews that she knows something that could prevent Gingrich from becoming president …
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Weasel Zippers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and GOP 12
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Pelosi On A Gingrich Presidency: “That Will Never Happen” — John King, CNN: “You make your case there passionately for President Obama. But also understand that this is a tough reelection climate for any president, Democrat or Republican in this economy.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney blasts Gingrich over attacks on debate moderators, news media — Mitt Romney attacked his GOP presidential rival Newt Gingrich over what has to date been one Gingrich's most effective debate methods - going after the moderators and the media for questions he deems inappropriate.
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Reuters and National Review
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Reagan Count: Gingrich 55, Romney 6
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Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice, Saint Petersblog, HillBuzz.org, Washington Post, National Review, GOP 12 and Mediaite
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Gingrich says Pelosi is living in a fantasy world
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The Politico and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Romney wants to know Pelosi's secret
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Daily Kos, Taegan Goddard's … and Saint Petersblog
ABCNEWS:
Is Florida Still in Play for Republicans? — Only nine months from Election Day, Latino voters — the nation's fastest-growing voting bloc — favor President Obama over all the Republican candidates by a wide margin, according to a new poll conducted by Latino Decisions for Univision News and ABC News …
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The Politico, Political Mojo, Ballot Box and Saint Petersblog
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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Rubio scolds Gingrich camp, says ad bashing ‘anti-immigrant’ Romney is ‘inaccurate, inflammatory’ — Sen. Marco Rubio scolded Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign over a Spanish-language radio ad that accuses rival Mitt Romney of being “anti-immigrant” — “This kind of language is more than just unfortunate.
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The Moderate Voice, Michelle Malkin, Ballot Box, GOP 12, Guardian, Campaign 2012 and Riptide 2.0
The Politico:
Newt Gingrich plays the Charlie Crist card — LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — Once the Republican presidential campaign came to Florida, it was only a matter of time until someone played the Charlie Crist card. — In an attempt to tarnish Mitt Romney's conservative credentials …
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CNN, Saint Petersblog, Taylor Marsh, Townhall.com and NewsMax.com
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Poll: High Marks for Obama's State of the Union Speech — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — An overwhelming majority of Americans approved of the overall message in President Obama's State of the Union speech …
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, ABCNEWS and The Politico
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Gov. Daniels: Obama is ‘pro-poverty’
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CNN, The Politico, ThinkProgress and Jammie Wearing Fools
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama's State of the Union speech: Confrontation wrapped in Kumbaya
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Washington Wire, Salon, Outside the Beltway, Wall Street Journal, Pirate's Cove, HousingWire, Gawker, The Moderate Voice and The Page
Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
“My Message is Simple”: Obama's SOTU Written at 8th Grade Level for Third Straight Year — Obama's SOTU addresses have the lowest average Flesch-Kincaid score of any modern president; Obama owns three of the six lowest-scoring addresses since FDR — For the third consecutive State of the Union Address …
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Althouse and Saint Petersblog
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Politics:
Republicans: State Of The Union Sounds Familiar — The Republican National Committee points out that Obama has been saying the stuff from year to year. Not sure it's exactly an attack, but it's a pretty compelling video. — BuzzFeed Politics — BuzzFeed — More from BuzzFeed Pol... ›
Byron Tau / The Politico:
State of the Union registers at 8th grade reading level
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LewRockwell.com Blog
Jim Miklaszewski / msnbc.com:
American hostage in Somalia rescued by US Navy SEALs in overnight raid — WASHINGTON — In a daring nighttime raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, who were being held by kidnappers in Somalia, U.S. officials tell NBC News.
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Reuters, Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, iOwnTheWorld.com, Scared Monkeys and americanthinker.com
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Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
U.S. Military Frees 2 Western Hostages From Somali Pirates — KHARTOUM, Sudan — American commandos raced into Somalia early Wednesday and rescued two aid workers, an American woman and a Danish man, after a shootout with Somali pirates who had been holding them captive for months.
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World Now, emptywheel, Guardian, News Desk and Global Spin
The White House:
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: — Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq.
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Washington Examiner:
What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case? — The Romney campaign has been hitting Newt Gingrich hard over the 1990s ethics case that resulted in the former Speaker being reprimanded and paying a $300,000 penalty. Before the Iowa caucuses, Romney and his supporting super PAC …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama's Schneiderman Gambit: Financial Fraud Unit Appears Designed to Fail, Grease Skids for Foreclosure Fraud Settlement — I'll pepper in my thoughts on the State of the Union Address throughout the day, but I would be remiss if I didn't start with the announcement of a Unit on Mortgage Origination …
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The Huffington Post, Main Street, Baltimore Sun, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Hullabaloo, msnbc.com and New York Times
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Obama To Announce Mortgage Crisis Unit Chaired By New York Attorney General Schneiderman
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Reality Check, naked capitalism, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Felix Salmon, Booman Tribune, Firedoglake, Guardian, Politics, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh and GOP.com
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Newt slams Romney's ‘world of Swiss bank accounts’ — Via Ginger Gibson in Miami — if you thought the tax return issue was over and done with, think again:
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, GOP 12, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
The Official Google Blog:
Updating our privacy policies and terms of service — In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what's changing, why and what these changes mean for users. — First, our privacy policies.
Ronen Bergman / New York Times:
Will Israel Attack Iran? — As the Sabbath evening approached on Jan. 13, Ehud Barak paced the wide living-room floor of his home high above a street in north Tel Aviv, its walls lined with thousands of books on subjects ranging from philosophy and poetry to military strategy.
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The Atlantic Online, Israel Matzav, Guardian and The Politico
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House bids farewell to Giffords — The House of Representatives said farewell to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday morning with a moving tribute on her last day as a member of Congress. — “None of us on this floor are talented enough to summon the rhetoric that all of us feel in our hearts …
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