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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, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and GOP 12
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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 …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
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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The Gateway Pundit, Wake up America, Reuters and National Review
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Reagan Count: Gingrich 55, Romney 6
Reagan Count: Gingrich 55, Romney 6
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ABCNEWS, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Saint Petersblog, Washington Post, HillBuzz.org, GOP 12 and Mediaite
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Gingrich says Pelosi is living in a fantasy world
Gingrich says Pelosi is living in a fantasy world
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The Politico and Wake up America
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Romney wants to know Pelosi's secret
Romney wants to know Pelosi's secret
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Daily Kos and Saint Petersblog
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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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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Washington Post, Political Mojo, The Politico, Ballot Box and Saint Petersblog
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Gingrich on Clinton impeachment, telling the truth — Doral, Florida (CNN) - At a Latino forum Wednesday Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich talked about character and perceived hypocrisy related to his personal history. — Univision anchor Jorge Ramos asked the former House speaker …
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Taegan Goddard's …
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, Little Green Footballs, Weasel Zippers, Stinque, Wonkette, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Althouse and Saint Petersblog
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Byron Tau / The Politico:
State of the Union registers at 8th grade reading level — President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address again rated at an 8th grade comprehension level on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test — the third lowest score of any State of the Union address since 1934.
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NewsBusters.org, Washington Wire and LewRockwell.com Blog
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Right blogs credit Obama on ‘insider’ bill — Conservatives in the blogosphere found one small aspect of the president's State of the Union address that they could praise: a bill banning insider trading by members of Congress. — “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members …
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Big Journalism, Big Government and Pirate's Cove
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The White House:
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Gov. Daniels: Obama is ‘pro-poverty’
Gov. Daniels: Obama is ‘pro-poverty’
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ThinkProgress, ABCNEWS, CNN, The Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools
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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Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
U.S. Military Frees 2 Western Hostages From Somali Pirates
U.S. Military Frees 2 Western Hostages From Somali Pirates
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ThinkProgress, World Now, Guardian, emptywheel, Global Spin and News Desk
Tina Dupuy / Crooks and Liars:
Awkward Family Photos: Mitt Laundry — Mitt Romney's hurdle in winning the love/respect/admiration/fear of his party can be summed up in one photo: It was taken by his son, Tagg (doesn't Sarah Palin have a kid with that name?) and put on Twitter this week. It's of Romney and his wife Ann …
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Political Mojo and AlterNet, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
When Fact Checkers Go Bad...Very Bad — OMG...this is beyond preposterous. — Politifact—the self-anointed fact checkers—grade this statement from the President speech tonight as “half-true:” … This is not half true or two-thirds true. It is just true. — So why, I ask you, why do they go where they go?
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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The Loyal Opposition, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Hot Air, GOP 12, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
Richard Hartley-Parkinson / Daily Mail:
Female driver who defied Saudi motoring ban dies in fatal road accident — A woman who defied a driving ban on female motorists in Saudi Arabia has died in a car crash. — Another was hurt in the crash in the only country in the world where females are banned from getting behind the wheel.
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Vox Popoli
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
House Democrats spell Keystone ‘K-O-C-H’ — House Democrats are using the billionaire Koch brothers to score political points in their fight against the Keystone XL oil pipeline. — Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) suggested at a hearing Wednesday that Koch Industries …
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Hullabaloo and Mediaite
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
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
When Gingrich Tried, and Failed, to Intimidate Tom Coburn — On Twitter today, I've noted that Romney's seeming squeamishness might make him less likely to sell out conservatives as president than Newt Gingrich. It's far from the most inspiring rallying cry, but I conclude …
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Ron Paul 2012 Presidential …
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.