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InsiderAdvantage Poll: Gingrich Surging, Race ‘Tighter Than Expected’ — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted Sunday night of likely Republican voters …
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Mitt Romney On Fox & Friends: ‘I Wish I Could Claim I Was Hispanic’ — On Monday morning's Fox and Friends, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney let out another one of those “I'm running for office, for Pete's sake!” bursts of honesty which, like a burlesque revue at a leper colony, are revealing, but not in a good way.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and THEROOT.COM


An internal Gingrich campaign memo obtained by The Daily Caller shows the campaign is planning to continue long after Tuesday's Florida primary, stating simply: “this race is just getting started.” — The memo, from National Political Director Martin Baker, notes Romney's lack …
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The PJ Tatler, Business Insider, Wake up America and Taegan Goddard's …


Doing It For the Gipper: Why Old People Could Be Newt Gingrich's Saving Grace
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Patterico's Pontifications and ABCNEWS

Romney Romps To 14-Point Lead In Florida GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds
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Associated Press, New York Times, USA Today, The Politico, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Univision News Tumblr, The Caucus, msnbc.com, Little Green Footballs, Firedoglake, Florida Times Union, Business Insider, Naked Politics, Ballot Box, CBS Miami, The Daily Dish, ABCNEWS, Connecting.the.Dots, National Review, Wall Street Journal and Washington Wire

Little Movement in Florida
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Gallup, Firedoglake, Guardian, Daily Kos, The Politico, Hot Air and BuzzFeed

Gingrich forces outspent by nearly $12 million on Florida airwaves
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CNN, The Atlantic Online, New York Times, Babalú Blog, Outside the Beltway, Wake up America, Campaign 2012, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos

Obama's Breach of Faith Over Contraceptive Ruling — Obama's breach of faith over contraceptive ruling — One of Barack Obama's great attractions as a presidential candidate was his sensitivity to the feelings and intellectual concerns of religious believers.
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Birth Control Matters — Birth control matters to women. This is not an opinion. It is a fact. But you wouldn't know it reading political coverage of the administration's decision to do the right thing and approve the rule mandating coverage of it. — And frankly, that's shameful.
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ECHIDNE of the snakes and Hullabaloo

Contraception and “Religious Liberty” — It's been underway for a good while now. But the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' offensive to label federal requirements that religiously affiliated non-church institutions offer coverage for contraceptive services in employee health plans as an assault on …
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Religion Dispatches, Washington Post and ProfessorBainbridge.com

Here Is The Anti-Obama Administration Letter That Was Read To Almost Every Catholic Sitting In Church On Sunday
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Sister Toldjah, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line, The PJ Tatler and American Spectator


COMPARING THE COMPENSATION OF FEDERAL AND PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYEES — HOW DOES THE COMPENSATION OF FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES COMPARE WITH THAT OF EMPLOYEES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR? — Employees of the federal government and the private sector differ in ways that can affect compensation.
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The Politico, Economix, The Enterprise Blog, National Review and The Atlantic Online
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CBO: Federal workers better compensated than in private sector
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The Jawa Report


Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Obama's Bodyguard — Meet the Democratic leader who's blasting Republicans and reaching out to a peeved Congress. — The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee is running late, prepping for an MSNBC interview while she brushes her tangled mass …
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Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler and National Review
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz hits Reince Priebus on Concordia jab
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The Hill, Verum Serum, Right Wing Watch, Mediaite and ThinkProgress

RNC chief doubles down on comparing Obama to disgraced Capt. Schettino
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Hot Air


GOP Voters Continue to Give Field Subpar Ratings — Obama Seen as More Understanding than Romney, Gingrich — Amid a bruising primary campaign, Republicans remain unimpressed with their party's presidential field. In fact, more Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Ballot Box
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Obama best understands people, poll finds
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Ballot Box and CNN

Poll finds increasing dissatisfaction in GOP field
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Hot Air and Wall Street Journal


'I'm going to destroy America and dig up Marilyn Monroe': British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes — Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe’.


State Senator Behind “Don't Say Gay” Bill Refused Service At Restaurant — Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield, who recently said that it is “virtually impossible” to contract HIV through heterosexual sex, was kicked out of a restaurant in Knoxville. He went quietly.
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The Daily What, Nashville for the 21st Century, WBIR-TV and Towleroad News #gay
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Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society — Jonathan Franzen has launched a passionate defence of the printed book, warning that our desire for the instant gratification of e-books is damaging for society. — Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom, is being hailed as one of America's greatest novelists
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Mashable!, The Daily Dish, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and normblog, more at Mediagazer »
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Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values
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Runnin' Scared and Althouse

Newt's promise: No reporters as moderators — Newt Gingrich lashed out at the media today during a rally in Pensacola, Florida, suggesting that all reporters are in the tank for President Obama: — “As your nominee, I will not accept debates in the fall in which the reporters are the moderators …
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Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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Donald Trump Staff in Talks With Financiers, Campaign Managers to Explore Third Party Bid — ABC News' Huma Khan and Jennifer Wlach report: — Donald Trump's top political adviser told ABC News he's speaking to “high-level political operatives” to explore a third-party bid for the real estate mogul …
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M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …

Racial code words obscure real issues — Two weeks ago at the Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., I asked each GOP presidential candidate some pointed questions about the racial politics that will play a big role in the presidential campaign.
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NewsBusters.org, Washington Monthly, Don Surber and Weasel Zippers

Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. — President Obama ran — and won — in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But, each of his first three years in office have marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and Republicans deeply disapproving.


Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners — by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica and Chris Arnold, NPR News … Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.
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Firedoglake, NPR, Political Mojo, Angry Bear, ABCNEWS, Real Time Economics, The Consumerist, Questions and Observations, HousingWire, Truthdig, EconLog and ThinkProgress


Sarkozy announces French financial transaction tax — Nicolas Sarkozy: “What we want is to provoke a shock and to set an example” — French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans to introduce a tax on financial transactions. — The .1% levy will be introduced in August regardless …
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Business Insider and ThinkProgress
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Sarkozy reignites war of words with UK
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Business Insider, FP Passport and FT Alphaville


Agent Provocateur sales boosted by US First Lady Michelle Obama — Agent Provocateur saw sales jump by more than 12pc, helped by US First Lady Michelle Obama spending $50,000 (£31,794) in one shopping spree. — Michelle Obama's shopping spree caused part of Madison Avenue to be closed off
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Wonkette, Gawker, The Politico, Pat Dollard, Mediaite, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and Campaign 2012