memeorandum: ‘Honour’ crime: Three women killed ‘for loose morals’ (Owais Jaffery/The Express Tribune)

8:20 PM ET, February 5, 2012

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Dick Armey: Gingrich campaign turned into ‘first-rate vendetta’ against Romney — Freedom Works chairman and former Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas) blasted Newt Gingrich for his continued tough attacks on Mitt Romney saying Gingrich was carrying out a vendetta against the Republican frontrunner.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, Riehl World View, The Other McCain, The Caucus and The Lonely Conservative

Lucy Madison / CBS News:

Biographer: Mitt grew up in “series of bubbles” — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — After back-to-back wins in Florida and Nevada, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has regained some of the inevitability factor that has for months been connected with his presidential campaign.

Discussion: The Political Carnival

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Romney up in Colorado, close race in Minnesota — Last night's results in Nevada were bad news for Newt Gingrich and PPP's first day of polling in Colorado and Minnesota indicates things may only get worse for him in the coming days. — In Colorado Mitt Romney looks primed for another big Western win to match his one in Nevada.

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, Hot Air, nation.foxnews.com, Outside the Beltway and Saint Petersblog

Dick Armey / CNN:
Gingrich a lost cause for tea party base

Discussion: The Impolitic and HotAirPundit

Erik Wasson / The Hill: Gingrich: Goal is to get to Super Tuesday

David McGrath Schwartz / Las Vegas Sun:

Economic woes, anti-Obama sentiment fail to draw large turnout — Votes are counted for Precinct 7405 during the Republican presidential caucus at Green Valley High School in Henderson on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Ron Paul won the precinct with 16 votes. Mitt Romney came in second with 10 votes.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Associated Press, The Political Carnival, Dean's World, Taegan Goddard's …, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Strata-Sphere, Little Green Footballs and Wake up America

Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Nevada caucuses 2012: 5 takeaways

Discussion: Pirate's Cove, Gothamist, State of the Union, The Atlantic Online, Ballot Box and Reuters

Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Gingrich's Speech — How to Make a Bad Night Worse

Discussion: The PJ Tatler

Gerald Herbert / ABCNEWS:
Romney's Big Win: Who Turned Out for Romney

Discussion: Politico and Saint Petersblog

Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Mitt Romney cruises to victory in Nevada caucuses

Discussion: The Caucus, Connecting.the.Dots and Patterico's Pontifications

Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Facebook/POLITICO poll: Trump endorsement a net negative for Romney

Discussion: Mediaite and AlterNet

Julian Pecquet / Ballot Box:
Santorum looking to next round of contests after Nevada drubbing

Discussion: Politico

New York Times:
Romney Takes a Solid Win in Nevada Caucuses, Fueling Momentum

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, The Moderate Voice and The Caucus

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney wins overwhelming victory in Nevada caucuses

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and Outside the Beltway

CNN:
CNN projects Romney will win Nevada

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Ashley Powers / Los Angeles Times:
'She's a spy!': Reporter banned from Nevada caucus

Discussion: Las Vegas Sun, The Political Carnival, Hit & Run and The Impolitic

Tim Mak / Politico:

Super Bowl ads: Pete Hoekstra's hits a nerve — The campaign of former Rep. Peter Hoekstra for U.S. Senate explained a racially charged Super Bowl advertisement they developed - complete with an Asian actress speaking in broken English - as a reflection of China's increasingly competitive education system.

Discussion: CNN, Lez Get Real, Associated Press, The Atlantic Online, No More Mister Nice Blog and Outside the Beltway

Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:

Watch the five most politically controversial Super Bowl ads of all time — Super Bowl advertisements have a long history of attracting political controversies, and this year is no different. — While the match-up between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants will be country's focus on Sunday …

Discussion: Politico, The Moderate Voice, Mediaite and Power Line

Cynthia R. Fagen / New York Post:

Teen mistress addresses relationship, pol's Cold War fears in memoir — It was a chilling insight. — When the president wasn't keeping the world from descending into war, there was plenty of wild partying. One instance was a raucous Hollywood bash at Bing Crosby's desert ranch.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Other McCain

Owais Jaffery / The Express Tribune:

‘Honour’ crime: Three women killed ‘for loose morals’ — DERA GHAZI KHAN: — Kot Chuttha police have arrested a man who has admitted to killing his wife, Samina, her sister (his brother's wife) and their mother in collusion with his brother in a Dera Ghazi Khan village.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch

Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:

It's takers versus makers and these days the takers are winning — “Fifty thousand for what you didn't plant, for what didn't grow. That's modern farming — reap what you don't sow.” — That's a line from a song about farm subsidies, “Farming The Government,” by the Nebraska Guitar Militia.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice and The Lonely Conservative

Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:

The Perversion of the Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ by the Sinner Barack H. Obama — I'm afraid we need a little Sunday morning theology. Hopefully someone at the White House will read this and realize just how ill advised the President was to do what he did this week and we should be praying hard …

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Washington Examiner:

Barone:Obama's isolation leads to skewed decisions — It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker has now done this twice. — The first time was in an article last April on Obama's foreign policy …

Associated Press:

‘Occupy’ protesters march through Oakland streets — OAKLAND, CALIF. - Dozens of Occupy Oakland demonstrators burned an American flag and marched through the streets Saturday night, a week after police fired tear gas to quell violent demonstrations and hundreds were arrested following a mass break-in at City Hall.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Conservative Hideout 2.0

San Francisco Chronicle:
Police hold smaller Occupy Oakland protest in check

Discussion: L.A. NOW and Jammie Wearing Fools

Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:

A Mortgage Tornado Warning, Unheeded — After his own experience dealing with a mortgage mess, Nye Lavalle set out to learn all he could about the mortgage industry, traveling nationwide to dig into records. In 2003, he compiled a dossier of practices at Fannie Mae.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Prairie Weather, The Big Picture and naked capitalism

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Egypt Will Try 19 Americans on Criminal Charges — CAIRO — Egyptian authorities on Sunday referred 19 Americans and two dozen others to criminal trials as part of a politically charged investigation into the foreign financing of nonprofit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt.

Discussion: Truthdig