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Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:
Clint Eastwood: ‘I am Certainly Not Affiliated with Mr. Obama’ — FoxNation.com — Following the fall out over the controversial Chrysler Super Bowl halftime ad, Clint Eastwood spoke exclusively with O'Reilly Factor producer Ron Mitchell... Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod tweeted his support for the ad last night.
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Reuters, Politico, his vorpal sword, Pat Dollard, NewsBusters.org blogs, Weasel Zippers, Taylor Marsh, Verum Serum, Connecting.the.Dots and Mediaite
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Karl Rove ‘offended’ by Clint Eastwood's Chrysler ad — A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.
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The Atlantic Wire, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, New York Magazine, nation.foxnews.com, detroitnews.com, Wonkette, Weekly Standard, emptywheel, The Nation, Prairie Weather, Salon.com, Hollywood Reporter, The Car Connection, Christian Science Monitor, Philly.com, New York Times, National Review, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, Poynter, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
David Frum Eviscerates Charles Murray's Latest Book — David Frum begins a withering review for The Daily Beast, “Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 is an important book that will have large influence. It is unfortunately not a good book.”
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The Moderate Voice
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Is the White Working Class Coming Apart? — Charles Murray's new book does not provide an adequate explanation for the collapse of the white working class. — Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 is an important book that will have large influence.
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Brad DeLong, The New Republic and Angry Bear
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A Lightning Rod in the Storm Over America's Class Divide — WASHINGTON — When Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein's book “The Bell Curve” appeared in 1994, it was denounced by social scientists, liberal pundits and a little-known Chicago civil-rights lawyer named Barack Obama …
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New York Magazine, Booman Tribune and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Influential conservative blogger endorses ‘sweet meteor of death’ in GOP primary — Influential conservative blogger Erick Erickson said he would endorse the “sweet meteor of death” over any of the current GOP candidates, but would back the party's eventual nominee in the general election against President Obama.
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Hot Air
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Big Day for Santorum? — Rick Santorum could be headed for a big …
Big Day for Santorum? — Rick Santorum could be headed for a big …
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Taegan Goddard's …, Pundit & Pundette, Campaign 2012 and National Review
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Obama prods donors for super PAC — President Barack Obama — a vehement opponent of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision — is offering a reluctant blessing to his top bundlers to raise cash for his pet super PAC in a bid to kick-start sluggish fundraising for Priorities USA Action …
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Associated Press, CommonBlog, Datechguy's Blog, ABCNEWS and CNN
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Jim Messina / Barack Obama:
We Will Not Play by Two Sets of Rules — In 2010, the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case opened the door to a new wave of so-called Super PACs—non-candidate political committees that can receive and spend unlimited money from special interests.
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Campaign 2012, New York Magazine and msnbc.com
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John Fleming links to Onion story on Facebook — Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) has deleted his Facebook post linking to an article in The Onion about a fictional Planned Parenthood “Abortionplex.” — In a Facebook status on Friday, Fleming alerted his followers to The Onion's May 18 …
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New York Magazine, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Angry Black Lady Chronicles and The Raw Story
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Congressman Falls for The Onion's Planned Parenthood ‘Abortionplex’ Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ari Fleischer and Komen
Ari Fleischer and Komen
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ThinkProgress, US Politics, TBogg, Daily Kos and DownWithTyranny!
Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Congressman Sources An Onion Article As Fact On Facebook
Congressman Sources An Onion Article As Fact On Facebook
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Jezebel, CBS Washington and Right Wing Watch
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Catholic League Poised To Go To War With Obama Over Mandatory Birth Control Payments — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers …
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The Last Tradition, Doug Ross, Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers and TBogg
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Major Obama Donors Tied to Fugitive Who Fled to Mexico — Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama's re-election campaign.
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JustOneMinute, Guardian, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Election Law Blog
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Syria crisis: Russia's Sergei Lavrov meets Assad — Paul Wood in Homs says there is “nowhere to hide” for the city's people — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad amid an upsurge in violence in the restive city of Homs.
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msnbc.com, Guardian, New York Times and The Page
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DocX Faces Foreclosure Fraud Charges in Missouri — One of the largest companies that provided home foreclosure services to lenders across the nation, DocX, has been indicted on forgery charges by a Missouri grand jury — one of the few criminal actions to follow reports of widespread improprieties against homeowners.
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naked capitalism and Foreclosure Fraud
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Archbishop to U.S. Troops: Obamacare Reg ‘Is a Blow to a Freedom...for Which You Have Seen Your Buddies Fall in Battle’ — (CNSNews.com) - Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who leads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, wrote a letter to be read at all Sunday Masses …
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The Last Tradition, Weasel Zippers, NO QUARTER, The Daily Caller and Nice Deb
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Bachmann: ‘I was the perfect candidate’ — Rep. Michele Bachmann thinks that America missed its opportunity with “the perfect candidate.” — The Minnesota congresswoman was asked by Bloomberg TV's Al Hunt which of the remaining candidates was the most conservative during an interview Friday …
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CNN and Washington Post
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Komen Posts Job Listing for Position That Looks Suspiciously Like Karen Handel's [Disgrace For The Cure] — In the middle of the firestormy crap tornado that engulfed Susan G. Komen for the Cure last week, a little job listing was quietly posted in a DC paper's classified section.
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Balloon Juice, TBogg and Angry Black Lady Chronicles
Patrick Temple-West / Reuters:
FBI warns of threat from anti-government extremists — (Reuters) - Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday. — These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens …
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Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, Blogcritics and Atlas Shrugs
Jim Burroway / Box Turtle Bulletin:
Uganda Lawmakers to Bring Anti-Homosexuality Bill to Floor of Parliament — Click here to view the embedded video. — According to this news report from Uganda's NTV, the Parliament's Business Committee met today and agreed to move the revived Anti-Homosexuality Bill forward to the full house …
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Towleroad News #gay
Eric Lichtblau / The Caucus:
Jack Abramoff Hints at Untold Scandals — WASHINGTON — Jack Abramoff hinted Monday that he knows of still more skeletons that are buried on Capitol Hill, but he's not saying where. — The disgraced lobbyist said he wouldn't want to make anyone else go through the experience …
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Santorum Longs For Good Old Days Of ‘Shadow Abortions’ When Women Obtained Back-Alley Procedures — On the campaign trail, Republican Rick Santorum has made attacking the Affordable Care Act a cornerstone of his stump speech. During an event on Friday, the former Pennsylvania senator supported a …
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NewsMax.com, Right Wing Watch, Firedoglake and The Loyal Opposition
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
In the Pocket of the Gas Lobby? — Liberals (and, to be fair, some non-liberals) often assume that any organization or politician who gets donations from a company, organization or industry must be in the pocket of the donor. In general, that assumption is unfair: what actually happens …
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Occupy mudbowl: What's left of McPherson Square — With the partial eviction of Occupiers over the weekend, McPherson Square is no longer full to the point that the local community cannot enjoy it. Instead, it is a mud-bowl that no one can really enjoy. Occupiers managed to undo …
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Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers and Doug Ross