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Mj Lee / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh mocks GOP establishment — Rush Limbaugh mocked the Republican establishment on his radio show Wednesday for being “shocked” by Rick Santorum's three-state win, saying, “I can't believe how insulated they are.” — “They're literally shocked. The Republican establishment had no idea this was percolating out there.
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Mediaite and nation.foxnews.com
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CNN:
Trump: 'I don't get Rick Santorum;' talks Romney cabinet position — Donald Trump sits down with CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield to discuss GOP candidates for president as well as what position he would want in Mitt Romney's cabinet. — Trump says, “Rick Santorum was a sitting senator …
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Political Insider and Connecting.the.Dots
Rush Limbaugh:
Establishment Shocked by Santorum Sweep
Establishment Shocked by Santorum Sweep
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Taegan Goddard's … and Saint Petersblog
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
G.O.P. Race Has Hallmarks of Prolonged Battle
G.O.P. Race Has Hallmarks of Prolonged Battle
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Vows Not to Run for ‘Pastor in Chief’
Rick Santorum Vows Not to Run for ‘Pastor in Chief’
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Guardian
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
The Incredible Shrinking Mitt: Romney's 2008 Support Crumbles In Three Key States
The Incredible Shrinking Mitt: Romney's 2008 Support Crumbles In Three Key States
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National Review, The Spectacle Blog, CNN, New York Times and The Impolitic
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Santorum Upsets G.O.P. Race With Three Victories
Santorum Upsets G.O.P. Race With Three Victories
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Santorum Sweep Sets Stage for New Battle in Republican Race
Santorum Sweep Sets Stage for New Battle in Republican Race
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The Caucus, Guardian, msnbc.com, The Monkey Cage and Truthdig
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Fresh off GOP victories, Santorum goes on attack against Romney
Fresh off GOP victories, Santorum goes on attack against Romney
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CNN, Politico, GOP 12 and National Review
American Prospect:
Santorum's Missing Ingredient
Santorum's Missing Ingredient
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The Caucus, The PJ Tatler, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Huckabee: Santorum shows Romney isn't inevitable
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Invents New Front In Fake War On Religion: Obama Wants Female Catholic Priests — For weeks, Republicans have pretended that President Obama is waging some kind of war on religion because his administration recently approved regulations requiring insurers to cover contraceptive care …
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The Loyal Opposition, Sky Dancing and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Joan Frawley Desmond / The Daily Register:
USCCB Spokesman: Hawaii Bill ‘Not Much of a Compromise’ to Fix Contraception Mandate (1731)
USCCB Spokesman: Hawaii Bill ‘Not Much of a Compromise’ to Fix Contraception Mandate (1731)
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Opinionator, Daily Kos, National Review, Firedoglake, Feministing, The Loyal Opposition, Blue Mass Group and Religion Dispatches
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Boehner, GOP pledge to reverse Obama birth-control mandate
Boehner, GOP pledge to reverse Obama birth-control mandate
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CNN, Politico, The Last Tradition and ThinkProgress
Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Tim Kaine splits with Obama on birth control rule for religious groups
Tim Kaine splits with Obama on birth control rule for religious groups
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Firedoglake, CatholicVote.org, Speaker, National Review, Hot Air and Hullabaloo
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP pushes to shield faith groups from birth-control ruling
Senate GOP pushes to shield faith groups from birth-control ruling
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Washington Post and Daily Kos
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Boehner Pledges Congress Will Overturn New Obama Mandate
Boehner Pledges Congress Will Overturn New Obama Mandate
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Live Action News & Opinion, Pundit & Pundette and The Caucus
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN's Roland Martin suspended for homophobic tweets — On Super Bowl Sunday, Roland Martin of CNN issued some homophobic tweets that got him in trouble with gay organizations and this blog. CNN stayed silent on the matter, until just moments ago, when it issued this statement:
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GLAAD:
ROLAND MARTIN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST ANTI-LGBT VIOLENCE; GLAAD CALLS ON HIM TO MEET WITH ADVOCATES — CNN Remains Silent after Calls for a Statement — CNN political analyst Roland Martin posted an apology on his website following calls from GLAAD, the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) …
Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Why White House sees political opportunity in the contraception battle — (Public Religion Research Institute) The controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's decision to eliminate funding to Planned Parenthood—and subsequent reversal— continues.
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Reuters, Guardian, Taylor Marsh, Jill Stanek, Florida Independent, Hullabaloo, CNN, msnbc.com, The Atlantic Online and LifeNews.com
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Congress' Job Approval at New Low of 10% — Republicans and Democrats equally negative — PRINCETON, NJ — A record-low 10% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, down from 13% in January and the previous low of 11%, recorded in December 2011.
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Politico, The Hill, Lez Get Real, The Reaction and USA Today
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Republican Enthusiasm Issue is Real — The paltry turnout in the Republican Presidential contests over the last week reflects what we've seen in our recent national polling: Democrats are now more excited about voting this fall than Republicans are, reversing the enthusiasm gap that plagued the party in 2010.
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Washington Monthly, Politico, The Moderate Voice, The Maddow Blog and Saint Petersblog
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
GOP turnout troubles continue
GOP turnout troubles continue
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FiveThirtyEight and Balloon Juice
ABCNEWS:
The White House Has No Opinion About Whether the Senate Should Pass a Budget - Today's Q's for O's WH - 2/8/12 — TAPPER: President Obama is going to be introducing his outline for a budget. Fed Chair Bernanke has said the lack of a budget having been passed by the Senate has had an adverse affect …
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RedState and The Lonely Conservative
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Christopher Goins / CNSNews:
Hoyer: 'The Fact Is You Don't Need a Budget'
Hoyer: 'The Fact Is You Don't Need a Budget'
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Hot Air, Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Heritage Foundation:
The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government — Abstract: The great and calamitous fiscal trends of our time—dependence on government by an increasing portion of the American population, and soaring debt that threatens the financial integrity of the economy—worsened yet again in 2010 and 2011.
Mike Blasky / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock — Loading the player... Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face.
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Hullabaloo, NEWS ON 6 and The Agitator
John J. Miller / National Review:
Tee Pawed — Last night's big loser was Mitt Romney. The runner-up: Tim Pawlenty, the former GOP governor of Minnesota. He just lost the veepstakes. — I like Pawlenty. Last year, when it became clear that Mitch Daniels and a few others weren't going to run for president …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Saint Petersblog
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Six Republican Senators — Including Snowe And Collins — Co-Sponsored Federal Contraception Mandate In 2001 — Republicans have gone to war against President Obama's regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage, portraying the measure as a “government takeover” …
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The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Grassley: House GOP doing Wall Street's bidding on STOCK Act — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) accused his Republican counterparts in the House of doing the bidding of Wall Street by removing a provision from the STOCK Act that would have required political intelligence firms to register in a similar fashion to lobbyists.
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Firedoglake, Politico, Moe_Lane's blog, New York Times and The Maddow Blog
Damian Carrington / Guardian:
Asia's mountains ‘lost no ice in 10 years’ — Meltwater from Asia's peaks is much less then previously estimated, but lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern — • In pictures: the best images of the earth from space
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Weasel Zippers and Green
Michael Brendan Dougherty / Business Insider:
Cardinal Edward Egan Just Withdrew His Apology For The Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal — St. John Chrysostom, once said “The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.” — Here's proof that he was right. — In an interview this week with Connecticut Magazine, Cardinal Edward Egan …
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News Desk, City Room, No More Mister Nice Blog, Rod Dreher and Joe. My. God.
Mark Oppenheimer / Salon:
The making of gay marriage's top foe — Salon exclusive: How Maggie Gallagher's college pregnancy made her a single mom, and a traditional marriage zealot — In September 1978, Yale freshmen would not have voted Maggie Gallagher the member of the Class of 1982 most likely to get pregnant before graduation.
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Good As You, New York Times, ThinkProgress, Joe. My. God. and The Huffington Post