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5:15 PM ET, February 9, 2012

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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Fierce White House Debate Over Contraception Mandate  —  “What are we doing here?” asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, stepping outside his wheelhouse to ask about a rising storm involving the Obama administration and the Catholic Church.  “What's the point?”
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USA Today:
Obama mandate on birth control coverage stirs controversy  —  WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders and Republican presidential candidates joined Catholic religious groups on Wednesday in denouncing the Obama administration's mandate requiring health insurers to offer birth control coverage, but the White House stood its ground.
Amy Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Contraception Coverage Debate Isn't Just About the Bishops  —  Obama should do right by the progressive Catholics who made his health reforms possible and expand the religious exemption to the new contraceptive mandate in the law.  —  If abortion rights advocates are feeling their oats this week, they have good reason.
Discussion: Swampland and The New Republic
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
On Birth Control, Obama Saved By The Taco Bell?  —  Well.  Just when it looked like Barack Obama had wound himself into the ultimate pretzel on the new rule mandating that employers, including large Catholic institutions, cover birth control in their health plans, it looks like he may be saved …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama administration struggles to contain uproar over birth-control rule
Discussion: Politico and blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Jonathan Martinand Manu Raju / Reuters:
Mitt Romney's message from GOP: Step it up  —  Mitt Romney's poor performance Tuesday is prompting congressional Republicans to go public with a bracing message to the front-runner: time to step it up, Mitt.  —  A day after Romney was convincingly defeated by Rick Santorum in non-binding contests …
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum takes on ‘environmental terror’  —  Oklahoma City (CNN) - Speaking in one of the top energy-producing states in the country, Rick Santorum tailored his stump speech here on Thursday to appeal to a raucous crowd of domestic energy-loving Okies.  —  Reaffirming his support …
Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum rebuts Romney attacks
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Hill
Keith Coffman / Reuters:
Colorado student charged in “glitter bomb” of Romney
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Eye doctor warns of dangers of political protest on gay marriage
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
DeMint: Brokered convention a possibility
Discussion: Campaign 2012, CNN, The Impolitic and Slate
New York Times:
States Negotiate $26 Billion Agreement for Homeowners  —  After months of painstaking talks, government authorities and five of the nation's biggest banks have agreed to a $26 billion settlement that could provide relief to nearly two million current and former American homeowners harmed …
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Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement  —  As readers may know by now, 49 of 50 states have agreed to join the so-called mortgage settlement, with Oklahoma the lone refusenik.  Although the fine points are still being hammered out, various news outlets (New York Times …
New York Times:
Mortgage Plan Gives Homeowners Bulk of the Benefits
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Washington Post:   Landmark settlement announced on foreclosure, mortgage fraud
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Obama: 10 states to receive No Child Left Behind waivers  —  The Obama administration will free 10 states from the requirements of No Child Left Behind, responding to complaints from teachers and school administrators across the country that the nation's main education law is outdated and punitive.
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Fox News:
Obama to give 10 states a pass on No Child Left Behind deadline
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Report: White House to offer 10 states waivers on No Child Left Behind
Discussion: Politico
msnbc.com:
Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News  —  A car that was bombed by two assailants on a motorcycle in Tehran on Jan. 11, killing Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahamdi Roshan, is removed by a mobile crane.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Santorum: Obama Has Put America On ‘The Path’ Of Executing Religious People By Decapitation  —  Rick Santorum continued to rail against President Obama's so-called war against religion during a town hall in Plano, Texas Wednesday night.  The former Pennsylvania senator …
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Aide injured in Giffords shooting will run to replace her in House  —  Ron Barber, an aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) who was wounded in the shooting spree that also injured Giffords, will run to replace her in the House.  —  Barber announced Thursday he would run …
CBS Los Angeles:
LA County OKs $1,000 Fine For Throwing Football, Frisbee On Beaches  —  LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home.  —  The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 …
ABCNEWS:
Obama Contraceptives Mandate Losing Senate Democrats?  —  A handful of Senate Democrats have split with President Obama's controversial birth-control mandate and slammed the administration's requirement that church-affiliated employers cover contraceptives.  —  The five Democrats …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
States line up to challenge stringent Section 5 voting rights provision  —  Conservative activists and Republican attorneys general have launched a series of lawsuits meant to challenge the most muscular provision of the Voting Rights Act 0f 1965 before a Supreme Court that has signaled it is suspicious of its constitutionality.
iowahawk:
A Fistful of Rebates  —  It's halftime.  —  Both teams are in their locker rooms discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half.  Diagramming plays.  Texting their agents and German supermodel wives.  Reviewing Belichick's aerial spy photos.  —  It's halftime in America, too.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Pelosi: ‘Colbert used to be my friend’  —  Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mocked comedian Stephen Colbert as part of her campaign against super-PACs.  —  The House minority leader released a web video on Thursday that jokingly attacks Colbert for launching a super-PAC.
Discussion: Politico
Janet Maslin / New York Times:
Sure, Mr. President, if You Really Want Me To  —  ‘Once Upon a Secret’: Mimi Alford on Her Affair With Kennedy  —  The author of “Once Upon a Secret,” Mimi Alford, had an affair with President John F. Kennedy before she was old enough to vote.  Having kept this story under wraps for almost 50 years …
Matt Stopera / BuzzFeed:
The Best Testimony From Washington State's Gay Marriage Hearing  —  Try not to cry.  Watch Representative Maureen Walsh's moving testimony from yesterday's gay marriage vote in Washington.  Rep. Walsh was one of two Republicans to vote for the bill.
BBC:
Key al-Qaeda militant ‘killed in US drone attack’  —  US drone attacks have killed dozens of militants but also civilians  —  One of the most senior al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan, Badar Mansoor, has been killed in a US drone strike, local officials say.  —  The attack took place in Miranshah …
 
 
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Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Mississippi Bill Changes Name of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ to ‘Gulf of America’
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Rebecca Wind / New from the Guttmacher Institute:
U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate At Lowest Level In Nearly 40 Years
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Agence France Presse:
Islamists in Egypt halt filming of TV series
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
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Patrick Louis Knudsen / Heritage Foundation:
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Darren Goode / Politico:
Report: State handled Keystone well
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