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National Review:
Santorum's Turn — At the moment Rick Santorum appears to be overtaking Newt Gingrich as the principal challenger to Mitt Romney. Santorum has won more contests than Gingrich (who has won only one), has more delegates, and leads him in the polls. In at least one poll, he also leads Romney.
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Business Insider, The Maddow Blog, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Washington Post, The Caucus and News Desk
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American Research Group:
Presidential Primary Preference: — Michigan — Rick Santorum leads the Michigan Republican presidential primary with 33%. Santorum is followed by Mitt Romney with 27%, Newt Gingrich with 21%, and Ron Paul with 12%. — Santorum leads Gingrich 42% to 24% among self-identified Republicans …
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Hot Air, GOP 12, CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Santorum moves ahead in Michigan — Rick Santorum's taken a large lead in Michigan's upcoming Republican primary. He's at 39% to 24% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Ron Paul, and 11% for Newt Gingrich. — Santorum's rise is attributable to two major factors: his own personal popularity …
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RedState
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Gingrich Money Hunt Faces Obstacles — Newt Gingrich recently joined Gov. Rick Perry of Texas on a conference call with more than 50 “bundlers” who had powered Mr. Perry's formidable campaign-cash machine. — Mr. Perry asked his top financial rainmakers to raise money for Mr. Gingrich …
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ABCNEWS, GOP 12, Political Mojo, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Bark Bark Woof Woof and The Page
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Didn't we almost have it all? — Robert F. Bukaty / AP
First Thoughts: Didn't we almost have it all? — Robert F. Bukaty / AP
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Washington Post and New York Times
Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney's Case — Last week, Rick Santorum's three-state sweep …
Romney's Case — Last week, Rick Santorum's three-state sweep …
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GOP 12, Boston Globe and msnbc.com
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Momentum Is Michigan's Prize
GOP Momentum Is Michigan's Prize
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Politico, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, The Hill and The Page
Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:
Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations — This is the first in a Daily Caller investigative series on Media Matters For America. Daily Caller reporters Alex Pappas and Will Rahn contributed to this report.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker: Obama budget is a ‘nervous breakdown on paper’ — Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) expressed concern President Obama's budget would go too far to rein in government spending in the midst of an economic recovery, calling the forthcoming proposal a ‘nervous breakdown on paper.’
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
WH Chief of Staff Errs on Senate Budget Rules — As President Obama prepares to unveil his FY2013 budget Monday, White House chief of staff Jack Lew this morning was asked by CNN to defend the Senate's refusal to pass a budget in more than 1,000 days. — “You can't pass a budget in the Senate …
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Power Line, Campaign 2012, Erick's blog, Betsy's Page and ThinkProgress
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Severe Conservative Syndrome — Mitt Romney has a gift for words — self-destructive words. On Friday he did it again, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was a “severely conservative governor.” — As Molly Ball of The Atlantic pointed out, Mr. Romney “described conservatism as if it were a disease.”
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The Moderate Voice, ThinkProgress, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Globe and Mail, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
CNN:
Pro-choice group thanks Obama in new ads — (CNN) - NARAL Pro-Choice America will air radio ads for the next week in support of the Obama administration's policy toward coverage for female contraception. — The spot, which thanks President Barack Obama for guaranteeing insurance coverage …
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Weasel Zippers
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
McConnell: Birth-control debate will continue until Obama ‘backs down’
McConnell: Birth-control debate will continue until Obama ‘backs down’
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ThinkProgress, White House.gov Blog, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Booman Tribune and Los Angeles Times
Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — McConnell: GOP Will Fight To Let ANY Employer Deny Birth Control Coverage
TPMDC — McConnell: GOP Will Fight To Let ANY Employer Deny Birth Control Coverage
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Firedoglake, The Maddow Blog, USA Today, Law Blog, Pundit & Pundette, Stinque, The Hill, The New Republic, Democracy in America, Brad DeLong, CBS News, Bark Bark Woof Woof, The Reality-Based Community, Daily Kos, The Raw Story, Balloon Juice, TBogg, Little Green Footballs, The Moderate Voice and Washington Monthly
Richard Florida / The Atlantic Cities:
Why America Keeps Getting More Conservative — Even with the president's approval rating showing signs of life and the Republicans busily bashing themselves over the head — “one is a practicing polygamist and he's not even the Mormon,” retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently quipped …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Reaction and Althouse
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Contraception and the cost of culture wars — Politicized culture wars are debilitating because they almost always require partisans to denigrate the moral legitimacy of their opponents, and sometimes to deny their very humanity. It's often not enough to defeat a foe.
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Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, Eschaton, Ricochet Conversations Feed, No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Greek Parliament Passes Austerity Plan After Riots Rage — ATHENS — After violent protests left dozens of buildings aflame in Athens, the Greek Parliament voted early on Monday to approve a package of harsh austerity measures demanded by the country's foreign lenders in exchange for new loans …
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Gothamist, Mish's Global Economic …, The Confluence, Washington Post, Guardian, The Raw Story and Runnin' Scared
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Cronyism 101 — I wrote about my participation in the Koch brothers' semi-annual seminar in Palm Springs two weekends ago here. Along with Peter Schweizer, I did a presentation on cronyism. My speech focused on corporate cronyism, while Peter's centered on the sort of political cronyism …
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Balloon Juice
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Notre Dame Faculty to Obama: ‘This Is a Grave Violation of Religious Freedom and Cannot Stand’ — (CNSNews.com) - Twenty-five Notre Dame faculty members—led by the university's top ethics expert, and including some of the school's most eminent scholars—have signed a statement declaring …
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Dan Williams / Reuters:
Israel says bombs target embassies in India, Georgia — (Reuters) - Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement.
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Weasel Zippers and National Review
Associated Press:
Israeli missions in India, Georgia targeted — Explosion heard near Israeli Embassy in New Delhi; diplomat's wife injured. Explosives found near Israeli embassy building in Tbilisi neutralized safely. Lieberman: Israel knows how to identity those responsible
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American Spectator and Israel Matzav
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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Attacks target Israeli embassies in Georgia, India
Attacks target Israeli embassies in Georgia, India
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The Atlantic Online