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Is Romney Going To Run Out Of Money? — Santorum goes to the small-donor well, but Romney may have to dip into his own pockets to survive the long haul. Looking “under every stone.” — (Getty Images / Eric Thayer) — Mitt Romney is running out of rich people.
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Hot Air, Wall Street Journal, The Other McCain, American Prospect, Daily Kos and Newshoggers.com
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Announcing Operation Hilarity: Let's keep the GOP clown show going! — It's time for us to take an active role in the GOP nomination process. That's right, it's time for those of us who live in open primary and caucus states—Michigan, North Dakota, Vermont and Tennessee in the next three weeks …
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Hot Air, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Talking Points Memo


Interview: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine talks guitar, politics and today's music … Above video: Mustaine at the 1992 Democratic National Convention for MTV News. — Speaking of news, you were a correspondent for MTV during the 1992 presidential election. What's your take on US politics in 2012?
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Exclusive: Santorum releases four years of tax returns — Rick Santorum said they would come this week, and here are four years worth of his taxes, from years 2007 through 2010. — They can be found here, here, here and here. The returns are the most in number that have been released …
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Going After Rick — America is going bankrupt, Iran is going nuclear …


Megadeth frontman backs Rick Santorum
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MusicRadar.com, Rush Limbaugh, The PJ Tatler and Conservative Hideout 2.0

Rasmussen national poll puts Santorum up 12 over Romney
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CNN, Big Government, Ballot Box, GOP 12 and The Reaction

Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum woos Idaho conservatives at Boise gathering
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Washington Monthly

Does the GOP care about Latino voters? — When it comes to Latino voters, Republicans must have un impulso suicida. — What else but a death wish could explain the party's treatment of the fastest-growing voting bloc in the nation? First was the wave of Arizona-style immigration laws.
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GOP demands apology for Obama campaign manager's ‘chimichanga’ tweet — Republicans are demanding an apology Wednesday from President Obama's campaign manager after a tweet that they argue was insulting toward Latino Americans. — Jim Messina, who is helming the president's re-election effort …
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Wonkette, 24Ahead, The Impolitic and The PJ Tatler

Obama camp, Republicans wage Twitter war over “chimichanga” comment
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Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wake up America, Michelle Malkin and The Daily Caller

Heartland Institute Responds to Stolen and Fake Documents — FEBRUARY 15, 2012 - The following statement from The Heartland Institute - a free-market think tank - may be used for attribution. For more information, contact Communications Director Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org and 312/377-4000.
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Santorum: Birth control ‘harmful to women’ — Yesterday I speculated on some of the reasons Rick Santorum has problems with women voters. This interview from 2006 sure isn't going to help — For starters, does he realize that married women (men too!) use birth control?
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Rush Limbaugh, ABCNEWS, Liberal Values, The Daily Caller, US Politics, Wizbang, GOP 12, Religion Dispatches, RADAMISTO, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Swampland
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Was Santorum a Senate Spendthrift?
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OMB director undercuts legal case for Obamacare — Testifying before Congress this morning, President Obama's acting budget director Jeffrey Zients directly undercut one of the administration's key legal defenses of its national health care law as it nears a hearing before the Supreme Court.
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Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, Sister Toldjah and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Did OMB director not get the mandate memo? — It's the kind of “oops” moments every high-ranking administration official dreads. You're testifying before Congress, you answer a question the wrong way, and — oops! — you just undermined the administration's defense of the health care law.
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Budget Committee

CNN Poll: Obama approval rating back to 50% mark — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's approval rating is back to 50% for the first time in more than eight months, and he currently holds an edge against all the remaining Republican presidential candidates in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups …
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Why Obama Will Embrace the 99 Percent
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Farage On Greek Chaos: “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet” — Outspoken and oracular MEP Nigel Farage bombards his fellow unelected officials with 'you can't handle the truth' comments as he points out the total contradiction that is the European Parliament's (and 'Puppet Papademos') …
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The Moderate Voice and National Review

Payroll tax deal would take first real bite from Obama's health law — The payroll tax cut package under discussion in Congress would take the first real bite out of President Obama's healthcare reform law, according to congressional aides and lobbyists. — A tentative deal struck late …
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Firedoglake and Washington Post
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Paul Ryan has ‘problem’ with GOP payroll tax cut deal
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ThinkProgress and The Maddow Blog

Staggering: Obama to Cut Nukes by 80% — RUSH: There are some things happening today that are downright scary. The regime, led by Barack Hussein Obama, is weighing options for reducing our US nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80% in the number of deployed warheads, 80%.
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The Gateway Pundit and DailyRushbo.com
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Newt Gingrich: The most disliked politician in America — Newt Gingrich hasn't just fallen in the GOP presidential race; he may be the most unpopular person in American politics right now. — Two new polls out this week show the former House speaker with an absolutely atrocious favorability rating.
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Hot Air, NewsBusters.org, The Caucus, Salon.com, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and The Moderate Voice
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Can money stop Rick Santorum?
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Campaign Stops, Hot Air, News Desk, The Hill, The Spectacle Blog, Wake up America and GOP 12


Iran helping al Qaeda plot attack on West, intelligence sources say — LONDON — Iran and al Qaeda's core leadership under Ayman al Zawahiri have established an operational relationship amid fears the terror group is planning an attack against the West. — There are concerns such an attack …
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The Long War Journal and The Jawa Report


Media Matters tax-exempt status may face new scrutiny from Congress — Congressional Republicans are now interested in examining the Media Matters For America's tax-exempt status, The Daily Caller has learned. Doing so would cause the GOP to wade into the complex world of tax laws that govern …
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TheDC top ten: Interesting nuggets from Media Matters' 2010 tax records
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Klein Online, Hot Air, Poynter, The PJ Tatler, nation.foxnews.com, Right Wing News, Mediaite and UrbanGrounds, more at Mediagazer »

Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners — TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.
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The Raw Story and US Politics

PolitiFact responds to Rachel Maddow — Rachel Maddow made yet another stinging attack on PolitiFact last night, calling the Tampa Bay Times' fact-checking project “a disaster” (see video). — Via email, PolitiFact editor and Tampa Bay Times Washington bureau chief Bill Adair responds to the criticism:
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Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »
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A majority of Americans are conservative, Marco Rubio says
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Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and The Raw Story