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Here's Romney's Plan To Take Out Santorum — A brutal, two-front attack from the campaign and the SuperPAC. “The expectation is that Santorum, just given his personality, is going to whine like crazy,” said a Romney advisor — Santorum at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Going After Rick — America is going bankrupt, Iran is going nuclear, the Obama administration is going after religious liberty. And Mitt Romney is going after Rick Santorum. — Which is fine (sort of). Romney's in a political fight, and politics ain't beanbag, as Romney has tried to say.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Obama holds edge over GOP hopefuls — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — President Obama holds a significant lead over each of his potential Republican opponents in the general election …
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Santorum aide: Romney's money focus ‘deeply offensive’ — One of Rick Santorum's senior strategists lashed out at Mitt Romney's focus on the air wars Wednesday, arguing that if the race comes down to money and negative ads, the other candidates should throw in the towel.
Gene Healy / Reason:
Santorum Is Severely Wrong
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
White House issues veto threat for House transportation bill — The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a wide-ranging transportation package from House Republicans. — The administration raised concerns about a provision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, and argued …
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Lawmakers get tentative deal on payroll tax, jobless benefits
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Washington Post:
Congressional negotiators reach tentative deal on payroll tax, unemployment benefits
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell staying at arm's length
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ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Tentative Deal Reached to Preserve Cut in Payroll Tax
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Mediaite, The Hill, The Maddow Blog, Campaign 2012 and Daily Kos
Sara Burrows / Carolina Journal Online:
Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets” — State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead — RAEFORD — A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Nanny state report: NC school officials confiscate preschooler's homemade lunch
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americanthinker.com and The Gateway Pundit
Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:
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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Meredith Dake / Breitbart.tv:
Dershowitz: I Won't Vote For Obama If Associated With ‘Stalinist Bigots’ Media Matters
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
TheDC top ten: Interesting nuggets from Media Matters' 2010 tax records
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Maggie Fox / NationalJournal.com:
Reid to Allow Vote on Rescinding Contraception Rule — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., relented on Tuesday and now says he'll allow a Senate vote on an amendment that would reverse the White House's controversial requirement that all insurers provide birth control free of charge to women.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Birth Control Amendment ‘Dangerous,’ Obama Spokesman Says
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Reid will allow vote on repeal of administration's birth control mandate
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Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Pelosi Supports 2012 Democratic Party Platform Including Marriage Equality — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the 2012 Democratic Party platform including, for the first time, language in full support of marriage equality, her spokesman told Metro Weekly on Tuesday evening, Feb. 14.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Pelosi: Democratic Party Should Come Out For Full Marriage Equality
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The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
Health Costs, Gov't Regulations Curb Small Business Hiring — Nearly half of small-business owners name these issues — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. small-business owners who aren't hiring — 85% of those surveyed — are most likely to say the reasons they are not doing so include …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Boehner delays highway bill vote — Speaker John Boehner is delaying a vote on the $260 billion transportation bill that was scheduled this week. — Boehner (R-Ohio) told his conference Wednesday morning that it was “more important that we do it right than that we do it fast” …
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Brendan DeMelle / DeSmogBlog:
Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine — Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart of the climate denial machine - its current plans, many of its funders, and details that confirm …
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Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich's Main Backer Plays Two Angles — Casino Mogul Adelson Weighs New Funding to Boost Former Speaker and to Help Romney Keep Santorum at Bay — Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, by far the biggest financial backer of Newt Gingrich's presidential bid, is preparing to open his wallet again.
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The Hill, ABCNEWS, Politico, ThinkProgress and Taegan Goddard's …
Investor's Business Daily:
Why Do Democrats Want to Protect Voter Fraud? — Suffrage: A new study finds that nearly 2 million dead people remain on voter registration rolls. So tell us again why Democrats oppose voter ID laws that would help prevent these errant registrations from being exploited?
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UrbanGrounds
msnbc.com:
Chavez allies attack new opponent Capriles as Jewish, gay — Venezuelan presidential hopeful Henrique Capriles, seen at a rally in La Guaira Jan. 27, has been attacked over his sexuality, Jewish ancestry and his selection as opposition candidate. — Allies of President Hugo Chavez …
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Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
FCC moves to kill LightSquared over GPS interference concerns — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to reject LightSquared's planned wireless network on Tuesday after the president's top adviser on telecom issues said there is “no practical way” to prevent the network from disrupting GPS devices.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
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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Stephen Pollard / Telegraph:
For once, Richard Dawkins is lost for words — Atheists' arrogance is their Achilles' heel, as a cringemaking radio performance has proved. — Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, has made an exceptional contribution to public life — Which of us hasn't groaned when the Rev Giles Fraser …
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