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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying — This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration's …
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Tom Shine Serena Marshall / ABCNEWS:
All Male Contraception Panel Criticized — A Capitol Hill hearing that was supposed to be about religious freedom and a mandate that health insurers cover contraception in the United States began as an argument about whether Democrats could add a woman to the all-male panel.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Darrell Issa Compares His All-Male Anti-Contraception Panel To Martin Luther King — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has been catching flack for holding a panel today relating to women's access to birth control that featured zero women, but Issa won't let the fact …
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J. Lester Feder / Politico:
Female Dems walk out of House contraceptive panel
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Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
Catholic Bishops Fight Contraception Rule at House Hearing
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
House Democrats Walk Out Of One-Sided Hearing On Contraception, Calling It An ‘Autocratic Regime’
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Pelosi blasts dearth of women at contraceptives hearing: ‘Duh’
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Cheyenne Steel / oversight.house.gov:
Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement
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CNN:
Romney, Paul decline debate invite — (CNN) - Mitt Romney and Ron Paul told the Georgia Republican Party, Ohio Republican Party and CNN Thursday that they will not participate in the March 1 Republican presidential primary debate. — “Mitt Romney and Ron Paul told the Georgia Republican Party …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Campaign Weighs Santorum — President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has begun discussing whether to attack Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and try to define him for a general-election audience, potentially breaking from its focus on Mitt Romney.
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Hot Air
Jeremy Lin / Associated Press:
Santorum's federal tax returns show his wealth has risen rapidly since Senate defeat in 2006
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Rasmussen Reports:
Ohio GOP Primary: Santorum 42%, Romney 24%
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Final pre-Super Tuesday debate falls apart
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum tops new poll in Michigan
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Santorum Supporter Stuns Andrea Mitchell With Memories Of How ‘The Gals’ Used Bayer Aspirin As Contraception — Foster Freiss, the very wealthy business man backing Rick Santorum's campaign efforts, appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports Thursday afternoon, where host Andrea Mitchell asked …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Wow, Did Foster Friess Really Say That? (Updated) — Foster Friess, the conservative financier behind Rick Santorum's super-PAC, was on MSNBC's “Andrea Mitchell Reports” a few minutes ago. Mitchell asked him whether he was concerned about Santorum's stands on social issues, and their potential to alienate voters.
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Religion Dispatches, Mediaite and Little Green Footballs
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Sugar Daddy Foster Friess Gives ‘Gals’ Contraception Advice: Put An Aspirin Between Your Knees — Appearing of MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell today, Foster Friess, the main donor to the Super PAC backing Rick Santorum's presidential bid, dismissed the controversy surrounding President Obama's …
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Kyle Leighton / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Santorum Funder Friess: ‘Gals’ Used To Put Aspirin Between Their Knees For Contraception — This whole contraception debate is just so new-fangled, says billionaire investor and mega-funder to the super PAC supporting former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) for President, Foster Friess.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Santorum super-PAC backer: Women ‘used Bayer aspirin for contraception’
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Tim Mak / Politico:
The Colbert Report suspended temporarily — The late-night comedy program hosted by Stephen Colbert will suspend production for at least two days this week, POLITICO has confirmed. — The Colbert Report, the home of relentless parodying of super PACs and the campaign finance system …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Colbert Report Suspends Production For The Week, Reasons Unknown (Updated)
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Sam Schechner / Speakeasy:
Stephen Colbert Suspends Production of His Show
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Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
THE NON-PROCREATIVE FUNCTIONS OF SEX: “If you're interested in the stability of families, then you should also be a fan of non-procreative sex (which, let's face it, is going to be a majority of sex any couple engages in, even if they're choosing to forgo birth control).
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Rush Limbaugh and The Other McCain
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
To infinity and beyond! This is the debt chart Obama and Geithner should be ashamed of — Testifying before the House Budget Committee today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told Chairman Paul Ryan the following: “We're not coming before you to say we have a definitive solution to that long-term problem.
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Jeff Davis / National Post:
Quebec outrage as Tories celebrate long-gun registry vote with cocktail party — Public Safety Minister Vic Toews speaks in the Commons on Wednesday. He later went to a cocktail party on Parliament Hill celebrating the gun-registry vote. — OTTAWA — The Harper government's controversial bill …
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
Victoria Jackson At CPAC: Former SNL Star On Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, GOP Candidates … LGBT Rights , Republican Party , Cpac , Gay Rights , Republicans , Video , Cpac 2012 , Victoria Jackson , Gay Voices News — “I'm here to save America from communism,” the former “Saturday Night Live” …
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Patrick J. Buchanan / The American Conservative:
Blacklisted, But Not Beaten — My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. — After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh backs Chris Christie's Whitney Houston flag tribute — Rush Limbaugh defended New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's plan to order flags in his state to be flown at half-staff on the day of the late singer Whitney Houston's funeral, as he briefly dipped his toes in the world of entertainment on his radio show Thursday.
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Celebrity Circuit / CBS News:
Whitney Houston: N.J. governor defends lowering flags for singer
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Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
How Companies Learn Your Secrets — Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn't want us to know, can you do that? ”
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Democracy Corps:
New Phase and Shifting Balance — The latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women's Voices. Women Vote Action Fund shows a Republican Party in deepening trouble and emerging underlying trends that may have shifted the balance for 2012.
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Daily Kos, Taegan Goddard's … and Balloon Juice
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Long Slog: Projecting the Republican Race Through June — Had evangelical Christians had their way in 2006's Pennsylvania Senate election, then-Sen. Rick Santorum (R) would have been reelected in a landslide: among the quarter of the electorate that identified themselves as such, Santorum won 59% to 41%.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Half oppose Obama birth control insurance plan — Washington (CNN) - Half of all Americans say they oppose the Obama administration's new policy concerning employer-provided health insurance plans and their coverage of contraceptive services for female employees including …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Virginia's Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an Abomination — Under the new legislation, women who want an abortion will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason. Where's the outrage? — This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion.
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Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Paul's Delegate Advantage — If you think Rick Santorum won Iowa, Minnesota, and Colorado, you're wrong. — Let me explain: Santorum did win the caucus votes in all those states. But because none of those states have bound delegates, that means the state's delegates to the national convention …
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