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Santorum says Obama agenda not “based on Bible” — COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Barack Obama's Christian beliefs on Saturday, saying White House policies were motivated by a “different theology.”
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Obama trails three of four Republican candidates in latest Iowa Poll — © Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. — President Barack Obama trails three of the four Republican candidates in head-to-head match-ups if the election were held today, according to a new Iowa Poll.
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Ron Paul gains votes in delayed Maine caucus, but Romney keeps lead — GOP hopeful Mitt Romney held on to his lead in Maine's caucuses Saturday after votes postponed by bad weather were finally tallied. — Ron Paul gained 83 votes on Romney following the caucus in Washington county …
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Poll shows Obama trailing three GOP challengers in Iowa — A new poll shows President Barack Obama trailing three of the four GOP presidential candidates in the key swing state of Iowa. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads Obama by 46 percent support to 44 percent among likely Hawkeye state voters in the latest Iowa poll.
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David Catanese / Politico:
Babeu comes out, denies allegations — Arizona GOP congressional candidate Paul Babeu acknowledged Saturday he is gay but forcefully denied charges he threatened an ex-lover with deportation after their relationship soured. — “All of the allegations are false except one, I am gay,” Babeu said.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Sunday Morning Layup Drill — ‘Hope and Change’ is sooo 208 - Team Obama is looking for a new slogan for 2012: — WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Winning The Future. Greater Together. We Don't Quit. — They may not be official but those are all phrases that could in one form or another …
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Jeff Mason / Reuters:
RPT-Obama's slogan: looking to replace Hope and Change
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gingrich: Romney will be ‘badly weakened’ if he loses Michigan — Newt Gingrich said Sunday that rival Mitt Romney's campaign would be “very badly weakened” by a loss in the Feb. 28 Michigan primary and dismissed the idea - floated by some conservatives concerned about the GOP field's performance …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion — AMID the sound and fury of the latest culture-war battles — first over breast cancer dollars and Planned Parenthood, and then over the White House's attempt to require that religious employers cover contraception and potential abortifacients …
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Washington Monthly and Rod Dreher
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Today's Worst Person in the World — By informing consumers, he is of course referring to the Virginia bill requiring women to be vaginally probed against their will before electing to have an abortion. — Because, you know, most of those “consumers” were “uninformed” as to what was in there.
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Peter Allen / Telegraph:
Hitler had son with French teen — Adolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, according to new evidence. — Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went on to fight Nazi forces during the Second World War.
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Washington Memo: Supreme Court Justices Remain Security Exceptions — When Justice Stephen G. Breyer was robbed in his Caribbean vacation home 10 days ago, the crime was unremarkable except for one fact: a machete-wielding intruder was able to walk right into the residence of one of the highest members of the United States government.
Joanne Kenen / Politico:
2012: The year of ‘birth control moms’? — First came the soccer moms. — Then the security moms. — Will 2012 be the year of the “birth control moms”? — Just a few weeks ago, the notion would have seemed far-fetched. The country is deeply divided on abortion, but not on contraception …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Death Threats? Ho Hum! — Sometimes I miss the good old days-what was it, a year ago?-when liberals were in favor of civility. Remember when talking about “targeting” a Congressional district could get you accused of murder? Things were a lot more genteel back in 2011.
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