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Reuters:
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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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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Scared Monkeys and HotAirPundit
Des Moines Register:
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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Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hit & Run, Washington Post and Taegan Goddard's …
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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Outside the Beltway
Tim Eaton / Austin American-Statesman:
Protesters in Austin try to clog pipeline proposal, support North Texas landowner — Private property rights advocates rallied Friday in Austin in support of a Northeast Texas landowner who was in court in Paris to defend the taking of her land by pipeline company TransCanada Corp.
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Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Texans rally against Keystone XL oil pipeline easement — Eddy Radillo was among dozens of Texans who rallied outside the Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, Texas, against plans to condemn land for an easement for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. (Sam Craft/The Paris News)
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ThinkProgress
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 …
Paul Krugman:
Austerity and Growth — Or, actually, shrinkage. — Watching Europe sink into recession - and Greece plunge into the abyss - I found myself wondering what it would take to convince the chattering classes that austerity in the face of an already depressed economy is a terrible idea.
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Brad DeLong
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
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Voting Rights Act under siege — In a political system where even the most trivial issues trigger partisan rancor, the Voting Rights Act has stood for several decades as a rare point of bipartisan consensus. — Until now. — An intensifying conservative legal assault on the Voting Rights Act …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 — He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there. — He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, spray and sinew, and the history-making chance …
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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Israel Matzav
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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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hullabaloo, Right Wing News, ABCNEWS and Washington Post
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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Washington Monthly, State of the Union and Althouse
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