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Peter H. Gleick / The Huffington Post:
The Origin of the Heartland Documents — Climate Change , Global Warming , Heartland Institute , Heartland Institute Leaked Documents , Green News — Since the release in mid-February of a series of documents related to the internal strategy of the Heartland Institute to cast doubt on climate science …
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining Heartland Climate Files — Peter H. Gleick, a water and climate analyst who has been studying aspects of global warming for more than two decades, in recent years became an aggressive critic of organizations and individuals casting doubt …
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Steven Bertoni / Lists:
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Says He Might Give $100M To Newt Gingrich Or Other Republican — This story is part of a larger profile appearing in the March 12th, 2012 issue of FORBES magazine. The complete cover story will appear online beginning Wednesday, February 22nd.
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Politico, Washington Monthly, Ballot Box, DownWithTyranny! and Political Insider
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Santorum Expands Lead, but Romney Gets Electability Vote — Fifty-eight percent of Republicans say Romney has best chance to beat Obama — PRINCETON, NJ — Rick Santorum now holds a 10-percentage-point lead in Gallup's Daily tracking of national Republicans registered voters' preferences for the 2012 GOP nomination.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Republican voters oppose a ‘brokered’ convention — WASHINGTON - While most Republicans wish they had different choices in the party's presidential field, a nationwide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds overwhelming resistance to the idea of an old-styled brokered convention that would pick some new contender as the nominee.
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T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
Study: Negative campaign ads much more frequent, vicious than in primaries past
Study: Negative campaign ads much more frequent, vicious than in primaries past
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ABCNEWS, ThinkProgress, USA Today, Politico, Wall Street Journal and Ballot Box
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
In Michigan, Momentum for Romney?
In Michigan, Momentum for Romney?
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SoonerPoll:
Tulsa World: Poll shows state Republicans favor Santorum
Tulsa World: Poll shows state Republicans favor Santorum
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Washington Post, Nice Deb, The Texas Tribune, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and Rick Santorum for President
Mary Beth Schneider / IndyStar Bloggers:
Gov. Daniels Says Won't Reconsider Presidential Run
Gov. Daniels Says Won't Reconsider Presidential Run
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Washington Post and Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney lead small in Arizona
Romney lead small in Arizona
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GOP 12, weaskamerica.com, Politico and Hot Air
Felix Salmon:
The improbable Greece plan — Greece is now officially a ward of the international community. It has no real independence when it comes to fiscal policy any more, and if everything goes according to plan, it's not going to have any independence for many, many years to come.
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National Review and Paul Krugman
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Wall Street Journal:
Europe Reaches a Greek Deal — BRUSSELS—Euro-zone finance ministers early Tuesday agreed to an ambitious €130 billion ($172.1 billion) rescue deal that will see Greece's private creditors take an even larger loss in order to put the debt-laden country on a sustainable footing and avert a catastrophic default.
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Reuters:
Europe seals new Greek bailout to avert default
Europe seals new Greek bailout to avert default
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Europe Agrees on New Bailout to Help Greece Avoid Default
Europe Agrees on New Bailout to Help Greece Avoid Default
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Saul Loeb / ABCNEWS:
January Fundraising: Campaigns and Super PACs, Side by Side — And the winner of January's presidential campaign fundraising contest is ... President Obama, whose campaign took in $11.83 million last month. — The pro-Newt-Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future took a close second.
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Politico:
Pro-Rick Santorum PAC picks up another mega-donor — The super PAC supporting Rick Santorum's presidential campaign pulled in $2.1 million in January - half of which came from a relatively low-profile Louisiana energy executive, according to a report filed Monday evening with the Federal Election Commission.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Protest of Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound Bill in Virginia Leads to Delay — Hundreds join silent protest against Virginia bill to legalize forced trans-vaginal examinations (Photo via The Shad Plank) — The Virginia abortion bill, which would mandate that the women seeking an abortion …
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Olympia Meola / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Poll finds most Virginians oppose changes in abortion, gun laws
Poll finds most Virginians oppose changes in abortion, gun laws
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Wesley P. Hester / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Hundreds at Capitol for women's rights rally
Hundreds at Capitol for women's rights rally
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Firedoglake, Daily Kos and Sister Toldjah
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court to decide on right to lie about military honors — Justices will take up the case of Xavier Alvarez, who falsely told a California water board meeting that he had received the Medal of Honor. — Mary and Chuck Schantag stand in front of a banner listing the names of people …
Simone Sebastian / Houston Chronicle:
U.S. oil gusher blows out projections — The United States' rapidly declining crude oil supply has made a stunning about-face, shredding federal oil projections and putting energy independence in sight of some analyst forecasts. — After declining to levels not seen since the 1940s, U.S. crude production began rising again in 2009.
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KPLC-TV:
Santorum's controversial comments meet criticism … Rick Santorum is leading the polls, but making waves with comments over the weekend. (Source: NBC) … NEW YORK (NBC) - Santorum's pitched himself as the most conservative candidate in this race, but critics argue his comments this weekend went over the line.
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum denies Hitler-Obama comparison
Santorum denies Hitler-Obama comparison
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Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Court action could prolong health care fight — WASHINGTON - Next month's challenge to the Obama-sponsored health care law could affect the care available to most Americans, alter the balance of power between Washington and the states and remain a flash point through this presidential campaign.
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David Weigel / Slate:
My Candidate Ate Here — There are so many serious factoids to pull out of the four remaining Republicans' FEC reports. Here's an unserious one. Below, the restaurants or food-selling establishments patronized by the campaigns in January. We can break them down into two neat categories.
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Santorum aide ties Obama to Islam — Rick Santorum's spokeswoman Alice Stewart said in a TV interview on Monday that Santorum was referring to President Barack Obama's “radical Islamic policies” when he said the president's agenda was driven by “phony theology” — but then quickly called …
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