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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Team Santorum: U.S. is with Rick on devil belief — MESA, Ariz. — Some of Rick Santorum's advisers are frustrated and angry that reporters are focusing more on their candidate's statements about Satan than on his positions on the issues. Here in Arizona Tuesday, Santorum faced repeated questioning …
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Sara Murray / Washington Wire:
Recap: The CNN Republican Presidential Debate in Arizona — In what could be the final Republican debate, Mitt Romney delivered a sharp performance that could help his odds as he faces closer-than-anticipated contests in Arizona and Michigan on Tuesday. … For Rick Santorum, the debate could hurt his front-runner status.
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New York Times, Reuters and The Moderate Voice
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama ties Romney with Arizona — Arizona is a great microcosm of how Barack Obama's reelection prospects have improved over the last 3 months. When we polled there in November his approval numbers were atrocious and his prospects for winning the state in the general election didn't look very good.
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Josh Lederman / The Hill:
Romney, Santorum rip into one another at pivotal GOP debate — MESA, Ariz. — Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum ripped into one another at Wednesday night's GOP presidential debate in their last joint appearance before a chain of make-or-break contests. — Romney was helped out in his attacks …
Chuck Stokes / WXYZ-TV:
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Santorum leads Romney in close Michigan Republican Presidential Primary race
Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Alan Simpson: Rick Santorum Is ‘Rigid And A Homophobic’
Alan Simpson: Rick Santorum Is ‘Rigid And A Homophobic’
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Mediaite, CBS News, Politico, Addicting Info, Human Rights Campaign and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
CNN:
Polls indicate Romney on the rise in Arizona
Polls indicate Romney on the rise in Arizona
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Politico, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, The Hill and Hot Air
Irin Carmon / Salon:
A pro-choice win in Virginia, assisted by “Saturday Night Live” — The Virginia governor backs off a forced-ultrasound bill in the face of pro-choice — and pop culture — outrage — Something incredible just happened. Faced with a growing national outcry against a bill forcing an ultrasound …
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Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia governor no longer fully supports ultrasounds before abortions — RICHMOND — Gov. Robert F. McDonnell is backing off his unconditional support for a bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, focusing new attention on one of the most controversial pieces …
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Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia House amends abortion bill to say no woman will have to undergo involuntary internal ultrasound
Virginia House amends abortion bill to say no woman will have to undergo involuntary internal ultrasound
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
McDonnell comes out against invasive ultrasound mandate (UPDATED)
McDonnell comes out against invasive ultrasound mandate (UPDATED)
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Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia Republicans look to amend ultrasound bill
Virginia Republicans look to amend ultrasound bill
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Virginia House passes controversial anti-abortion bill
Virginia House passes controversial anti-abortion bill
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Bush Appointee Finds DOMA Unconstitutional — Moments ago, Judge Jeffery White of the District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the Constitution's equal protection clause in a case brought by Karen Golinski.
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Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
BREAKING: DOMA's Federal Definition of Marriage Unconstitutional, Judge Rules in Golinski Case — Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued its order finding that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act — the federal definition of marriage …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Another court finds Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional — Another federal judge has found unconstitutional a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law which forbids providing federal government benefits to same-sex spouses. — U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White …
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DeSmogBlog:
Evaluation shows “Faked” Heartland Climate Strategy Memo is Authentic — A line-by-line evaluation of the Climate Strategy memo, which the Heartland Institute has repeatedly denounced as a “fake” shows no “obvious and gross misstatements of fact,” as Heartland has alleged.
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Washington Post:
Climate scientist admits duping skeptic group to obtain documents — Heartland Institute president Joseph L. Bast, who described one of the documents the DeSmog Blog had posted as a “forged memo,” issued a statement Monday saying his group is considering legal action. — “Gleick's crime was a serious one,” Bast wrote.
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ThinkProgress and JunkScience.com
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax
Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
No shovel for Obama — It was a rather odd sight: as an array of museum officials, including former first lady Laura Bush, took up shovels at the groundbreaking for the first national museum dedicated exclusively to African-American history and culture, the nation's first black president sat watching, no shovel in hand.
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The Hill, The Huffington Post and Weasel Zippers
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Do-Over Season — Is there really a chance that the Supreme Court might reconsider Citizens United? — A week ago, I wouldn't have thought so, and I still think it's an extreme long shot. But a provocative statement last Friday by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer makes …
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Nikki Finke / Deadline.com/hollywood:
SACHA BARON COHEN BANNED FROM OSCARS: EXCLUSIVE — BREAKING... EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen's tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the Oscars even though he is an Academy member …
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Joshua Green / Business Week:
Dow 13,000? Thank Democrats — Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly peaked above 13,000 before dipping at the close. Like all Dow milestones, this one touched off the usual celebration. It may be no coincidence that the market is rising under a Democratic president.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Loses Her Hair Stylist Over Gay Marriage Opposition — An openly-gay hair stylist in New Mexico is protesting Gov. Susana Martinez's (R) opposition to same-sex marriage by refusing to style her hair unless she changes her position on the issue.
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KOB.com:
Hair stylist refuses to cut Gov. Martinez' hair
Hair stylist refuses to cut Gov. Martinez' hair
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Matt Bai / New York Times:
Scott Ritter's Other War — On a February afternoon in 2009, Ryan Venneman, one of only five full-time police officers in tiny Barrett Township, Pa., decided to spend some time hunting for sexual predators online. Venneman entered a Yahoo chat room, where the minimum legal age is supposed be 18 …
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William Saletan / Slate:
The Conversion — How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion. — To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult passage of his political life: how he changed his position on abortion. Not the story he tells about it, but the real story.
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Mitt Romney for President of the United States …:
RESTORE AMERICA'S PROMISE: MORE JOBS, LESS DEBT, SMALLER GOVERNMENT — Increasing economic growth, employment, and incomes is a cornerstone of Mitt Romney's policy agenda. Faster growth creates the jobs and generates the incomes to fund the aspirations of American families …
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Politico:
Contraception coverage fights spread to states — The contraception fight is expanding far beyond Washington, with several states eyeing ways of blocking the new Obama administration rule requiring most insurers cover contraception, or considering rolling back rules that the states themselves already had on the books.
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ABCNEWS:
Haley Barbour Tells ABC News, 'Somebody Else Might Get In" — Could the battle for the Republican nomination go all the way to the Republican convention in August? Could we see an entirely new candidate getting into the race? — One long-time Republican leader tells ABC News the answer to both questions is yes.
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Hot Air and HotAirPundit
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Planned Parenthood Rape Myth Debunked, 99% Do Ultrasounds — Abortion advocates in Virginia have come under heavy criticism for equating the ultrasound legislation there would allow women to see before an abortion to rape. Yet, while abortion backers say having an ultrasound is like getting raped …
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Lisa Daftari / Fox News:
Iran court convicts Christian pastor convert to death — A trial court in Iran has issued its final verdict, ordering a Christian pastor to be put to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, according to sources close to the pastor and his legal team.
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The Daily Caller, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Gannett Building Paywalls Around All Its Papers Except USA Today — The vogue for digital paywalls sweeping the news business has made it all the way to the top: Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, is planning to switch over all of its 80 community newspapers to a paid model …
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