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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Romney speech falls flat in Detroit — Mitt Romney spoke to several empty seats Friday in Detroit, in a speech that offered Democrats more fodder for their attacks and failed to deliver the major economic address his campaign promised. — Television cameras showed rows of empty chairs …
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Carlos Osorio / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney's Ford Field Fumble? — ABC News' David Muir, Michael Falcone and Emily Friedman report: — DETROIT - Standing on the 30-yard line of Detroit's Ford Field, Mitt Romney delivered what was billed as a major economic speech before a crowd of about 1,200 supporters on Friday.
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Boasts: He Has Not One, But Four, American Cars — He also thinks Michigan's trees are “just the right height.” — (Original Photo Source: Getty Images) — DETROIT, Michigan—Mitt Romney addressed the Detroit Economic Club today and proved once again why he's hard to relate to.
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Gawker, The Daily Caller, National Review and Guardian
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney: Wife Ann drives ‘a couple of Cadillacs’
Mitt Romney: Wife Ann drives ‘a couple of Cadillacs’
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Daily Kos, Firedoglake and Wake up America
John Celock / The Huffington Post:
David Albo, Virginia Lawmaker, Says Wife Wouldn't Have Sex Because Of Transvaginal Ultrasound Bill — Virginia's controversial transvaginal ultrasound bill hit one Republican lawmaker close to home. In the bedroom, to be precise. He said a fellow lawmaker's television discussion of the bill cost him sex with his wife.
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Mediaite, Wonkette and Firedoglake
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Newt OK with gay marriage referenda — With same-sex marriage laws passing in Maryland and Washington state and New Jersey headed for a fall referendum on the issue, Newt Gingrich said at the Washington state capitol this morning that he's basically comfortable with states enacting gay marriage laws by popular vote.
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Gregoire: Obama the ‘inspiration’ on gay marriage
Gregoire: Obama the ‘inspiration’ on gay marriage
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Weasel Zippers, CNN and ThinkProgress
Ian Duncan / Los Angeles Times:
Maryland Republican: Meeting gay couples left me ‘changed person’
Maryland Republican: Meeting gay couples left me ‘changed person’
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Firedoglake, Towleroad News #gay and Prop 8 Trial Tracker
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Romney Takes Michigan Forecast Lead — On Thursday, I warned you to be cautious about assuming that Mitt Romney had retaken the lead from Rick Santorum in Michigan until we saw some concrete evidence for it. Today, it looks like we have some. — A new Rasmussen Reports poll of Michigan gives …
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News Desk, Ballot Box, The Spectacle Blog, GOP 12 and Hot Air
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Tim Mak / Politico:
Arlen Specter: Rick Santorum ‘so far to the right’
Arlen Specter: Rick Santorum ‘so far to the right’
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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, PhillyNow, PennLive.com, CNN and On Top Magazine Headlines
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Santorum Swings Hard At Romney, Says His Team Is ‘All Democrats’
Santorum Swings Hard At Romney, Says His Team Is ‘All Democrats’
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Daily Kos
Kyle Leighton / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Why Mitt Romney Might Be Even Weaker Than You Think
TPM2012 — Why Mitt Romney Might Be Even Weaker Than You Think
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Obama Diary
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
American Muslim Judge Who Imposed Sharia in Pennsylvania Court Threatens to Jail Infidel Victim for Blasphemy — releasing recorded audio of the case — Infidel victim, Ernest Perce, has received 471 verifiable threats. … This is why we must have sharia legislation in America.
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Jihad Watch
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania — the Transcript — I have made a transcript of the Pennsylvania case in which state judge Mark Martin, a Muslim convert and U.S. Army reservist who served in Iraq, relied on a sharia law defense (as well as some evidentiary contortions) …
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Hot Air, Power Line, Patterico's Pontifications and PoliPundit.com
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania
The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania
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Verum Serum, Sister Toldjah, The American Conservative, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, Cold Fury and Pirate's Cove
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
‘Right Wing Lice’ — Bigoted and hateful rhetoric from a New York Times columnist. — A month ago, Charles Blow of the New York Times blocked this columnist on Twitter in reaction to our pointing out that one of his tweets was fallacious. The Blow tweet in that incident was racially charged but offensive only to logic.
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Mail Online, Mediaite, Hot Air, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney's Stadium Speech Today Dwarfed By Obama Stadium Speech In 2008 — At this very moment, Mitt Romney is holding an event at Ford Stadium which has failed to attract enough people to come even close to filling it up (in fact, you could fit Romney's 1,200 person crowd in the 65,000-seat stadium 54 times over).
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Guardian, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, The Impolitic, The Atlantic Online and Doug Ross
KochFacts.com:
A Letter to the Obama Campaign — Dear Mr. Messina: — Because every American has the right to take part in the public discourse on matters that affect the future of our country, I feel compelled to respond directly about a fundraising letter you sent out on February 24 denouncing Koch.
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Hot Air and The Atlantic Online
Jammie Wearing Fools:
Pelosi 2008: Bush to Blame for High Gas Prices; Pelosi 2012: Wall Street to Blame for High Gas Prices — Obviously the Democrats are worried their golden boy will be taking heat for skyrocketing gas prices so this week they've gone on the offensive. Their diversionary tactics …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Reuters:
Rick Santorum speaks at super PAC fundraiser — Rick Santorum on Thursday afternoon slipped away from the campaign trail to speak to a fundraiser for a supportive super PAC, despite denying previous reports that he planned to do so. — The fundraiser drew between 20 and 25 donors …
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The Moderate Voice and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: State Department quietly warning region on Syrian WMDs — The State Department has begun coordinating with Syria's neighbors to prepare for the handling of President Bashar al-Assad's extensive weapons of mass destruction if and when his regime collapses, The Cable has learned.
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msnbc.com, Hot Air, New York Times, Weasel Zippers, Guardian and Taylor Marsh
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Karen Santorum: husband's presidential run is 'God's will' — Rick Santorum's wife granted a rare interview Thursday, telling conservative talk show host Glenn Beck that she initially had been against her husband running for president but finally concluded it was “God's will.”
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Hot Air, The Raw Story, Los Angeles Times, Shakesville and Althouse
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Karen Santorum: Husband's surge 'is God's will'
Karen Santorum: Husband's surge 'is God's will'
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The Gateway Pundit and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Did Jeb Bush Actually Say That? — We may be reaching critical mass in the belief that this pathetic field of Republican candidates has jumped the shark...even many Republicans have come to that conclusion. Politico today cites several sources that Jeb Bush said this during a post-speech question …
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CBS Dallas, The Moderate Voice, The Lonely Conservative, Politico and Weasel Zippers
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Democratic governors discuss bypassing Congress with Obama — President Obama met with a group of Democratic governors on Friday and discussed plans to work around Congress toward policy goals. — Gov. Jack Markell, the Democratic governor of Delaware and the vice chairman …
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Weasel Zippers, Politico and The Lonely Conservative
Elizabeth Warren / The Boston Globe:
Denying women coverage under any guise is a big step backward — MAYBE YOU saw the pictures. Five middle-age men seated at a congressional hearing table to discuss freedom of religion and contraception. And not a single woman was on the panel. Unbelievable.
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Seven states sue over contraception mandate
Seven states sue over contraception mandate
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The Maddow Blog and Jammie Wearing Fools