memeorandum: Santorum Unloads On “Occupier” Romney (Zeke Miller/Politics)

11:20 PM ET, February 25, 2012

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Kyle Whitmire / Second Front:

Poll: Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way — With Alabama's March 13 primary looking more and more important, Rick Santorum leads the rest of the Republican field in a poll conducted by Alabama State University. Santorum leads with 28 percent of likely GOP primary voters …

Discussion: BuzzFeed

McKay Coppins / Politics:

Mitt Romney's Wife Won't Let Him Debate Anymore — “He's just going to sit in the audience and watch me.” — Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, campaigns at the Saginaw County Lincoln Day Breakfast in Saginaw, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012.

Discussion: The Raw Story

Jonathan Martin / Politico:

Santorum slashes Romney — Stepping up his assault on Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum delivered a slashing speech Saturday morning that portrayed the establishment favorite as an elitist and unreliable conservative. — Santorum, appearing before over a thousand conservative activists gathered …

Discussion: Ballot Box, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN and The Other McCain

Zeke Miller / Politics:

Santorum Unloads On “Occupier” Romney — “He doesn't understand how America works any more than Barack Obama understands how America works.” Fighting, and complaining, he says Ron Paul is “no conservative.” — Nuns from the Dominican Sisters of Mary order, from Ann Arbor …

Discussion: US Politics, The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air

WSB-TV:
Poll: Gingrich holds commanding lead in Georgia

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ZIP / Weasel Zippers:

Obama Hires Academy Award Winning Filmmaker To Direct A Movie About . . . Barack Obama... Even better: The man Obama hired was the director behind Al Gore's fairytale, “An Inconvenient Truth.” — Via Politico:

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Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:

Obama Enlists Guggenheim for Campaign Film — With Hollywood gathering this weekend for the 84th Academy Awards, President Barack Obama has recruited Oscar-winning documentary director Davis Guggenheim to again produce a short film for his campaign. — Obama's re-election staff …

Discussion: Politico and The Lonely Conservative

Michael Ledeen / Wall Street Journal:

Santorum Was Right About Iran—When It Was Unpopular — A grandfather who fled Mussolini taught him to prize freedom. — Rick Santorum doesn't fit any of the stereotypes of current foreign-policy ideologies. He's too idealistic to be a “realist,” too conservative and too religious to be a …

Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Spectacle Blog

Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Officers Killed in Kabul Shooting — KABUL—Two high-ranking U.S. military advisers were killed Saturday during a clash with an Afghan national at Afghanistan's Interior Ministry headquarters, according to Afghan and Western officials. — An American colonel and major were both found shot …

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Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
2 American officers killed in Afghan ministry

Discussion: Wake up America and Jihad Watch

Steven F. Hayward / Weekly Standard:

Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning — Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs. — The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics …

Discussion: TBogg, Ed Driscoll, Wizbang and Power Line

John Heilemann / New York Magazine:

The Lost Party — The strangest primary season in memory reveals a GOP that's tearing itself apart. — On a biting, brittle mid-February morning 30 miles north of Detroit, Rick Santorum plants his flag in a patch of turf as politically fertile as exists in these United States.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Fars News Agency:

Commander Views US Helplessness as Root Cause of Quran Burning by American Soldiers — TEHRAN (FNA)- A top Iranian military commander said the US helplessness in the confrontation against Islam is the real cause underlying the burning of the Muslims' Holy Book by American soldiers in Afghanistan …

Discussion: Maggie's Farm, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

Fars News Agency:
OIC Condemns Quran Burning by US Troops in Afghanistan

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs and The Gateway Pundit

Daily Mail:

Insult to WWII heroes: Graves of British troops smashed and desecrated by Libyan Islamists in protest over U.S. soldiers' Koran burning — A furious mob has desecrated dozens of Commonwealth War Graves in a Libyan cemetery amid continuing fury in the Middle East over the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers.

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The White House:

WEEKLY ADDRESS: An All-Of-The-Above Approach to American Energy — WASHINGTON, DC—In this week's address, President Obama spoke to the American people about the importance of taking an all-of-the-above approach to addressing our nation's energy challenges.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Stop The ACLU