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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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BBC:
Afghanistan Nato officers shot dead in Kabul ministry
Afghanistan Nato officers shot dead in Kabul ministry
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Weasel Zippers, Verum Serum, Marathon Pundit, Campaign 2012 and americanthinker.com
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
2 American officers killed in Afghan ministry
2 American officers killed in Afghan ministry
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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 …
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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.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Dem Rep booed by constituents over HHS mandate — “We were taking care of this country's sick long before the government got involved in it.” — Rep. Kathy Hochul expected to get some questions on the economy and on gas prices when she met with constituents in New York's 26th Congressional district last night.
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Wizbang and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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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.
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The Gateway Pundit and Stop The ACLU
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sen. Hutchison hits Obama on job growth, high gas prices
Sen. Hutchison hits Obama on job growth, high gas prices
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Politico, The Hill and his vorpal sword