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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Advertiser Sleep Train Pulls Commercials In Wake Of Sandra Fluke ‘Slut’ Firestorm … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke Slut, Rush Limbaugh Sleep Train, Sleep Train, Sleep Train Rush Limbaugh, Slidepollajax, Media News
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Georgetown Student Sandra Fluke Responds To Being Called ‘Slut,’ ‘Prostitute’ By Limbaugh — On Thursday, MSNBC's Ed Schultz conducted an exclusive interview with Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, the woman whom Rush Limbaugh mocked on his radio show earlier that day.
Tim Mak / Politico:
Carly Fiorina: Limbaugh ‘insulting’ — Carly Fiorina, National Republican Senatorial Committee Vice-Chairman, on Friday condemned Rush Limbaugh for calling college student Sandra Fluke a “slut.” — “That language is insulting, in my opinion. It's incendiary and most of all, it's a distraction.
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WPBF West Palm Beach's Channel 25:
Device Sent To Rush Limbaugh ‘A Business Opportunity’
Device Sent To Rush Limbaugh ‘A Business Opportunity’
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Left Freaks Out Over My Fluke Remarks
Left Freaks Out Over My Fluke Remarks
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Democrats urge Boehner to “repudiate” comments by Limbaugh on contraception testimony
Democrats urge Boehner to “repudiate” comments by Limbaugh on contraception testimony
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Quinnipiac University:
Ohio GOP Race Going Down To The Wire, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Santorum At 35% To Romney's 31% — The Republican presidential face-off in Ohio is too close to call as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has 35 percent of likely Republican primary voters to former Massachusetts …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney holds small lead in Washington
Romney holds small lead in Washington
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Santorum: We Have a ‘Guerrilla Campaign’
Santorum: We Have a ‘Guerrilla Campaign’
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Thomas Schaller / Salon:
Same sex, opposite impact — Marriage equality always seemed a losing issue for the left. That's all changed. Just ask Ken Mehlman — Rep. Anne Kaiser, D-Montgomery, an openly gay member of the Maryland General Assembly, holds Natalie Vincent, 10 months, the daughter of a member …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Chris Christie: Marriage Equality Is Not About ‘Gay Rights’
Chris Christie: Marriage Equality Is Not About ‘Gay Rights’
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Annie Linskey / Baltimore Sun:
O'Malley signs same-sex marriage bill
O'Malley signs same-sex marriage bill
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Gov. Martin O'Malley / The Huffington Post:
Dignity: Why I Signed Same-Sex Marriage into Maryland Law
Dignity: Why I Signed Same-Sex Marriage into Maryland Law
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Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
Breitbart's Last Laugh — I woke up this morning to about ten emails from journalist friends asking if our mutual friend, Andrew Breitbart, was really dead. “Really” was the operative word. Some meant it in the traditional sense: Is it possible for the human inferno that Breitbart resembled …
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Nicholas Kamm / Rolling Stone:
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff' — Dismissing a strategy of “containment” as unworkable, the president tells me it's “unacceptable” for the Islamic Republic of Iran to have a nuclear weapon. — At the White House on Monday …
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Harry Reid hits the trifecta: Hello, Bob Kerrey, farewell Olympia Snowe; goodbye, Senate GOP war against women — It was a banner week for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who is brilliantly leading the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Day After Blunt Amendment, Republicans Vow “Fight is Not Over”
Day After Blunt Amendment, Republicans Vow “Fight is Not Over”
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Schumer focuses on battle for the Senate, Scott Brown and contraception
Schumer focuses on battle for the Senate, Scott Brown and contraception
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Loses His Cool During Interview With Cincinnati Radio Station Conversation with host Scott Sloan becomes a shouting match about birth control, before his cell phone drops the call. — Share on Facebook More on BuzzFeed Politics — YOUR REACTION? — MORE GREAT STUFF
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Tim Mak / Politico:
George Will: Take Congress, not White House — Columnist George Will says the 2012 presidential race looks like it might be a lost cause for Republicans and believes that the primary goal of conservatives should be to retain control of the House and win the Senate so Congress …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Four Fiscal Phonies — Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that's what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama's deficits are leading us toward a “Greece-style collapse.” — So why is Mr. Romney offering a budget proposal that would lead to much larger debt …
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Howard Gleckman / TaxVox:
Romney 2.0: Generous Tax Cuts, But How Will He Pay for Them?
Romney 2.0: Generous Tax Cuts, But How Will He Pay for Them?
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Mark Stiemann / The Behavioral Economy:
Gallup's Unadjusted Unemployment Data Suggest Increase in BLS Adjusted Figure — Gallup finds U.S. unemployment, as measured without seasonal adjustment, to be 9.1% in February, based on almost 30,000 interviews with a random sample of Americans. When Gallup applies the .5-percentage-point …
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Democrat: Letting Bush tax rates expire could stop sequestered cuts — Allowing the Bush-era tax rates to expire would provide more than enough revenue to do away with the automatic spending cuts set to begin in 2013, a high-ranking Democrat said Thursday. — Shedding light on Democrats …
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Noam Scheiber / The Daily Beast:
In Second Term, What Will Obama Do About Bush Tax Cuts?
In Second Term, What Will Obama Do About Bush Tax Cuts?
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Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Top Dem on House Approps committee announces retirement — Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, will retire at the end of 2012, he announced Friday. — Dicks, who was in line to chair the powerful appropriations panel if Democrats won control of the House …
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: In '02 Romney Touted D.C. Connections, Federal Funds — In a long-forgotten tape from the 2002 Massachusetts governor's race obtained by ABC News, Mitt Romney is seen touting his Washington connections and his ability to get millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government.
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Bryan Marquard / Boston Globe:
James Q. Wilson, 80, co-author of ‘Broken Windows’ community policing strategy, died today — James Q. Wilson, a political scientist who coauthored the influential “Broken Windows” article in The Atlantic Monthly in 1982, which became a touchstone for the move toward community policing …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Can't the Obama Administration Make Its Case Without Disseminating Hate? — Have we ever had an administration like Barack Obama's? An administration that tries to benefit from pitting Americans against one another? An administration that uses its billion-dollar slush fund …
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Breitbart Friend Reveals To Hannity: Obama Harvard Tapes Will Be Out ‘In A Week Or Two’ — On his program Thursday, Fox News' Sean Hannity spoke with Steve Bannon (producer of The Undefeated, among various other films) about a series of tapes Andrew Breitbart claimed to have about Barack Obama.
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Mj Lee / Reuters:
Sarah Palin rips GOP race: Petty, bickering — Sarah Palin says Republican voters are starting to get sick and tired of the “pettiness” and the “bickering” in the GOP presidential primary race. — “Alaskans whom I speak with, we're so tired of the pettiness within the GOP process,” …
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