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3:35 PM ET, March 3, 2012

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Washington Post:
The GOP can no longer avoid its Rush Limbaugh problem.  —  IN A DEMOCRACY, standards of civil discourse are as important as they are indefinable.  Yet wherever one draws the line, Rush Limbaugh's vile rants against Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke crossed it.
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Dana Loesch / Big Journalism:
Republicans Fall For Manufactured Story
Maggie Haberman / Politico:   Romney on Rush: Not the language I'd have used
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Issa blames Dems for tone of contraception debate
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Republicans sing the home-state blues  —  CARROLLTON, Ga. —For presidential candidates, it's not necessarily safe to come home again.  —  On Tuesday, Newt Gingrich is staking his entire presidential race on winning Georgia — a state he represented in Congress for over 10 terms.
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ABCNEWS:
Why Rick Santorum's Ohio Delegate Fiasco Could Get Messy  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone reports:  —  CINCINNATI, Ohio — Let the haggling begin.  —  Rick Santorum still holds a slim lead over Mitt Romney in the latest Ohio polls, but win or lose on Tuesday, the results of the primary …
Discussion: The Caucus
Stephen Koff / Metro:
Rick Santorum faces bigger Ohio problem than previously known (updated)  —  WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum was already known as starting from a deficit, delegate-wise, in Ohio.  He failed to qualify for any district delegates in three Ohio congressional districts because he didn't turn in delegate names there.
today.yougov.com News:   Santorum Leads in Three of Five YouGov Super Tuesday Polls
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:   ‘Super PACs,’ Not Campaigns, Do Bulk of Ad Spending
Associated Press:
Edwards asks that sex tape not be destroyed  —  GREENSBORO, N.C. — Ahead of his federal trial involving alleged campaign finance violations, John Edwards is asking a judge to keep a sex tape involving him and his mistress from being destroyed.  —  In a request filed Friday in U.S. District Court …
Discussion: Business Insider
Mark Steyn / National Review:
‘Die, Die, Foreigners!’  —  Say what you like about Afghans, but they're admirably straightforward.  The mobs outside the bases enflamed over the latest Western affront to their exquisitely refined cultural sensitivities couldn't put it any plainer:  —  “Die, die, foreigners!”  —  And foreigners do die.
Discussion: Cold Fury
David Catanese / Politico:
Bob Kerrey bid causes left to lash out  —  Bob Kerrey took a lonely position against banning gay marriage in the 1990s.  He opposed a ban on flag desecration, voted against welfare reform and ran up high Americans for Democratic Action scores while serving as the senator from one of the most conservative states in the nation.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Santorum and the Sexual Revolution  —  Rick Santorum wants to bring sexy back ... to the 1950s, when he was born.  —  That is because Santorum seems to have an unhealthy fixation with, and passionate disdain for, the 1960s and the sexual freedoms that followed.
Climate Guest Blogger / ThinkProgress:
Syria: Climate Change, Drought and Social Unrest … by Francesco Femia & Caitlin Werrell, in a Center for Climate & Security repost [Addendum by Joe Romm]  —  Syria's current social unrest is, in the most direct sense, a reaction to a brutal and out-of-touch regime and a response …
Discussion: CNN, The Agonist and Pirate's Cove
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
In meeting, Obama to warn Netanyahu against military strikes on Iran  —  President Obama plans to caution Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week against attacking Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months, urging patience while international economic sanctions take full effect.
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Weiner Says He Contacted FBI About Grimm  —  In the fall of 2010, then-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) informed the FBI that now-Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) was allegedly attempting to extort campaign contributions from a politically well-connected orthodox rabbi, Weiner said today.
Discussion: Politicker
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Obama Will Speak at Commencement at Barnard College  —  President Obama will deliver this year's commencement address at Barnard College, officials at the college and the White House announced on Saturday.  —  Word of Mr. Obama's appearance comes as the White House and Democrats have seized …
Discussion: The Hill, Runnin' Scared and Poynter
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
BREAKING: Mitt Romney Urged Obama to Embrace the Individual Mandate  —  Had Michigan not been as close, the Democrats would have waited to spring this on us in the general election.  Luckily we have it now and I hope Ohio voters are paying attention.  —  In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote …
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Mr. President, What's the Rush?
 
 
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(bumped and sticky) Breitbart Is Here
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Yes, Chicks Dig Jerks
Discussion: The Other McCain
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Judge rules eavesdropping law unconstitutional
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Plan B for stopping Obama
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Reuters:
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CNN:
Democrats, Republicans face off over energy in weekly address
Discussion: Reuters
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Steve Doocy: 'Media Matters May End President Obama's Hopes Of Getting Re-Elected'