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Marist Poll:
3/4: Santorum and Romney Neck and Neck in Ohio — Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are locked in a tight battle in the race for the Republican nomination in Ohio. Among likely Republican primary voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, early voters …
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Politico, The Last Tradition, The Caucus, Hot Air, Washington Post, Scared Monkeys, The Page and Hotline On Call
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Two polls find Romney, Santorum tied in Ohio — GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has pulled into a statistical dead heat with rival Rick Santorum in Ohio, two new polls find. — A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday shows Romney and Santorum tied with 32 percent support …
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Reuters, Politico and The Moderate Voice
First Read / msnbc.com:
NBC News/Marist poll: Santorum, Romney neck and neck in Ohio
NBC News/Marist poll: Santorum, Romney neck and neck in Ohio
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CNN, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway and Politico
Seattle Times:
Big win in state propels Romney into Super Tuesday
Big win in state propels Romney into Super Tuesday
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The Moderate Voice, Real Clear Politics and Patterico's Pontifications
Fox News:
Romney notches fifth straight win with Washington state GOP caucuses
Romney notches fifth straight win with Washington state GOP caucuses
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The Lonely Conservative, The Daily Weekly and Hit & Run
James Hohmann / Politico:
Mitt hits 5 straight in Wash.
Mitt hits 5 straight in Wash.
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Daily Oklahoman, Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, The Maddow Blog and Scared Monkeys
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Romney Takes Washington Ahead of a Big Election Day
Romney Takes Washington Ahead of a Big Election Day
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The Caucus, Instapundit, FiveThirtyEight, Mediaite, A plain blog about politics and Cincinnati.com
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriages — There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July. — Rick Santorum says he'll try to unmarry all of them if he's elected president.
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Keith O'Brien / Telegraph:
We cannot afford to indulge this madness — Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Britain's most senior Catholic, sets out his opposition to the Government's plans to legalise gay marriage. — Elton John and David Furnish entered into a civil partnership in 2005 and now have a one-year-old son , born to a surrogate mother
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Towleroad News #gay, Guardian and Althouse
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Have You No Shame, Rush? — AS a woman who has been viciously slashed by Rush Limbaugh, I can tell you, it's no fun. — At first you think, if he objects to the substance of what you're saying, why can't he just object to the substance of what you're saying? Why go after you in the most personal and humiliating way?
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The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Apologizes To Sandra Fluke For Calling Her A ‘Slut’
Rush Limbaugh Apologizes To Sandra Fluke For Calling Her A ‘Slut’
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Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
It's not because Breitbart was combative — A friend emails, with results of a near-scientific experiment: — I just watched John Avlon's Daily Beast commentary about the ugly tweets celebrating Andrew's passing. His underlying logic, like some other commentary I've read …
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protein wisdom
The Right Scoop:
Newt owns David Gregory on contraception debate — This is even better than how Newt responded to this issue on ABC this morning. He refused to allow Gregory to frame this as a women's rights issue and made clear that there is no one blocking access to contraception.
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Verum Serum
Anton Howes / The Independent:
Where are all the libertarians coming from? — There's a silent revolution happening on campuses across the world. Libertarian activism is on the rise. Political figures like Ron Paul have started to draw huge support from younger voters, but the trend seems to be much deeper and more sustained than any single political campaign.
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Emmett Berg / Reuters:
Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with hate crimes — (Reuters) - Three Occupy Oakland protesters accused of surrounding and taunting a woman before stealing her wallet were charged on Friday with robbery and hate crimes, authorities said. — Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23 …
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Big Government and Weasel Zippers
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BBC:
Dublin patron saint's heart stolen from Christ Church Cathedral — The preserved heart of Dublin's patron saint has been stolen from the city's Christ Church Cathedral, officials say. — The thief would have needed metal cutters to prise open the iron bars protecting the wooden heart-shaped box holding St Laurence O'Toole's heart.
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Daily Mail:
‘SHOCKED’ LIBYAN AUTHORITIES ‘EXTREMELY APOLOGETIC’ OVER WAR GRAVES ATTACK — The Libyan government has been ‘extremely apologetic’ about the desecration of British war graves in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Foreign Office Minister said today. — Jeremy Browne said people …
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Power Line, BBC, msnbc.com, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs
Robin Bravender / Politico:
Gingrich: Obama's apologies ‘embarrassing’ — Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Sunday called President Barack Obama's apologies for the burning of a Quran in Afghanistan “embarrassing.” — “When the president of the United States says I apologize, he is basically taking on blame …
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Crooks and Liars and The Raw Story
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
TEXT: Obama's remarks to AIPAC — Here are President Obama's prepared remarks to AIPAC's policy conference this morning. — March 4, 2012 — Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery — AIPAC Policy Conference — Washington, D.C. — March 4, 2012 — As Prepared for Delivery -
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Politico, New York Times, Guardian, The Agonist, Israel Matzav, American Spectator and The Spectacle Blog