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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Capital One Drops Ads From Rush Limbaugh — Capital One has recently aired advertisements on the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Today, ThinkProgress asked a representative of the company whether it is “taking steps to ensure that your ads will not run on Rush Limbaugh in the future.”
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Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
Netflix Becomes 30th Advertiser To Drop Limbaugh — Moments ago, Netflix emailed a statement to the tech website Boing Boing indicating that the company will ensure that its ads never appear on Rush Limbaugh's radio show again: … According to a ThinkProgress count, Netflix is now the 30th company …
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Daily Kos, The Raw Story and Mediaite
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Six More Advertisers Ditch Rush — The number of advertisers fleeing Rush Limbaugh continues to climb. — In an email release today, GEICO said, “In 2004 when Rush Limbaugh's program also carried remarks that were inappropriate, we ceased all advertising on his show. We don't advertise there to this day.
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Bloomberg, Crooks and Liars, News Corpse, The Raw Story and Mediaite
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Axelrod: Romney gave ‘cowardly answer’ on Limbaugh controversy — Top Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod on Monday blasted Mitt Romney, accusing him of failing to appropriately criticize radio host Rush Limbaugh for his attacks on a college student who testified before Congress.
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Politico, Washington Free Beacon and RedState
CNN:
Stations, advertisers drop Limbaugh
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Liberal Values, Crooks and Liars, Politico and Montgomery Advertiser
Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
UPDATED: Limbaugh Reportedly Loses Another Station Over Sandra Fluke Smears
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama: Want a war? Say so — President Obama fired back at his Republican challengers who have accused him of being soft on Iran, saying at a White House press conference that the standoff over the Iranian nuclear program is “not a game.” — Suggesting that the criticism being lobbed …
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Mitt Romney / Washington Post:
How I would check Iran's nuclear ambition — Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days while America's feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. Running for the presidency against Carter the next year …
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Wall Street Journal:
Reagan Was A Sure Loser Too
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Washington Monthly, Bloomberg and Campaign 2012
Algemeiner.com:
Israel's Channel 2: U.S. Officials Believe Netanyahu Has Already Decided to Strike Iran
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Weekly Standard, Pat Dollard, Power Line, Wake up America, The Daily Dish, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Guide to Super Tuesday Possibilities — With only 10 states voting on Super Tuesday, it would be easy to dismiss it as a little wimpy compared to past years. — But nearly 20 percent of the delegates to the Republican convention will be chosen on Tuesday night — and the outcome …
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Super Wednesday: GOP establishment lays down the law to the right
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CNN, The American Conservative, Guardian and The Other McCain
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
10 things to watch on Super Tuesday
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CNN, Don Surber, The Daily Caller, Pirate's Cove, Hot Air and Washington Wire
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Infamous international hacking group LulzSec brought down by own leader — Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two who allegedly commanded the loosely organized international hacker team LulzSec. — Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” …
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The Jawa Report, Computerworld, New York Times, The Raw Story, Tucson Citizen, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Pat Dollard, TPM Idea Lab, Colorlines and BuzzFeed
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Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
‘I Understand You Have a Panel,’ Gingrich Tells a Panel-Less AIPAC — Newt Gingrich apparently has been so busy campaigning all around Georgia that he hasn't had time to sleep, or even write a speech for the AIPAC crowd. — Moments before he was set to video-stream live …
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Mediaite, BuzzFeed, Wonkette, Business Insider and The Raw Story
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Good luck tonight,’ Obama says to Romney on Super Tuesday — President Obama offered his likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney a caustic “good luck” for Super Tuesday. — Asked at a news conference if he'd like to respond to Romney's comments calling Obama the “most feckless president since Carter …
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Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Unveils Housing Initiative at Super Tuesday News Conference
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Politico
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Sarah Palin To Obama: If Rush Was Offensive, Why Are You Taking Money From Bill Maher — Calls on Obama to ask his Super PAC to return $1 million donation from Bill Maher. Maher used the C-word for Palin.
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ABCNEWS, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The PJ Tatler
Julia O'Malley / The News Tribune:
If Murkowski calls herself moderate, her votes should be too — Back from Washington, D.C., for the start of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Sen. Lisa Murkowski learned the hard way not to get between women and birth control. She said she now regrets her support for a measure …
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Balloon Juice, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, The Impolitic and emptywheel
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Adn_jomalley / Anchorage Daily News:
If Murkowski is moderate, her votes should be too
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Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Wonkette and The Maddow Blog
rt.com:
Leaked: Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA plane to US — Osama bin Laden (Reuters / Stringer) … The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks.
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Althouse, The Gateway Pundit, Biased BBC and Daniel W. Drezner
Qasim Rashid / The Huffington Post:
The Islamic Solution to Stop Domestic Violence … Islam , Scripture Commentary , Domestic Abuse , Domestic Violence , Gender And Religion , Quran , Scripture Study , Women , Women In Islam , Religion News — Critics incorrectly allege that Islam command's husband's to beat their wives, often citing the Quran verse 4:34.
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The PJ Tatler and Jihad Watch
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MoJo Articles:
Santorum: Single Moms Are “Breeding More Criminals” — EXCLUSIVE: The GOP candidate claimed in 1994 that single mothers were destroying the “fabric of the country.” His solution? “Kicking them in the butt.” — During his first US Senate campaign, Rick Santorum warned voters …
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ThinkProgress, The Huffington Post, Jezebel and Daily Kos
Annie Lowrey / Economix:
The Economic Impact of the Pill — The recent controversy over contraception and health insurance has focused on who should pay for the pill. But there is a wealth of economic evidence about the value of the pill - to taxpayers, as my colleague Motoko Rich writes, as well as to women in general.
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American Prospect, ThinkProgress and Ezra Klein
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
DSCC chair doesn't rule out backing Independent candidate in Maine — Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) denied rumors she had discussed Maine's open Senate race with former Maine Gov. Angus King, an independent. — But she did not rule out the possibility …
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Washington Post and Bangor Daily News
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David Catanese / Politico:
Angus King entrance shakes up Maine Senate race
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Washington Monthly
Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
2012 Presidential Race Is 'the Worst I've Ever Seen,' Barbara Bush Says — Barbara Bush, the former first lady, is back on the campaign trail — this time for Mitt Romney — and once again, she's not biting her famously sharp tongue. — Speaking at a conference about first ladies …
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Guardian, Dallas Morning News, The Spectacle Blog and The Maddow Blog
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Darren Samuelsohn / Reuters:
Green donors bet on Mitt Romney flip-flop
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Sheila Marikar / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Kirk Cameron Responds to Critics, ‘Hate Speech’ — Credit: Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images. — Kirk Cameron is fighting back against the “hate speech” he feels he's endured since calling homosexuality “unnatural,” “detrimental,” and “ultimately destructive …
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