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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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petergabriel.com:
News Feed » Peter's response to ‘Sledgehammer’ on the Rush Limbaugh show
News Feed » Peter's response to ‘Sledgehammer’ on the Rush Limbaugh show
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Chris Carroll / Stars & Stripes:
Women vets want Limbaugh off of AFN
Women vets want Limbaugh off of AFN
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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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Algemeiner.com:
Israel's Channel 2: U.S. Officials Believe Netanyahu Has Already Decided to Strike Iran — Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday. Photo: Israel PM Office. — Channel 2 in Israel, sourcing a “senior American official” …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Republican Policies for Iran Differ Little From Obama's
Republican Policies for Iran Differ Little From Obama's
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Politico, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Holder Explains Threat That Would Call for Killing Without Trial — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. asserted on Monday that it is lawful for the government to kill American citizens if officials deem them to be operational leaders of Al Qaeda who are planning attacks …
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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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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Super Wednesday: GOP establishment lays down the law to the right — When the rooster crows on Super Wednesday, the insider establishment that runs the GOP will lay down the law to Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and all true conservatives: It is time to unite behind the candidate …
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David Giambusso / New Jersey Online:
U.S. Representative Donald Payne dead at 77 — U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, the dean of New Jersey's congressional delegation, died after a months-long battle with colon cancer today, according to three sources close to the Payne family. The longtime politician was 77.
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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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Adn_jomalley / Anchorage Daily News:
If Murkowski is moderate, her votes should be too
If Murkowski is moderate, her votes should be too
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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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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Ann Romney: 'I Don't Even Consider Myself Wealthy' — Apparently “Romneying” — defined as “accidentally bragging about your place high up in the economic stratosphere” — runs in the family. — His wife, Ann Romney, inexplicably talked about her wealth this afternoon during an interview on Fox News.
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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Ann Romney: 'I Don't Even Consider Myself Wealthy'
Ann Romney: 'I Don't Even Consider Myself Wealthy'
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Detroit Free Press:
Filmgoer takes stand on costly snacks, sues AMC Livonia theater — Rebecca Motley emerges from the AMC Star Southfield after seeing “Good Deeds” on Friday morning — and paying $11 for pop and popcorn on top of the $5 ticket. “The prices are ridiculous,” she said. / ERIC SEALS/Detroit Free Press
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Rene Lynch / Los Angeles Times:
Michigan man files lawsuit over high price of movie popcorn
Michigan man files lawsuit over high price of movie popcorn
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Josh Putnam / Frontloading HQ:
Santorum Can't Get to 1144 — ...and neither can Gingrich. — FHQ has been saying since our Very Rough Estimate of the delegate counts a couple of weeks ago that Romney is the only candidate who has a chance to get there. But, of course, I have not yet shown my work.
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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Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Black Students Face More Discipline, Data Suggests — Black students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students, according to new data from the Department of Education. — Although black students made up only 18 percent of those enrolled in the schools sampled …
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David Catanese / Politico:
Angus King entrance shakes up Maine Senate race — The independent Senate candidacy of former Maine Gov. Angus King is having a chilling effect on the potential bid of Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree. — King's Monday entry into the race for GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe's seat dramatically alters …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NBC's Chuck Todd on the geographic bias — In a recent conversation on matters mostly but not altogether unrelated, NBC News political director and White House correspondent Chuck Todd argued that the partisan nature of our national discourse is driven by geographic — rather than ideological — biases:
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Paul Krugman Doesn't Like Us. And Vice Versa. — Paul Krugman attacked me this morning, more or less out of the blue. His attack-or attempted attack, anyway-consisted of a quote from a post I wrote in 2005, and a link to another post that I also wrote in 2005. Mr. Krugman, apparently, is a man with a long memory.
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA ALLY WON'T RELEASE ALINSKY TAPE — Sources inform Breitbart.com today that Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play. — And she won't release it.