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George Talbot / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
New poll shows Rick Santorum leading in Alabama GOP primary — A new poll released on the eve of Rick Santorum's first campaign visit to Alabama shows the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania leading in the state Republican Party presidential primary. — The statewide poll conducted …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Would Santorum Do Without Gingrich?
How Would Santorum Do Without Gingrich?
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
First on CNN: Santorum super PAC hits Alabama and Mississippi airwaves
First on CNN: Santorum super PAC hits Alabama and Mississippi airwaves
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Washington Post:
Romney campaign urges rivals to back out, saying delegate gap is too big
Romney campaign urges rivals to back out, saying delegate gap is too big
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, USA Today, Politico, ABCNEWS and Wall Street Journal
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gingrich rejects dropping out; focuses on Ala., Miss.
Gingrich rejects dropping out; focuses on Ala., Miss.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Gingrich's future hangs on successful Southern state strategy
Gingrich's future hangs on successful Southern state strategy
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Boston Globe, Hot Air, 2012 Decoded, Outside the Beltway and GOP 12
The Daily:
Obama adviser slams Romney for Limbaugh while planning to go on Maher — CHICAGO — While slamming Mitt Romney for not standing up to the “strident voices” on his side, a top Obama advisor is planning to spend some quality time with one on his own, The Daily has learned.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Armed Forces Chairman Levin wants Limbaugh dropped from military radio
Armed Forces Chairman Levin wants Limbaugh dropped from military radio
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Rep. Bachmann calls outrage over Limbaugh ‘overkill’
Rep. Bachmann calls outrage over Limbaugh ‘overkill’
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Gene Weingarten / Live Q&A's:
Conversations / Live Q&A — Chatological Humor: Why 'fair comment …
Conversations / Live Q&A — Chatological Humor: Why 'fair comment …
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Balloon Juice, Southern Beale, The Daily Dish and The Mahablog
Brett Smiley / New York Magazine:
Breitbart's Obama Video Is a Total Dud — That movie stunk. — Breitbart.com's explosive, blockbuster video that would expose Barack Obama as a radical commie who wasn't vetted by the media was almost entirely hype. — Breitbart.com's Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor …
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Andrew Golis / PBS:
The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video — The web is abuzz today about video of a speech Barack Obama gave in 1990 (some reports have incorrectly identified the speech as occurring in 1991) at Harvard Law School defending the actions of Professor Derrick Bell.
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE VETTING: BEN SMITH RELEASES SELECTIVELY EDITED OBAMA RACE VIDEO
THE VETTING: BEN SMITH RELEASES SELECTIVELY EDITED OBAMA RACE VIDEO
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Joseph Williams / Politico:
1991 Obama video aired in 2008
1991 Obama video aired in 2008
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Obama lobbying Dems over Keystone XL pipeline — President Barack Obama is intervening in a Senate fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline and personally lobbying Democrats to reject an amendment calling for its construction, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
Mj Lee / Politico:
Joe the Plumber blows a gasket on CNN — Samuel Wurzelbacher, who on Thursday morning accused CNN of being like TMZ and trying to trap him with “gotcha questions,” explained to POLITICO immediately following the tense interview that he is “sick of the gossip and drama.”
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Dan Springer / Fox News:
Wind farms in Pacific Northwest paid to not produce — Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest — built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced — are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region's electricity grid …
Zandar / Angry Black Lady Chronicles:
Won't Be Long Now, Folks! — And the odds that we'll get to somebody dropping the ni-CLANG word on President Obama took a really big step forward today, along with bonus misogyny to boot. They say a picture's worth a thousands words, and judging from the latest Mike Lester political cartoon from the Rome …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Daily Dish and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
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T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
The Influence Industry: Obama gives administration jobs to some big fundraisers — Big donors considering whether to work the phones raising money for President Obama's reelection campaign might consider the fate of his 2008 bundlers. Many of them, it turns out, won plum jobs in his administration.
Roll Call:
Rep. Jean Schmidt's Defeat Serves as Warning — Ohio Rep. Jean Schmidt had tough primaries before, but it's obvious she didn't see this one coming. — Podiatrist Brad Wenstrup defeated Schmidt by 6 points in Tuesday's GOP primary, likely ending the controversial Congresswoman's career.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Dogging Mitt Romney — I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car. — Seamus, the dog-on-the-roof, has become a kind of political icon. You cannot go anywhere without running into him.
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Brilliant at Breakfast, News Desk, Business Insider, the daily howler and Daily Kos
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Pat Robertson Says Marijuana Use Should be Legal — Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader — including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing — his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.
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msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Why isn't this GOP race over? — Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters — Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney pauses while speaking to supporters at his “Super Tuesday” primary election night rally in Boston, Massachusetts, March 6, 2012.
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New York Magazine and The Hill
Ann Friedman / Ann Friedman's RSS:
International Slutty Women's Day: A Story in GIFs — The year was 2012. Women were basically just hanging out. — You know, doing lady stuff. — We'd gotten used to the fact that, for decades, people have been trying to tell us what to do. — That we should pay attention …
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Associated Press:
Senior Syrian official defects to protest Assad's crackdown — BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's deputy oil minister announced his defection in an online video that emerged Thursday, making him the highest ranking official to abandon President Bashar Assad's regime since the country's uprising erupted a year ago.
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ThinkProgress and americanthinker.com
Bob Somerby / the daily howler:
HERE'S THE OUTRAGE: Why are we outraged by Rush Limbaugh now? — Part 3—At long last, we take our stand: In our view, the liberal world has given Rush Limbaugh a pass for decades now. — Limbaugh has always had a pernicious effect on the public discourse.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mother Jones and Booman Tribune
Washington Examiner:
Secret Service agent: Clinton's staff rude, Hillary aloof — In a breach of tradition, a former U.S. Secret Service agent has self-published a book that savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and rude, suggests former first lady Hillary Clinton was aloof and charges …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Party of Hate — Millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama in the hope that he would be a trailblazer who would conduct the presidency in a new way. Well, he has: Obama has been the most divisive president in our modern history, unabashedly stirring up hate against not only his political enemies …
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Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Obama Will Make Taxpayers Guarantee Mortgages Without Checking Borrowers' Incomes or Employment — (CNSNews.com) - Wth no authorization from Congress, President Barack Obama has announced that his administration—through the Federal Housing Administration—will insure refinanced mortgages …
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Eric Gay / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Will Face More Ballot, Delegate Problems — Rick Santorum's ballot problems keep getting worse. — The candidate failed to appear on the ballot in Virginia on Super Tuesday, losing his chance to win 46 delegates. He also may have lost his chance at more than a quarter …
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