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4:20 PM ET, March 10, 2012

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: 98 Major Advertisers Dump Rush Limbaugh, Other Right-Wing Hosts  —  Industry website radio-info.com has the scoop: … This helps explain why, on Rush Limbaugh's flagship station WABC, almost of the commercial breaks were filled with unpaid pubic service announcements.
Montgomery Advertiser:
Poll: Gingrich, Romney in dead heat in Alabama  —  The support for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is increasing in Alabama and he is in a virtual dead heat with former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney headed into the state's presidential primary on Tuesday, according to a poll released Friday by Alabama State University.
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Associated Press:
Romney claims victory in Guam, Northern Marianas
CNN:
Romney wins entire Guam delegation
Robert Griffin III / Associated Press:
Gingrich tells AP he won't quit GOP presidential race if he loses Tuesday in Miss., Ala.
NewsMax.com:
Santorum to Newsmax: I'd Consider Gingrich for VP
Discussion: Presidential Power and GOP 12
Sarah B. Boxer / NationalJournal.com:
Romney: Regulators Should Make ‘Friends’ With Business
Discussion: Daily Kos
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Defends Limbaugh's Free Speech Rights, Responds To ‘False Equivalency’ From Right  —  After over a week of pundits piling on Bill Maher for his remarks about conservative women in an attempt to equivocate him with Rush Limbaugh and suggest a media double standard on such controversies …
John Podhoretz / Weekly Standard:
Back Stab  —  Sarah Palin as portrayed by her disloyal staff.  —  Nicolle Wallace was the onetime consultant to CBS News and media aide to George W. Bush who was assigned to work with Sarah Palin after the Alaska governor was chosen as John McCain's running mate.
Discussion: TBogg
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Jim Romenesko:
Report: Some papers won't be running next week's ‘Doonesbury’ strips  —  I asked around and was told that the Oregonian and Dallas Morning News are among the papers that have discussed pulling the strips.  (I've left messages with editors at both newspapers to see what they've decided.)
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
An Erotic Novel, ‘50 Shades of Grey,’ Goes Viral With Women  —  “Fifty Shades of Grey,” an erotic novel by an obscure author that has been described as “Mommy porn” and “Twilight” for grown-ups, has electrified women across the country, who have spread the word like gospel on Facebook pages, at school functions and in spin classes.
Discussion: Gothamist, Althouse and Gawker
Al Arabiya / Alarabiya.net English:
Dozens of Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for ‘emo’ haircuts: activists  —  Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts.  —  Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” …
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Monckton's Schenectady showdown  —  Monckton vanquishes Union College “Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds”  —  Guest post by Justin Pulliam  —  THE NEWS that Lord Monckton was to give his “Climate of Freedom” lecture at Union College in Schenectady, New York, had thrown the university's environmentalists into a turmoil.
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign … 112th Congress , Video , Jay Inslee Resigning , Washington State , Democratic Congressman , Governors Races , Inslee Resigning , Jay Inslee , Jay Inslee Retiring , Washington , Washington Governor Campaign , Washington Governors , Politics News
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mary Pilon / New York Times:
A Card-Counting Mix of Bibles, Blackjack and Cash  —  Colin Jones has toiled in the cacophonous, windowless, artificially lighted corridors of casinos across the country in an effort to beat the house with math.  He has worked to master the art of card counting, long scorned by casino operators …
Matthew Miller / The Daily Beast:
Obama Is Right to Prosecute Leakers Who Are Not the Same as Whistle-Blowers  —  The Obama administration has taken harsh criticism for its record-setting prosecutions of individuals leaking classified information.  But don't equate that with hostility to whistle-blowers, says a former Justice Department official.
Discussion: Politico and emptywheel
 
 
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Kevin Hassett / National Review:
Job Creation Only the Tip of the Iceberg
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As Governor, Romney's C.E.O. Style Could Irk Lawmakers
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Column: The Shameless Obama Campaign
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Gov. Dalrymple: Obama is ‘killing energy development’
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Buffett's NetJets Countersued by U.S. for Unpaid Taxes
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Louis C.K. drops correspondents' dinner after conservative outcry
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