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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Santorum Takes a Decisive Victory in Kansas Caucuses — WICHITA, Kan. — Rick Santorum strengthened his case as the candidate for most conservative voters, by decisively winning the Kansas caucuses on Saturday. — With about two-thirds of the votes counted by midday …
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Ricochet Conversations Feed and Balloon Juice
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Healthcare issue will be a heavy lift for Romney against Obama — As Mitt Romney moves closer to locking up the Republican presidential nomination, the questions about his ability to attack President Obama on healthcare are only getting louder. — Conservatives have long been uneasy with Romney's record on healthcare.
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CNN and Prairie Weather
Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Santorum Wins Kansas; Romney Takes Wyoming — OLATHE, Kan.—Rick Santorum easily won the Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas on Saturday, but front-runner Mitt Romney was victorious in the Wyoming county caucuses and other balloting that extended his GOP delegate lead.
John Hoeffel / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Santorum wins Kansas caucuses
Rick Santorum wins Kansas caucuses
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Associated Press, Hot Air and Mediaite
Montgomery Advertiser:
Poll: Gingrich, Romney in dead heat in Alabama
Poll: Gingrich, Romney in dead heat in Alabama
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Scared Monkeys and Wake up America
Associated Press:
Romney claims victory in Guam, Northern Marianas
Romney claims victory in Guam, Northern Marianas
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Los Angeles Times, The Reaction, Reuters, The Moderate Voice, Associated Press and Patterico's Pontifications
Ryan Tracy / Washington Wire:
True Grits: Gingrich Makes Appeal to Mississippi Republicans
True Grits: Gingrich Makes Appeal to Mississippi Republicans
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Mediaite
Robert Griffin III / Associated Press:
Gingrich tells AP he won't quit GOP presidential race if he loses Tuesday in Miss., Ala.
Gingrich tells AP he won't quit GOP presidential race if he loses Tuesday in Miss., Ala.
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice and FiveThirtyEight
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh Scandal Proves Contagious for Talk-Radio Advertisers — Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks' ‘offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio. — Rush Limbaugh made the right …
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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.
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Little Green Footballs, TalkLeft, Sacramento Bee and Prairie Weather
CNN:
FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves — Limbaugh has long history of hate speech. FCC should ask: Are stations carrying him are acting “in public interest,” writers say. — Editor's note: Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem are the Co-Founders of the Women's Media Center.
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.
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his vorpal sword and TBogg
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Los Angeles Times:
Television review: ‘Game Change’
Television review: ‘Game Change’
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Taylor Marsh, Donklephant and PopWatch
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Dennis Kucinich and “wackiness” — The now-defeated congressman consistently opposed destructive bipartisan pieties — and is therefore “crazy” — Last week, Rep. Dennis Kucinich was defeated in a Democratic primary by Rep. Marcy Kaptur after re-districting pitted the two long-term incumbents against each other.
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Hullabaloo
Teddy Partridge / Firedoglake:
Politifact Jumps the Voter — er, Shark — Politifact, already under fire from Rachel Maddow for misapplying the word “fact” to their sloppy work, has branched out. Today they decided to “fact"-check (incorrectly, of course) a guest on a comedy TV program.
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St. Petersburg Times
Reuters:
Occupy Wall Street could run out of money by end of month — New York's Occupy Wall Street group is warning it could run out of money by the end of the month, raising questions about the future of the movement that sparked nationwide protests against economic injustice last year.
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Scared Monkeys
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Occupy Wall Street Needs Bailout
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.
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 …
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Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
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.)
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Associated Press, Washington Monthly, americanthinker.com, Pharyngula, The Mahablog, The PJ Tatler and Poynter
BBC:
Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza — Local men battled to extinguish a large car fire caused by the strike — Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 12 Palestinians, including a senior militant leader. — Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees …
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Mondoweiss, Global Voices, Atlas Shrugs and Weasel Zippers
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CNN:
Rep. Inslee to resign House seat — (CNN) - Democratic Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington will resign his House seat in order to focus on his 2012 run for governor of the state, a Democratic official confirmed to CNN on Saturday. — Inslee, now in his eighth term, represents Washington's 1st …
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Politico
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign
Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign
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Daily Kos
The White House:
WEEKLY ADDRESS: Investing in a Clean Energy Future — WASHINGTON, DC— In his weekly address, President Obama spoke to the American people from a factory in Petersburg, Virginia about the growing trend of companies creating more jobs in the United States, and also making better products than ever before.
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RedState, Pirate's Cove and The Gateway Pundit
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Gov. Dalrymple: Obama is ‘killing energy development’
Gov. Dalrymple: Obama is ‘killing energy development’
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Politico