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John Hoeffel / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Santorum wins Kansas caucuses — A Rick Santorum supporter casts a ballot in Wichita, Kan. on Saturday. (Larry W. Smith / EPA) — Reporting from Wichita, Kan.— Rick Santorum has won the Kansas Republican caucuses, according to Associated Press and network projections …
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Hot Air, Mediaite and Associated Press
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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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Balloon Juice
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.
Sam Baker / Ballot Box:
Healthcare issue will be a heavy lift for Romney against President Obama
Healthcare issue will be a heavy lift for Romney against President Obama
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CNN and Prairie Weather
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
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 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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Deadline.com and TalkLeft
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
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
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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americanthinker.com and Scared Monkeys
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Occupy Wall Street Needs Bailout
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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Taylor Marsh, his vorpal sword, The Other McCain, TBogg and Donklephant
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Bill Maher to Rush Limbaugh: “You know what, Rush, when you can stand up in front of an audience of 3,000 people all the time like I do...” — I've already blogged about what Bill Maher said on his show last night about Rush Limbaugh, so forgive me if you've already had enough of the Maher-Limbaugh topic …
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Joe Mozingo / Los Angeles Times:
Effort to put marijuana legalization measure on ballot is in disarray — After Proposition 19 received 46% of the vote in 2010, proponents took heart. They vowed to put a measure to fully legalize marijuana on the 2012 ballot. Instead, four camps vie for funding.
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Unqualified Offerings and American Power
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