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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi Primaries — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Rick Santorum captured twin victories in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries on Tuesday, overcoming the financial advantages of Mitt Romney and the regional allegiances of Newt Gingrich to amplify his argument …
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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Santorum wins Ala., Miss.; Romney takes Hawaii
Santorum wins Ala., Miss.; Romney takes Hawaii
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msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: The race goes on
First Thoughts: The race goes on
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David Espo / Associated Press:
The South's turn: Romney, Santorum, Gingrich vie
The South's turn: Romney, Santorum, Gingrich vie
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Ron Paul / Associated Press:
Born-again Christians dominate GOP vote in AL, MS
Born-again Christians dominate GOP vote in AL, MS
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Romney fails to score Southern wins
Romney fails to score Southern wins
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Said He Was Going to Win Alabama
Mitt Romney Said He Was Going to Win Alabama
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Romney wins Hawaii's first GOP presidential caucus
Romney wins Hawaii's first GOP presidential caucus
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Sarah Palin challenges Obama to debate ‘anywhere, anytime’
Sarah Palin challenges Obama to debate ‘anywhere, anytime’
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Fox News:
Santorum wins Mississippi, Alabama Republican primaries, Fox News projects
Santorum wins Mississippi, Alabama Republican primaries, Fox News projects
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CNN:
Romney says Santorum at ‘desperate end’ of campaign
Romney says Santorum at ‘desperate end’ of campaign
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Washington Post:
Alabama, Mississippi primaries: No Romney speech likely
Alabama, Mississippi primaries: No Romney speech likely
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Santorum mailer highlights Limbaugh praise
Santorum mailer highlights Limbaugh praise
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Greg Smith / New York Times:
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs — TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:
Republicans Losing on Birth Control as 77% in Poll Spurn Debate — Americans overwhelmingly regard the debate over President Barack Obama's policy on employer-provided contraceptive coverage as a matter of women's health, not religious freedom, rejecting Republicans' rationale for opposing the rule.
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Keach Hagey / Politico:
David Axelrod bails on Bill Maher — David Axelrod will not be appearing as a guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” despite reports last week that he was scheduled to do the show in the next few weeks. — “He's not scheduled to go on at this time,” said Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President Obama's reelection campaign.
Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses — A set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the shelves of the New York Public Library. — After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. — Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books …
Tim Mak / Politico:
‘Game Change’ authors: Hillary Clinton in '16 — “Game Change” co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann both predicted Wednesday that there was a high probability that Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2016. — “What are the odds this morning that Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016? …
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Nick Squires / Telegraph:
Dante's Divine Comedy ‘offensive and should be banned’ — It is a world-renowned work of literature and one of the foundation stones of the Italian language, but Dante's Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, homophobic, anti-Islamist and anti-Semitic.
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
REJECTED! What the NY Times WON'T Run: Counter-Jihad Facts What the NY Times Will Run: Anti-Catholic Smear Ads — Did you see the virulently anti-Catholic ad that ran in the New York Times last week? That ad inspired AFDI/SIOA, in cooperation with SION (Stop Islamization of Nations) …
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Thania A. Betancourt / ASU News:
Senate judiciary committee endorses controversial contraceptive bill — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 Monday to endorse a controversial bill that would allow Arizona employers the right to deny health insurance coverage for contraceptives based on religious objections.
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Samuel P. Jacobs / Reuters:
Obama's approval rating up to 50 percent: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - For the first time since early July, more Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing than disapprove, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows his approval rating now at 50 percent.
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Washington Examiner:
Pundits gasp as economy dents Obama's poll numbers — You can almost hear the note of surprise in their voices when you read the Washington Post and New York Times reporters' stories on their papers' latest political polls. — Surprise! Just when they thought that Barack Obama was pulling ahead …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Where's the Afterglow? — Sex doesn't sell Barack Obama. — (Best of the tube tonight: We'll appear on Fox Business's “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” The program starts at 7 p.m. ET, with our panel around 7:40.) — It's the volatility, stupid. That's how the New York Times spins the results …
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Peter Orszag / Bloomberg:
To Boost U.S. Productivity, Elect a New Congress: Peter Orszag — Last week, Harvard Business School hosted a conference in New York to talk about how the U.S. could continue to support “high and rising living standards for Americans” in the face of global competition.
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Washington Monthly:
Terminal Sickness — How a thirty-year-old policy of deregulation is slowly killing America's airline system—and taking down Cincinnati, Memphis, and St. Louis with it. — Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious — “It was certainly one of the hardest choices that I've ever made,” explained Fernando Aguirre.
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
CBO: Obamacare to cost $1.76 trillion over 10 yrs — President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Panetta Visits Afghanistan in Aftermath of Massacre — CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta landed here Wednesday morning on an unannounced and tense trip, the first by a senior member of the Obama administration since an American soldier reportedly killed 16 Afghan civilians, mostly children and women.
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
CEO of Texas Planned Parenthood Arrested for Indecent Exposure — The president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Lubbock, Texas was arrested yesterday for indecent exposure at a local baseball field where children play. — As KCBD reports, “According to Lubbock Police …
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