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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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Santorum-Gingrich Ticket Floated By Gingrich Adviser
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The South's turn: Romney, Santorum, Gingrich vie
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Born-again Christians dominate GOP vote in AL, MS
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Romney fails to score Southern wins
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Santorum wins Ala., Miss.; Romney takes Hawaii
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Sarah Palin challenges Obama to debate ‘anywhere, anytime’
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Mitt Romney Said He Was Going to Win Alabama
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Romney wins Hawaii's first GOP presidential caucus
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Santorum wins Mississippi, Alabama Republican primaries, Fox News projects
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Romney says Santorum at ‘desperate end’ of campaign
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Alabama, Mississippi primaries: No Romney speech likely
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Santorum says it ‘would be great’ if Newt bowed out
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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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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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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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Obama-Romney Race Toss-Up in Poll Showing Independents Critical
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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 …


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.


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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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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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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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.


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 …


Rising Sea Levels Seen as Threat to Coastal U.S. — About 3.7 million Americans live within a few feet of high tide and risk being hit by more frequent coastal flooding in coming decades because of the sea level rise caused by global warming, according to new research.
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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.

The entire Obama presidency, in one anecdote — One of my favorite moments from the new book The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery: … Now let's fast forward to this past September: … So where are the new jobs coming from, at least the good-paying ones?
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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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For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that the economy has been expanding moderately. Labor market conditions have improved further; the unemployment rate has declined notably in recent months but remains elevated.
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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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