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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What Does Santorum's Future Hold? — Although Rick Santorum was exceptionally unlikely to win the Republican presidential nomination, his decision to suspend his campaign, which puts an effective end to the Republican nomination process, is obviously good news for Mitt Romney …
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Romney on Dems' ‘war on women’ — Wilmington, Del. (CNN) - As the Republican field winnowed Tuesday, Mitt Romney made an appeal to a voting bloc key to any candidate's success in November: women. — Though the day's headlines revolved around a decision by former Sen. Rick Santorum to suspend his campaign …
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Pirate's Cove, Washington Post, Politico, Cognitive Dissidence and This Just In
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Co-Founder Of NotMittRomney.Com's Reaction To Mitt Sewing Up The Nomination
The Co-Founder Of NotMittRomney.Com's Reaction To Mitt Sewing Up The Nomination
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The Gateway Pundit and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
The Caucus:
Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign
Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads Romney by 13 in Colorado
Obama leads Romney by 13 in Colorado
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The Colorado Independent and Ballot Box
Politico:
Foster Friess, Santorum's millionaire backer, swings to Romney
Foster Friess, Santorum's millionaire backer, swings to Romney
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ThinkProgress, Reuters, CNN and Mother Jones
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Rick Santorum ends presidential campaign after conceding to Mitt Romney in phone call
Rick Santorum ends presidential campaign after conceding to Mitt Romney in phone call
Politico:
Rick Santorum drops 2012 campaign for president
Rick Santorum drops 2012 campaign for president
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Michael O'Brien / msnbc.com:
Rick Santorum suspends his 2012 presidential campaign at an event in Gettysburg, Pa.
Rick Santorum suspends his 2012 presidential campaign at an event in Gettysburg, Pa.
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Booman Tribune and The Mahablog
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
Trayvon Martin: Attorneys say Zimmerman contacted prosecutor, Sean Hannity — The two men who have been George Zimmerman's most outspoken defenders, attorneys Hal Uhrig and Craig Sonner, said today that they're off the case. — “On Sunday, we lost track of George, in that he would not return our calls,” attorney Uhrig said.
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Kyle Hightower / Associated Press:
Martin case prosecutor to make announcement soon — SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin shooting case says she will make an announcement about the case within 72 hours. — In a statement released late Tuesday, Prosecutor Angela Corey didn't specifically say what the announcement will be.
Sean Higgins / Capital Hill:
Poll: Half Of Democrats Want To Get Rid of Individual Mandate — A key talking point of Democrats and liberal pundits regarding the Supreme Court's ObamaCare case is that if the justices overturn the law — or even just the individual mandate portion — it will damage the “legitimacy” of the court.
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Washington Post:
Poll: More Americans expect Supreme Court's health-care decision to be political — More Americans think Supreme Court justices will be acting mainly on their partisan political views than on a neutral reading of the law when they decide the constitutionality of President Obama's health-care law …
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Althouse, Taegan Goddard's …, Los Angeles Times, Campaign 2012, GOP 12 and Conservatives4Palin
Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
New Low in Support for Health Law; Half Expect Justices to Go Political
New Low in Support for Health Law; Half Expect Justices to Go Political
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Weekly Standard, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
The Fox Mole / Gawker:
Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee — What follows is the inaugural column of a person we are calling The Fox Mole—a long-standing, current employee of Fox News Channel who will be providing Gawker with regular dispatches from inside the organization.
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance: Engineers, scientists, astronauts ask NASA administration to look at empirical evidence rather than climate models — Looks like another GISS miss, more than a few people are getting fed up with Jim Hansen and Gavin Schmidt and their climate shenanigans.
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Questions and Observations, JustOneMinute, Samizdata.net, The Daily Caller and Tim Blair
G-A-Y / Good As You:
HOLY CRAP: NOM admits it used racial wedge strategies, has unfairly stifled free speech! (*Or was hacked) — From the org's official Facebook wall: … Were they hacked? Has another NOMmer flipped? Or has this whole scandal simply driven the NOM set so cray cray that they are seriously …
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Washington Blade
Jonathan Mattise / Palm Beach Post:
Allen West hears cheers, jeers at town-hall meetings in Palm City, Jensen Beach — U.S. Rep. Allen West told about 90 largely supportive Palm City voters Tuesday that locally prioritized federal projects — such as the St. Lucie Inlet dredging — aren't going to matter if Washington officials don't address a mounting deficit.
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Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Madam Secretary Meme Goes From Gay-Bar Banter to State Department Invite — [Photo: Stacy Lambe, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Adam Smith, texting and loling, on April 10, 2012. (Photos from Texts From Hillary.)] — Two gays walk into a bar ...
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Mediaite, BuzzFeed, Texts from Hillary, Towleroad News #gay, Gay Politics, US Politics and Gawker
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
National Organization for Marriage to back Romney — The National Organization for Marriage plans to throw its support to Mitt Romney today, giving the former Massachusetts governor a stamp of approval from the high-profile conservative group helping lead the fight over same-sex unions, POLITICO has learned
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ThinkProgress
NOM Blog:
We vow to turn things around for the better — In the last couple of weeks you've heard some pretty bad things about this organization. I must admit that we were angered when our in house documents were released but we've since had time to reflect on the strategies we've employed …
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Towleroad News #gay
Raleigh News & Observer:
Amendment goes too far — We are native Southerners and we oppose legalizing same-sex marriage. — One of us (David), reared in Mississippi, has for more than two decades directed a think tank, the Institute for American Values, that aims to strengthen marriage and reduce divorce and unwed childbearing.
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Towleroad News #gay, Good As You and Joe. My. God.
Elizabeth Wasserman / Reuters:
DOJ may sue Apple, publishers over e-book pricing — The Justice Department may sue Apple and possibly two publishers over alleged price-fixing of e-books for the iPad as soon as Wednesday while reaching settlements with other publishing houses, a knowledgeable source confirmed to POLITICO.
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The Heritage Foundation
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Exclusive: McDonald's Says It Has Dumped ALEC — Add another name to the list of corporations who've ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council: McDonald's. — The fast food giant tells Mother Jones that it recently decided to cut ties with ALEC, the corporate-backed group …
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Reza Munawir / Reuters:
Huge quakes strike off Indonesia; tsunami warning issued — (Reuters) - A powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending people as far away as southern India scurrying from buildings and raising fears of a disastrous tsunami as in 2004.
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The Gateway Pundit
Gabriel Arana / American Prospect:
My So-Called Ex-Gay Life — Early in my freshman year of high school, I came home to find my mom sitting on her bed, crying. She had snooped through my e-mail and discovered a message in which I confessed to having a crush on a male classmate. — “Are you gay?” she asked. I blurted out that I was.
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Truth Wins Out and Gay Politics
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Buffett rule about fairness, future — President Barack Obama laid out a case for the Buffett rule Tuesday that what's at stake isn't just fairness — it's the future. — The president made the pitch in a campaign-style speech to students at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton …
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Weasel Zippers and CNN
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama makes case for ‘Buffett Rule,’ higher taxes on wealthy
Obama makes case for ‘Buffett Rule,’ higher taxes on wealthy
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