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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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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Allen West: I've ‘Heard’ 80 House Democrats Are Communist Party Members … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Allen West, Allen West Barack Obama, Allen West Communist Party, Allen West Democrats Commies, Politics News — WASHINGTON — As many as 80 House Democrats are communists, according to Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.).
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Allen West: Half the Democrats in Congress are Communists — Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) says he's heard that almost half of all the Democrats in Congress are secretly part of the Communist Party. — He offered no names or proof of his accusation. — West told almost 100 Floridians …
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Darius Dixon / Politico:
Allen West: 80 communists in the House
Allen West: 80 communists in the House
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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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BuzzFeed:
Romney Starts Looking For A Veep — Gillespie will lead the hunt, a source says. Nobody wants another Palin. — Source: cache.daylife.com — WILMINGTON, Del. — The Republican primary campaign effectively ended yesterday, and Mitt Romney's aides and supporters have already begun turning …
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CNN:
TRENDING: Obama campaign: Romney's greatest hits — (CNN) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign marked the conclusion of the Republican primary - and the beginning of the general election campaign - with a nearly two-minute Web video splicing together clips of Mitt Romney's most conservative statements from the trail.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
National Review Fires Another Racist Writer — National Review Writer Robert Weissberg Speaks At White Nationalist Conference — Following the uproar over John Derbyshire's racist rant that led to his firing last week, National Review ended its relationship with another racist writer today.
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
Regarding Robert Weissberg — Unbeknowst to us, occasional Phi Beta Cons contributor Robert Weissberg (whose book was published a few years ago by Transaction) participated in an American Renaissance conference where he delivered a noxious talk about the future of white nationalism.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Gingrich's $500 check for Utah primary filing fee bounces — GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich might fail to appear on the Utah primary ballot after a check for the required filing fee bounced, according to media reports. — The check for $500 bounced on March 27 …
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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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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What Does Santorum's Future Hold?
What Does Santorum's Future Hold?
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Every Candidate Endorsed by God Has Now Lost to Mitt Romney
Every Candidate Endorsed by God Has Now Lost to Mitt Romney
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
U.S. Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Hachette — The U.S. sued Apple Inc. (AAPL), Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New York district court, claiming the publishers colluded to fix eBook prices. — CBS Corp. (CBS)'s Simon & Schuster …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sues Apple, Publishers Over E-Book Pricing — The U.S. hit Apple Inc. and five of the nation's largest publishers with an antitrust lawsuit, alleging they conspired to raise prices in the fast-growing e-book market. — Three of the publishers agreed to settle the suit …
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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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Sean Higgins / Capital Hill:
Poll: Half Of Democrats Want To Get Rid of Individual Mandate
Poll: Half Of Democrats Want To Get Rid of Individual Mandate
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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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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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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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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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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Buffett rule could be ‘Reagan rule’ — President Obama continued his push Wednesday to build support for the Buffett rule by suggesting that Ronald Reagan would've backed the plan to set a minimum 30 percent income tax for the wealthiest Americans. — “If it will help convince folks …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Karl Rove and company are losing the argument over inequality
Karl Rove and company are losing the argument over inequality
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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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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
George Zimmerman's Legal Team Cites Zimmerman's Phone Call To Sean Hannity As They Withdraw From The Case — During a press conference today, George Zimmerman's attorneys Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig told the media that they will no longer be representing Zimmerman, who has admitted shooting Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
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New York Times:
Lenders Returning to the Lucrative Subprime Market — Annette Alejandro just emerged from bankruptcy and doesn't have a job, and her car was repossessed last year. Still, after spending her days job hunting, she returns to her apartment in Brooklyn where, in disbelief …