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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Barack Obama, Fiscal Conservative! — It might seem incredible that a president who has signed into law the largest federal spending in history, who has run up $5 trillion in new debt, who has submitted budgets that propose increasing the national debt to $22 trillion-budgets so extreme …
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
The stunning chart that shows the Obama spending binge really happened — In a column on Tuesday, Rex Nutting of MarketWatch ran some budget numbers and concluded the following: … And here is Nutting's graph: — The shocking, contrarian piece was widely circulated in liberal circles …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow!... Obama Campaign Holds Protest Outside Romney Stop in Philly (Video) — When all else fails, stalk your opponent. — Mitt Romney visited an inner school in Philadelphia today to discuss his education agenda. The Obama Campaign met him at the school and protested his visit outside.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hecklers mar Romney's visit to inner-city charter school in Philadelphia — PHILADELPHIA - When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda, he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Busted!... Obama Headlined a DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA Event in 1996 **FLIER** — Can we call him a socialist now??? — Barack Obama headlined a Democrat Socialists of America town hall meeting in Chicago in 1996. — Buzzfeed reported: — And don't forget about this...
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The POH Diaries and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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BuzzFeed:
Obama Appeared At 1996 Event Hosted By Socialist Group — It's a reminder that the President presented himself as much more progressive during his time in Chicago. In this little-seen advertisement that ran in the Hyde Park Herald in 1996, Obama was listed on a panel sponsored …
Chris Christoff / Bloomberg:
Half Of Detroit'S Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks — Detroit Residents Stay In at Night as Lights Go Out — Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Perry puts political muscle into Texas races — After a disastrous 2012 presidential campaign that left his national political profile in tatters, Rick Perry is now embarking on an all-out effort to revive his standing in Texas and prove he's still a dominant force in the Lone Star State.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Dewhurst close to 50% — David Dewhurst leads Ted Cruz 46-29 …
Dewhurst close to 50% — David Dewhurst leads Ted Cruz 46-29 …
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Weekly Standard
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
CNN's Brooke Baldwin Takes Tony Perkins To The Woodshed: ‘Why Do Homosexuals Bother You So Much?’ — Tony Perkins has been particularly loud in recent days as a voice against equal rights of marriage for same-sex couples, arguing that one minority in the society cannot define religious sacraments that …
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The Raw Story
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
GOP triple play: Romney, Trump and Gingrich to campaign together — (CNN) - Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will be joined in Las Vegas next week by two of his backers: former candidate Newt Gingrich and reality television star Donald Trump.
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Offers Chance To Dine With Donald Trump
Romney Campaign Offers Chance To Dine With Donald Trump
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Romney's Roads to the White House
Romney's Roads to the White House
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weaskamerica.com:
Turnout — You have to hand it to Wisconsin's electorate: they are passionate about their politics. When we first polled the Dairy State's voters about Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plummeting approval ratings, many right-leaning types let the blogosphere know how We Ask America's minions …
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
WI: Gov. Walker Looking Strong Before Recall
WI: Gov. Walker Looking Strong Before Recall
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate
Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate
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Michael Fumento / Salon:
My break with the extreme right — I worked for Reagan and wrote for National Review. But the new hysterical right cares nothing for truth or dignity — Gosh! When did I end up in bed with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber? Could it be because I did specialize in blowing things …
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Charlie Spiering / Campaign 2012:
Chris Matthews blasts 'horse's ass right-wingers' — Follow on Twitter:Follow @charliespiering — Chris Matthews: Jackasses, Stop Asking About Obama Speech from National Cable and Telecommunications Association on FORA.tv — Yes. Chris Matthews is sick of people making fun …
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Propaganda firm owner admits attacks on journalists — WASHINGTON - The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor.
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
Obama: Profit motives don't belong in the W.H. — DES MOINES, Iowa - President Obama celebrated the role Iowa played in his campaign in 2008 and took aim once again at Mitt Romney's business background at a campaign rally on the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday.
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Shira Schoenberg / Union-News:
Elizabeth Warren says she knows she is part Native American ‘because my mother told me so’ — Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that she knows she has Native American ancestry because her mother told her so. — Warren's comments came after nearly four minutes …
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Marion Barry commits new gaffe while apologizing to Asians — D.C. Council member Marion Barry yesterday stepped up his campaign to mend relations with Asians, apologizing again for disparaging remarks he made about Koreans and Filipinos, and pledging to work to improve ties between them and African Americans.
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Obama national co-chair works in private equity, like Romney — One of President Barack Obama's top campaign spokesmen is a private equity manager whose firm has shut down several factories and laid off hundreds of people amid a stalled economy. — Federico Pena's role at Vestar Capital Partners …
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Weasel Zippers, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and The PJ Tatler
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Jeff Neely, GSA Las Vegas trip planner, gone from agency — A top General Services Administration official who was behind the planning of a lavish and embarrassing Las Vegas conference has left the GSA, an agency spokesman confirmed Thursday. — Jeff Neely had been placed on administrative leave …
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Tim Mak / Politico:
FBI: Mayor hacked critical website — A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly hacking into an email account and website tied to a recall effort — and then intimidating those associated with the site. — Felix Roque, 55, the Democratic mayor of West New York …
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Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
West New York mayor arrested by FBI on hacking charges
West New York mayor arrested by FBI on hacking charges
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The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
New digitally focused company launches this fall with beefed up online coverage; The Times-Picayune will move this fall to three printed papers a week — A new company - the NOLA Media Group, which will include The Times-Picayune and its affiliated web site NOLA.com - was announced today by Ricky Mathews, who will become its president.
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Jim Miklaszewski / msnbc.com:
New photos of alleged 9-11 mastermind may have been spirited out of ‘Gitmo’ — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen in one of the photos apparently taken at the Guantanamo detention center and published this week by an Islamist website. — U.S. military officials are investigating whether …
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
S.E. Cupp Discusses Her Photoshopped Hustler Picture On The “View” … Sign-Up to receive Updates from TH — Breaking on TOWNHALL — Cupp in Hustler? Bleh. They had to have been desperate....or maybe Hengler wasn't available to fill the rethuglican witch role.
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