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CNN:
Clinton: 'I'm very sorry' — (CNN) - Bill Clinton regrets the swirl over comments he made earlier in the week in which he appeared to suggest he would be open to extending the so-called Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, the former president said Thursday. — “I'm very sorry about what happened …
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Detroit Free Press:
Poll: Barack Obama in dead heat with Mitt Romney in Michigan as popularity slips — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, and President Barack Obama / AP — President Barack Obama's popularity in Michigan has slipped in recent months, leaving him in a dead heat …
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Mark Halperin / Time:
Between the Lines: By Mark Halperin — FILE - In this June 4, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in New York. President Barack Obama and Democrats awoke Wednesday to the cruel reality of June, the political blows from the bitter loss in Wisconsin's gubernatorial recall election …
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Power Line and No More Mister Nice Blog
Alex Pareene / Salon:
An urgent plea to political reporters — Let's all stop pretending imaginary “gaffes” are real — Let's all agree to just not pretend the president made an “oral sex joke” at his gay fundraiser last night, because that's stupid. It's stupid, and most of the people with jobs …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Colorado: Obama 45%, Romney 45%
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Hot Air, About.com Conservative … and BuzzFeed
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Obama's Third-Party History
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Clinton ‘very sorry’ for suggesting extension of Bush tax cuts
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The Hope For America
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA CAUGHT LYING AGAIN: HE WAS MEMBER OF ‘NEW PARTY,’ SAYS KURTZ
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The Ulsterman Report and The Daley Gator
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Clinton's team throwing him under Obama's bus?
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CNN, Datechguy's Blog, The Daily Caller, IMAO and Jammie Wearing Fools
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Forecast: Obama Begins With Tenuous Advantage — The first look at the 2012 FiveThirtyEight presidential forecast has Barack Obama as a very slight favorite to win re-election. But his advantage equates to only a two-point lead in the national popular vote, and the edge …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Romney Campaign's ‘Route to 270’ Doesn't Get to 270
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Outside the Beltway, Althouse and Politico
Ali A. Akbar / Facebook:
My mistake, Brett Kimberlin, and attacks on my mother... Never doubt that God works in mysterious ways. Especially in our failures and mistakes. — Like too many Americans nowadays, I grew up in a single-mother home. I helped raise my two little brothers while my mother worked and went …
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U.S. Congressman Kenny Marchant:
Marchant Stands for Free Speech and with Conservative Bloggers Under Attack — Congressman Kenny Marchant (TX-24) today issued a statement in strong support of free speech and conservative bloggers who are being targeted in dangerous “SWAT-tings” and asked Attorney General Holder to investigate …
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The Jawa Report, The Lonely Conservative, The Camp Of The Saints and “The Lid”
Joe Conason / The National Memo:
Did Young Mitt Romney Impersonate A Police Officer? Another Witness Says Yes — Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Lawrence O'Donnell Breaks New Mitt Romney Scandal: He Maybe Had A Police Uniform?
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The Daley Gator and The Hope For America
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Left pushes for $10 minimum wage, but House Democratic leadership balks — The House Democrats pushing for a steep hike in the minimum wage could face an unlikely foe: their own leadership. — Behind Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (Ill.), almost two dozen liberal Democrats endorsed legislation …
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
House Democrats Propose Increasing Minimum Wage To $10
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The Hill, The Hope For America and The Impolitic
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Romney Just Making Stuff Up Now — I read a book today, oh boy. — A couple weeks ago, Mitt Romney quoted Noam Scheiber's book about the Obama administration's economic rescue, “The Escape Artists,” in a highly misleading way. Yesterday he did it again, only this time Romney altered …
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Ezra Klein:
Health reform: What if Obama hadn't tried it? — When you see these conversations about whether Obama should have pursued health care reform rather than continuing to “focus on the economy,” it's worth keeping a couple of things in mind. — 1) The calendar: The stimulus bill passed in February 2009.
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Mother Jones, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Campaign 2012
Daniel Doherty / Townhall.com:
Jeb Bush: Man, I Regret Not Running For POTUS … I'm sure Jeb Bush himself isn't the only conservative wishing he had heeded his brother's advice. … I suppose there's at least one good reason Jeb Bush ultimately decided not to run for president in 2012: his last name.
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Politico, Indecision Forever and CBS News
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Matt Cover / CNSNews:
Holder Claims Emails Using Words ‘Fast and Furious’ Don't Refer to Operation Fast and Furious — (CNSNews.com) - Attorney General Eric Holder claimed during congressional testimony today that internal Justice Department emails that use the phrase “Fast and Furious” do not refer …
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nation.foxnews.com, Weasel Zippers, Randy's Roundtable and The Lonely Conservative
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New York Post:
Stuyvesant HS students hold ‘Slutty Wednesday’ to protest school's strict dress code policy — Nearly 100 smarties at the city's top-performing high school bared their bodies in “risque” outfits yesterday to denounce their school's conservative dress code — which bans the exposure of shoulders, midriffs, lower backs, bras and undies.
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ABCNEWS, The Daily Caller, New York Times and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: What's Changed After Wisconsin — The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards. — What happened in Wisconsin signals a shift in political mood and assumption. Public employee unions were beaten back and defeated in a state with a long progressive tradition.
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Power Line
The Caucus:
New Poll: The Supreme Court and the Health Care Law — More than two-thirds of Americans hope the Supreme Court will overturn some or all of the 2010 health care law, according to a new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. Just 24 percent said they hoped the court “would keep the entire health care law in place.”
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Erika Johnsen / Hot Air:
NYT/CBS News poll: More than 2/3 of Americans hope SCOTUS will bring the pain on ObamaCare
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Weasel Zippers, The Volokh Conspiracy and Wizbang
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke / Board of Governors …:
Testimony — Economic Outlook and Policy — Before the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. — Chairman Casey, Vice Chairman Brady, and other members of the Committee, I appreciate this opportunity to discuss the economic outlook and economic policy.
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msnbc.com, The Heritage Foundation, Mish's Global Economic …, Economist's View and Mother Jones
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Bernanke Offers No Clear Sign of New Action
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Board of Governors …, msnbc.com, Truthdig and Guardian
John Ruberry / Marathon Pundit:
(Video) AFSCME boss gives race-baiting speech at Occupy Milwaukee rally — On Wednesday, the day after Governor Scott Walker's recall election victory, Occupy Milwaukee held a rally in Pere Marquette Park, A march followed, which was at times was violent. But the ugliest occurrence yesterday …
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The Jawa Report and MacIver Institute
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Rand Paul endorses Romney — File this under signs the Ron Paul campaign is really, truly over: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul threw his support tonight to Mitt Romney. — The endorsement came in an appearance on “Hannity,” a little less than 24 hours after the elder Paul acknowledged in an email …
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