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Mitt Romney would restore ‘Anglo-Saxon’ relations between Britain and America — Mitt Romney would restore “Anglo-Saxon” understanding to the special relationship between the US and Britain, and return Sir Winston Churchill's bust to the White House, according to advisers.
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Democrats Plan To Go Nuclear On Romney “You Didn't Build This” Attack — In a memo, DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse outlines aggressive response to “BS” Romney claim. — Image by JAMES GLOVER / Reuters — DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse outlined an all-out response …
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Romney Adviser Says Obama Doesn't ‘Fully Appreciate’ Our ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ — An adviser to Mitt Romney told a London paper that Obama has not been an effective partner for Britain because he doesn't “fully appreciate” America's “Anglo-Saxon heritage.”
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TRENDING: Super PAC uses Olympic ‘opening ceremony’ to hit Romney in ad
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Chicago, DNC plan coordinated national pushback on 'You didn't build that'
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SPIN METER: Obama's 'You didn't build that' echoes
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The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful People — Forget the Loaded Potato Skins. Max Engling was surely the best thing to come out of an Indianapolis TGI Friday's, where he was waiting tables when a diner with ties to the modeling industry discovered him. — That's right — Engling …
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Obama has no patience for 'you didn't build that' attacks — SEATTLE - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he's losing his patience over the Republican attacks aimed at his “you didn't build that” comment. — “I have to tell you, I generally have patience with what the other side says about me …
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Obama gets personal on Planned Parenthood
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EXCLUSIVE: Movie massacre suspect sent chilling notebook to psychiatrist before attack — Three days after he allegedly shot up a Colorado movie theater, killing 12 and injuring scores, suspect James Holmes appeared in court, where he seemed disheveled and disoriented.
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Obama Keeps Lead as Voter Anxiety Rises — American voters are growing more polarized and locked in their views as they witness a presidential campaign that is boosting negative feelings about both candidates, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Tuesday shows.
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NBC/WSJ poll: Negative campaign takes toll on candidates; Obama up six points
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Who's up for a new NBC/WSJ poll based on a bad sample?
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Mogul's Latest Foray Courts Jews for the G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — A Republican group backed by the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is starting a new effort in battleground states to win over Jewish voters who could be persuaded to turn away from President Obama and support Mitt Romney.
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Nanny Mike's next target a real boozy — The next city health-care crackdown: alcohol abuse. — Having attacked smoking, trans fats and sugary drinks, the Bloomberg administration is ramping up its campaign against alcohol abuse, The Post has learned. — The city Health Department …
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Democrats catch major typo in Republicans' deregulation bill — House Democrats on Tuesday caught an error in a GOP deregulation bill that is aimed at only allowing new regulations to be issued once the unemployment rate falls to 6 percent, but unwittingly refers to the employment rate.
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Who signed the Md. anti-gay marriage petition? — Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon — Send via Email — Send this page to Print Friendly — The names of some 110,000 Maryland residents who signed a petition to force the state's new marriage equality law onto …
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Wall Street Legend Sandy Weill: Break Up the Big Banks — Former Citigroup Chairman & CEO Sanford I. Weill, the man who invented the financial supermarket, called for the breakup of big banks in an interview on CNBC Wednesday. — “What we should probably do is go and split up investment banking …
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Did President Reagan Neglect National Security? — The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Mitt Romney is recounting a Jim Baker anecdote in which President Reagan ordered Baker, as White House chief of staff, to hold no national security meetings over a hundred day period early …
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Justice Scalia Disputes Accuracy Of ‘Leak’ … Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke with NPR on Tuesday at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, influential conservative and pugilistic dissenter, is challenging everything from a recent leak …
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WATCH: David Letterman 'We're Screwed' Due To Fracking — David Letterman held nothing back last week when he voiced his concerns over fracking, calling the oil companies greedy, he plainly explained to America, “we're screwed.” — The Late Show host went on to point out the issues …
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Government Motors: GM Stock Hits New Low, Taxpayer Loss Hits $35 Billion — General Motors (GM) shares closed down 1.5% to 19.02 on Monday, hitting 18.85 intraday. That's the lowest since the U.S. auto giant came public again in November 2010 at 33 a share. Update: GM shares early Tuesday fell 1.4% to 18.76, hitting a new low.)


Washington Post Reporter Allows College Officials to Alter Story on Controversial Test — Reporter breaks journalistic convention by sharing entire drafts with ‘customers’ in University of Texas press office. — In February, Daniel de Vise, a reporter for the Washington Post …
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Obama Thanks ‘Gay-Porn Kingpin’ — This evening in Portland, Oregon, President Barack Obama thanked a man named Terry Bean for organizing the reelection campaign fundraiser he was speaking at: — “I want to thank someone who put so much work into this event, Terry Bean,” President Obama said as the crowd began to cheer.
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Greenland's ‘Extreme Melt Event’ — During a five-day period earlier this month, 97 percent of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet thawed. — When NASA scientist Son Nghiem was analyzing data from the Oceansat-2 satellite last week, he noticed that an unusual amount of Greenland's surface …
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'We're Not Going to Protect You' — New York's mayor calls for a police insurrection. — Last night New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg made an extraordinarily dangerous and radical pronouncement. He was appearing on CNN's “Piers Morgan Tonight” when the host asked him …
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VIDEO: Herman Cain adviser explains smoking ad while smoking — RENO - Mark Block, the campaign strategist who became a minor Internet sensation when the Herman Cain campaign last year released an online-only advertisement featuring Block smoking a cigarette, was watching Cain at a rally …
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New Yorkers Like Cuomo As Gov, Clinton As President, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Obama, Gillibrand Bury GOP Challengers — New York State voters push Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval rating to a new high 73 - 16 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Obama on defense on small business — Smarting from the attack on his “you didn't build that"speech the Obama team is inexplicably running a whiny, defensive ad saying, “Those ads taking my words about small business out of context, they're flat out wrong.” Wow. This is his version of the “I am not a witch” ad.