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Joshua Green / Businessweek:
The Secret Gingrich-Santorum ‘Unity Ticket’ That Nearly Toppled Romney — It's one of the great untold stories of the 2012 presidential campaign, a tale of ego and intrigue that nearly upended the Republican primary contest and might even have produced a different nominee …
Cynthia Johnston / Reuters:
Marine kills two at Quantico base, takes own life — (Reuters) - An active-duty Marine shot dead two fellow service members at a base at Quantico, Virginia, then barricaded himself in a building and killed himself, prompting a brief lockdown of the base, the Marines said on Friday.
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Taylor Marsh, The Gateway Pundit and The Week
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Nolan Finley / detroitnews.com:
Detroit native Carson could break barriers in Senate race — Dr. Ben Carson is a Black History month staple. Each February, schoolchildren hear the story of the impoverished African-American boy from Detroit, a struggling student whose mother made him read two books a week until he bloomed into a scholar.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
In Israel, Obama draws race parallel
In Israel, Obama draws race parallel
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
The Man Who Could Turn Texas Blue: Rick Perry — By opposing Medicaid expansion, the governor could hurt the GOP in a must-win state. — AUSTIN, Texas—Big in all things, Texas leads the nation in failing to provide health insurance. About one in four Texans are uninsured, the highest percentage in any state.
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Washington Monthly, Pundits Blog, Booman Tribune and First Read
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Is Hillary Clinton Too Conservative To Become President? — While she was at the State Department — and out of politics for four years — Clinton's party was moving to the left, and fast. “Now that she's unshackled by the boundaries of her office, she'll step up to the mic,” says Singer.
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Bill Clinton Reaches Out to Ashley Judd and Her Rival
Bill Clinton Reaches Out to Ashley Judd and Her Rival
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Priebus slams ‘idiotic statements’ by Republicans as reason for losses — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday said the party played into a “caricature” of itself in the 2012 election cycle, citing “idiotic statements” and “biologically stupid things” said by Mitt Romney and other GOP candidates.
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USA Today:
Congress turns to domestic policy after budget battles — WASHINGTON — A brief reprieve in the fiscal battles between President Obama and a divided Congress will allow two contentious and politically divisive domestic issues — guns and immigration — to take center stage in the national debate this spring.
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Harry Reid gun control bill includes background checks
Harry Reid gun control bill includes background checks
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate to take up gun control after break
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid to bring gun bill to floor with expanded background checks
Reid to bring gun bill to floor with expanded background checks
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The Hill, CNN, ABCNEWS, americanthinker.com and The Reaction
Wall Street Journal:
Health Insurers Warn on Premiums — Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans.
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Democracy Now:
Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn't Tolerate Antiwar Voices … In 2003, the legendary television host Phil Donahue was fired from his prime-time MSNBC talk show during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The problem was not Donahue's ratings …
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Crooks and Liars, The BRAD BLOG and Informed Comment
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Can the Republican Party Recover From Iraq? — The war almost killed the GOP. Whether it can come back is yet to be seen. — The air has been full of 10th-anniversary Iraq war retrospectives. One that caught my eye was a smart piece by Tom Curry, national affairs writer for NBC News …
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Obama Twitter account re-tweets John Lennon's bloody glasses — President Obama's Twitter account has re-tweeted a picture of John Lennon's bloody glasses that was originally posted by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. — Ono's tweet gained plenty of attention on Twitter after it was posted Thursday morning.
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Alisa Wiersema / ABCNEWS:
Yoko Ono Tweets John Lennon's Bloody Glasses
Yoko Ono Tweets John Lennon's Bloody Glasses
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Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:
Wasserman-Schultz: My Aides on Brink of Starvation — WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: MY AIDES CAN'T AFFORD GOOD MEALS … On Tuesday, FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her colleague VA Rep. Jim Moran openly whined about the impacts of spending cuts on their personal office budgets.
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TheBlaze.com, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers and National Republican …
Paul Brinkmann / bizjournals:
Jeb Bush to return $270,000 paid by fraudster Osorio — Former Gov. Jeb Bush has agreed to return $270,000 that he was paid as a consultant to convicted fraudster Claudio Osorio and Osorio's companies. — An agreement outlining Bush's settlement payment was filed Thursday in bankruptcy court in Miami.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Treasure Island Trauma — A couple of years ago, the journalist Nicholas Shaxson published a fascinating, chilling book titled “Treasure Islands,” which explained how international tax havens — which are also, as the author pointed out, “secrecy jurisdictions” where many rules don't apply — undermine economies around the world.
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msnbc.com and Prairie Weather
Politico:
Why Republicans still run K Street — Democrats control the White House and the Senate, but you wouldn't know it by looking down K Street. — Republicans hold more than 30 of the 50 highest-profile, in-house lobbying jobs in town, a POLITICO analysis found.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Denver Post:
Tom Clements murder probe: Did white supremacist gang order a hit? — Colorado corrections officials are investigating whether a paroled white supremacist prison gang member at the center of the investigation into the execution-style murder of state prison chief Tom Clements was ordered by the gang to do a …
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Talking Points Memo, Hatewatch, BBC, The Raw Story, New York Times and KDVR.com
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Ryan's budget rejected in Senate on 40-59 vote — The Senate rejected House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget Thursday night. — Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) forced Senate Republicans to vote on Paul's plan through an amendment she offered, which failed on a 40-59 vote.
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The Maddow Blog, Yahoo! News and The Hill
David S. Bernstein / thephoenix.com:
Mrs. Warren goes to Washington — Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's credentials, support, and savvy make her almost untouchable — and she knows it. — Elizabeth Warren was the only senator on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, aside from the chair and ranking minority …
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Mary L. Dudziak / New York Times:
Obama's Nixonian Precedent — ON March 17, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon began a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia, sending B-52 bombers over the border from South Vietnam. This episode, largely buried in history, resurfaced recently in an unexpected place: the Obama administration's …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Gay marriage group puts out new ad — A national coalition backing same-sex marriage is releasing a new ad Friday, leading into next week's Supreme Court debate on the Defense of Marriage Act. — The $150,000 ad buy is the latest step in a $1 million campaign.
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Freedom to Marry Blog, msnbc.com, Towleroad News #gay, The Fix and Taylor Marsh
Sapna Maheshwari / Bloomberg:
Lululemon Sheer Yoga Pants Undetected Until Bend-Over Test — Wall Street analysts from Robert W. Baird & Co. to Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. peppered Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU) executives today with questions about how the yoga-wear retailer is handling a recall of women's pants for being too transparent.
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Washington Monthly, Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
CNN:
Mom: 2 kids shot, killed my baby — Brunswick, Georgia (CNN) — Police said Friday they have received more than 30 leads “from concerned citizens” to help with their investigation into the fatal shooting Thursday of a 13-month-old boy. — “Our uncompromising search has led us from door …
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Adam Winkler / The Daily Beast:
Did the Assault-Weapons Ban Kill Gun Control? — The Democrats' likely failure to reinstate the assault-weapons ban is a blow to gun-control efforts, writes Adam Winkler. And that's not because the ban was effective or necessary. — Sen. Harry Reid announced Tuesday that he would not be including …
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New York Times:
IPhone Contracts With Carriers Under Scrutiny in Europe — European Union regulators are examining the contracts Apple strikes with cellphone carriers that sell its iPhone for possible antitrust violations after several carriers complained that the deals throttled competition.