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Why Republicans Keep Calling Women Sluts — As you've heard, yesterday Mike Huckabee stepped up to the plate and smacked a stand-up double in the GOP's ongoing effort to alienate every woman in America, when he said, “If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe …
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Booman Tribune, The Mahablog, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and Feministing
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Does the Republican Party Have to Change? — The members of the Republican National Committee gathered in Washington this week. On Thursday, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and former presidential candidate, was the featured speaker. “The Democrats,” Huckabee declared …
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Rebranding: Who Needs It? — The Mike Huckabee brouhaha yesterday offered about the 155th recent opportunity for non-conservatives to observe that the “rebranding” exercise of the Republican Party isn't going that well. But as The Atlantic's Molly Ball observes today, Republicans really just don't care:
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Booman Tribune and Post Politics


Huckabee rips critics of ‘libido’ comments — Jan. 23, 2014: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee sits down for lunch before speaking at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Washington.AP — WASHINGTON - Mike Huckabee says he is mystified by the liberal criticism of his remarks on women …
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Exclusive: Republican Party Calls For End To NSA Domestic Phone Records Program
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Guardian, Techdirt, CANNONFIRE, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air and TechCrunch

RNC moves toward 2016 changes despite conservative outrage
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Politico, The Impolitic and americanthinker.com

Republicans Vote to Streamline Nominating Process
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Washington Post and She The People

RNC tightens 2016 primary calendar, rules
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CNN and Washington Monthly

Santorum: Huckabee Comment On Women's Libidos Was ‘Off The Cuff’
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Shakesville, The Week, No More Mister Nice Blog and Mediaite


Supreme Court grants temporary reprieve from contraceptive mandate — The Obama administration cannot enforce the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage requirements against a Catholic nuns' order for the time being, if the nuns tell the government they object to providing that coverage, the Supreme Court ruled Friday afternoon.
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Supreme Court Exempts Religious Nonprofits From Contraception Mandate Paperwork During Appeal
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SCOTUSblog, Election Law Blog and ThinkProgress

Supreme Court says nuns are exempt for now from Obamacare contraceptives rule
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In Nuns' Suit, Justices Block Key Mandate In Health Law
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Judge Orders Hospital to Remove Pregnant Woman From Life Support — FORT WORTH — A Texas judge ruled on Friday that a Fort Worth hospital must remove the life support of a pregnant brain-dead woman, siding with the husband and family in a case that has drawn national attention.
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Judge orders JPS Hospital to withdraw life support for brain-dead pregnant woman — Erick Munoz declined to comment as he was escorted out of the courthouse following a judge's ruling. (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) — Marlise Muñoz, with husband Erick and their son Mateo (Kathy Chruscielski)
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ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and NPR


Glitch Is Causing Thousands Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man's Hotmail Account — David S. Peck is getting a lot of emails. In a glitch possibly related to the massive Gmail outage underway right now, there's an odd bug in Google search which is pointing users directly to his personal email address.


EXCLUSIVE: POLITICO TRIES TO MANIPULATE HANNITY COMMENT ON MICHAEL SAVAGE — On Friday, Politico was set to release a puff piece on Michael Savage, the polarizing host tapped by Cumulus to replace iconic talker Sean Hannity on its affiliates. In the process of putting together that puff piece, Politico contacted Hannity for comment.
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Ryan Loskarn believed to have committed suicide — Jesse Ryan Loskarn, a one-time star staffer who was the former top aide to Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, was found dead Thursday afternoon following charges he possessed and distributed child pornography, according to the sheriff's office in Carroll County, Maryland.
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Milestone: 3 Million in Marketplaces — Since the beginning of open enrollment, millions of Americans are gaining access to health coverage-many for the very first time—thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The most recent data indicates that approximately 3. million people have now enrolled …
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Politico, The Daily Caller, ACASignups.net, Balloon Juice and Weasel Zippers
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Attorney: George Zimmerman stole photographer's work to make painting — Lawyer for photographer who took picture of Angela Corey: “You just can't do that.” — The special prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with second-degree murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin …
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White House to launch new political office — Democratic campaign operatives have been getting worried that the White House wasn't doing enough to help them in the midterms, and that President Barack Obama didn't care enough to change that. — Friday, Obama is will provide the answer …
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The Gateway Pundit, CNN and Weasel Zippers


Romney Says Putin ‘Outperformed’ Obama On Foreign Policy — As Mitt Romney sees it, Russian President Vladimir Putin is way ahead of President Barack Obama when it comes to foreign policy. — “I think Putin has outperformed our president time and time again on the world stage,” …
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Liberaland and Associated Press


Pope Francis Is Drafting An Encyclical On The Environment — VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has begun drafting an encyclical on ecology. — The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the document was still very much in its early stages and that no publication date has been set.
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Liberaland


No progress on UI in Senate — A proposal to extend expired jobless benefits that can garner 60 votes in the Senate continues to elude lawmakers involved in bipartisan negotiations. — After the week-long congressional recess and ahead of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address …
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Daily Kos

Satan at the State House — On statues, statutes, and civil society — The Constitution is powerless against Satan. — Earlier this month, the state of Oklahoma received a proposal from New York-based Satanists to build near the state capitol a seven-foot-high statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed pagan idol.
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Olympic Athletes Cautioned on Wearing Team USA Clothing Outside Venues — USOC Memo Warns Athletes Amid Security Concerns — The U.S. unveiled more of its Winter Olympic uniforms Thursday, but officials are cautioning athletes to keep theirs under wraps outside the games' venues.
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ABC News, Atlas Shrugs and Talking Points Memo