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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators: Anyone but Cruz — Jittery Republican senators think Donald Trump would actually give them a better chance of keeping their Senate majority if he were the party's presidential nominee instead of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). — With the Iowa caucuses, the first contest …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump gains in Iowa, still dominates in New Hampshire — With just over a week until the first 2016 election contest, Donald Trump takes the lead in Iowa — and maintains his big advantage in New Hampshire. — That's according to the latest round of Fox News state polls …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP fear and loathing in New Hampshire — NASHUA, N.H. — On Friday and Saturday, the New Hampshire Republican Party held its final big event before the February 9 GOP primary. The First-in-the-Nation Presidential Town Hall, at the Nashua Radisson, attracted the local officials, activists …
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Wesley Muller / Sun Herald:
Father and son die in shootout at Pearl River County gun shop — wmuller@sunherald.com Twitter: WesleySMuller — PICAYUNE — A father and son were killed in a shootout with another man and his son at a gun store Saturday in Pearl River County's Henleyfield community.
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WLOX-TV and Associated Press
Pamela Geller:
VIDEO: Muslim Migrant Who BEAT, SPAT ON Mother with Children in Sweden is Being Deported to ...... Denmark — A couple of days ago, I ran video of a Muslim migrant in Sweden who beat and spit on a mother with her children. The video caused such an uproar, the now “Most Hated Man in Sweden” is being deported — to Denmark.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Jihad Watch
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Hillary's team copied intel off top-secret server to email — The FBI is investigating whether members of Hillary Clinton's inner circle “cut and pasted” material from the government's classified network so that it could be sent to her private e-mail address, former State Department security officials say.
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Politics Informer, MichelleMalkin.com and Power Line
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
Trump would ‘love’ a third-party Bloomberg bid — Donald Trump said Sunday he'd “love it” if former New York mayor and fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg entered the presidential race as a third-party candidate. — “He's very opposite on me with guns and he's opposite on pro-life …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Way to Stop Trump — THIS is, of course, a pointless column. The Republican presidential race is over, as you may have heard. Donald Trump has the nomination wrapped up — in the most luxurious, velveteen packaging you've ever seen. You've seen his polling lead: It's yuge.
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Politico, RedState, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN and The Liberty Zone
Tony Barboza / Los Angeles Times:
Fast-acting methane from Aliso Canyon leak is boosting global warming — Pilot and UC Davis scientist Stephen Conley points out the air intakes on his pollution-detecting plane that measure methane emissions from the Aliso Canyon leak. (Joe Proudman / UC Davis)
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Our Post-Literate Politics — My friends and colleagues have said in National Review's recently published symposium almost everything that there is to be said on the matter of Donald Trump, the vicious demagogue who currently leads the Republican presidential pack in national polls.
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American Thinker, Slantpoint, New York Times and Washington Post
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
This election feels like a reunion of the Woodstock generation — Forget the chatter about millennials, the tech revolution and a new world order. The presidential campaign is taking a U-turn and suddenly feels like a reunion of the Woodstock generation.
Steve Robson / Mirror.co.uk:
RAF ‘foiled ISIS airline terror plot to bomb four UK cities after cracking pop song code’ — Two pilots, who were leaving Amsterdam's airport Schiphol for a Middle Eastern country, used coded language which made reference to pop music, it is claimed — Claims: The suspected pilots used …
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Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch
Kate Scanlon / TheBlaze.com:
Why Marco Rubio Thinks Historic Blizzard is the ‘Best Thing to Happen to the Republic in Quite a While’ — NASHUA, N.H. — During remarks at the First in the Nation Town Hall in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio joked about the positive aspects of the snowstorm bearing down on Washington, D.C.
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