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Clash of Republican Con Artists — So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and ethnic hatred for political gain.
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The Hill and Shakesville
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Five Big Questions After a Vulgar Republican Debate — Does the size of Donald Trump's penis matter? — I'm not being cheeky. I'm not being shocking. I'm noting something that we cannot lose track of, should not shrug our shoulders about and must not gloss over: Trump has succeeded …
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TIME, The Atlantic, Althouse, Moon of Alabama and The Moderate Voice


Donald Trump Was Set Up — The word came in from our best-sourced Fox News Kremlinologists: Fox News had settled for Donald Trump. Roger Ailes had given up on the hapless Marco Rubio. Megyn Kelly was sounding conciliatory, granting that Trump appeared more and more presidential.


Donald Trump defends size of his penis — (CNN)Donald Trump assured American voters Thursday night that despite what Marco Rubio had suggested, there was “no problem” with the size of his hands — or anything else. — “Look at those hands, are they small hands?” the front-runner …
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ABC News, New York Magazine, Vox, Coffee House, Hullabaloo, Ecorazzi, Yahoo Politics, Guardian, The Week, whorunsGov, Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Blistering attacks upend Trump's pivot to statesman mode — First, Donald Trump attacked former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for being a “failed candidate.” Then he turned to “little” Marco Rubio. He angrily listed his recent wins and poll standings.
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Politico


On Seventh Try, Cory Gardner Says He'll Back GOP Nominee — DETROIT - How many times must a Republican U.S. senator be asked if he'll back Donald Trump as the party's presidential nominee to admit that he will? — For Colorado's Cory Gardner, the answer is seven.
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Talking Points Memo

5 takeaways from the GOP debate — It might be too late to beat Donald Trump, but it wasn't too late to give Trump a beating. — Two days after Super Tuesday put the billionaire frontrunner on a nearly unstoppable path to his party's nomination, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz …
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TheStreet.com, New York Times, Vox, Gawker and Politicus USA


Mitt Romney on TODAY Show: I'll do everything within ‘political bounds’ to stop Donald Trump
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Yahoo Politics, Business Insider, Jezebel, New York Times, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, US News, NBC News and 89.3 KPCC

GOP elites have a new strategy to stop Donald Trump, but it carries a big risk
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Shakesville

Trump Brags About His Penis Size: ‘I Guarantee You There Is No Problem’
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Fusion, Scared Monkeys, Mother Jones, NBC News and Washington Free Beacon

First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Business Insider, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Business, The Right Scoop, New York Times, TIME, Mitt Romney and BuzzFeed

One clear loser in Thursday's debate: the Grand Old Party
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USA Today, Political Insider blog, Politico and Daily Kos

Best Lines of the Republican Debate in Michigan
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Associated Press, Yahoo Politics, The Right Scoop and Boing Boing


Rivals pile on Trump in Republican candidates' debate
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, Politico, New York Times and The Atlantic


O.J. Simpson — Buried Knife Found at O.J.'s Estate — A construction worker found a knife buried on the perimeter of the former O.J. Simpson estate ... and it's currently being tested by the LAPD in a top secret investigation ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ. — The story is incredible.
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Whole Foods Sells Peeled Oranges In Plastic Containers, World Revolts — This is pretty bad, any way you peel it. — Whole Foods encourages shoppers to bring their own shopping bags and prides itself on an ability to provide healthy options to shoppers in the best possible way.

GOP crackup has Democrats in stitches — Thursday in the Republican Party was like hilarious fan-fiction for Democrats to hate read until they hurt from all the laughing. — It started with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump erupting into a civil war. It ended with Trump bragging about the size …
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Yahoo Politics and Telegraph
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GOP freakout goes from bad to worse
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Yahoo Politics, Daily Kos, Hot Air, National Review and Hinckley Institute


Mitt Romney offers scathing indictment of Republican tax policies
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Outside the Beltway

Trade, Trump, and Downward Class Warfare
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Equitable Growth


Luntz Focus Group's Winner of GOP Debate, Low Point of Night — What did Michigan voters think about tonight's GOP debate in Detroit? — Frank Luntz shared the reactions of his focus group on a special post-debate edition of The Kelly File. — The voters had some very negative things …
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The Hill, Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Week and Althouse


Pitt Students ‘In Tears’ and Feeling ‘Unsafe’ After Milo Yiannopoulos Event — The University of Pittsburgh's Student Government Board held a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss the traumatizing visit the night before from “dangerous” homosexual and Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos …


Only the voters can judge Donald Trump's horror show of a debate — Donald Trump's rivals and Fox News' debate moderators laid out a clear and factual case on Thursday that Trump's policies were unworkable; that he regularly shifted his positions; and that he had engaged in business practices …
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NBC News
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Trump Softens Immigrant Visa Stance After Cementing Front-Runner Status
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Politico, ParaPundit and Business Insider

U.S. creates 242,000 jobs in February; unemployment rate remains 4.9% — WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. generated 242,000 new jobs in February, snapping back after a modest slowdown in hiring in the first month of 2016. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast the addition of 198,000 nonfarm jobs.
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Payrolls in U.S. Surge While Wages Drop in Mixed Jobs Report
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Politico and The White House


Fewer Democrats Are Voting This Year In (Surprise!) States With Strict New Voter Laws — But Republicans don't appear to be hurt. — Associate Polling Editor, The Huffington Post Visuals Editor, The Huffington Post — As voting rights advocates predicted loud and often …
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CityLab and electionlawblog.org

Trump kills GOP autopsy — Reeling from a second straight loss to Barack Obama, a flailing Republican Party in 2013 found its culprit: Mitt Romney's callous tone toward minorities. Instead of being doomed to irrelevance in a changing America, the party would rebrand as a kinder, more inclusive GOP.
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Politically Speaking, New York Post and ABC News


Clinton Takes Aim at Another Government Watchdog — The Hillary Clinton campaign has gone on the attack against the government official who conducts oversight of the State Department she used to run, accusing him of partisanship and misconduct without any direct evidence.
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Lion Ted: Cruz Crushes the Detroit Debate — In theory, Ted Cruz's best states are behind him. But at the Detroit debate, Cruz was clearly the class of the field and it's clear that no one should count him out as the delegate race moves into its next phase.
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Power Line, CNN and ABC News