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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 7:20pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that he's made some mistakes in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and that his repeated references to his wealth have hurt his effort.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 7:15pm EST
ContributorNetwork - FIRST PERSON | LARGO, Fla. -- After Mitt Romney was highlighted as the projected winner for Florida Republican primary, Newt Gingrich made a statement during his speech that was very important. He said that, "This is the most important election of your lifetime... if Barack Obama gets re-elected, it will be a disaster for the United States of America."
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 7:01pm EST
AP - Wyoming lawmakers have shot down the so-called doomsday bill, a proposal that would have resulted in a plan of action in case the federal government collapses.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:59pm EST
AP - More than 4 in 10 voters in Michigan's Republican presidential primary said Tuesday they supported the federal bailout of the auto industry, according to early results of an exit poll of voters there. Both major candidates in the race opposed the aid.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:55pm EST
Politico - The Maine Republican's decision hands Democrats an opportunity to put another GOP-held seat in play.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:07pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Rick Santorum's observation that President Barack Obama is a "snob" for wanting people to seek education beyond high school has brought into being an eclectic group of people who have taken him to task over the statement.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:40pm EST
Daily Caller - Taylor Swift will be arriving with her 18-year-old guest in Las Vegas, Nev. for the AMC Awards on April 1 after the teen, who is suffering from leukemia, reached out to her on Facebook.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:13pm EST
Politico - The numbers on how much House Republicans spent in their year-old probe are hard to find.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:07pm EST
AP - Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum has dubbed himself a conservative heavyweight.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:04pm EST
AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States is working closely with Libya as it struggles to create a post-Moammar Gadhafi (MOO'-ah-mar gah-DAH'-fee) existence.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:02pm EST
AP - Republican rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum collided Tuesday in a rancorous Michigan presidential primary that tested the clout of the GOP establishment against conservative and tea party rebels as well as the candidates themselves.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:01pm EST
Reuters - Republicans turned up the heat on President Barack Obama's energy policies on Tuesday, hammering an election-year issue that they view as his weak spot amid rising gasoline prices.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:58pm EST
AP - When Rick Santorum rebuked John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on religion, he was repeating a common conservative view that the address did more harm than good.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:43pm EST
AP - In a politically sizzling attack, President Barack Obama on Tuesday accused his Republican presidential challengers of abandoning the American worker and took credit for the auto industry's resurgence while singling out GOP opposition to the taxpayer-backed rescue of General Motors and Chrysler that he helped engineer.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:40pm EST
Daily Caller - Within minutes of LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja’s unexpected resignation, House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to several of President Barack Obama’s agencies requesting documents related to the emerging scandal.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:14pm EST
Daily Caller - House Speaker John Boehner blamed “radical environmental groups” for high gas prices and said that it’s “just about damn time that we actually have a national energy policy and do something the American people want us to do.”
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:58pm EST
AP - Plotting a comeback, Newt Gingrich looked beyond Tuesday's Republican presidential primaries in Michigan and Arizona to the Southern voters he hopes will revive his struggling campaign once more, including in his home state.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:24pm EST
Politico - A new U.S. Senate candidate in Virginia wears a tie, has a campaign website and even launched an ad. One big difference? He has a thick coat of fur.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:03pm EST
AP - European Union observers on Tuesday questioned why Senegal's government is not publishing real-time results from a contentious presidential election, saying that in the Internet age there is no reason for the delay.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:47pm EST
Politico - The House minority whips says the president may be blamed for the rising prices at the gas pump.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:35pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Rick Santorum has shown that he is not afraid to bring divisive topics to the forefront of the GOP race for president, but has he gone too far this time? The Evangelical Catholic is now saying that he is opposed to an absolute separation of church and state. Though he may poll well with Evangelical Christians, Santorum may be risking the tea party vote with such outlandish comments.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:31pm EST
AP - France's Constitutional Council ruled Tuesday that a French law concerning the mass killings of Armenians a century ago violates the country's constitution.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:37pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama announced Tuesday the creation of a new enforcement office to challenge what he called unfair trade practices in China and other countries around the world.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:34pm EST
Politico - Her are five things to watch for as the polls close in the West and the Midwest.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:21pm EST
AP - Frescoes discovered on the walls of an Orthodox Church in Poland have been identified as 15th-century art works, and funds are being raised to restore them.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:06pm EST
AP - Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum declared himself a conservative "heavyweight" on Tuesday as he defended his decision to court Michigan Democrats in the state's high-stakes GOP primary.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 11:08am EST
AP - With voting under way in Tuesday's critical Michigan primary, Mitt Romney said he's struggling with the conservative Republican voters backing rival Rick Santorum in the state because he's unwilling to make the "incendiary" comments he said they want.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 10:59am EST
AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Syria's President Bashar Assad fits the definition of a war criminal.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:06am EST
AP - Newt Gingrich disagrees with Rick Santorum's harsh criticism of the famous speech on religion that John F. Kennedy delivered as he campaigned to become the nation's first Roman Catholic president.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 8:23am EST
The Week - A new poll reveals that nearly three-fourths of Americans believe Obama's health-care reform law is unconstitutional — including 56 percent of DemocratsA new USA Today/Gallup poll offers some sobering numbers about President Obama's signature domestic policy achievement. The Affordable Care Act is broadly unpopular among registered voters, the poll finds, with half calling its passage a "bad thing" and 42 percent a "good thing." In 12 crucial swing states, the numbers are worse: 53 percent "bad" versus 38 percent "good." Also, 72 percent of all polled adults believe the ACA's individual mandate is unconstitutional, including 56 percent of Democrats. Furthermore, half of registered voters want the law repealed if a Republican beats Obama in the fall, versus 44 percent who don't. Why are Americans so down on health-care reform? Here, three theories:
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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 8:23pm EST
AP - When Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum calls President Barack Obama "a snob" for wanting all Americans to attend college, he may be out of step with the public's overall view of higher education.
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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 2:26pm EST
ContributorNetwork - ANALYSIS | Mitt Romney is in a fight of his political life against two candidates with more conservative credentials, and a libertarian who claims to be the true heir to the limited government mantle that conservatives claim. Distrusted by conservatives like Sarah Palin, Romney arrived at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on the defensive.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:29pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama wants to close dozens of loopholes that let some companies pay little or nothing in taxes. But he also wants to open new ones for manufacturers and companies that invest in clean energy.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:29pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama wants to close dozens of loopholes that let some companies pay little or nothing in taxes. But he also wants to open new ones for manufacturers and companies that invest in clean energy.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:10pm EST
AP - GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday a U.S. apology to Afghan authorities for burned Qurans on a military base was "astonishing" and undeserved.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:07pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to upend Rick Santorum's image as a principled defender of conservative ideals Thursday, telling voters in Arizona and Michigan that the former senator is just another give-and-take politician.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:07pm EST
AP - Most people like President Barack Obama's proposal to make millionaires pay a significant share of their incomes in taxes. Yet they'd still rather cut spending than boost taxes to balance the federal budget, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows, giving Republicans an edge over Democrats in their core ideological dispute over the nation's fiscal ills.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:07pm EST
AP - Soaring gasoline prices are threatening to undercut President Barack Obama's re-election prospects and offering Republicans an easy target. With prices pushing $4 a gallon and threatening to go even higher, Obama sought Thursday to confront rising public anxiety and strike back at his GOP critics.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:05pm EST
AP - Massive tax cuts proposed by GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum would cause the national debt to explode while Mitt Romney's budget plan could generate red ink in line with current projections, according to a new study released Thursday.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:42pm EST
Daily Caller - “Fur is murder,” the old PETA slogan goes. But now anti-fur activism can be a killer too. A Cleveland, Ohio woman was arrested Tuesday for conspiracy to commit murder after she posted a Facebook message offering to pay a hit man $730 to kill someone wearing fur.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:42pm EST
Daily Caller - “Fur is murder,” the old PETA slogan goes. But now anti-fur activism can be a killer too. A Cleveland, Ohio woman was arrested Tuesday for conspiracy to commit murder after she posted a Facebook message offering to pay a hit man $730 to kill someone wearing fur.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:25pm EST
Daily Caller - Whitney Houston was a fierce talent — singer, actress, a great beauty. And it turns out the “I Will Always Love You” singer had a soft spot for missing children, and tipped off her security to find a kidnapped Atlanta child in 2008.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:25pm EST
Daily Caller - Whitney Houston was a fierce talent — singer, actress, a great beauty. And it turns out the “I Will Always Love You” singer had a soft spot for missing children, and tipped off her security to find a kidnapped Atlanta child in 2008.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:16pm EST
AP - Sarah Palin's final months in office saw her fighting for a signature accomplishment of her tenure — a natural gas pipeline project — and frustrated over a series of ethics complaints that had been filed against her, according to emails released Thursday by Alaska state officials.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:16pm EST
AP - Sarah Palin's final months in office saw her fighting for a signature accomplishment of her tenure — a natural gas pipeline project — and frustrated over a series of ethics complaints that had been filed against her, according to emails released Thursday by Alaska state officials.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:06pm EST
Politico - They're lowering the price tag, shortening the duration and getting rid of a transit funding provision.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:06pm EST
Politico - They're lowering the price tag, shortening the duration and getting rid of a transit funding provision.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:04pm EST
Politico - The state Senate kills any chance of action on the controversial measure before the 2012 election.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:04pm EST
Politico - The state Senate kills any chance of action on the controversial measure before the 2012 election.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:37pm EST
AP - TITLE: "Say What"
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:10pm EST
The Envoy - The "highest levels" of the Syrian regime are responsible for "widespread and systematic" human rights violations in Syria, a special United Nations-backed panel reported Thursday. It's the first sign that members of the Bashar al-Assad regime might eventually be held accountable for war crimes. "The widespread and systematic violations of human rights in Syria could [...]
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:10pm EST
The Envoy - The "highest levels" of the Syrian regime are responsible for "widespread and systematic" human rights violations in Syria, a special United Nations-backed panel reported Thursday. It's the first sign that members of the Bashar al-Assad regime might eventually be held accountable for war crimes. "The widespread and systematic violations of human rights in Syria could [...]
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:07pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Fox News commentators along with several conservative leaders and politicians have continuously asserted that there is a growing conspiracy among media and news outlets to indoctrinate us with news delivered with a liberal bias. Most of us probably still remember the infamous Katie Couric interview when Sarah Palin could not name a single newspaper that she read, which later became late night television fodder. After that, attacks on the "lame-stream" media and accusations of 'gotcha!' journalism became commonplace in the campaign rhetoric.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:07pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Fox News commentators along with several conservative leaders and politicians have continuously asserted that there is a growing conspiracy among media and news outlets to indoctrinate us with news delivered with a liberal bias. Most of us probably still remember the infamous Katie Couric interview when Sarah Palin could not name a single newspaper that she read, which later became late night television fodder. After that, attacks on the "lame-stream" media and accusations of 'gotcha!' journalism became commonplace in the campaign rhetoric.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:40pm EST
The Week - SEE MORE: Obama's recess appointments: Unconstitutional?
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:40pm EST
The Week - SEE MORE: Obama's recess appointments: Unconstitutional?
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 11:42am EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has criticized rival Rick Santorum for saying politicians sometimes need to "take one for the team."
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 10:23am EST
AP - Days before a crucial Republican presidential primary in Michigan, President Barack Obama is claiming credit for the U.S. auto industry rebound in the state.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:26am EST
AP - A political adviser to President Barack Obama says Republicans are damaging their chances of defeating him by engaging in "nasty, negative, carpet-bombing" debates.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:34am EST
AP - The mayor of New Jersey's largest city called for state authorities Wednesday to investigate a widespread spying operation conducted in Newark's Muslim neighborhoods by the New York Police Department that he characterized as "deeply offensive."
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:33am EST
AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday accused his Republican presidential rivals of peddling a philosophy that is "wrong about America," seeking to rev up his supporters as he hauled in campaign cash in an important swing state.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:01am EST
AP - Cutting corporate tax rates and deleting loopholes is just what most economists prescribe for the tangled U.S. tax code.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:57am EST
AP - A bitter and often personal debate behind them, Republicans Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are shoring up their campaigns in different ways ahead of a series of crucial presidential primaries.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:56am EST
AP - Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:55am EST
AP - The longer GOP presidential candidates compete for conservative activists' favor, the more they risk alienating centrist voters who might feel that arguments over birth control are crowding out talk about how to create jobs.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:01am EST
Politico - CNN's Wednesday night Republican debate was a painfully long and often personally biting affair.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:00am EST
Daily Caller - Thursday is a great day for so many reasons. The next day is Friday, you tend to be extra thirsty and it follows the ever-famous hump day, to name a few.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 11:19pm EST
Politico - Simon says the Republican hopefuls still managed to amaze in their 20th debate.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:45pm EST
AP - The Republican candidates say more must be done to combat illegal immigration.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:38pm EST
AP - Republicans Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are sparring over Santorum's support for his former Senate colleague, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:14pm EST
AP - An Idaho Republican state senator who had been seen as a political riser has stepped down amid sexual harassment allegations.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:11pm EST
AP - The Republican presidential candidates are trying to avoid a debate on contraception and instead are looking to keep the focus of their criticism on President Barack Obama.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:51pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are clashing on spending requests during a sharp confrontation that fellow Republican Newt Gingrich calls "silly" as the Republican presidential contenders' debate.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:47pm EST
AP - Current and former aides to Sarah Palin lashed out Wednesday at HBO's "Game Change," describing the upcoming film's depictions of her on the 2008 campaign trail as "sick" and inaccurate.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 5:37pm EST
The Ticket - TUCSON, Arizona --The Tucson Tea Party didn't take any chances with security when they hosted Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum at a meeting here Wednesday, just a few miles from where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot last year while meeting with constituents. "Sen. Santorum is not intending to speak outside, for security reasons," the Tucson [...]
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 4:17pm EST
Daily Caller - On Tuesday night’s “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher explained how the GOP field has whittled itself down from nine candidates to four, and offered some choice words for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 2:39pm EST
AP - A longtime security official and his wife have been detained in Estonia on suspicion of passing classified information and state secrets to Russia, prosecutors said Wednesday in a case likely to add to long-standing tensions between the two countries.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 1:01pm EST
The Week - The proposal would doom the recovery: "This is a terrible, terrible plan," says James Pethokoukis at The American. The stagnant economic recovery is already "arguably the worst in modern American history," and instead of giving corporate America a hand, Obama now wants to saddle companies with so-called reform that would "actually raise the tax burden on American business by $250 billion over a decade." That would make us less competitive than ever, and doom our chances of bouncing back anytime soon."Why Obama's corporate tax plan is a total bust"
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 3:12am EST
AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some countries begin to explore the possibility of arming Syria's rebels.
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Posted: February 21st, 2012, 3:14pm EST
AP - As of Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at least 1,771 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:14am EST
AP - President Barack Obama's proposed budget would eliminate the nation's only program that regularly tests fruits and vegetables for deadly pathogens, leaving public health officials without a crucial tool used to investigate deadly foodborne illness outbreaks.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:14am EST
AP - President Barack Obama's proposed budget would eliminate the nation's only program that regularly tests fruits and vegetables for deadly pathogens, leaving public health officials without a crucial tool used to investigate deadly foodborne illness outbreaks.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:12am EST
AP - Republican Mitt Romney is faltering with white working-class voters crucial to his party's drive to capture the White House, even as he tries to fend off a rising GOP challenger, Rick Santorum, who wields strong blue-collar appeal.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:12am EST
AP - Republican Mitt Romney is faltering with white working-class voters crucial to his party's drive to capture the White House, even as he tries to fend off a rising GOP challenger, Rick Santorum, who wields strong blue-collar appeal.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:09am EST
AP - Relieved congressional bargainers say they've reached agreement on compromise legislation extending payroll tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed through 2012, edging a white-hot political battle a major step closer to finally being resolved.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:02am EST
AP - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday threw his support behind Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination, calling the former Massachusetts governor "the man for the job."
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:19am EST
Politico - The title is based on the number of public corruption convictions there in recent decades.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:19am EST
Politico - The title is based on the number of public corruption convictions there in recent decades.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 4:35am EST
Politico - The Florida Republican has been flexing his power as a senator to get his say on foreign policy.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 4:35am EST
Politico - The Florida Republican has been flexing his power as a senator to get his say on foreign policy.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 3:05am EST
AP - Courting donors in Democrat-rich California, President Barack Obama is raising millions of dollars for his re-election bid while warning supporters that a long campaign awaits.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 3:05am EST
AP - Courting donors in Democrat-rich California, President Barack Obama is raising millions of dollars for his re-election bid while warning supporters that a long campaign awaits.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 3:00am EST
AP - Rick Santorum is stepping into Mitt Romney's old backyard to talk about the economy — a direct challenge to the Republican front-runner on the topic Romney considers his own.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 3:00am EST
AP - Rick Santorum is stepping into Mitt Romney's old backyard to talk about the economy — a direct challenge to the Republican front-runner on the topic Romney considers his own.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 11:00pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum released four years of federal income tax returns on Wednesday night, showing a sharp rise in his personal wealth spurred by his growing work as Washington-based corporate consultant and media commentator.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 9:46pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is wooing tea partyers in his home state of Michigan with a potentially risky strategy: blasting the auto industry bailout that many people credit with saving the state's most vital industry.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 9:46pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is wooing tea partyers in his home state of Michigan with a potentially risky strategy: blasting the auto industry bailout that many people credit with saving the state's most vital industry.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:51pm EST
AP - U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, once seemingly unbeatable in Indiana, has been scrambling to reintroduce himself to Hoosiers amid a barrage of attacks that he has lost touch — an argument his tea party challenger repeated Wednesday in front of the Indianapolis home the incumbent sold decades ago.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:23pm EST
AP - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is letting TV ads do the dirty work in Michigan while he stays on the high road with voters.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:08pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney's campaign and an allied independent group have launched a heavy television ad blitz to shore up the former Massachusetts governor's position in his home state of Michigan and undercut his opponents in several states holding contests in coming weeks. Many of the ads target Rick Santorum, who has emerged as Romney's top conservative rival but who has far fewer resources to defend himself on television.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:08pm EST
Daily Caller - England’s Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton will celebrate their first anniversary on April 29 alongside their Barbie clones. Toy maker Mattel will have ready the dolls for purchase on April 7.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:08pm EST
Daily Caller - England’s Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton will celebrate their first anniversary on April 29 alongside their Barbie clones. Toy maker Mattel will have ready the dolls for purchase on April 7.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:10pm EST
Daily Caller - The Maine Republican Party has added additional votes accidentally omitted from Saturday’s caucus results, state party chairman Charlie Webster told The Daily Caller Wednesday. But those votes won’t be publicly released.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:10pm EST
Daily Caller - The Maine Republican Party has added additional votes accidentally omitted from Saturday’s caucus results, state party chairman Charlie Webster told The Daily Caller Wednesday. But those votes won’t be publicly released.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:15pm EST
AP - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Wednesday declined to ask the Justice Department to release thousands of records from the House Ethics Committee's investigation into his conduct as speaker in the 1990s.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:15pm EST
AP - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Wednesday declined to ask the Justice Department to release thousands of records from the House Ethics Committee's investigation into his conduct as speaker in the 1990s.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:52pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin seems to be making the news a lot lately, especially for someone who insists that she is not running for president. While she has been unwilling to formally endorse any of the GOP candidates for president, she has injected her voice into the debate through her appearances on Fox News and other media outlets. Is she trying to help the GOP or does she have some other agenda? Is it possible that she is just so in need of attention that she is willing to risk sabotaging the Republican race for president? Or is she using the publicity as a way to sell more books and DVDs?
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:52pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin seems to be making the news a lot lately, especially for someone who insists that she is not running for president. While she has been unwilling to formally endorse any of the GOP candidates for president, she has injected her voice into the debate through her appearances on Fox News and other media outlets. Is she trying to help the GOP or does she have some other agenda? Is it possible that she is just so in need of attention that she is willing to risk sabotaging the Republican race for president? Or is she using the publicity as a way to sell more books and DVDs?
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:48pm EST
AP - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday blamed "external actors" for prolonging Syria's agony, suggesting that the U.S. and its allies opposed negotiations to end the bloodshed there and were responsible for torpedoing a U.N. resolution aimed at calming the situation.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:48pm EST
AP - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday blamed "external actors" for prolonging Syria's agony, suggesting that the U.S. and its allies opposed negotiations to end the bloodshed there and were responsible for torpedoing a U.N. resolution aimed at calming the situation.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 1:54pm EST
AP - It doesn't compute: Medicare's bill for artificial feet has jumped by more than half, although foot and leg amputations due to diabetes continue to decline dramatically.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 1:54pm EST
AP - It doesn't compute: Medicare's bill for artificial feet has jumped by more than half, although foot and leg amputations due to diabetes continue to decline dramatically.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 1:15pm EST
The Week - The 30-second ad, put out by Michigan Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra (who hopes to take on incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow in the fall), opens with a Fu Manchurian clang of a gong, followed by a young Chinese woman riding a bike leisurely down a narrow dirt path lined by rice paddies. Sashaying to a stop, she delivers a beguiling Anna May Wong smile, and speaks in a sweet voice peppered with just enough grammatical errors to bite like salt on a fresh wound: "Thank you, Michigan Senator Debbie Spend-it-now. Debbie spends so much American money. You borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Debbie Spend-it-now." The scene then cuts to an avuncular Hoekstra summarizing the moral of this tale about faraway places: "I think this race is between Debbie Spend-it-now and Pete Spend-it-not." Zing.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 1:15pm EST
The Week - The 30-second ad, put out by Michigan Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra (who hopes to take on incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow in the fall), opens with a Fu Manchurian clang of a gong, followed by a young Chinese woman riding a bike leisurely down a narrow dirt path lined by rice paddies. Sashaying to a stop, she delivers a beguiling Anna May Wong smile, and speaks in a sweet voice peppered with just enough grammatical errors to bite like salt on a fresh wound: "Thank you, Michigan Senator Debbie Spend-it-now. Debbie spends so much American money. You borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Debbie Spend-it-now." The scene then cuts to an avuncular Hoekstra summarizing the moral of this tale about faraway places: "I think this race is between Debbie Spend-it-now and Pete Spend-it-not." Zing.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:30am EST
AP - First lady Michelle Obama is planning a visit to the Pentagon to promote more help for military spouses who often suffer higher unemployment than others because they move so much.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:30am EST
AP - A top adviser to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign says Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has taken "divisive positions" on key social issues.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:16am EST
Politico - Sixty-six percent of voters say they support the Obama administration’s insurance requirement.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:08am EST
AP - Pointing to a rebound in manufacturing, President Barack Obama on Wednesday is visiting a Milwaukee plant that has brought back jobs to the United States.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:51am EST
AP - Congressional leaders are gauging lawmakers' reactions to a tentative deal extending a 2 percentage-point payroll tax cut and extra jobless benefits through 2012, a pact bargainers reached after House Republicans conceded that the tax cut would not have to be paid for with spending cuts.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:23am EST
Politico - Employers say concerns about the price of health care are the reason that they are not hiring.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:47am EST
AP - Senior North Korean officials are pledging loyalty to new leader Kim Jong Un ahead of what would have been his late father Kim Jong Il's 70th birthday.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:19am EST
Reuters - President Barack Obama takes his election-year economic message to the Midwestern heartland on Wednesday, touring a Wisconsin padlock factory and stressing the potential of "insourcing" jobs back to the United States from overseas.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:47am EST
Politico - His camp is pulling out all the stops to win his native state and stop Santorum's momentum.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:30am EST
Politico - Santorum added 9,000 fans the day after he won the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:25am EST
AP - Promoting farm subsidies was once a no-brainer for rural members of Congress seeking re-election. This year, it's a bit trickier.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:11am EST
AP - Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign has a history of near-death experiences, and the former House speaker insists another resurrection is on its way.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 2:31am EST
AP - The latest Republican to surge in polls, Rick Santorum is trying to turn his newfound strength into something lasting.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:58am EST
Daily Caller - Congressional Republicans are now interested in examining the Media Matters For America‘s tax-exempt status, The Daily Caller has learned. Doing so would cause the GOP to wade into the complex world of tax laws that govern “exempt organizations” such as Media Matters and more than 1 million other charitable organizations that are exempt from federal income tax.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:55am EST
AP - Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is exploring Secret Service protection following a rowdy rally in Washington state earlier in the week.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:09am EST
Daily Caller - Despite having the ear of Obama administration officials and generating research that has had a major influence in driving the agenda of establishment media, direct interest in Media Matters For America on the Internet has been on a downward spiral for years.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:37pm EST
AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president's new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation's wealthiest families and the alternative would be to seek more painful cuts in other government programs such as defense, Social Security and Medicare.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:40pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | If there was anything that could be taken from Sarah Palin's pre-CPAC speech interview with CNN and the New York Times this weekend, it was that she is firmly in the not-Romney camp and is simply hoping for the general electorate to decide which of the more conservative candidates (Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum) will make a better choice for the GOP nomination. That, and she is in no hurry to endorse, just in case Mitt Romney does eventually end up as the Republican Party nominee for president.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:23pm EST
AP - After years of procrastination, the White House and Congress have suddenly boosted a long-term plan to improve the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems to the top of the political agenda.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:17pm EST
AP - If you want a window into how outside Republican groups are likely to assail President Barack Obama's record this year, look no further than how the GOP is lambasting the administration's handling of solar company Solyndra.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:42pm EST
AP - Egypt circulated a U.N. General Assembly resolution Tuesday strongly condemning human rights violations by the Syrian regime and backing an Arab League plan aimed at ending the 11-month conflict in the country.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:29pm EST
AP - A group dedicated to reducing government secrecy gave its annual worst performance award Tuesday to the Justice Department, the agency President Barack Obama ordered in 2009 to lead his drive to open more government records to the public.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 1:46pm EST
AP - Tina Fey's red suit, flag pin and eyeglasses worn to channel her Sarah Palin parodies of the 2008 presidential race are going on view at the Newseum, along with items from journalists and candidates who made history in presidential politics.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 11:09am EST
The Week - No one elected Barack Obama to be Pope. So why on Earth is he forcing Catholics to violate their religious doctrines?President Barack Obama went a long way this month to proving conservative critics correct when they paint the president as aloof and arrogant. In a long-anticipated decision, Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius mandated that employers provide coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients at no charge — not even copays — as part of the ObamaCare regulation of health insurance. That mandate exempts "places of worship," but not religiously affiliated organizations such as schools, charities, and hospitals. When an eruption of outrage followed the announcement of this new rule, Obama announced an "accommodation" — without once bothering to consult the religious organizations impacted by the rule, nor changing the impact of the rule one whit through the supposed "compromise."
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:14am EST
Reuters - President Barack Obama's 2013 election-year budget took investors by surprise with a call for significantly higher taxes on dividends, a major change from his earlier tax proposals and one that will raise the ire of dividend-paying companies.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:51am EST
Politico - “Dogs Against Romney” is taking its grievances to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:11am EST
AP - It's make or break time for Nicolas Sarkozy if he wants another term as French president.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:15am EST
Politico - The United States’s voter registration system is in chaos, the Pew Center on the States finds.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 3:37am EST
The Week - The president knows the tax hikes in his spending plan have no chance of passing the GOP House. But that could still give him a great campaign argumentHere's a Barack Obama sound bite, from February 23, 2009, that you're likely to hear oh, about a zillion times this fall — but not from the Obama team:
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 3:19am EST
AP - President Barack Obama proposed tax increases on wealthy individuals and some corporations Monday, setting the stage for an ideological battle that won't be resolved until after the November election — if then.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:16pm EST
AP - Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum clashed with Tacoma Occupy protesters Monday night during his first visit to a state he said would be a "momentum changer" heading into Super Tuesday.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:51pm EST
Daily Caller - A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, Karl Frisch emailed a memo to his bosses, Media Matters for America founder David Brock and president Eric Burns. In the first few lines, Frisch explained why Media Matters should launch a “Fox Fund” whose mission would be to attack the Fox News Channel.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:01pm EST
AP - Republican Newt Gingrich on Monday dismissed calls to drop out of the presidential contest in order to set up a direct contest between rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The former House speaker insisted that his ideas and a new determination to stay positive would help him once again resuscitate his flagging candidacy.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:34pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney and his under-funded opponents are taking advantage of a weeklong lull in the Republican presidential nomination fight — no debate or primary is slated — to raise the money needed to carry out Super Tuesday strategies and compete in states beyond.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:14pm EST
AP - If Mitt Romney is rattled by polls showing presidential rival Rick Santorum nipping at his heels, he didn't show it Monday at an outdoor rally with about 2,500 people.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:42pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama's upcoming West Coast fundraising trip will feature a musical lineup worthy of Grammy gold.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 6:31pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin is weighing in on the GOP nomination race. She appears to have something to say about everyone and has little positive to say. It's almost embarrassing for the Republican Party to have her voice an opinion. Palin comes across less like an expert on campaigning and more like a washed-up booth babe trying to show she does have something useful to say.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 6:00pm EST
AP - Despite criticism of Fannie Mae by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, his campaign accepted nearly $280,000 in donations raised by a registered lobbyist who once represented the government mortgage giant and whose clients now include a private equity firm and the drug company Pfizer.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 5:08pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama's new budget lays down the political themes he will pound as he campaigns for re-election — more spending on jobs and higher taxes for the wealthy. It sets him apart from the Republican contenders and gives Democrats a platform to run on.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 4:39pm EST
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has surged into a virtual tie with front-runner Mitt Romney in a national poll on Monday, becoming the clear favorite of Tea Party voters and white evangelicals.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 3:31pm EST
Daily Caller - Sony and Apple wasted no time capitalizing on Whitney Houston’s untimely death, cranking up prices on her online music downloads.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:44pm EST
Reuters - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed limiting tax breaks given to high-income earners on the interest paid by municipal bonds, a change that could rock the $3.7 trillion market if approved.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:25pm EST
Daily Caller - While Hugh Hefner was being honored with the “Humanitarian of the Year” award by Angelwish Sunday night, his son Marston was getting arrested, TMZ reports.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:24pm EST
Daily Caller - Jennifer Hudson is perhaps the only entertainer alive who could live up to Whitney Houston’s powerful performances of “I Will Always Love You.”
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:49pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama proposed tax increases on wealthy individuals and some corporations Monday, setting the stage for an ideological battle that won't be resolved until after the November election — if then.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:42pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | I've often said to people that the greatest contribution Sarah Palin has made to the country was not running for president. I'm not afraid to say it, but her homespun folksy delivery of speech just screams of somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about. One of her most recent statements doesn't necessarily expose this fact. It just brings it to light again.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:07pm EST
Politico - He knocks Santorum for saying he had "concerns" about women serving in frontline combat.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:29pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | If one doubted Sarah Palin wields great power by virtue of her charisma and persona, that notion was laid to rest during her speech at the CPAC convention when she had the overflow audience on their feet numerous times.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:19pm EST
AP - A former senior British police officer was sentenced to jail on corruption charges Monday for falsely arresting a business rival over a financial dispute.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:09pm EST
Reuters - The White House announced plans on Monday to help "Arab Spring" countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:00pm EST
Daily Caller - An internal Media Matters For America memo obtained by The Daily Caller reveals that the left-wing media watchdog group employs an “opposition research team” to target its political enemies. Included in the list of targets are right-leaning websites, conservative think tanks, prominent financiers and donors, and more than a dozen specific Fox News Channel and News Corporation employees.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:15am EST
Politico - It's a budget plainly constructed to light a spark after all the economic troubles of recent years.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:12am EST
Daily Caller - In the wake of Whitney Houston’s sudden death on Saturday, fans paid tribute to the singer in the most fitting way —listening to her music. A member of Houston’s entourage found the 48-year-old singer unresponsive in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, just hours before she was supposed to appear at a pre-Grammy gala.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:54am EST
Politico - Conservative leaders call plan unconstitutional.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:47am EST
Politico - Take a look at the different ways the media characterized Obama's change on the birth control mandate.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:04am EST
AP - Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon and the CIA to make satellite signals virtually impossible to track.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:45am EST
AP - Police are conducting a homicide investigation regarding the death of an American college student in Spain and have detained a suspect.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 6:24am EST
The Week - In an interview with Ebony, Jackson shares his views on the American political system. Not everyone is appreciativeAmid grumbling from some black intellectuals and media personalities about Obama's record on tackling poverty, says Newsweek's Allison Samuels, Black Hollywood is weighing how much to support President Obama's reelection campaign. When Ebony asked actor Samuel L. Jackson where he stood, his answer raised some eyebrows. Obama's "message didn't mean sh*t to me," Jackson said, according to the New York Post. "I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do." Implying that Obama has not yet been able to behave like a "scary" "n*gga," Jackson said he hopes Obama will be more "scary" in his second term, "cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected." "I voted for Barack because he was black," Jackson said. "Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them." Is this an honest insight, or gross intolerance?
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 11:36pm EST
AP - A day after Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, his rival Rick Santorum went on the attack, calling the front-runner "desperate" while promising to compete aggressively to win the state where Romney grew up.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 11:36pm EST
AP - The White House said Monday legislation in the Senate that would give employers broad leeway to restrict coverage for contraception is "dangerous and wrong."
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 8:23pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 2:09pm EST
AP - Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he'll push to overturn the requirement because it was another example of government meddling.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:39pm EST
AP - Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon and the CIA to make satellite signals virtually impossible to track.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:31pm EST
Daily Caller - On Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC, George Will noted that the tough week former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had, with losses in Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota, continues the same narrative that has been played out throughout this Republican nomination process.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:31pm EST
AP - A day after Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, his rival Rick Santorum went on the attack, calling the front-runner "desperate" while promising to compete aggressively to win the state where Romney grew up.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:17pm EST
Reuters - President Barack Obama will not make any more changes to the rule announced last week requiring health insurance plans to provide women with coverage for contraception, although U.S. Catholic bishops have said it violates the Church's religious principles.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:13pm EST
AP - The Arab League will call Sunday for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria, the latest effort by the regional group to end the 11-month old crisis that has killed more than 5,000 people.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:09pm EST
Daily Caller - On Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum suggested that it was possibile that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney “rigged” the outcome of Saturday’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll, in which Romney won 38 percent to 31 percent.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 11:50am EST
AP - From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 11:16am EST
AP - Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 11:13am EST
Daily Caller - Former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell told The Daily Caller that former Sen. Rick Santorum’s “fiscal record is more liberal” than Gov. Mitt Romney’s “social record.”
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 10:28am EST
Daily Caller - On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sarah Palin addressed Julianne Moore’s less-than-flattering representation of her in HBO’s “Game Change,” saying the movie is “based on a false narrative” but also proof her public persona had a positive effect on the economy.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 10:18am EST
AP - The dustup over contraception underscored President Barack Obama's political edge in working to attract independent voters without alienating his Democratic base. His Republican rivals are forced to keep emphasizing their conservative credentials to attract the right-leaning activists who dominate the nominating contests.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 9:14am EST
AP - Rick Santorum says he expects to do well in the next GOP presidential contests and will be in a two-man race with Mitt Romney.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 7:04am EST
Politico - Keeping up with the pulse, the campaign joined Spotify to share its 2012 playlist.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 11:11pm EST
Politico - The news of her death drew reactions from the political world as well.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 8:13pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney added to his lead in the race for delegates Saturday with a narrow victory in the Maine Republican presidential caucuses.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:01pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney is thanking Maine voters after the state party chairman declared him the winner of that state.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 3:02pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices abroad, a senior administration official said Saturday.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 1:50pm EST
AP - In just the past few days, she's danced with cheering school kids, chatted with troops, swapped ideas with busy parents and engaged in a friendly cooking competition with stars from "Top Chef."
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 1:05pm EST
Daily Caller - Democrats moved Saturday to make contraception an issue in the 2012 election by releasing a video attack-ad that portrays opposition to the White House’s proposed regulation of churches as a GOP-led effort to deny free contraception to all women.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 12:22pm EST
AP - It's not like he wasn't warned.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 12:09pm EST
Daily Caller - On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer doubled-down on an assertion he made last week about the inevitability of an Israeli strike on Iran to limit their nuclear capabilities.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 11:49am EST
AP - Mitt Romney faulted President Barack Obama's original push to require church-affiliated employers to pay for birth control as an "assault on religion," but as Massachusetts governor, Romney was largely silent about a state law that required virtually the same contraceptive coverage.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 10:48am EST
Politico - He seems to know his fate is largely in their hands .
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 8:43am EST
AP - President Barack Obama is pressuring Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the rest of the year as another deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working people.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:11am EST
AP - Mitt Romney hoped to avoid a fourth straight election setback Saturday in the GOP presidential nomination race, but feisty Ron Paul could extend that losing streak with a victory in Maine's caucuses.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:11am EST
AP - President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:10am EST
AP - President Barack Obama's opposition is now the divided one.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 6:56am EST
Politico - The GOP hopeful makes clear why he’s still struggling to win the trust of a party base.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 6:50am EST
AP - Money laundering at the Vatican bank. Corruption in the awarding of Vatican contracts. Even a purported plot to kill Pope Benedict XVI.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 6:29am EST
Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek billions of dollars for jobs and infrastructure in his 2013 budget, an appeal to voters that draws election-year battle lines over taxes and spending as Republicans slammed him for "debt, doubt and decline."
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 4:36am EST
AP - Staggered by Rick Santorum's surge, Mitt Romney is trying to reset his presidential campaign by defining himself as a strict conservative.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 3:29am EST
AP - What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 2:20am EST
The Week - Obama caves, Syria bleeds, Madonna unloads — and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion1. OBAMA COMPROMISES ON CONTRACEPTIONIn an attempt to calm a weeks-long "furor," President Obama backtracked on a "rule that would require health insurance plans — including those offered by Roman Catholic hospitals, universities and charities — to provide free birth control to female employees." The tweaked rule now requires insurers, not religious organizations, to offer the cost-free contraceptives. "Religious liberty will be protected, and a law that requires free preventive care will not discriminate against women," the president said. [New York Times]
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 12:26am EST
AP - Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 9:19pm EST
Politico - The picture shows Marines in front of a flag resembling the insignia of the Nazi SS.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 8:57pm EST
Reuters - The Greek cabinet approved late on Friday a draft law setting out the tough reform and austerity program it needs to take as the price of a new EU/IMF bailout.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 7:07pm EST
Politico - House and Senate leaders are hoping to negotiate a framework this weekend to extend the tax cut.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:45pm EST
AP - Michelle Obama says her daughters' main concern about the coming presidential election is all about them.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:36pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney and Ron Paul rarely even acknowledge each other in the Republican presidential race, focusing their attention and attacks on rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum instead. That curious detente is being tested in Maine's caucuses this week, where Romney's reputation as a political shape shifter is going head-to-head with Paul's consistent libertarian views.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:03pm EST
Daily Caller - A Facebook post went viral Wednesday after the father of a 15-year-old girl decided her online activity was disrespectful, but it’s bringing her a kind of fame she probably never imagined. Her punishment? Eight exploding, hollow-point rounds from a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, straight into her laptop.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 4:05pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama is raising money for his re-election campaign from a small group of wealthy donors who each paid $35,800 to meet with him at a hotel near the White House.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 3:35pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney says he has a "severely conservative" record as he looks to win over voters who favored his rivals in recent contests.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:54pm EST
Daily Caller - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used the word “conservative” 19 times in his much-anticipated Conservative Political Action Conference speech Friday afternoon.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:13pm EST
AP - Turkey's foreign minister said Friday he will propose new ways to pressure Syria when he meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 10:17am EST
The Ticket - Fresh off his three-state election night sweep, Rick Santorum spoke to CPAC on Friday morning. "As conservatives and tea party folks, we are not just wings of the Republican Party," he said. "We are the Republican Party." Santorum criticized the Obama administration's health care regulation that would require Catholic hospitals and universities to provide birth [...]
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:13am EST
AP - New orders from the Pentagon: The military on Thursday formally opened thousands of jobs to women in units that are closer to the front lines than ever before, reflecting what's already been going on as female American soldiers fight and die next to their male comrades.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:10am EST
AP - The United States and its allies believe the window to stop Iran from building a bomb is quickly closing, pushing conflict with the Islamic republic to the top of the Obama administration's national security worries in the midst of an election year.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:35pm EST
Politico - Thousands conservative converge on Washington.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 9:02pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday accused President Barack Obama of actively seeking ways to allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon and suggested that the administration had betrayed Israel by publicly disclosing what may be a plan to attack the Muslim nation.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:57pm EST
AP - Democrats are deeply divided over President Barack Obama's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees amid fresh signs that the administration was scrambling for a way out.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:38pm EST
AP - An Uzbekistan national charged with threatening the life of President Barack Obama was also charged Thursday with providing material aid to terrorism.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:35pm EST
AP - Ron Barber was always the behind-the-scenes man for his boss, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:13pm EST
Politico - Sources say federal scrutiny of the company’s licensing of smartphone patents will likely continue.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:32pm EST
AP - If Mitt Romney needs some good news in an otherwise lousy week, he might find it in an improbable place: the packed hallways of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:55pm EST
AP - A federal judge who was vilified by Republican presidential hopefuls for banning prayer at a Texas high school graduation delivered a scathing and unusually personal response Thursday, saying those who used the case to further political goals "should be ashamed."
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:12pm EST
AP - FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:45pm EST
AP - The campaign finance system is so broken that legislative changes, including a constitutional amendment, are needed to rein in runaway, secret spending in elections, congressional Democrats said Thursday.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:13pm EST
Daily Caller - Just when you thought SEAL Team 6 left Osama bin Laden good and dead in his watery grave, leave it to Hollywood to bring him back to life — sort of.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:54pm EST
AP - Vice President Joe Biden says he's convinced America is better positioned than other nations to continue to lead the world's economy — whether or not his boss is still in charge.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:28pm EST
Daily Caller - There is no denying that Denzel Washington is a badass. But for his latest flick, “Safe House,” he took his badassery to a whole new level.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:23pm EST
AP - The number of people who claim that a Vienna psychiatric ward injected them with a parasite that causes malaria while treating them as teenagers has increased to seven.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:11pm EST
Daily Caller - A group of House Democrats chided the Catholic Bishops for opposing a part of the health care law that requires religious institutions to cover contraceptives in employee health insurance plans.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:55pm EST
Daily Caller - Ron Barber, a former top aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, announced Thursday that he will run in the special election to finish out her term.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:54pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama seems to be taking more flak for "mandatory" contraception than former President Ronald Reagan took for another form of "contra," the disgraceful arms-for-hostages Iran-Contra affair . This contra-diction says volumes about our comparative political values.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:45pm EST
Politico - He wants to end the "reign of environmental terror."
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:38pm EST
AP - The State Department's internal watchdog has cleared the agency of any impropriety in its review of a permit for a controversial pipeline that that would carry Canadian oil across the continental United States.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:25pm EST
AP - Serbia was struggling to keep its power system going, officials warned Thursday, after weeks of record low temperatures in Europe that have snarled traffic, frozen rivers and challenged officials to step up outreach to the vulnerable homeless.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:22pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is defending his use of spending earmarks in Congress, saying some were necessary for defense or health programs.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:20pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Just in time for the 2012 presidential election, America's tradition of cultural warfare appears to making an unwelcome resurgence. Uncertain, though, is whether this revert is just a brief departure from the economic debates that were so prominent in 2010, when fiscal conservatives touting the tea party brand were elected in spades to Congress. On the other hand, these social issues may be of high political significance. Certainly, with the economy in the process of improvement, critics of President Obama may be looking towards the perceived flaws of him and his party in another sphere altogether: the sociocultural realm of abortion, gay rights, and religious freedom.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:38am EST
Politico - They fight over unemployment insurance as the payroll tax conference committee remains stalled.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:17am EST
Reuters - The policies of U.S. President Barack Obama and his potential Republican rivals differ, but when it comes to campaign trail fashion they could not be more alike with their style at the frontline of winning votes.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:17am EST
Reuters - The policies of U.S. President Barack Obama and his potential Republican rivals differ, but when it comes to campaign trail fashion they could not be more alike with their style at the frontline of winning votes.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:25am EST
Politico - She says she "mishandled" the Planned Parenthood controversy.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:25am EST
Politico - She says she "mishandled" the Planned Parenthood controversy.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:12am EST
AP - Syrian forces fired mortars and rockets Thursday in the rebellious city of Homs, the latest salvo in a weeklong assault that has killed hundreds as President Bashar Assad's regime tries to crush increasingly militarized pockets of dissent.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:12am EST
AP - Syrian forces fired mortars and rockets Thursday in the rebellious city of Homs, the latest salvo in a weeklong assault that has killed hundreds as President Bashar Assad's regime tries to crush increasingly militarized pockets of dissent.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:37am EST
AP - Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:37am EST
AP - Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:34am EST
The Week - CNN yanks an in-house political analyst off the air, but some argue that the punishment doesn't fit the tweet
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:48am EST
Politico - Romney’s poor performance Tuesday is prompting them to go public with a bracing message.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:48am EST
Politico - Romney’s poor performance Tuesday is prompting them to go public with a bracing message.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:30am EST
Time.com - Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his "messaging" right on Iran
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:26am EST
AP - The Georgia presidential primary may not be a slam dunk for Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich, a congressman from the state for two decades. Rival Mitt Romney is signaling that the biggest prize on Super Tuesday could be up for grabs.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:19am EST
AP - Newt Gingrich, suddenly in danger of losing his perch as Mitt Romney's strongest GOP challenger, is fine-tuning his presidential campaign to place more emphasis on raising money, guarding his home turf and trying to avoid nasty quarrels with the front-runner.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:32am EST
AP - The Obama administration's new mandate that religious organizations pay for their workers' birth control has become a bludgeon for Republican culture warriors, as social issues have surged to the forefront in the presidential campaign.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:27am EST
Politico - The Senate minority leader plans to launch a fierce attack on the Obama administration.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:33pm EST
Daily Caller - Without former Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, President Barack Obama wouldn’t have gotten his health care overhaul in 2010 passed through Congress.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:56pm EST
Politico - While many fees increase, the patent office claims the total an applicant is likely to pay will fall.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:54pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the undisputed favorites in Maine, the next state weighing in on the Republican presidential race. They're the only candidates who have made much of an effort here.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:58pm EST
Daily Caller - Ellen DeGeneres publicly responded to the conservative American Family Association’s “One Million Moms” project Wednesday, after it complained about JCPenney’s choice of the lesbian talk show host as its new spokesperson.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:44pm EST
AP - Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:38pm EST
AP - One day after Rick Santorum's startling breakthrough in the presidential race, his few aides decamped to distant states to start building campaign organizations from scratch. It was evidence of his challenge in converting sudden momentum into victories in the rush of contests ahead.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:33pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney still can't seem to win over the bulk of the conservatives who make up the bedrock of the Republican Party.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:39pm EST
AP - A national group of Latino public officeholders is projecting that 12.2 million Hispanics will vote in the general election this November.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:18pm EST
AP - The No. 2 U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that U.S. military advisory teams will start deploying to Afghanistan this year to help Afghan combat forces as they take a more prominent role in fighting the Taliban.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:05pm EST
AP - The White House is taking on GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney over his criticism of President Barack Obama's birth control coverage mandate.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:24pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Rick Santorum's sweeping victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri do more than buoy the former Pennsylvania senator's chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination or hand front-runner Mitt Romney a severe setback. Santorum's triple win also disproves the popular myth that the tea party is somehow a new phenomenon in conservative politics rather than the same old gang of extremists made up mostly of the Christian Right.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:17pm EST
Reuters - President Barack Obama's new rule on contraceptives amounts to an attack on religious freedom and Congress will act, if needed, to stop it, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:02pm EST
AP - House Democrats are envisioning another Giants victory — not by the professional football team, but by Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson in a congressional run.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:14pm EST
Daily Caller - Modeling revealing lingerie in front of millions of people is not the Christian way, according to former Victoria’s Secret model Kylie Bisutti.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:04pm EST
Daily Caller - It all started because of Words With Friends. Who knew the mobile word game could cause so much controversy?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:18am EST
Politico - She says the contest is still “up for grabs” in her state and plans to endorse later this month.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:49am EST
AP - An Israeli-French soldier who was held hostage for five years by Palestinian militants met Wednesday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:59am EST
The Week - A former White House intern claims to have engaged in an 18-month affair with the late president, and offers all the salacious details in her new book
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:10am EST
Politico - He says conservatives are beginning to see that "we provide the best opportunity to beat" Obama.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 4:30am EST
Politico - The GOP hopeful has dramatically resuscitated a campaign that was bordering on irrelevant.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:53am EST
AP - Mitt Romney just can't shake his difficulty attracting conservatives. And that reality is undercutting his effort to cast himself as the inevitable Republican presidential nominee and prolonging a race that each day exposes deep divisions within the party.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:34am EST
AP - A jubilant Rick Santorum is leveraging victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri to increase pressure on Mitt Romney, labeling him "a well-oiled weather vane" who often shifts his positions.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:30am EST
AP - Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney's turf.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:18am EST
AP - Mitt Romney says he's a better tea party candidate than his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:46am EST
AP - GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich did his best to ignore his poor showing in three states Tuesday, spending the day campaigning in Ohio and staying out of sight when primary results rolled in from Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:09am EST
AP - A resurgent Rick Santorum has been declared the winner in three states, raising questions about Mitt Romney's appeal with conservatives at the core of the Republican Party.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 11:36pm EST
Politico - There's still fallout from the two senators' bitter lobbying battle over their alma maters.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 11:14pm EST
AP - Former Sen. Rick Santorum moved into second place Tuesday in the race for delegates with wins in Republican presidential caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:50pm EST
AP - Rick Santorum has won the Missouri Republican primary, a nonbinding election that carries bragging rights but does not award any delegates in the race for the presidential nomination.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:35pm EST
Time.com - Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his "messaging" right on Iran
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:26pm EST
Reuters - Argentina's president on Tuesday accused Britain of "militarizing the South Atlantic" and vowed to complain to the United Nations as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:58pm EST
Politico - The House speaker owns the highway bill and will be on the hook if it turns into a 435-car pileup.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:35pm EST
AP - Hammered by Republicans and the Catholic Church, the White House hinted at compromise Tuesday as it struggled to calm an election-year uproar caused by its rule requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth control.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:26pm EST
AP - Political turmoil over abortion and birth control spread suddenly on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:41pm EST
Daily Caller - Can you smell what The Rock is cooking up next?
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:14pm EST
Daily Caller - A jury convicted former Pennsylvania House Democratic leader Bill DeWeese on Monday of theft, conspiracy, and other charges, but he said he would not give up his seat and would continue to seek reelection, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:23pm EST
Reuters - An adviser to Sarah Palin, a Tea Party leader and a Republican politician are starting a super PAC to endorse conservative women running for office and gather women's support for the Republican nominee in the presidential election.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:17pm EST
AP - An Italian court refused Tuesday to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off a Tuscan island last month.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:06pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama said Sunday it would be risky to attack Iran. Ya think? He wasn't concerned about Iranian military capabilities, and really shouldn't be. They are no match for anything the U.S. Navy would throw at them or anything our allies already have positioned in the region. He's more concerned about the impact it would have on the price of oil.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:47am EST
AP - Republican presidential challenger Rick Santorum is hoping that his weeks of criticism of GOP front-runner Mitt Romney will pay off Tuesday when Colorado and Minnesota hold nominating caucuses. Romney, in turn, is looking to continue his winning streak after back-to-back victories in Florida and Nevada last week.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:18am EST
AP - In a reversal, President Barack Obama is embracing the big-money fundraising groups he assailed as a "threat to democracy" on the grounds they let money corrode elections. His shift is a pragmatic move to win re-election, and a concession that his team had no choice but to catch up and go along with today's supercharged rules.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:48am EST
Reuters - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is returning more than $200,000 in donations from the family of a fugitive casino magnate linked to violence and corruption in Mexico who has been seeking a pardon, Obama's campaign confirmed on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:06am EST
Politico - Sizing up races in Missouri, Colorado, Minnesota.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:22am EST
The Week - Tea Party rallies were everywhere in 2010. But the small-government movement has slipped from view as Mitt Romney surges toward the GOP nomination. Why?
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:38am EST
Politico - His campaign is taken by surprise by fierce public backlash from his own party.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:18am EST
AP - Republican Rick Santorum is planning some last-minute campaigning in each of the three states holding presidential contests Tuesday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:16am EST
AP - Presidential contender Mitt Romney is fighting to win over social conservatives in Tuesday's Republican caucuses.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:13am EST
AP - Ron Paul has invested days of campaigning and money for television ads ahead of caucuses in Minnesota, where he's hoping he can eke out the first win of his Republican presidential campaign.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:11am EST
AP - Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is campaigning in Ohio in hopes of appealing to Republicans who will vote well ahead of the state's March 6 primary.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:52am EST
AP - Colorado's caucuses offer the Republican candidates for president a glimpse of their support in the Mountain West.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:44am EST
AP - In presidential politics, Minnesota is as close to a Democratic fortress as states come.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:10am EST
AP - After back-to-back fiascos in Nevada and Iowa, the term "caucus" may be on its way to becoming a bad word in the GOP lexicon.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:33pm EST
AP - Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:59pm EST
AP - Tiawanda Moore didn't think she was doing anything wrong. When two Chicago police officers tried to stop her from filing a sexual harassment complaint against one of their colleagues in 2010, she wanted to record her conversation with them on her smartphone.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:22pm EST
AP - Tea party activists long skeptical of Mitt Romney are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after giving up on finding a candidate they like better.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:13pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says his consulting group never lobbied for clients. But his business hired state and federal lobbyists to work with clients, and some staff left to take lobbying jobs, according to lobbying disclosures and corporate reports.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:08pm EST
AP - U.S. oil prices fell below $97 per barrel Monday as growing supplies offset moves by President Barack Obama and other Western leaders to make it tougher for Iran to sell crude. Here's how energy contracts traded.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:43pm EST
AP - Tax reform sounds like a good idea to lots of people, but where to start? Eliminate the popular deduction for home mortgages? End the write-off for charitable contributions? How about expanding the Social Security payroll tax?
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:05pm EST
AP - After losing Saturday's Nevada caucus race, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich sought solace in what he called an encouraging statistic: that his supporters were turning out to vote more enthusiastically than those of his chief rival, Mitt Romney.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:58pm EST
Politico - There won't be a special investigative subcommittee to look into allegations against the congressman.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:36pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | After tweeting angrily about how Newsweek had run an article about "dumb" critics of Barack Obama by Andrew Sullivan, a "Trig Truther," Sarah Palin has published her own piece in the same magazine about her special-needs son.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:08pm EST
Politico - Santorum argues that if Romney could cost Republicans the general election if he becomes the nominee.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:43pm EST
AP - Sports events across Europe are falling victim to the continent's deep freeze, but the Dutch are ecstatic, hoping that the revered "Eleven Cities" speedskating race can be staged later this month for the first time in 15 years.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:49am EST
AP - A coalition of black ministers in Detroit called Monday for U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra to apologize for his Super Bowl ad featuring a young Asian woman speaking broken English to describe the impact of the Democratic incumbent's economic policies.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:39am EST
Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday imposing new, stricter sanctions on Iran and its central bank, saying a broader asset freeze was necessary because Iranian banks were concealing transactions.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:12am EST
AP - President Barack Obama says one of the toughest parts about being president is that his wife has been dragged into the "political realm."
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:09am EST
AP - A British judge has jailed two German men after they pleaded guilty to terror charges.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:59am EST
Politico - Singer M.I.A.'s act is likely to be reviewed.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:50am EST
AP - President Barack Obama said the U.S. has a "very good estimate" of when Iran could complete work on a nuclear weapon, but cautioned that there are still many unanswered questions about Tehran's inner workings.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:12am EST
AP - Mitt Romney has added to his lead in the race for delegates now that Republican officials in Nevada finished the vote count from Saturday's presidential caucuses.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:36am EST
AP - President Barack Obama says the rise of political action committees guarantees that there will be a lot of negative ads in the lead-up to November's presidential election.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:35am EST
Politico - It's the first time since July that he's garnered more than half the votes in a matchup with Romney.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:37am EST
AP - Mitt Romney's remark that he's not worried about the very poor, the latest gaffe in a campaign rich with blunders, joins a long list of wait-let-me-explain episodes in presidential election history.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:15am EST
AP - Nevada Republicans have finally finished counting the votes in their Saturday presidential caucuses.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:34am EST
AP - You wouldn't know it from the Republicans, but these are boom times for American energy.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 9:32pm EST
AP - Now it's on to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 9:20pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney's big win in Nevada four days after his breakthrough victory in Florida spells big trouble for his remaining rivals. Simply put: Is there any way to stop Romney now?
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 5:14pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama isn't picking sides this Super Bowl Sunday.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 5:02pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation's economic troubles.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:01pm EST
AP - Minnesota once took pride in progressive reform and political consensus.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:54am EST
Politico - Sam Lahood and 18 others stand accused of illegally receiving foreign funds.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:31am EST
AP - Mitt Romney's decisive victory in Nevada was never much in doubt. He won the state's caucuses four years ago, kept his organization active and he could count on support from Mormons who made up a quarter of caucus goers this year.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:07am EST
AP - A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:49am EST
AP - Congo's presidential election was so fraud-riddled nobody knows for sure who won. Two months later, the international community that helped pay for the vote now seems content to simply keep the incumbent in power.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:11am EST
Reuters - It does not guarantee him re-election in November, but it is an advantage President Barack Obama is likely to carry into the fall: a broad base of supporters who have given him the symbolic vote of confidence with a donation of less than $200.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 6:54am EST
AP - The price Russia will have to pay in international condemnation of its action clearly doesn't seem excessive to the Russian leaders. In fact, the Kremlin even may hope to reap some dividends both at home and abroad by coming to Assad's defense.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:46am EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | In a video presentation, Scott Rasmussen of the Rasmussen Poll had some terrible news for Barack Obama and some puzzling news for Mitt Romney. The news concerned the attitude of currently uncommitted voters, 12 percent of the population.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:43am EST
AP - Angry Ron Paul supporters overtook a special caucus Saturday night for religious voters who honor the Sabbath, prompting long lines, frantic GOP officials and voter fraud complaints.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:24am EST
AP - Defeated in the Nevada caucuses, Newt Gingrich brushed aside all talk of quitting the Republican presidential race and said he hopes a series of victories will enable him to catch up with front-runner Mitt Romney by the Texas primary in early April.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:08am EST
Politico - The Silver State bet big on Mitt Romney Saturday night.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:07am EST
AP - For now at least, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign seems to mostly be going according to plan. A commanding Nevada victory Saturday night underscored as much.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:58pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney rode overwhelming backing from Mormons and his best performance yet among conservatives to his emphatic victory Saturday in Nevada's Republican presidential contest, according to preliminary results of a poll of voters entering the caucuses.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:54pm EST
AP - Now it's on to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:44pm EST
AP - The Republican party official in charge of counting Nevada caucus ballots in Las Vegas says the process is expected to take all night.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:19pm EST
AP - Some notable moments from Saturday's Nevada presidential caucuses:
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:40pm EST
AP - Rick Santorum said Saturday he wants to "endanger" rival Newt Gingrich while presidential rival Ron Paul claimed to have "reason to be optimistic" heading into Tuesday's contests as both Republican hopefuls peered ahead past the Nevada caucuses that handed both defeat.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:12pm EST
AP - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has won Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul remain in a tight race for second, with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum finishing last.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:42pm EST
AP - Preliminary results of an entrance poll shows Nevadans participating in today's caucuses were focused on the economy and which candidate could best defeat Obama. The deeply conservative electorate included the largest share of tea party backers and the highest number of Mormons of any state to cast ballots thus far in the nomination contest.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:03pm EST
Politico - Network entrance polling shows he accomplished a powerful near-sweep of most voter groups.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:36pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has little hope for an upset in Nevada's caucuses and instead is looking to best rival Ron Paul for second place.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:32pm EST
AP - Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney reached for his second straight victory Saturday in quiet Nevada caucuses, a contest that Newt Gingrich and the rest of his rivals conceded in advance.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:25pm EST
AP - Republican Rick Santorum said Saturday he wants to "endanger" rival Newt Gingrich while presidential rival Ron Paul claimed "the American people are waking up," both campaigning outside Nevada as that state began its GOP caucuses.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 2:38pm EST
Reuters - Russia and China vetoed Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to end his bloody crackdown on unrest after hundreds were reported killed in the city of Homs.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 2:24pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Former Nevada assemblywoman Sharron Angle announced her endorsement of Rick Santorum for president through a statement released to The National Review on Wednesday. Given that she is popular among some tea party factions, the endorsement could help the uber-conservative Santorum in some political circles. But Angle is seen as an extremist by most leaning -- well, simply leaning anywhere to the left of her political views.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:50pm EST
ContributorNetwork - According to the Nashua Telegraph, the Wedel family of Fort Worth, Texas, has changed considerably since Jennifer Wedel's online confrontation with President Barack Obama over the subject of H1-B visas to skilled foreign workers.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:59am EST
AP - Russia, China veto UN resolution backing Arab plan calling on Syrian president to step down
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:27am EST
AP - Mitt Romney listens. Newt Gingrich lectures.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:04am EST
Politico - Most people have probably forgotten that Maine’s caucuses also begin today.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 8:48am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Mitt Romney has three big things going for him in todayâs Republican caucuses in Nevada: Momentum (and fund-raising chops) from his big win in Floridaâs primary election Tuesday. A fractured and therefore ineffectual tea party movement. And a lot of Mormon coreligionists.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:34am EST
Politico - The plan would allow about 3.5 million homeowners to refinance their mortgages.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:25am EST
AP - Mitt Romney expects Nevada's caucuses to kick off a month of primary and caucus contests to keep momentum on his side in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:40am EST
AP - With its 24-hour casino gambling, legalized prostitution and drive-through wedding chapels, Nevada seems anything but conventional. When it comes to voting in presidential elections, it's as mainstream as it gets.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:14am EST
AP - The stronger the economy gets, the more the presidential race comes down to what voters believe: Are things actually getting better? Or is it all still a mess?
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:38pm EST
AP - The debate coach who worked with Mitt Romney ahead of two well-received debate performances in Florida is no longer with the Republican's presidential campaign.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:10pm EST
AP - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Friday backed prominent conservative James Dobson's claim that President Barack Obama's administration would block medical treatment for stroke patients over age 70. Professional medical groups have called such statements bogus.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:03pm EST
AP - A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012:
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:16pm EST
AP - The Air Force on Friday detailed plans to cut the service by nearly 10,000 active, National Guard and Reserve airmen next year, as part of a broad move to downsize and shift capabilities around the country to be better prepared for wars of the future.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:55pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney talks about his love for America almost every day. Twice now, the Republican presidential front-runner has even broken into song.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:44pm EST
AP - The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are already in trouble with the government. Some are pressing for new laws or regulations that would benefit their interests in energy, mining and high finance.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:38pm EST
Reuters - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:14pm EST
Politico - He promises that his pledge to match donations up to $250,000 still stands.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:20pm EST
AP - The Taliban are not beaten, the peace process is bogged down in internal squabbles and Afghan security forces aren't ready to take control of the nation. Yet the U.S. and its partners are talking about speeding up — rather than slowing down — their exit from the war.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:46pm EST
Politico - It's an unexpected boon for Obama’s reelection bid.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:30pm EST
Reuters - Detroit automakers are urging President Barack Obama to reject Japan's bid to join talks on a regional free trade agreement, the head of an automotive group representing GM, Ford and Chrysler said on Thursday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:23pm EST
Politico - He hints that the U.S. is willing to use military force to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:16am EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Wis., and the National Pro-Life Alliance are circulating a petition in an effort to put an end to the atrocities legalized by Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that allows for abortion on demand.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:23am EST
AP - The U.N.'s highest court confirmed Friday that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of World War II Nazi atrocities.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:06am EST
Politico - Here are some of POLITICO's favorite putdowns and one-liners from the governor.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 9:34am EST
AP - The BBC is accusing Iran of intimidating staff of its Persian service through slander, snooping and the arrest of their relatives.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:07am EST
AP - Legislation that would ban insider trading by lawmakers and thousands of executive branch officials headed for what could be a more contentious debate in the House after sailing through the Senate on a 96-3 vote.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:58am EST
AP - Don't mistake Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval's invitations to the Republican presidential contenders as anything more than a hospitable gesture. The governor is staying out of the nomination fight despite his rising stature in the GOP — or perhaps because of it.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:56am EST
AP - Rick Santorum's campaign slogan could very well be one word: doomsday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:25am EST
AP - Republican Rep. Ron Paul railed against the federal government during campaign stops in Nevada on Thursday, saying states are in the best position to resolve conflicts over the management of wild horses and roads on public lands.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:00am EST
Politico - The president’s plan is aimed at service members returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:00am EST
Politico - The president’s plan is aimed at service members returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:09pm EST
Reuters - Despite the determination of President Obama to take Wall Street to court for the financial crisis, prosecutors face an uphill struggle to win more convictions like the two they scored on Wednesday against former Credit Suisse Group AG mortgage traders.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:09pm EST
Reuters - Despite the determination of President Obama to take Wall Street to court for the financial crisis, prosecutors face an uphill struggle to win more convictions like the two they scored on Wednesday against former Credit Suisse Group AG mortgage traders.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:03pm EST
AP - During the 2010 special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, then-candidate Scott Brown vowed to be the "41st" vote against President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:02pm EST
AP - With his trademark flair for spectacle, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday on the famed Las Vegas strip — just hours after Newt Gingrich's advisers were spreading the word that The Donald would be anointing him instead.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:18pm EST
Politico - The money came as the club was increasing its efforts to fight coal-fired power plants.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:08pm EST
AP - U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina announced Thursday he won't seek re-election in what's become another blow to conservative Democrats on Capitol Hill and the party's state congressional delegation.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:06pm EST
AP - Mitt Romney says he misspoke when he said he was not very concerned about poor people.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:03pm EST
AP - Rick Santorum says his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, is home from the hospital after a bout with pneumonia.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:28pm EST
AP - Israel's major allies in the West are working hard to talk it out of a unilateral military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, arguing forcefully that an attack ultimately would strengthen, not weaken, the regime in Tehran.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:31pm EST
AP - Attorney General Eric Holder clashed with Republicans at a House committee hearing Thursday over demands that the Justice Department turn over more documents about a flawed gun-smuggling investigation.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:11pm EST
Politico - The Senate passes the measure, 96-3.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:28pm EST
Reuters - Lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:49pm EST
AP - North Carolina Democrat Heath Shuler won't seek re-election to the House.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:36pm EST
AP - During the 2010 special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, then-candidate Scott Brown vowed to be the "41st" vote against President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:16pm EST
AP - The Obama administration scrambled Thursday to contain a growing election-year outcry over its decision that church-affiliated employers must cover birth control regardless of their religious principles.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:08pm EST
AP - Voter turnout numbers are pointing to a potential enthusiasm deficit for Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:56pm EST
AP - Donald Trump on Thursday announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney for president, saying the former Massachusetts governor is "not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country we all love."
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:42pm EST
AP - U.S. citizenship is priceless to some, worthless to others. But now the State Department has a dollar figure: U.S. citizenship is worth $450.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:42pm EST
AP - U.S. citizenship is priceless to some, worthless to others. But now the State Department has a dollar figure: U.S. citizenship is worth $450.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:55pm EST
Politico - Andrea Mitchell discusses her breast cancer battle.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:25pm EST
AP - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised in 2007 he would shed any investments that conflicted with Republican positions on hot-button domestic and foreign policy issues. But Romney's family trusts kept some of those holdings and repeatedly bought new ones until 2010, when they were finally sold off for more than $3 million, according to a detailed review of Romney's financial records by The Associated Press.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:14pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama has long relished a dragged-out Republican primary contest that would leave the eventual GOP nominee battered before the fall election.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:14pm EST
AP - The Foreign Ministry is accusing the European Union foreign policy chief of interfering in Russia's internal affairs in her statement on the Russian election.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:14pm EST
AP - The Foreign Ministry is accusing the European Union foreign policy chief of interfering in Russia's internal affairs in her statement on the Russian election.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:13pm EST
Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama sought to emphasize his Christian faith on Thursday, telling a key election-year voting bloc that he prays every morning and has crafted elements of his economic policies in line with Jesus' teachings.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:11pm EST
Politico - Only baby steps have been made on the issue.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:03pm EST
AP - If Mitt Romney wins the Nevada caucus Saturday, he might well feel special gratitude for the state's Mormon voters.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:26pm EST
Politico - Senate Republicans offer a plan to stave off big mandatory cuts by trimming the federal workforce.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:07pm EST
AP - Switzerland's government says an advocacy group has collected enough signatures to prompt a vote on whether to end the nation's long tradition of compulsory army service.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:06pm EST
AP - The New York Stock Exchange and German exchange Deutsche Boerse called off their planned merger Thursday, a day after the European Union said it would block the union because of concerns about a monopoly.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:48am EST
AP - NATO's top official joined the U.S. and France on Thursday in calling for Afghan forces to take the lead in all combat operations by mid-2013, a year earlier than originally expected, while Western troops would shift to back up roles in the fight against the Taliban.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:03am EST
Politico - The net effect of the decision, liberals argue, is a more dangerous environment for women.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:33am EST
AP - Ron Paul is rolling the dice on Nevada and other caucus states like Minnesota, Kansas and Washington, hoping to keep his nontraditional presidential campaign alive by amassing Republican delegates rather than notching outright wins.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:19pm EST
AP - Sharpening his criticism, Rick Santorum on Wednesday laid into Mitt Romney's health care overhaul in Massachusetts and Newt Gingrich's shifting policy positions as he sought to deny either rival the Republican presidential nomination.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:53pm EST
AP - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney renewed his support Wednesday for automatic increases in the federal minimum wage to keep pace with inflation, a position sharply at odds with traditional GOP business allies, conservatives and the party's senior lawmakers.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:47pm EST
AP - Rapper K'Naan is upset that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used his song "Wavin' Flag" during his Florida primary victory speech.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:27pm EST
AP - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, defeated in Florida by a wide margin, is challenging rules in the state that handed all 50 delegates to Mitt Romney.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:12pm EST
AP - Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are campaigning in Nevada ahead of Saturday's statewide caucuses.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:51pm EST
AP - Whether he wins or loses the Republican presidential nomination, Ron Paul is celebrating a milestone. He and his wife, Carol, have been married 55 years on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:16pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | I watched former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's Florida victory speech Tuesday night. He's looking stronger since the South Carolina debates in an attempt to defeat Newt Gingrich and show that he's no "shrinking violet."
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:49pm EST
AP - A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012:
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:17pm EST
Politico - The GOP hopeful courts Latino voters.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:42pm EST
AP - Under pressure from farm groups, the Labor Department has agreed to modify a plan that's intended to keep children away from some of the most dangerous farm jobs.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:13pm EST
AP - Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools?
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:11pm EST
AP - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday questioned the approach of his fellow GOP governors in the upper Midwest, saying in an interview with The Associated Press that their efforts to push divisive legislation may make governing more difficult in the long run.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:57pm EST
Politico - After cutting grants to Planned Parenthood, it may lose its reputation as a "safe" charity.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:36pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin burst upon the scene a fresh face. You had this feeling she was shoving it to the Harper Valley PTA types who didn't think a woman from the backcountry should be in politics.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:11pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has made it clear that she feels Republicans should vote for Newt Gingrich and, on Tuesday according to Politico.com, she said that if she was a caucus-goer in Nevada, she would vote for the former House speaker, but she won't go as far as endorsing the man for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:50pm EST
AP - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul outlined his views on immigration Wednesday, saying he favors a compassionate policy that doesn't rely on "barbed-wire fences and guns on our border."
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:37pm EST
AP - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, confident after his Florida primary victory, ended up inviting criticism Wednesday when he said he's "not concerned about the very poor" because they have an "ample safety net."
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:36pm EST
AP - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney renewed his support Wednesday for automatic increases in the federal minimum wage to keep pace with inflation, a position sharply at odds with traditional GOP business allies, conservatives and the party's senior lawmakers.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:36pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Gracing the Washington Auto Show with his presence Tuesday, President Barack Obama hailed his administration's efforts in reigniting the U.S. auto industry, while at the same time railing against his political adversaries who were "willing to let the industry die." As the U.S. auto manufacturing industry continues to heal, Obama is employing the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler as a campaigning tool to court the American electorate.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:30pm EST
AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Russia and other countries must ask themselves whether they'll stand with Syria's people or its dictator.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:55pm EST
AP - President Barack Obama may help Jennifer Wedel's husband find a job. Whether he gets her vote is another question.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:07pm EST
Politico - They want a bill included in payroll tax negotiations.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:24pm EST
Politico - “This type of insider trading is unacceptable and it should be illegal," Cantor says.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:07pm EST
AP - A woman who claims she is being watched by police and that her life has been threatened dumped flour on the leading candidate in France's presidential elections during a campaign appearance Wednesday.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:53pm EST
AP - Sharpening his criticism, Rick Santorum on Wednesday laid into Mitt Romney's health care overhaul in Massachusetts and Newt Gingrich's shifting policy positions as he sought to deny either rival the Republican presidential nomination.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:53pm EST
AP - Four British men fueled by the words of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric pleaded guilty Wednesday to involvement in an al-Qaida inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange at Christmastime.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:52pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | As the polls closed across Florida on Tuesday night, many in the Republican Party were asking one simple question, "How in the world is Mitt Romney our nominee?"
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:38am EST
The Ticket - Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Wednesday morning dismissed as untrue a Boston Globe story claiming unnamed aides to Bachmann and Mitt Romney "have been in conversation in recent days about securing the [former] candidate's endorsement." The Minnesota congresswoman-- a staunch conservative and tea party favorite-- rejected the report in a statement, saying: Let me be absolutely [...]
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:08am EST
AP - House Speaker John Boehner says he understands Republican concerns about the bitter tone of the party's nomination fight in Florida and the prospect of a dragged-out battle between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. He says the question of which GOP candidate faces President Barack Obama in the general election will resolve itself.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:42am EST
AP - Newt Gingrich leads the competition for comebacks with two in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He'll need one more, and soon, if he's going to make good on his vow to remain a credible contender until the party convention next summer.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:05am EST
AP - Mitt Romney embraced a killer instinct and leveraged a dominant political machine to crush chief rival Newt Gingrich in Florida's Republican presidential primary.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:28am EST
Daily Caller - Mitt Romney won the Florida primary Tuesday by a commanding 14-point margin, thanks in no small part to the Hispanic community.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:23am EST
Daily Caller - Democrats dumped on Gov. Mitt Romney Tuesday night, saying he won the Florida GOP primary only because of expensive negative ads, that the GOP turnout was low, and that Romney is both “extreme” and “out of touch.”
