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2:10 PM ET, December 3, 2011

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Kevinliptak / CNN:

Paul campaign calls Trump debate ‘wildly inappropriate’ — (CNN) - At least two Republican presidential hopefuls are declining to participate in a debate moderated by real estate mogul Donald Trump. — Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will both skip the debate, citing concerns about the seriousness of the event.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

The Politico:

The return of Bad Newt Gingrich — Longtime Gingrich watchers see clear signs that ‘Good Newt’ is at war with ‘Bad Newt.’ — WEST DES MOINES - Bad Newt's coming back. — The all-too-familiar character from the 1990s has only peeked out in public a handful of times so far.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice, Iowa Caucuses, Hot Air, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Monthly and Washington Post

Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:

Why Republicans like Newt Gingrich — Things sure do change fast around here. One week it's Rick Perry, the next it's Herman Cain. Now it's . . . Newt Gingrich? — The Republican voter is like a starving man at a free buffet. He gorges on this, then that …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, Daily Kos, The Politico and Prairie Weather

Reid Pillifant / Capital New York:

- Architect of Obama's health care plan fears a ‘political’ decision by the Supreme Court, says Romney's lying — When Representative Peter King called me between votes on Thursday afternoon to talk about his party's current presidential front-runner, Newt Gingrich, he joked that the conversation …

Discussion: Salon.com, American Thinker, Daily Kos, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The New Republic, The Reaction, PolitickerNY and A plain blog about politics

George F. Will / Washington Post:

Romney and Gingrich, from bad to worse — Republicans are more conservative than at any time since their 1980 dismay about another floundering president. They are more ideologically homogenous than ever in 156 years of competing for the presidency. They anticipated choosing between Mitt Romney …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Booman Tribune, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette and National Review

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box: One month before Iowa, GOP field wide open

Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
Here's The Huntsman Campaign's Awesome RSVP To The Trump Debate

Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
10 Questions for Haley Barbour

Discussion: The Page and New York Times

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney looks to outlast and outwork Gingrich to GOP nomination

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, PolitickerNY and The New Republic

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Does Romney Have a Moderate Problem?

Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Huffington Post and The New Republic

CNN:
Huntsman and Gingrich agree to debate

Discussion: The Hill, The Politico, The Political Carnival and Towleroad News #gay

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:

Occupy Richmond Stands Up For Local Tea Party Group — The two sides are joining forces. — The Richmond Tea Party has been alleging that it is being singled out for unfair treatment from the city of Richmond, Virginia after officials have opened a tax audit of the group.

Discussion: Reuters

Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:

LAPD undercover cops infiltrated Occupy camp before raid, source says — The Los Angeles Police Department's effort to evict Occupy L.A. protesters from their camp at City Hall included using Occupy undercover officers in the weeks leading up to Wednesday's raid, a police source said.

Discussion: Guardian, Prairie Weather and MyFox Atlanta

Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Occupy Richmond to Tea Party: We're on Your Side Against City Hall

Discussion: MyFox Atlanta and Verum Serum

The Politico:

Decision day for Herman Cain — The party scheduled for the opening of Herman Cain's new campaign headquarters Saturday may end up a wake. — After nearly a week of reassessing his campaign, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO will be in Atlanta to tell his supporters whether the accumulation …

Discussion: Hot Air, The Other McCain, The Spectacle Blog, Outside the Beltway, unionleader.com and Washington Post

NationalJournal.com:

Cain Reaches Out to Rivals — GOP presidential contender to announce plans at campaign headquarters in Georgia. — In the hours before he made his planned midday announcement about the future of his presidential campaign, Republican candidate Herman Cain reached out to some of his rivals.

Discussion: The Right Scoop, Big Government and Michelle Malkin

CNN:
Cain to make campaign announcement Saturday

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, New York Magazine and The Politico

Herman Cain 2012:
ENCOURAGEMENT for HERMAN CAIN

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Atlantic Online, Political Mojo, Daily Kos, Gawker, The Impolitic, Mediaite and Campaign 2012

Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:

SEC targets Marlins' shady business — For two decades now, Major League Baseball has funded its rise from corporate slacker to gilded cash cow on the backs of taxpayers bullied into building new stadiums. It's a marvel the government took so long to sniff out the rot that emanates from these deals …

J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:

British Austerity: The Past Weighs Like a Nightmare on the Brains of Cameron and Osborne Blogging — Note that Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats in Britain could end this farce tomorrow, and give their country a chance. It would be the end of Nick Clegg's political career, of course—but his career is over already.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

William Lajeunesse / Fox News:

Memo Shows Early ATF Concern on Fast and Furious Probe Despite Claims — While federal officials publicly denounced a lone whistleblower and told Congress the Obama administration had done everything it could to stop guns from going to Mexico, administration officials had signs that Fast …

Discussion: MyFox Atlanta, Big Government, americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers

Charles Grassley / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. details how it got statements wrong

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

Arizona Daily Star:

Initiative would let illegal immigrants work in Calif. legally — SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative unveiled Friday by a state legislator and others.

Discussion: nation.foxnews.com, Wizbang and Weasel Zippers

Charles Moore / Telegraph:

Jacques Delors interview: Euro would still be strong if it had been built to my plan — Former president of the European Commission Jacques Delors talks to Charles Moore about the fate of the euro. — It was Jacques Delors whose report produced the plan for what we now call the euro

Discussion: EU Referendum, Business Insider and Belmont Club