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11:10 AM ET, December 7, 2011

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gingrich or Romney: McCain prepares to play kingmaker  —  Arizona Sen. John McCain, the GOP presidential nominee in 2008, is moving toward endorsing a candidate for 2012.  —  Republican sources familiar with his thinking say he will probably endorse his onetime political enemy, Mitt Romney.
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ABCNEWS:
Romney Team Shifts Tactics  —  The Mitt Romney campaign is making an immediate shift in tactics, a move that is necessary because, as one Republican close the campaign put it, “What they are doing now isn't working.”  —  At an event in Arizona, Romney himself said you will see more ads …
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Romney promises ‘loud and clear’ fight with Gingrich  —  Mitt Romney vows to make his “closing argument” for the GOP presidential nomination, including drawing some sharp distinctions with new front-runner Newt Gingrich.  —  Romney has led or been near the top of national public opinion polls this year …
The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody.  Please, please have a seat.  Thank you so much.  Thank you.  Good afternoon, everybody.  —  AUDIENCE: Good afternoon.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Well, I want to start by thanking a few folks who've joined us today.
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A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech in Heartland
Robert Reich:
The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Newt Gingrich / Washington Post:
Full text of President Obama's economic speech in Osawatomie, Kans.
Discussion: News Desk and The New Republic
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
TV News Programs Ignore Obama Administration's Landmark LGBT Announcement  —  Yesterday, the Obama administration announced a landmark full government strategy for advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in its foreign policy and called on nations around the world …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Mediaite
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New York Times:
U.S. to Aid Gay Rights Abroad, Obama and Clinton Say
Charles Krupa / ABCNEWS:
Rick Perry Says Human Rights for Gays 'Not in America's Interests'
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
At White House press briefing, reporter asks if Obama approves of bestiality  —  At White House press briefings, you don't normally hear questions about bestiality.  Today was not normal.  —  On Monday, press secretary Jay Carney fielded an unusual question from World Net Daily reporter Lester Kinsolving.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carney says White House ‘not focused very much’ on Republican race
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Fewer Veterans to Remember Pearl Harbor Day  —  HONOLULU — For more than half a century, members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association gathered here every Dec. 7 to commemorate the attack by the Japanese that drew the United States into World War II.  Others stayed closer to home …
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Ian W. Toll / New York Times:
A Reluctant Enemy  —  ON a bright Hawaiian Sunday morning 70 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Curtis Cartier / The Daily Weekly:
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her  —  ​A U.S. District Court judge in Portland has drawn a line in the sand between “journalist” and “blogger.”  And for Crystal Cox, a woman on the latter end of that comparison, the distinction has cost her $2.5 million.
John B. Taylor / Economics One:
Restoring Robust Growth in America  —  Why has the recovery been so slow?  What can we do about it?  Alan Greenspan, George Shultz, Ed Prescott, Steve Davis, Nick Bloom, John Cochrane, Bob Hall, Lee Ohanian, John Cogan and I recently met at the Hoover Institution at Stanford to present papers …
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Noah / Noahpinion:
Hoover Institute recommends Hooverite policies
Eric Pfeiffer / Yahoo! News:
Tennessee family home burns while firefighters watch  —  A Tennessee couple helplessly watched their home burn to the ground, along with all of their possessions, because they did not pay a $75 annual fee to the local fire department.  —  Vicky Bell told the NBC affiliate WPSD-TV …
Rich Miller / Bloomberg:
American Economy Rebounding as Investor Favorite in Global Poll  —  Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. receives its highest rating from international investors in more than two years on new optimism that the world's largest economy will weather the financial crisis in Europe and avoid a recession in 2012, according to a Bloomberg poll.
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Obama back to 51 percent disapproval in latest Gallup polling  —  President Obama's job approval rating has ticked down to 41 percent in Gallup's latest daily tracking poll, with his disapproval at 51 percent.  —  It's a drop from where the president stood at the beginning of December …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Ex-Ehrlich campaign manager Schurick convicted in robocall case  —  Paul E. Schurick, the 2010 campaign manager for former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., was convicted Tuesday by a Baltimore jury of four counts stemming from a robocall that prosecutors said was intended to suppress the black vote.
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Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Schurick guilty of election fraud in robocall case
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry TV ad hits President Obama ‘war on religion’  —  Rick Perry's latest spot in his Iowa ad buy rotation is another faith-based appeal, but one that has one of the most audible dog-whistles so far this cycle about President Obama.  —  In the spot, “Strong,” Perry says …
Wesley P. Hester / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Kaine, Allen debate shaping up to be a bitter battle  —  Today's debate between former governors and current U.S. Senate hopefuls Timothy M. Kaine and George Allen is shaping up to be the battle over which set of “failed policies” failed harder.  —  Allen will take aim at Kaine's former role …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Taegan Goddard's …
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Trump: Romney wants endorsement “very badly”  —  Donald Trump, on MSNBC today, reacting to Mitt Romney's rejection of Trump's debate. … Then, maybe sensing that he shouldn't have suggested there might be a link between participating in the debate and his endorsement, Trump quickly walked back.
New York Times:
Senate G.O.P. Blocks Confirmation of Caitlin Halligan as Judge  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked confirmation of Caitlin J. Halligan, a prominent New York lawyer, to be a federal appeals court judge, raising the question of whether a political deal to prevent the filibuster …
Benjamin Domenech / Heartlander Magazine:
Quarter-Billion Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Penis Pumps  —  Benjamin Domenech is managing editor of Health Care News and a research fellow at The Heartland...  (read full bio)  —  TWITTER  —  According to data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Marathon Pundit
 
 
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Daily Mail:
Girl gang who kicked woman in the head while yelling ‘kill the white slag’ …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Hezbollah Terrorist
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Why Newt's surge is for real
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Occupy Wall Street police response should be investigated by DoJ, Nadler says
Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel:
House redistricting maps would add Hispanic seats
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
Susan Crabtree / Washington Times:
Gingrich struggles on state deadlines for filing
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New York Times:
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Rush Limbaugh:
The So-Called Conservative Media Attacks Newt Gingrich
Discussion: The Reaction and Washington Post
Kate Linthicum / L.A. NOW:
L.A. calls for end to ‘corporate personhood’
Discussion: The Raw Story and Firedoglake
The Politico:
Gingrich prompts Romney reboot
David K. Li / New York Post:
Alec Baldwin thrown off AA flight at LAX for refusing to turn off phone