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3:10 PM ET, December 7, 2011

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gingrich or Romney: McCain prepares to play kingmaker in 2012 GOP primary  —  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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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Romney Losing Among Fox News Viewers  —  If there were a Fox News primary, Mitt Romney would be losing it.  —  Among Republican voters in Iowa, nearly 40 percent say they get most of their news from the network and its many conservative hosts, according to the most recent New York Times poll.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
My Confession  —  The problem with Mitt Romney is the inconsistencies in his record.
Discussion: GOP 12
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Romney promises ‘loud and clear’ fight with Gingrich
Discussion: The Reaction and Boston Globe
Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Boehner says he wasn't part of '97 coup effort against Gingrich
Discussion: The Politico
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years  —  Disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison after he made a final plea for leniency, acknowledging his guilt and saying, “I am unbelievably sorry.”  —  “I believe he did, in fact, accept [responsibility] …
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Chicago Tribune:
Blagojevich gets 14 years  —  Rod Blagojevich, Illinois' 40th governor, was sentenced to 14 years in prison today for the attempted sale of a U.S. Senate seat, illegal shakedowns for campaign cash and lying to federal agents.  —  U.S. District Judge James Zagel handed down the sentence …
msnbc.com:
Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years in prison  —  John Gress / Reuters  —  Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich leaves his Chicago home for the second day of his sentencing hearing on Wednesday.  —  By NBC News and the Associated Press  —  CHICAGO - Update, 1:30 p.m. ET …
fda.gov:
Statement from FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D. on Plan B One-Step  —  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been carefully evaluating for over a decade whether emergency contraceptives containing levonorgestrel, such as Plan B One-Step, are safe and effective for nonprescription use …
Discussion: TIME Healthland and LifeNews.com
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Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Obama administration refuses to relax Plan B restrictions  —  The federal government Wednesday rejected a request to let young teenage girls buy the controversial morning-after pill Plan B directly off drugstore and supermarket shelves without a prescription.
United States Department of Health and Human Services:
A Statement by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius  —  Plan B One-Step is an emergency contraceptive, sometimes referred to as the “morning after pill.”  Plan B One-Step is currently labeled over the counter to women ages 17 years and older, but is sold behind the pharmacy counter.
Discussion: CBS Boston and TIME Healthland
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Health Secretary Overrules F.D.A. on Sale of Contraceptives
Discussion: Feministing
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's Kansas speech: some suspect facts  —  “I mean, understand, it's not as if we haven't tried this theory.  Remember in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history.  And what did they get us?  The slowest job growth in half a century.”
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The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Fewer Veterans to Remember Pearl Harbor Day
Ian W. Toll / New York Times:
A Reluctant Enemy  —  ON a bright Hawaiian Sunday morning 70 …
Discussion: Lawfare and Connecting.the.Dots
Michael Pollak / New York Times:
Harry Morgan, Colonel Potter on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 96  —  Harry Morgan, the prolific character actor best known for playing the acerbic but kindly Colonel Potter in the long-running television series “M*A*S*H,” died Wednesday morning at his home in Los Angeles.  He was 96.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Israel rift roils Democratic ranks  —  Two of the Democratic Party's core institutions are challenging a bipartisan consensus on Israel and Palestine that has dominated American foreign policy for more than a decade.  —  The Center for American Progress, the party's key hub of ideas and strategy …
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William Galston / The New Republic:
What Israelis Hear When Obama Officials Talk About Iran
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Republicans stands solidly against Richard Cordray  —  Senate Republicans on Wednesday showed no signs of backing down from their threatened filibuster of President Barack Obama's nominee to head a new financial watchdog agency, even as Democrats framed the fight as a stark choice between Wall Street and Main Street.
Discussion: CNN
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New York Times:
Senate G.O.P. Blocks Confirmation of Caitlin Halligan as Judge
Ishaan Tharoor / Time:
1. Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread  —  On Sept. 17, a couple hundred protesters demonstrating against the excesses of corporate execs and the pervasive influence of high finance in U.S. politics set up camp in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and refused to leave.
Alec Baldwin / Associated Press:
US will use foreign aid to defend gay rights abroad, Clinton, Obama declare: culture no excuse  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration's declaration that it plans to use foreign assistance, international diplomacy and political asylum to promote gay rights abroad is a momentous step …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
TV News Programs Ignore Obama Administration's Landmark LGBT Announcement
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Mediaite
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 …
Tom Kennedy / Telegraph:
Nasa's Voyager 1 in ‘cosmic purgatory’ on verge of entering Milky Way  —  Nasa's Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space between the Solar System and interstellar space in what Nasa has described as a ‘cosmic purgatory’.  —  Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's Blog
msnbc.com:
Firefighters let home burn over $75 fee — again  —  Firefighters in Tennessee let a home burn to the ground because the owners did not pay a $75 fire subscription fee.  WPSD-TV's Jason Hibbs reports.  —  By msnbc.com staff and WSMV-TV  —  SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. — Firefighters stood …
Discussion: Law Blog and Indecision Forever
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann Is Concerned About Bestiality In The Military  —  Michele Bachmann condemned Congress on Glenn Beck's web show last night for moving to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which outlaws both sodomy and sex with animals.  The repeal measure is part …
Discussion: WorldNetDaily
 
 
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John Leland / New York Times:
After Serving as Somalia's Prime Minister, Back to Work in Buffalo
Discussion: New York Magazine and Gothamist
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
President Obama won't go to Hawaii while payroll tax is in limbo
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Democrat says GOP trying to deny blacks the right to vote
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Walsh complains about protesters' vomit in his office
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Kathy Matheson / Associated Press:
Death penalty dropped against Mumia Abu-Jamal
Denis Cuff / Contra Costa Times:
Poll casts cloud over high-speed rail project
Discussion: Hot Air and Jammie Wearing Fools
Will Kane / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. police raid Occupy camp, arrest 70
Discussion: Guardian, The Snitch and L.A. NOW
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Polling Conservative Bloggers On The 2012 GOP Primaries
Discussion: TBogg, Vox Popoli and Althouse
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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Obama back to 51 percent disapproval in latest Gallup polling
Daily Mail:
Girl gang who kicked woman in the head while yelling ‘kill the white slag’ …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Why Newt's surge is for real
John B. Taylor / Economics One:
Restoring Robust Growth in America
Curtis Cartier / The Daily Weekly:
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her
 

 
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