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10:00 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.
Discussion: CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
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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 …
Rush Limbaugh:
The So-Called Conservative Media Attacks Newt Gingrich
Discussion: The Reaction and Washington Post
The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
Gingrich 37%, Romney 22% Among GOP Voters Nationwide
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Romney latest candidate to say no to Trump
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  —  OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — Laying out a populist argument for his re-election next year, President Obama ventured into the conservative heartland on Tuesday to deliver his most pointed appeal yet for a strong governmental role through tax …
Newt Gingrich / Washington Post:
Full text of President Obama's economic speech in Osawatomie, Kans.
Discussion: News Desk and The New Republic
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama's Osawatomie Speech Attempts a Populist Rebranding
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  —  GENEVA — The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that the United States would use all the tools of American diplomacy, including the potent enticement of foreign aid, to promote gay rights around the world.
Charles Krupa / ABCNEWS:   Rick Perry Says Human Rights for Gays 'Not in America's Interests'
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
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
White House doesn't have votes for nominee for consumer bureau chief
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 …
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
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Economist's View
Susan Crabtree / Washington Times:
Gingrich struggles on state deadlines for filing  —  May not make ballot in Ohio  —  Newt Gingrich is surging in the presidential polls, but his campaign organization has not caught up - making it possible he'll miss Wednesday's deadline to file enough signatures to even appear on Ohio's primary ballot.
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
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Welcome to Texas!  —  Campaigning in Kansas today, President Obama momentarily forgot which of the 57 states he was in:  —  But that was just a slip of the tongue.  The really dumb thing he said is that the internet is causing unemployment: … This is one more reminder-as if we needed …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
President Zardari suddenly leaves Pakistan — is he on the way out?  —  Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari left Pakistan suddenly on Tuesday, complaining of heart pains, and is now in Dubai.  His planned testimony before a joint session of Pakistan's parliament on the Memogate scandal is now postponed indefinitely.
Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel:
House redistricting maps would add Hispanic seats  —  TALLAHASSEE - The Florida House released its first drafts of congressional and legislative maps Tuesday, formally beginning the long and politically perilous process of carving out new electoral turf.  —  Like proposed Senate maps released …
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
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.
Discussion: Business Insider and The Politico
Kate Linthicum / L.A. NOW:
L.A. calls for end to ‘corporate personhood’  —  At a packed City Council meeting that included remarks from a man in a top hat with fake money tucked in the pocket of his suit, Los Angeles lawmakers Tuesday called for more regulations on how much corporations can spend on political campaigns.
Discussion: The Raw Story and Firedoglake
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 …
Ian W. Toll / New York Times:
A Reluctant Enemy  —  ON a bright Hawaiian Sunday morning 70 years ago today, hundreds of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor and laid waste to the United States Pacific Fleet.  The American people boiled over in righteous fury, and America plunged into World War II.
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.
 
 
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Occupy Wall Street police response should be investigated by DoJ, Nadler says
Alistair Osborne / Telegraph:
Ratings agencies are not the root of all evil
Discussion: Guardian
New York Times:
Tiny Tax on Financial Trades Gains Advocates
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Schurick guilty of election fraud in robocall case
Discussion: THEROOT.COM and Balloon Juice
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Corzine gets second subpoena to testify
Discussion: The Politico and US Politics
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Tim Murphy / Political Mojo:
Aborted Fetus Campaign Ads Hit the Airwaves in Iowa
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Raw Story
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Obama administration targeting food stamp fraud as program reaches record highs
Alan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:
Tax Rates, Inequality and the 1%