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3:55 PM ET, December 12, 2011

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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Newt takes no-adultery pledge  —  When the Iowa social conservative group The Family Leader unveiled a sweeping pledge on marriage and abortion over the summer, Newt Gingrich was one of the candidates who passed on signing it.  —  Now, Gingrich has answered the pledge with a lengthy written response …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Mitt Romney on Newt Gingrich: He's the front-runner  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mitt Romney, who just a month ago had hoped to seal the GOP presidential nomination with Florida's primary on Jan. 31, tells POLITICO that he now foresees an epic fight with Newt Gingrich that could last through the California primary on June 5.
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Mitt Romney, ‘human-like’  —  HUDSON, N.H. — Meet Mitt Romney, human.  —  In the past 24 hours, the former Massachusetts governor has talked about his father, experiences while working as a missionary that weren't even in his memoir — and twice in two days, he's brought up the Mormon faith …
Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Gay veteran quizzes Mitt Romney on single-sex marriage
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Barack Obama's ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again  —  Today on Morning Joe, they were playing clips of Steve Kroft's 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, and I literally started screaming.  There is only so much of this bulls-t I can endure without talking back to my TV:
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Jewel Samad / Investor's Business Daily:
As Americans struggle, the Obamas make do with 37 Christmas trees  —  The economy may be weak, unemployment strong and the first family soon to vacate the White House for another half-month of vacation in Hawaii.  —  But the Obamas have gone all out in decorating their house this year …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Depression and Democracy  —  It's time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression.  True, it's not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that's cold comfort.  Unemployment in both America and Europe remains disastrously high.  Leaders and institutions are increasingly discredited.
Jason Clayworth / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowa audience members yell at Rick Perry after Ames appearance [includes video]  —  Ames, Ia.  - A packed coffee house where Rick Perry spoke this afternoon turned into a bit of a ruckus that left the candidate heading out the back door and straight to his vehicle after several Iowans screamed questions about his views on gays.
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David Fisher / New Zealand Herald:
Sperm-donor kept wife in the dark  —  A conservative Christian politician has a secret life as a sperm donor for lesbian couples - even though he has campaigned against gay marriage.  —  American politician Bill Johnson has spent most of this year in Christchurch helping run the earthquake recovery …
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George Talbot / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
Alabama politician Bill Johnson caught in sperm donation scandal in New Zealand
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Newt Strikes Back  —  In Monday Londderry press availability, former Speaker repsonds to Romney's demand he return Freddic Mac cash by invoking Romney's Bain windfall.  —  Gingrich: If gov romney would like to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees …
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich Calls For Romney To Return All The Money He Made ‘Bankrupting Companies And Laying Off Employees’
Discussion: Odd Man Out
Daniel B. Klein / The Atlantic Online:
I Was Wrong, and So Are You  —  A libertarian economist retracts a swipe at the left—after discovering that our political leanings leave us more biased than we think.  —  BACK IN JUNE 2010, I published a Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that the American left was unenlightened, by and large, as to economic matters.
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Gingrich's Electromagnetic Pulse Warning Has Skeptics  —  Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful, wants you to know that as commander in chief he is ready to confront one of the most nightmarish of doomsday scenarios: a nuclear blast high above the United States that would instantly throw the nation into a dark age.
David Carr / New York Times:
When Truth Survives Free Speech  —  Last week, a story came across my desk that seemed to suggest that a blogger had been unfairly nailed with a $2.5 million defamation award after a judge refused to give her standing as a journalist.  A businessman who was the target of the blogger's inquiries brought the suit.
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Political winds shift to Democrats  —  The political winds have shifted to the Democrats' backs over the last month.  —  President Obama is in better shape at the prospect of a prolonged GOP primary battle between former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Mitt Romney.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Boehner faces toughest leadership test
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to hear challenge of Arizona's restrictive immigration law  —  The Supreme Court on Monday said it would review Arizona's restrictive immigration law that sparked a national controversy and inspired similar state efforts across the country to crack down on illegal immigrants.
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Paul Rincon / BBC:
Higgs boson: Excitement builds over ‘glimpses’ at LHC  —  The Higgs search is approaching its endgame at Cern  —  Scientists are widely expected to present evidence on Tuesday that the most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - has been glimpsed.
Hoover Institution:
Populist-in-Chief  —  by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)  —  Can Obama's progressive policies save the middle class from economic hardship?  —  One clear sign of America's social unease …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised  —  The Kindle Fire, Amazon's heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users.  The most disgruntled are packing the device up and firing it back to the retailer.  —  A few of their many complaints: there is no external volume control.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Anti-SOPA Movement Picks Up Steam, With Assist from Laurence Tribe  —  So-called anti-piracy bill could be restraint on internet free speech (photo: Walt Jabsco via Flickr)  —  This is a big week for the coalition of Web giants, activists and trans-partisan activists working …
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Michael J. Crosbie / The Atlantic Online:
Why the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Failed—and How to Fix It
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
With 3 weeks until caucuses, Gingrich remains on top in Iowa polls
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