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7:50 AM ET, January 30, 2012

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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Newt May Be Mad and Mental Enough to Fight On Long After Florida  —  For some churchgoers, the attendance of Sunday morning services is a ritual rooted in reflection, for others in repentance, for others in rejoicing, and for still others in all three.  But for Newt Gingrich …
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Florida Fever: Naples Struck by Sudden Outbreak of Raging Mitt-Mania Epidemic  —  Mitt Romney at Naples rally, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012  —  Attention young conservatives: Your grandma loves Mitt Romney.  —  The phenomenal shift in the polls here in the Sunshine State …
Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing States poll: Romney and Obama tied; Gingrich trails  —  WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney essentially ties Barack Obama in the nation's key battlegrounds, a USA TODAY/Gallup Swing States survey finds, while rival Newt Gingrich now trails the president by a decisive 14 percentage points.
Newsmax Wires / NewsMax.com:
InsiderAdvantage Poll: Gingrich Surging, Race ‘Tighter Than Expected’
Discussion: National Review
Wall Street Journal:
Romney Regains His Edge
Discussion: Algemeiner.com
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Poll: Romney expands Florida lead over Gingrich
Discussion: Washington Post and The Raw Story
Andrew Burton / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Says Daughter Bella Has a ‘Miraculous Turnaround’  —  DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Rick Santorum made his first public comments on the health of his youngest daughter, Isabella, this evening on a tele-town hall with voters, saying she has had a “miraculous turnaround.”
Discussion: The Spectacle Blog
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Rick Santorum's daughter improving
Andrew Burton / ABCNEWS:
Bella Santorum Hospitalized Because of Pneumonia
Rick Pleasures / The Politico:
How conservatives lost their moral compass  —  There's irony here in that liberals have viewed shame as a conservative ally.  They associated it with Puritans and the puritanical who used shame, liberals said, to bludgeon people into moralistic behavior that denied their real passions and interests.
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S. … Speaking to a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach for the Palm Beach County GOP, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) fired off a humdinger of a line that within minutes drew recriminations from Democrats on Twitter.
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
E.U. Leaders Set to Admit Austerity Is Not Enough  —  BRUSSELS — Bowing to mounting evidence that austerity alone cannot solve the debt crisis, European leaders are expected to conclude this week that what the debt-laden, sclerotic countries of the Continent need are a dose of economic growth.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Calculated Risk
Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News:
Mitt Romney picks up Jon Voight's endorsement-and jokes about Angelina Jolie  —  PENSACOLA, Fla.—The run-up to Florida's Republican presidential primary has already been weird, thanks in part to an extended debate over whether there should be a colony on the moon.  On Saturday, it got a little weirder.
Discussion: Firedoglake
New York Times:
U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provoke Outrage in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD — A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as well as American personnel.
Discussion: Prairie Weather, The Page and Truthdig
Andy Harley / Gay Star News:
Aeroflot forces gay flight attendant to marry woman  —  Activists call for boycott of Russian airline after LGBT staff rights activist Maxim Kupreev forced to wed  —  Gay activists in Russia are planning to ask air passengers to boycott Aeroflot, Russia's leading airline and not to use …
James Q. Wilson / Washington Post:
Angry about inequality?  Don't blame the rich.  —  There is no doubt that incomes are unequal in the United States — far more so than in most European nations.  This fact is part of the impulse behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose members claim to represent the 99 percent of us against the wealthiest 1 percent.
Discussion: TBogg and Power Line
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James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
Inflation expectations and the Fed
Paul Krugman:
Destructive Austerity, USA  —  Jared Bernstein has been emphasizing, rightly, the extent to which our weak recovery is being undermined by cutbacks at the state and local level:  —  But it's even worse than he says.  Why?  Because if you look at what's being cut, it's heavily focused on investment:
Richard Black / BBC:
UN panel aims for ‘a future worth choosing’  —  Current patterns of consumption are not sustainable, the panel concludes, without major change  —  Growing inequality, environmental decline and “teetering” economies mean the world must change the way it does business, a UN report concludes.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove, Biased BBC and Truthdig
Emmett Berg / Reuters:
Arrests in Oakland protests rise to more than 400  —  (Reuters) - More than 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Oakland during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles, the city said on Sunday, marking one of the biggest mass arrests since nationwide economic protests began last year.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Austerity Debacle  —  Last week the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British think tank, released a startling chart comparing the current slump with past recessions and recoveries.  It turns out that by one important measure — changes in real G.D.P. since the recession began …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
 
 
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Remains Silent on Endorsement
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Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
‘PA incitement is confidence destroying measure’
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Algemeiner.com
msnbc.com:
US, Taliban talks on prisoner swap falter
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
The Man Behind Gingrich's Money
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Rappers ‘Hoot for Newt’
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Genetic or Not, Gay Won't Go Away
Discussion: Gawker
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Mitt Romney holds solid lead in Florida, Times/Herald/Bay News 9 poll shows
Discussion: CNN, Ballot Box and The Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Bachmann: Tea Party “only a force for good”
Discussion: The Raw Story
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner says GOP will add Keystone provision to infrastructure bill
Discussion: The Politico
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Norquist: Republicans Will Impeach Obama If He Doesn't Extend Bush Tax Cuts