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Gov. Rick Snyder / detroitnews.com:
Mitt Romney is the best choice  —  A little more than a year ago, Michigan voters put their trust in a businessman to serve as their governor.  They were looking for someone who understands the private sector and has a plan for reversing the economic decline that had befallen our great state.
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Nate Reens / MLive.com:
Mitt Romney lose to Rick Santorum in Michigan?  'That won't happen,' Romney says  —  KENTWOOD - Jerome Bush, an 81-year-old lifelong Republican, shook GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's hand Wednesday, recalling doing the same with his father, George Romney, during his campaign for governor more than 40 years ago.
Discussion: Ballot Box and The Page
Mike Wilkinson / detroitnews.com:
Poll: Rick Santorum leads Mitt Romney in Michigan  —  Rick Santorum visits a school in North Dakota on Wednesday.  Santorum, who has turned the Michigan race into a fight, will be in Detroit and Novi today.  (Will Kincaid / Associated Press)  —  Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Pro-Santorum super-PAC making big ad buy in Michigan
Discussion: CNN, msnbc.com and GOP 12
Fox News Insider:   Mitt Romney Responds to Sarah Palin's Criticism That He Isn't Conservative Enough
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Romney doesn't rule out Santorum as veep
Discussion: Hot Air
Jeremy Lin / Associated Press:
Romney makes hometown appeal in new ad, blames Obama for Detroit's economic woes
Discussion: Lippmann's Ghost
Kos / Daily Kos:
Announcing Operation Hilarity: Let's keep the GOP clown show going!
CNN:
Michigan governor to back Romney
Discussion: Politico and The Reaction
Rory Sheehan / democrats.oversight.house.gov:
ISSA REJECTS MINORITY WITNESS FOR HEARING ON CONTRACEPTION  —  Cummings Asks Issa to Reconsider and Let Witness Testify on Behalf of Women Across the Country  —  Washington, DC (Feb. 15, 2012)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform …
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying  —  This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration's …
Tom Shine Serena Marshall / ABCNEWS:
Rep. Darrell Issa Bars Minority Witness, a Woman, on Contraception
Discussion: oversight.house.gov and Daily Kos
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Supreme Court should take on New York City's rent control laws  —  James and Jeanne Harmon reside in and supposedly own a five-story brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a building that has been in their family since 1949.  But they have, so to speak, houseguests who have overstayed their welcome by …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Marco Rubio and Obama duel on diplomacy  —  Sen. Marco Rubio isn't waiting for a vice presidential offer to go after President Barack Obama: He's been locked in a quiet battle with the White House for months, blocking key diplomatic appointments in hopes of getting his say on foreign policy.
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
OVERNIGHT TECH: Cybersecurity bill headed straight to Senate floor
Discussion: Politico, RedState and Pirate's Cove
Garry Wills / New York Review of Books:
Contraception's Con Men  —  By a revolting combination of con men and fanatics, the current primary race has become a demonstration that the Republican party does not deserve serious consideration for public office.  Take the controversy over contraceptives.
Tim Mak / Politico:
Sarah Palin will ‘help’ brokered convention  —  Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that a brokered Republican presidential convention was a possibility and that if it happened she “would do whatever I could to help.”  —  “If one of the nominees, one of the GOPers …
Discussion: TBogg, Wonkette and Outside the Beltway
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Who Wants to See Tina Korbe's Thighs?  —  The title of this post is not a hypothetical question, because last week the aforesaid Miss Korbe joined her Hot Air colleague Ed Morrissey for a video interview with Rick Santorum, which I didn't see until somebody brought it to my attention yesterday:
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall  —  Virginia leads the nation in the percentage of marriages between blacks and whites, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows, barely four decades after state laws criminalizing interracial marriage were struck down by the Supreme Court.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Negotiators reach deal; vote expected soon on $150B economic package  —  Congressional negotiators gave final approval early Thursday to an economic plan worth more than $150 billion that would extend a payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits.  —  A key roadblock was overcome …
Discussion: Politico
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Jamie Klatell / The Hill:
Lawmakers reach deal to extend payroll tax cut
Discussion: The CFO Report
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Payroll tax deal would take first real bite from Obama's health law
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and Firedoglake
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Exclusive: Santorum releases four years of tax returns  —  Rick Santorum said they would come this week, and here are four years worth of his taxes, from years 2007 through 2010.  —  They can be found here, here, here and here.  The returns are the most in number that have been released …
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: 'We've been slogging through prose'  —  President Obama appeared at two star-studded Los Angeles fundraisers on Wednesday night and, as he spoke to a crowd that included actor George Clooney, acknowledged that governing hasn't been easy.  —  Mentioning former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo's quip …
Discussion: RedState and ABCNEWS
Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
How I'll Respond to China's Rising Power  —  The character of the Chinese government—one that marries aspects of the free market with suppression of freedom—shouldn't become the norm.  —  Should the 21st century be an American century?  To answer, it is only necessary to contemplate the alternatives.
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Rep. Upton pushed for loan to now-bankrupt solar company  —  Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich), a leading GOP critic of the Obama administration's loans to Solyndra, pressed the Energy Department in 2009 to back a Michigan solar firm that filed for bankruptcy this week.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
“Romer Advised Obama To Push $1.8 Trillion Stimulus”  —  Via Brad DeLong, more details of how the size of the stimulus package was determined, and how the administration's mistaken pivot to deficit reduction came about: … If Obama goes go “big on entitlements,” it will be a mistake.
Buzz Bissinger / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: Philadelphia Newspapers Are a Target  —  I LIVE in Philadelphia.  I have for nearly 40 of my 57 years.  It is a wonderful city but also a corrupt one.  Power is concentrated in the hands of a select few, who sometimes act in the public interest but too often act …
Lee Stranahan / Big Journalism:
A Point By Point Commentary On Keith Olbermann's “Debunking” Of The Occupy Rape  —  Before I debunk Keith Olbermann's “debunking,” let's remember what Keith Olbermann said.  It's the standard to which Mr. Olbermann needs to be held: … That is Mr. Olbermann's statement and he hasn't backed down from it.
angry asian man:
actress lisa chan apologizes for hoekstra ad  —  An update on Lisa Chan, the 21-year-old actress who appeared in Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra's godawful racist campaign ad...  When the ad hit the airwaves (and for the rest of us, the internet), after getting over the sheer idiocy of the ad …
 
 
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
How Republicans can win even if the economy keeps improving
Discussion: Swampland and Via Meadia
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CNN poll: Obama's job approval back to 50%; Update: Obama leads all GOP candidates in swing states
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
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Royal Family / Telegraph:
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Rep. West: Democratic handouts an ‘insidious form of slavery’
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Unemployment applications drop to a 4-year low
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
Greece spiralling into catastrophic depression
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New York Post:
Iran helping al Qaeda plot attack on West, intelligence sources say
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