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9:45 AM ET, February 19, 2012

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David Catanese / Politico:
Babeu comes out, denies allegations  —  Arizona GOP congressional candidate Paul Babeu acknowledged Saturday he is gay but forcefully denied charges he threatened an ex-lover with deportation after their relationship soured.  —  “All of the allegations are false except one, I am gay,” Babeu said.
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DownWithTyranny!:
Arizona Republican Sheriff And Congressional Candidate Paul Babeu Dragged Out Of The Closet  —  Pinal County Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu has a reputation as a hard man— especially hard on immigrants.  Some people have claimed he's a sadist who takes delight in splitting up families and gratuitously ruining people's lives.
Arizona Republic:
Babeu steps down as Romney Arizona co-chairman  —  Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who is facing explosive allegations that he and his attorney tried to intimidate a former lover by threatening to have him deported, on Saturday quit his position as an Arizona co-chairman …
CNN:
Arizona sheriff resigns Romney role after allegations
Discussion: Hot Air
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gingrich: Rivals backed out of debate because they were ‘afraid’
Discussion: Hot Air
Des Moines Register:
Obama trails three of four Republican candidates in latest Iowa Poll  —  © Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.  —  President Barack Obama trails three of the four Republican candidates in head-to-head match-ups if the election were held today, according to a new Iowa Poll.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Death Threats?  Ho Hum!  —  Sometimes I miss the good old days-what was it, a year ago?-when liberals were in favor of civility.  Remember when talking about “targeting” a Congressional district could get you accused of murder?  Things were a lot more genteel back in 2011.
Discussion: thenorthwestern.com
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Today's Worst Person in the World  —  By informing consumers, he is of course referring to the Virginia bill requiring women to be vaginally probed against their will before electing to have an abortion.  —  Because, you know, most of those “consumers” were “uninformed” as to what was in there.
Peter Allen / Telegraph:
Hitler had son with French teen  —  Adolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, according to new evidence.  —  Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went on to fight Nazi forces during the Second World War.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Washington Memo: Supreme Court Justices Remain Security Exceptions  —  When Justice Stephen G. Breyer was robbed in his Caribbean vacation home 10 days ago, the crime was unremarkable except for one fact: a machete-wielding intruder was able to walk right into the residence of one of the highest members of the United States government.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Two justices suggest Citizens United ruling should be reconsidered in Montana case
Pallab Ghosh / BBC:
Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’  —  Government experts tracked a new ozone hole, but were not allowed to give interviews  —  The Canadian government has been accused of “muzzling” its scientists.  —  Speakers at a major science meeting being held in Canada said communication …
Discussion: Biased BBC
Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
British Muslims recruited to fight for ‘al-Qaeda’ in Somalia  —  Dozens of radicalised British Muslims are being trained by militant Islamists to fight in a “holy war” in Somalia, it can be revealed.  —  Somali hardline islamist Hisbul Islam militia walk past at a training camp on the outskirts …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Chris Hawley / Associated Press:
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast  —  NEW YORK—The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
RPT-Obama's slogan: looking to replace Hope and Change  —  Winning The Future.  Greater Together.  We Don't Quit.  —  They may not be official but those are all phrases that could in one form or another be candidates to become President Barack Obama's re-election slogan.
Carolyn Sackariason / Aspen Daily News:
Michelle Obama in Aspen for ski vacation  —  First Lady Michelle Obama arrived in Aspen on Friday afternoon and is here with her daughters for a ski vacation.  —  Few details about her trip were available.  Sources said she is staying at the home of Jim and Paula Crown …
Discussion: Lynn Sweet and Weasel Zippers
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Sex with the dead? Illinois bill would make it illegal
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Rising Gas Prices Give G.O.P. Issue to Attack Obama
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