memeorandum: Mitt Romney's Wife Won't Let Him Debate Anymore (McKay Coppins/Politics)

1:50 AM ET, February 26, 2012

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McKay Coppins / Politics:

Mitt Romney's Wife Won't Let Him Debate Anymore — “He's just going to sit in the audience and watch me.” — Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, campaigns at the Saginaw County Lincoln Day Breakfast in Saginaw, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012.

Discussion: The Raw Story and BuzzFeed

Kyle Whitmire / Second Front:

Poll: Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way — With Alabama's March 13 primary looking more and more important, Rick Santorum leads the rest of the Republican field in a poll conducted by Alabama State University. Santorum leads with 28 percent of likely GOP primary voters …

Discussion: BuzzFeed

Jonathan Martin / Politico:

Santorum slashes Romney — Stepping up his assault on Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum delivered a slashing speech Saturday morning that portrayed the establishment favorite as an elitist and unreliable conservative. — Santorum, appearing before over a thousand conservative activists gathered …

Discussion: Ballot Box, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN and The Other McCain

Zeke Miller / Politics:

Santorum Unloads On “Occupier” Romney — “He doesn't understand how America works any more than Barack Obama understands how America works.” Fighting, and complaining, he says Ron Paul is “no conservative.” — Nuns from the Dominican Sisters of Mary order, from Ann Arbor …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and US Politics

WSB-TV:
Poll: Gingrich holds commanding lead in Georgia

Discussion: CNN and Ballot Box

New York Times:

2 Americans Killed as Afghan Unrest Enters Fifth Day — KABUL, Afghanistan — Two American officers were shot dead inside the Interior Ministry building here on Saturday, and NATO responded by immediately pulling all advisers out of Afghan ministries, in a deepening of the crisis …

Discussion: Rod Dreher, Booman Tribune and National Review

Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Officers Killed in Kabul Shooting — KABUL—Two high-ranking U.S. military advisers were killed Saturday during a clash with an Afghan national at Afghanistan's Interior Ministry headquarters, according to Afghan and Western officials. — An American colonel and major were both found shot …

Discussion: Fox News, AMERICAN DIGEST, The Other McCain, The Gateway Pundit, Stop The ACLU, The Jawa Report, Wake up America, Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs

BBC:
Afghanistan Nato officers shot dead in Kabul ministry

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Verum Serum, Marathon Pundit, Campaign 2012 and americanthinker.com

ZIP / Weasel Zippers:

Obama Hires Academy Award Winning Filmmaker To Direct A Movie About . . . Barack Obama... Even better: The man Obama hired was the director behind Al Gore's fairytale, “An Inconvenient Truth.” — Via Politico:

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs and nation.foxnews.com

Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:

Obama Enlists Guggenheim for Campaign Film — With Hollywood gathering this weekend for the 84th Academy Awards, President Barack Obama has recruited Oscar-winning documentary director Davis Guggenheim to again produce a short film for his campaign. — Obama's re-election staff …

Discussion: Politico and The Lonely Conservative

Michael Ledeen / Wall Street Journal:

Santorum Was Right About Iran—When It Was Unpopular — A grandfather who fled Mussolini taught him to prize freedom. — Rick Santorum doesn't fit any of the stereotypes of current foreign-policy ideologies. He's too idealistic to be a “realist,” too conservative and too religious to be a …

Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Spectacle Blog

John Heilemann / New York Magazine:

The Lost Party — The strangest primary season in memory reveals a GOP that's tearing itself apart. — On a biting, brittle mid-February morning 30 miles north of Detroit, Rick Santorum plants his flag in a patch of turf as politically fertile as exists in these United States.

Discussion: Sky Dancing, Washington Post and Balloon Juice

Fars News Agency:

Commander Views US Helplessness as Root Cause of Quran Burning by American Soldiers — TEHRAN (FNA)- A top Iranian military commander said the US helplessness in the confrontation against Islam is the real cause underlying the burning of the Muslims' Holy Book by American soldiers in Afghanistan …

Discussion: Maggie's Farm, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Krauthammer: When Will Islamic Nations Apologize To Us...

Discussion: CNSNews

Steven F. Hayward / Weekly Standard:

Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning — Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs. — The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics …

Discussion: TBogg, Ed Driscoll, Wizbang and Power Line

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Video: Dem Rep booed by constituents over HHS mandate — “We were taking care of this country's sick long before the government got involved in it.” — Rep. Kathy Hochul expected to get some questions on the economy and on gas prices when she met with constituents in New York's 26th Congressional district last night.

Discussion: Wizbang and The Gateway Pundit