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US: Gingrich 5 pts over Romney
Obama-Romney tied
Obama 11 pts ahead of Gingrich

FL GOP: Gingrich & Romney tied
 ELECTORAL COUNT Obama 186-91

Union membership notched up in 2011

Chief European ACTA bureaucrat quits in disgust

Deconstructing Gingrich's demagoguery

Gingrich bad mouthed Reagan in 1988 1985 

Post constitutional America

FBI plans to spy on Facebook, Twitter

Google to spy on user's private data including calendars and emails

Homeland police want to spy on up to four square miles for long periods

To hell with the 5th Amendment: Federal judge orders decryption of defendant's hard drive

Obama: It's okay to torture but you get up to 30 years in prison for revealing it

San Francisco suspends medial marijuana licensing

Gingrich wanted to put pot importers to death

Survey finds incoming college students more liberal

Romney invested in fund that held Florida mortgages later foreclosed

Romney had Swiss, as well as Cayman Islands, bank account

Is Obama's mortgage investigation a fraud?

War on Iran?

Where's the evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb?

Report: Israel to give Obama only 12 hours notice before attacking Iran

What if Iran is telling the truth?

Bailout booster Obama now berates bailouts

Jerry Brown stands up against the test tyrants

Obama seizes control of New York schools with greenmail worth just one third of one percent of state's school budget

Florida parents stand up against another Jeb Bush education rip off

Prosecution of whistleblowers tipping off media has soared under Obama

Nancy Pelosi suddenly becomes interesting

Gingrich super PAC gets ten million dollars for Las Vegas casino baron

It's not just Democrats who are bothered by Gingrich's character

Unemployment down mainly because people have left workforce

Big Ben tilting; Parliament sliding

Why Republicans are the real socialists

Restrictive abortion laws do not cut abortion rates

Send poor Rick Santorum a uterus of his own

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The case against night clubs

Why do foundations see so many problems and so few opportunities?

A sculpture exhibit you can acually touch

Civil Liberties

Rahm Emanuel's war on democracy

Japanese government concealing facts about Fukushima

Chicago council passes Emanuel's protest suppression bill

Can Congress act on Citizens United without a constitutional amendment?

Former Homeland boss wants more domestic spying and interference

Tucson schools ban Chicano, Native American books, grab them from children's hands

Democrats are driving force behind war on Internet

How one day of online protest changed things

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War on the Internet

Idea Mill: A musicians' cooperative to replace RIAA

Is this why Obama took down MegaUpload? To save the recording industry from a musician-friendly plan?

30 years before SOPA, MPAA feared the VCR

Did Obama just kill cloud storage for computers?

What effect does improper downloading really have?

The war on the Internet continues big time: It's called ACTA

How to boycott the movie and recording industry

What the recording industry won't tell you about music

Surprise: Supreme Court thinks 4th Amendment still exists

How the U.S. government used diplomats to pervert copyright law on behalf of MPAA

Chris Dodd threatens to stop bribing politicians for the movie industry

Obama thinks downloaders are worse than mortgage fraud

Who's worse: Illegal downloaders on politicians on the take?

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Richard Branson calls for end of war on drugs

Drug war: really a war against blacks

Canada's Liberal Party endorses pot legalization

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Fukishima in Vermont? Judge says federal power is more important

Federal judge says states can't protect themselves against nuclear plants

Seaweed as biofuel?

The great pipeline scam

Economy & money

The bonuses you subsidized for the six largest banks were last year the second largest in history

30 corporations that paid more for lobbying than they did in taxes

"Job creators" need government bribes

Seven new hedge funders charged

Earnings of men collapse over past 40 years

Britain, US big economic losers over past five years; Russia, Brazil, India, China big winners

Education

Hawaii teachers flunk Race to the Top

Teacher kicked out for distributing leaflet at Duncan-Rhee appearance

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Recession creator Larry Summers being considered as head of World Bank

Gay

72 mayors announce coalition to support marriage equality

History

Martin Luther King writing on education while a college student

Media

Why the Pulitzer prizes are worthless

Local hero: Irish journalist shows how media could be asking questions of officials

How the media fouls up budget reporting

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Where US troops are stationed

Great moments in American-Israel relations

Obama

Obama's new OMB director was Bain alum

Behind Homeland Security's monitoring of websites: a key Obama adviser

Otohbotoh Obama

Obama rediscovers religion just in time for election

Politics

Who Saul Alinsky was and why Newt Gingrich should be afraid of him

The best of Newt Gingrich

Some facts about food stamps the Republicans won't tell you

Santorum's Iowa campaign head didn't think a woman should be president

Profiles of four third party presidential candidates

Just the facts: Democrats & Republicans like same size government

Best moments with Rick Perry

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Romney has millions of dollars in Cayman Islands tax haven

Romney's Bain Capital got big taxpayer bailout

Top Romney contributors

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The establishment that no longer is

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[Obama] says one thing and does another. Where has he been for over three years? He's had the Justice Department. There are existing laws that could prosecute and convict Wall Street crooks. He hasn't sent more than one or two to jail. - Ralph Nader

A Guide to the White Trash Planet for Urban Liberals

Mitch Daniels?

Isn’t he the former Bush budget director who said the Iraq War would cost $50 billion when it ended up costing $3 trillion? The bureaucrat who promoted the Bush tax cuts when we were fighting two wars? The one whose budget projections were so fraudulent that he predicted federal surpluses in 2004 and 2005?- Joe Conason

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Number of Americans who in 1985 held reservations with Pan Am for a trip to the moon: 90,002 - #HarpersIndex

Man awarded $22 million due to inhumane jail treatment and being held without trial for two years

16 year old gets prayer removed from school wall

Another Yale cover up

Tacovism

When asked what he was going to do about the fact that there were no latinos on the East Haven police force, the town's mayor, Joseph Maturo Jr., replied, ""I might have tacos when I go home, I'm not quite sure yet." The latino community responded by delivering 500 tacos to his door.

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MORNING LINE
Based on our moving average of polls

3 POLL AVG

GINGRICH

33

ROMNEY

28

SANTORUM

 13

PAUL

12

Obama point lead
GREEN = Democratic lead RED = GOP lead    
LIGHT COLORS-Within margin of error

AVG

OBAMA-ROMNEY

4

OBAMA-GINGRICH

11

OBAMA-SANTORUM 

10

Obama blue, GOP red

Electoral vote count: Obama, 186, GOP: 91

Senate: Democrats have four seats in doubt. Three GOP seats in doubt. Only three seats need change for GOP to win Senate.

Governors: Democrats stand to win one and lose one state with 4 other in doubt. Three GOP seats in doubt.

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