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Gillespie defends Romney only doing Fox News: He spoke 'to schoolchildren last week'

Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Sunday fended off accusations that his boss had only made Sunday morning appearances on Fox News.

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George Will: Romney campaigning with 'bloviating ignoramus' Donald Trump

Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday questioned the judgement of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who will be campaigning with Donald Trump even after the billionaire recently said that the "truth" is that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

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Simpson tells GOP: 'For heaven's sake, Norquist can't murder you'

Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson (R) offered another colorful perspective from his cantankerous mind Sunday morning, urging Congressional Republicans once again to not be scared of anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist's pledge of never raising any tax.

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Anti-contraception cardinal refuses to say Romney is a Christian

A Catholic cardinal who is supporting a lawsuit against the Obama administration's mandate that all health insurance cover female contraceptives refused on Sunday to say whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was a Christian.

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McCain on Romney's Bain record: 'Free enterprise system can be cruel'

Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Sunday walked back on his 2008 attacks on current GOP hopeful Mitt Romney for his record of killing jobs as the head of Bain Capital.

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Hayes' guest: 'Plutocracy doesn't work' anywhere

Barnard College economics professor Marcellus Andrews candidly expressed his dismay Saturday at the growing threat of America's rich having full control of the nation's power and direction.

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Huckabee: Catholics' birth control lawsuit is as important as MLK's 'Dream' speech

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) thought Saturday morning that the news media's coverage of 43 Catholic institutions suing the Obama administration over the birth control mandate has been very minimal.

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Maddow: Republicans practicing 'reverse Robin Hood' economics

On Friday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed the fact that presumed Republican nominee former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)'s wealth is greater than that of the last eight presidents combined, and questioned how that might impact his world view and his policies.

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Observers of 'millennial generation' expect them to come out for Obama

There are 95 million members of the "millennial generation" in the United States, making them the largest generational cohort in the United States, and those who are eligible to vote next fall can be expected to support President Obama by a margin of two-to-one as they did in 2008.

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Documentary on U.S. torture seeks to begin process of truth-telling

Since the close of the Bush administration, there has been little official attention paid to the policy during those years of using torture on accused terrorists in order to extract administration. As a result, the American Civil Liberties Union and the writers' and human rights group PEN have conducted their own study of 150,000 declassified documents and other materials and have now published The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program.

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Obama: Romney's rhetoric is a 'cowpie of distortion'

President Barack Obama on Thursday blasted GOP hopeful Mitt Romney for offering a "cowpie of distortion" with his claim that a "prairie fire of debt" was consuming the nation.

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Missouri taxpayers fund 24-hour security camera for Limbaugh statue

At the request of Republican lawmakers, taxpayers are funding a 24-hour security camera to watch over a Rush Limbaugh bust in the Missouri Capitol building.

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Romney: Presidential ambition 'like a sport for old guys'

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he's not very good at sports so he's running to be commander-in-chief instead.

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