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• Gingrich to black people: paychecks, not food aid (AP)
• Conservatives: Time to rally around a not-Romney (AP)
• Study: Romney plan raises taxes on poor families (AP)
• Gingrich blasts Romney's policies as 'timid' (AP)
• Huntsman says time is working against him in NH (AP)
• McCain says GOP should settle quickly on Romney (AP)
• Santorum's conservative record has some blemishes (AP)
• House GOP weakened, divided (Politico)
• Ex-Walker aide arrested in probe (Politico)
• 5 days from next contest, rivals race for money (AP)
• Romney airing new campaign ad in SC (AP)
• High court to hear environmental case from Idaho (AP)
• Wave of shootings baffle Swedish police (AP)
• New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones (Reuters)
• Scott Walker on recall threat: ‘I’m not afraid of losing’ (Daily Caller)
• Santorum compares holding elective office to military service (Daily Caller)
• Lessons from Occupy: Congress Chooses Constituents? (ContributorNetwork)

Gingrich to black people: paychecks, not food aid (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:40 PM PST AP - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he is willing to go before the NAACP and urge blacks to demand paychecks, not food stamps.

Conservatives: Time to rally around a not-Romney (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:37 PM PST AP - Prominent conservative leaders want their rank and file to quickly get behind a single presidential candidate — Rick Santorum now seems the likeliest — fearful that persistent splits will help Mitt Romney win the Republican nomination.

Study: Romney plan raises taxes on poor families (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:19 PM PST AP - Republican Mitt Romney's tax plan would increase taxes on low-income families while cutting taxes for the middle-class and the rich, according to an independent study released Thursday.

Gingrich blasts Romney's policies as 'timid' (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:09 PM PST AP - Republican Newt Gingrich fought on two fronts Thursday, branding Mitt Romney's policies as "timid" and accusing President Barack Obama of carrying out "an imperial presidency."

Huntsman says time is working against him in NH (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST AP - Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said Thursday the "tyranny of the clock" is working against him in New Hampshire, an acknowledgement of his late entry into the race and his position far behind front-runner Mitt Romney in the state.

McCain says GOP should settle quickly on Romney (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:26 AM PST AP - Just two days after the first votes in the race to pick a Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain says it's time to wrap things up.

Santorum's conservative record has some blemishes (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:06 AM PST AP - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum nearly won Iowa's caucuses with a message of fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign policy. But even conservatives view Santorum's claims skeptically in light of his 16 years in Congress.

House GOP weakened, divided (Politico) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:10 PM PST Politico - A year after Boehner took the speaker’s gavel, the GOP majority is struggling with internal divisions.

Ex-Walker aide arrested in probe (Politico) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:34 AM PST Politico - Charged with theft, he's arrested with two others with ties to the governor.

5 days from next contest, rivals race for money (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:34 AM PST AP - As they try to derail Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, his challengers face an urgent task: raising enough cash to compete.

Romney airing new campaign ad in SC (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:49 AM PST AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is bashing the National Labor Relations Board in a new ad airing in South Carolina the day after the Obama administration circumvented Congress and put three new people on the labor panel.

High court to hear environmental case from Idaho (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2012 10:31 PM PST AP - Mike Sackett remembers what he thought when he saw the eye-popping fines of more than $30,000 a day that the Environmental Protection Agency was threatening to impose on him over a piece of Idaho property worth less than one day's penalty.

Wave of shootings baffle Swedish police (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:50 AM PST AP - A new wave of execution-style shootings in Sweden's third largest city has left police puzzled, raising concerns that Malmo has become a magnet for gang-related killings.

New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:58 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military presence in Asia but shrink the overall size of the force as the Pentagon seeks to reduce spending by nearly half a trillion dollars after a decade of war.

Scott Walker on recall threat: ‘I’m not afraid of losing’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:32 PM PST Daily Caller - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday that he expects to face a recall election sometime in June.

Santorum compares holding elective office to military service (Daily Caller) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:11 PM PST Daily Caller - NORTHFIELD, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum compared his service in government to serving in the military during a town hall meeting on Thursday.

Lessons from Occupy: Congress Chooses Constituents? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:48 AM PST ContributorNetwork - The Associated Press reported Wednesday on the influence of Occupy in the Iowa caucuses. The news organization suggested that Occupy has yet to mature into a political force comparable to the tea party. As a result, AP said it doubts whether Occupy will develop into a liberal counterweight to the tea party this year.

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