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• Gingrich sketches Day 1 agenda for his presidency

  To hear Newt Gingrich tell it, the dramatic conservative change he promises will begin even before he is sworn in as president in 2013.

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• Emboldened GOP wants to abolish state income taxes

  A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative's dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes.

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• Bistro boots brunching lawmaker over anti-gay remarks | The Raw Story

  Source: Raw Story

  A restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee has refused service to a state lawmaker over his anti-gay views, The Raw Story has confirmed. An employee of Bistro at the Bijou told Raw Story that owner Martha Boggs turned away state Senator Stacey Campfield (R) over the weekend. …

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• White House fury at 'false' claims Michelle Obama 'closed off Agent Provocateur's Madison Avenue boutique to spend $50,000 on lingerie'

  Source: the Mail online

  The White House today issued an angry denial following claims that Michelle Obama indulged in a $50,000 shopping spree at a luxury lingerie boutique in New York. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, Agent Provocateur's boutique in Madison Avenue, New Yor …

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• The death of the serious reader

  Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and Freedom:

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