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ATLANTA (AP) — Republican Herman Cain on Sunday said he opposes abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake, contradicting previous statements in which he favored some exceptions. (more)

Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain got a tongue lashing on Sunday from CBS’s Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer over a much-publicized campaign ad showing Cain’s chief of staff, Mark Block, taking a drag from a cigarette. (more)

In a comment that went somewhat unnoticed this week, on last Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested there should be limitations placed on speech and expression in the wake of a Florida pastor’s Quran burning, which was blamed for the deaths of two American soldiers in Afghanistan. (more)

There has been a hubbub after it was disclosed that Rutgers University paid “Jersey Shore” celebrity Nicole Polizzi, aka Snooki, $32,000 to speak at an event last week, which was $2,000 more than it offered Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison last May to speak at the university’s commencement ceremony. (more)

Is the White House playing favorites again with media outlets? (more)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who pulled off a monumental upset by winning his 2009 election in what is regarded as a very “blue” state, is the hot name in Republican politics right now. And since his momentous election victory, he has won a lot of people over nationally even though he denies any interest in making a run at the White House in this next election cycle. But what does he have to say about potential 2012 Republican presidential hopeful Sarah Palin – another conservative star? (more)

January 8 marked a terrible tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. Twenty-two-year-old Jared Loughner, whose incoherent, rambling YouTube clips indicate serious psychological problems, opened fire at a “Congress on Your Corner” event, killing six and injuring fourteen. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was among those seriously injured. (more)

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s comments about the root cause of Saturday’s shooting of Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have elicited mixed reactions in the press. (more)

It was with great fanfare and a measure of controversy that ABC News named Christiane Amanpour to anchor its Sunday morning show “This Week” after George Stephanopoulos moved on to host “Good Morning America.” (more)

With Election Day fast approaching, Democrats have revealed their strategy for retaining the majority in Congress: xenophobia. For all their talk of being true cosmopolitans, President Obama and the Democrat campaign committees have hitched their success to talk of foreign influence in American elections and the belief that foreigners are somehow responsible for stealing American jobs. (more)

President Obama on Monday dropped any mention of the charge he hurled days earlier at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that the business industry group was using foreign money to finance election year TV ads. (more)

A weekend report by the New York Times undercut the White House’s recent attacks on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which charged the chamber with influencing American elections with gobs of foreign money. “There is little evidence that what the chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or even unusual, according to both liberal and conservative election-law lawyers,” the Times reported. (more)

Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin said that under certain circumstances, he would support a bill that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans making more than $250,000, a possibility that members of the Party’s leadership have largely ruled out. (more)

Although no one would specifically address House Minority Leader John Boehner’s weekend comments suggesting he would support a compromise on renewing the Bush-era tax cuts, Republican leaders made it clear Monday that they have no interest in compromising on their push to renew tax cuts for all income brackets, including the nation’s wealthiest. (more)

If a Republican official gets anywhere near a microphone in the next two months, expect to hear an earful about taxes, jobs, government spending — and little else. (more)

The first Muslim elected to Congress said Sunday that homegrown terrorism is an increasing problem, but cautioned law enforcement to work with the Muslim community to catch extremists. (more)

Reporting from Washington — Joe Miller, the surprise leader in Alaska’s unresolved Republican Senate primary, said Sunday that the growing national debt requires a “belt tightening” that should include cutting back on federal dollars that his state receives. (more)

In an interview with The Daily Caller Wednesday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham explained his comments over the weekend on U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan, as well as possible a future political settlement with members of the Taliban. (more)

Key players in the U.S. strategy for the war in Afghanistan took to the airwaves over the weekend to discuss the future of U.S. withdrawal. For some, that includes political negotiations with the Taliban. (more)

A California judge may have overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage last week, but advocates on both sides of the issue made clear Sunday that it is far from a closed case. And already they offered a preview of arguments they could make at the U.S. Supreme Court. (more)