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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Investigators and a Flint couple are having a difficult time with their emotional reaction to a lifeless fetus found lying on the sidewalk late Tuesday. Daniel Foster and his wife were out for their nightly walk when they discovered the male fetus around 11 p.m. along the 1800 block if South Dort Highway. A medical examiner determined it was at about 20 to 23 weeks gestation. "Me and my wife were walking back from up here and she started freaking out," Foster said of his wife. "And I asked her, what are you freaking out for?...

Sarah Palin’s post-gubernatorial career has been shaped, and misshaped, by a media strategy heavy on knee-jerk combativeness, with a not insignificant dose of victim’s complex thrown in. Her ceaseless campaign against the perceived distortions of the mainstream media routinely crosses from defensiveness into confrontation, and even paranoia. Her recent defenses of Rand Paul and Nikki Haley — two conservatives facing starkly different political challenges — were remarkably similar boilerplate condemnations of “gotcha politics” and “media corruption” that managed to reduce the pair’s trials to her own persecution. Palin’s prickliness has received a good deal of media attention, which makes sense....

The nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was just defeated on a cloture vote 52-33. Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.), and Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) all voted against cloture.

Recent historical precedents for a Scott Brown win are obiously few, since the Bay State hasn't elected a Republican to the Senate since the Eisenhower administration. In an excellent piece, Steve Kornacki diagrams the victory strategies of Massachusetts's three most recent GOP statewide office-holders, all of them governors. Unfortunately, none are strict analogues for Brown's situation. Republican governors William Weld and Paul Celluci, who ran Massachusetts in the 1990s, faced Democratic opponents that were odious to progressives (Weld's opponent John Silber) and unions (Celluci's opponent Harshbarger) on policy grounds. Coakley may have run an awful campaign but, aside from the...

What do Osama bin Laden and the Coakley camp have in common? No, seriously. They both seem to view the World Trade Center as a symbol for capitalist greed and corruption. Coakley ad uses World Trade Center Here is NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh on the use of the image: “Using the image of a site where over 2,700 Americans died in a terrorist attack to distort Scott Brown’s position on regulating Wall Street is both distasteful and disrespectful. Martha Coakley should immediately renounce this ad and call for it to be removed from the airwaves," he said. Meanwhile a DSCC...