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Mark Halperin / The Page:
He Speaks — Video highlight: Perry says he has decided he wants to be president. — Video highlight: Perry on 43's advice to him. Transcript of Mark Halperin's Interview with Rick Perry — Halperin: Tell me what being a Texan means to you. — Perry: (Laughs.)
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A.Killough / CNN:
New CNN Poll: Perry near top of pack in GOP nomination battle — Washington (CNN) - As Rick Perry moves closer and closer to a run for the White House, a new national survey indicates that the longtime Texas governor is close to the top of the pack in the hunt for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Wake up America, GOP 12, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, McClatchy Washington Bureau and Joe. My. God.
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Rick Perry, the “hawk internationalist” — If and when Texas Governor Rick Perry declares his candidacy for president, he will stake out a position on foreign policy and national security issues that one foreign policy hand familiar with his thinking described as a “hawk internationalist” profile.
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AmSpecBlog, The Daily Dish and Eunomia
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Romney gets in heated exchange with hecklers at Iowa State Fair — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) exchange with a few hecklers turned into somewhat of a shouting match while he was stumping Thursday in Iowa. — Romney faced aggressive inquiries with a liberal bent at the top …
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C-SPAN, Washington Monthly, The Note, The Caucus, GOP 12 and Hullabaloo
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Romney Angrily Confronted Over His Desire To Cut Entitlements While Protecting The Rich — GOP 2012 presidential contender Mitt Romney today spoke at the Iowa state fair, before a key Republican debate tonight and an upcoming Iowa straw poll. At the end of his speech, a Q&A session quickly devolved into a shouting match.
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Reuters and Rebuild the Dream
Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Romney: ‘Corporations Are People, My Friend’ [VIDEO] — Mitt Romney told an Iowa crowd on Thursday that the country should not raise taxes to shore up Medicare and Social Security because “corporations are people” too. — TPM SLIDESHOW: Meet the 2012 GOPers: Mitt Romney
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Crooks and Liars, Talking Points Memo and Towleroad News #gay
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Peter King on Osama bin Laden movie: ‘I hit a sensitive nerve’ — Rep. Peter King begs to differ with White House press secretary Jay Carney's jab that it's “ridiculous” for the congressman to suggest the Obama administration could be endangering national security by cooperating with filmmakers working on a movie about Osama bin Laden.
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JustOneMinute and Weasel Zippers
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Sony Hosted Obama Fundraiser, Releasing Bin Laden Movie Before Election
Sony Hosted Obama Fundraiser, Releasing Bin Laden Movie Before Election
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NY Daily News, The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DeMint calls administration ‘anti-American’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) shared his unique take on the Obama administration yesterday. … Honestly, it's as if Jim DeMint has suffered some kind of head trauma, which prevents him from perceiving reality. None of his condemnation makes any sense at all …
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
DeMint: Obama Administration The Most “Anti-American Administration In My Lifetime”
DeMint: Obama Administration The Most “Anti-American Administration In My Lifetime”
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TPMDC, nation.foxnews.com, Janet Mefferd Show and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Cameron's Broken Windows — OUR son lives next to a Turkish mosque on Kingsland Road in Hackney, where some of London's worst mob violence has occurred. When looters rampaged through Hackney last weekend, there were few police officers to stop them and residents had to chase them off with butcher knives, truncheons and baseball bats.
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Guardian, Europe, msnbc.com, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, National Review and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
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Seumas Milne / Guardian:
These riots reflect a society run on greed and looting | Seumas Milne
These riots reflect a society run on greed and looting | Seumas Milne
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The Lede, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, normblog, Marbury, American Thinker, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Opinion L.A. and Reuters
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Pelosi names three House Democrats to complete debt panel selection — Washington (CNN) - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday appointed Reps. James Clyburn, Xavier Becerra and Chris Van Hollen to the special congressional committee on deficit reduction, completing selection …
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The Politico and The Political Carnival
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Attorney for Graves, Rogers: Bank is at fault — CALHOUN — While U.S. Rep. Tom Graves was calling for fiscal responsibility in Washington his attorney was arguing in a lawsuit that a North Georgia bank is at fault for issuing Graves a $2.2 million loan the bank knew he could not repay.
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Washington Monthly, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, tpmmuckraker … and Unqualified Offerings
Michael Rubinkam / Associated Press:
Pa. judge gets 28 years in ‘kids for cash’ case — SCRANTON, Pa. — A longtime northeastern Pennsylvania judge was ordered to spend nearly three decades in prison for his role in a massive juvenile justice bribery scandal that prompted the state's high court to toss thousands of convictions.
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TalkLeft, Balloon Juice and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
D.C., Hawaii Most Democratic, Utah Most Republican State in '11 — North Dakota and Louisiana tilt more Republican than they did in 2010 — PRINCETON, NJ — Hawaii shows the largest advantage for the Democratic Party over the Republican Party among U.S. states, along with the District of Columbia, in the first half of 2011.
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Washington Wire, The Politico and The Political Carnival
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Romney's Pitch to S&P Boasted of Revenue Raisers — Former Gov. Mitt Romney boasted this week that when he led Massachusetts, he presided over an increase in the state's bond rating, a contrast to President Barack Obama, who saw Standard & Poor's downgrade U.S. debt.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
John Podhoretz Is Not A Very Intelligent Person — I don't normally read books that seem like they'd be terrible, but once upon a time I had a work-related assignment to read John Podhoretz's Bush Country: How George W. Bush Became the First Great Leader of the 21st Century—While Driving Liberals Insane.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Douglas Stanglin / USA Today:
Extremist T-shirt offers different message after the first wash — When the 250 T-shirts were donated to a right-wing concert in Germany, they looked perfect: A skull and crossbones, nationalist flags and the slogan “Hardcore rebels.” — But when the T-shirts were washed for the first time, the message changed.
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ThinkProgress, Guardian, Towleroad News #gay and Shakesville
Bill Gross / Washington Post:
America's debt is not its biggest problem — For a few days there it seemed like President Obama was the master of the bond market. This is a Triple-A nation, he intoned on Monday, and always will be a Triple-A nation no matter what some rating agency says.
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Washington Monthly and AMERICAN FUTURE
Emily Smith / New York Post:
George Soros sued by ex-girlfriend for reneging on real estate promise — A beautiful Brazilian soap star has the lead role in her own daytime drama, which casts George Soros, the billionaire financier of lefty causes, as a heavy who not only broke her heart, but also reneged on a promise …
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NY Daily News, Clusterstock, EconomicPolicyJournal.com, Mediaite and The Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
More Educated People Spend More On Booze — Your Bureau of Labor Statistics trivia fact of the day is that educational attainment is strongly correlated with alcohol expenditures:
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Outside the Beltway and Connecting.the.Dots
Max Hastings / Daily Mail:
Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters — A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland.
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Recent Decline In State/Local Tax Revenue Was The Worst Ever — Another look at the fact that our economy, far from suffering from an outburst of socialism, is actually suffering from a collapse of state and local government employment is offered by this chart of state and local tax revenue:
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Washington Monthly
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
In Auto Test in Europe, Meter Ticks Off Miles, and Fee to Driver — EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands — As Sander Van Dedem recalled watching the charges tick up every 10 seconds on the dashboard meter on the way to the airport, he resolved to try public transportation next time.
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ThinkProgress, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Eschaton
The Indian Express:
Islam has always been part of our American family: Obama — Welcoming guests at the annual White House Iftaar party, US President Barack Obama said, Islam has always been part of the American family and Muslim Americans have long contributed to the strength and character of our country in all walks of life.
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Weasel Zippers, Sister Toldjah and Jihad Watch
Frank Miniter / National Review:
England Used to Be a Country of Men — With London succumbing to looters and muggers, it's time to ask what happened to the once-manly English people. The August 9 issue of the Daily Mail, for example, includes a photo of a young man taking off his pants on the street as an impatient looter waits …
Yahoo! News:
White House photo sparks protest — WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House photographer was allowed to take and widely distribute a photo from the ceremony Tuesday for the return of the remains of 30 American troops killed in a weekend helicopter crash in Afghanistan despite the Pentagon's claim …
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BLACKFIVE, Questions and Observations, Scared Monkeys, ThinkProgress, Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
Arthur Delaney / The Huffington Post:
Claire McCaskill Comes Out Against Further Unemployment Benefits [UPDATE] … During a Tuesday visit to a factory in St. Charles, Mo., Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said she opposed extending federal unemployment benefits. — “I'm not for extending the unemployment benefits any further …
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KMOV-TV, Crooks and Liars, ThinkProgress and Washington Monthly
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
The Same Financial Crisis: Stocks Falling Due to Same Mortgage Problems from 2008 — I guess news outlets are still pushing the line that the S&P debt downgrade is what has driven the stock market volatility over the past week or so. They have to neglect that the market was falling …
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Financial Times, Rortybomb and New York Times
Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Panel Calls for More ‘Fracking’ Rules — The use of hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas poses risks to air and water quality, and should be subject to tighter rules and more disclosure, an advisory panel to the Department of Energy said in a report to be released Thursday.