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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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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Rick Perry, the “hawk internationalist”
Rick Perry, the “hawk internationalist”
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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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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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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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C-SPAN:
Romney Questioned on Social Security and Medicare — GOP Presidential Hopefuls Campaign in Iowa — DES MOINES, IA — C‑SPAN is following the Republican presidential candidates at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines and at the Iowa Republican Straw Poll in Ames over the next couple of days.
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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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Donna Smith / Reuters:
Exclusive: Republican Camp won't rule out tax increases — (Reuters) - A leading Republican lawmaker would not rule out tax increases on Thursday if they could boost economic growth, adding that “everything is on the table” for a congressional panel charged with forging a deal to cut the deficit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fortune:
Buffett: The lower stocks go, the more I buy — Warren Buffett discusses the lowered outlook for Berkshire Hathaway debt, why some of his businesses aren't hiring, and why U.S. debt remains triple-A rated in his mind. — By Andy Serwer, managing editor — Warren Buffett sees buying opportunities
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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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Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
Bachmann Defends Home Turf - Will Join Perry in Waterloo on Sunday — Michele Bachmann has made her Iowa roots a central point of her presidential campaign. As such, she hosted a welcome home event for residents of Waterloo, the town of her birth, at the Electric Park Ballroom the night before she formally announced her candidacy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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 …
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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