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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Perry calls global warming an unproven, costly theory — The Texas governor says scientists have ‘manipulated data’ to win research dollars. — Reporting from Bedford, N.H.— Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday reaffirmed his view that global warming is an unproven scientific theory …
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Patrick Hynes / New Hampshire Journal:
Poll: Romney rocks, Perry pops, Bachmann doesn't bounce — Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney remains in a commanding position in the first-in-the-nation primary state while Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes a strong first showing in the latest NH Journal survey conducted by Magellan Strategies.
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A.Killough / CNN:
‘Liberty lovers’ flock to Paul event
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Perry and Romney split on global warming
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Bashing E.P.A. Is New Theme in G.O.P. Race
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Dean: Bush camp will ‘take Perry out’
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NO QUARTER, The Hill and The Moderate Voice
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Obama Campaign Staffer Sends Out Email Bashing Paul Krugman And ‘Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere’ … WASHINGTON — The Obama campaign's point person in New Mexico recently sent an email to supporters defending the president's position on the debt deal and bashing the “Firebagger Lefty blogosphere …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Score one for the professional left — Greg Sargent has a nice take on the e-mail an Obama campaign official sent mocking Paul Krugman and the “firebaggers.” But whenever I read these periodic eruptions about “the professional left,” my main thought is: if I were a member of the professional left, I would be stoked.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Does Obama camp see upside in pissing off the left?
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
OFA Director Attacks “Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere,” says “Paul Krugman is a Political Rookie”
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Louise Story / New York Times:
U.S. Inquiry Eyes S.&P. Ratings of Mortgages — The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation's largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor's, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
New Low of 26% Approve of Obama on the Economy — Ratings on Afghanistan and foreign affairs have also declined — PRINCETON, NJ — A new low of 26% of Americans approve of President Barack Obama's handling of the economy, down 11 percentage points since Gallup last measured it in mid …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
71% disapprove Obama on economy — Ratings for President Barack Obama's handling of the economy have fallen to their lowest level yet, with barely more than one in four of Americans for a new poll saying they approve of the work he's done. — Twenty-six percent of those surveyed …
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CBS News:
Presidential vacations: How does Obama compare? — President Obama and his family will be staying at the 28-acre Blue Heron Farm in Martha's Vineyard. (Ivy Ashe for the Vineyard Gazette) — Following his three-day bus tour to promote his economic agenda — and not to mention …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
West: I'll lead you off ‘plantation’ — Rep. Allen West says he is a “modern-day Harriet Tubman” who wants to lead black voters away from the “plantation” of the Democratic Party. — There is a “21st century plantation” of African-American voters unwaveringly supporting Democrats …
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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Black caucus: Tired of making excuses for Obama
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CNNMoney.com:
Bachmann: I'll bring back $2 gas — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas. — “Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,” Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. “That will happen.”
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Carl / Israel Matzav:
Liveblog: Coordinated terror attacks near Egyptian border — This is a liveblog of the events currently going on near the Egyptian border in the area of Eilat. There are three events. — 1. ‘Palestinian’ terrorists shot at an Egged bus - number 392 - from Beer Sheva to Eilat.
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Reginald Fields / Plain Dealer:
Gov. John Kasich asks union leaders to compromise on Senate Bill 5; union group says repeal it, then we'll talk — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. John Kasich backtracked on Senate Bill 5 on Wednesday, asking union leaders to negotiate a compromise on the collective bargaining law he championed and end efforts to repeal it.
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Joe Vardon / The Columbus Dispatch:
Kasich, fellow Republicans propose SB 5 deal to unions
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Liberty Street, Daily Kos and TPMDC
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Bachmann Staffer Arrested for Terrorism in Uganda in 2006 — The charges were dropped after he spent more than a month in prison. Now he's rallying Bachmann's faith-based support and prepping for a movie about his ordeal. — Updated 6:35 p.m. — The evangelical organizer …
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Ana Campoy / Wall Street Journal:
Hispanic Democrats Set Sights on New Texas Seat — DALLAS—A newly drawn Central Texas congressional district is creating tensions about who best can serve its mostly Hispanic residents—one of their own, or a long-time congressman who happens to be white. — As a result of redistricting led …
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The Hill:
AFL-CIO: Labor will stand by Obama — Organized labor won't sit out President Obama's reelection campaign and let a Republican win the presidency, the AFL-CIO's political director said Wednesday. — Despite the frustration labor activists have expressed toward the administration for the deals …
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The Note and Washington Post
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Meghan McCain wants Palin to stop ‘flirting’ with presidential decision — Meghan McCain, daughter of former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), wants her father's former running mate Sarah Palin to “stop flirting” with possible presidential candidacy.
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Rhymes With Right and Weasel Zippers
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Wall Street Journal:
Fed Eyes European Banks — Regulators Scrutinize Ability of Institutions' U.S. Units to Fund Themselves — Federal and state regulators, signaling their growing worry that Europe's debt crisis could spill into the U.S. banking system, are intensifying their scrutiny of the U.S. arms …
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The Big Picture
Rolling Stone:
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? — A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals. — Imagine a world in which a man …
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama to issue new proposals on job creation, debt reduction — ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — President Obama plans to make a major speech in early September laying out new proposals for job creation and taming the federal debt, according to a senior administration official.
Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Phone hacking: News of the World Hollywood reporter is arrested — James Desborough is arrested by London police investigating UK hacking allegations — James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone-hacking scandal.
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