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The Politico:
Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero — It's a tough time to be a conservative intellectual. — From the Weekly Standard to the Wall Street Journal, on the pages of policy periodicals and opinion sections, the egghead right's longing for a presidential candidate of ideas …
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National Review:
Five Reasons Ryan Bowed Out — Sources close to Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin tell National Review Online that the Budget Committee chairman considered a variety of factors this summer as he mulled a late-entry presidential campaign. This afternoon, he closed the door on a 2012 bid, choosing to remain in the House.
Discussion:
Man Are We Screwed, Patterico's Pontifications and Hot Air
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Spending, not entitlements, created huge deficit — It's conventional wisdom in Washington to blame the federal government's dire financial outlook on runaway entitlement spending. Unless we rein in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the conventional wisdom goes, the federal government is headed for disaster.
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Campaign 2012, UrbanGrounds and The Lonely Conservative
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Perry's views on the Constitution get closer scrutiny
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Man Are We Screwed and Washington Monthly
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Does Rick Perry still favor repeal of 16th Amendment?
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Washington Monthly, TPMDC, Indecision Forever, Swampland, Wonkette, Politics, Talking Points Memo and The New Republic
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Perry takes the lead in Iowa — Rick Perry is the new leader in Iowa: — The race is pretty close four ways in Iowa but Rick Perry is the new favorite among Republican voters in the state. Among announced candidates he's at 22% to 19% for Mitt Romney, 18% for Michele Bachmann, and 16% for Ron Paul.
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GOP 12 and National Review
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Paul A. Gigot / Wall Street Journal:
Huntsman's Anti-GOP Strategy — The former Utah governor tries to save his GOP presidential bid by using global warming as a wedge issue. — When Joe Manchin wanted to save his U.S. Senate campaign, the West Virginia Democrat loaded a rifle and put a bullet through a sheet of paper labeled …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Power Line, Politics, Althouse and YID With LID
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
If the trial lawyers hate Rick Perry, maybe I should reconsider him
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Ricochet Conversation Feed, PointOfLaw Forum, Law Blog, Mother Jones and Pajamas Media
Mark Knoller / CBS News:
National debt has increased $4 trillion under Obama — The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama's watch. — The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New national debt data: It's growing about $3 million a minute, even during his vacation
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Althouse, BizzyBlog and Weasel Zippers
The White House:
Statement by the President on Libya Blue Heron Farm, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just completed a call with my National Security Council on the situation in Libya. And earlier today I spoke to Prime Minister Cameron about the extraordinary events taking place there.
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Fresh Palin Tea Leaves Seem to Predict a Late September Decision — The biggest - perhaps the only - question remaining about the size and shape of the Republican presidential field is whether Sarah Palin intends to join. The answer is not expected to come by Labor Day, but rather in the final weeks of September.
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SarahPAC:
Setting The Record Straight: Wrong & Misleading
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Ballot Box, CNN, Don Surber, RedState, Politics and Hot Air
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Will Palin be in by Labor Day? ‘I doubt it’
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GOP 12, The Other McCain, Iowa Caucuses, Conservatives4Palin, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, RedState, Man Are We Screwed and American Spectator
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
How Democrats Hurt Jobs — The airplane's aft section arrived early Monday morning. That's what they'd been waiting for at the final assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C. They already had the wings, the nose, the tail — all the other major sections of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner.
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Washington Post, The Business Insider and Betsy's Page
Max Pizarro / Politicker NJ:
In LD8, Delany derailed by wife's email to Lewis — Former Assemblyman Pat Delany abruptly resigned last month from his post representing the 8th district after his wife sent a racially tinged email to senate challenger Carl Lewis, the former Olympic Gold medalist.
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New Jersey Online, Wonkette, The Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, iOwnTheWorld.com, TPM LiveWire and Dependable Renegade
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Debbie's Very Bad Day in Iowa — During my Iowa trip, I got lots of photos and videos I wasn't able to upload at the time due to connectivity issues and the very hectic schedule. One of the items that never made it to the blog was an incident at the Iowa State Fair where DNC Chairwoman …
Jeannette Neumann / Wall Street Journal:
Head of S&P to Resign — Ratings Firm Says Sharma Exit, for Year-End, in Works Before U.S. Downgrade — Standard & Poor's President Deven Sharma is leaving the credit-rating firm at the end of the year, the company said Monday night. — Mr. Sharma will step down as president on Sept. 12 …
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Patricia Mazzei / Naked Politics:
Beware the tea party, Jesse Jackson, Frederica Wilson and black Democrats say at jobs meeting — Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus are in Miami Tuesday to host a jobs fair, part of their five-city tour to draw attention to high unemployment, particularly in the black community.
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The Politico, Big Government, americanthinker.com, Washington Post and Chicago Boyz
Gregory Simmons / ABCNEWS:
Gov. Sanford on Emerging From Seclusion — A scandal-plagued former governor who was once considered a potential presidential contender for 2012 is instead standing on the periphery, reflecting on what might have been and watching as the Republican primary field continues to take shape.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Taegan Goddard's …, The Hill, CNN and The Note
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Warren's criticism of Wall Street poses fundraising dilemma — Elizabeth Warren's combative history with Wall Street could create a fundraising dilemma for her burgeoning Senate campaign. — Her ardent grassroots following on the left — forged during stints as TARP watchdog and as mastermind …
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msnbc.com, Shakesville and Prairie Weather
Hoover Institution:
How Is Warren Buffett Like the Pope? — by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force) — They are both dead wrong on economic policy. — The terrible economic news from both Europe and the United States …
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National Review, MuniLand, The Reality-Based Community, Wonkette and The Huffington Post
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
FCC officially kills Fairness Doctrine, wiping it from rules — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the elimination of 83 outdated and obsolete agency rules on Monday, including the controversial Fairness Doctrine. — “The elimination of the obsolete …
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The Heritage Foundation, RedState, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Don Surber, more at Mediagazer »
Jeff Reinitz / Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier:
NEW DETAILS: Witnesses said they heard beating victim taunted — A brutal fight that claimed the life of a Waterloo teen started with taunting, witnesses said. — Police confirmed that 19-year-old Marcellus Richard Andrews was officially pronounced dead at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
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ThinkProgress and Box Turtle Bulletin
Richard A. Posner / The New Republic:
Let's Be Honest: We're in a Depression, Not a Recession, And There's No End In Sight — This article is a contribution to ‘Is There Anything That Can Be Done? A TNR Symposium On The Economy.’ Click here to read other contributions to the series. — If the notion that we are merely living through …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
U.S. Issues New Deportation Policy's First Reprieves — The call came in the morning to the lawyer representing Manuel Guerra, an illegal immigrant from Mexico living in Florida who had been caught in a tortuous and seemingly failing five-year court fight against deportation.
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ThinkProgress, Michelle Malkin, TalkLeft, Washington Monthly and Rasmussen Reports
Felix Salmon:
How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela — Ever since the news broke last week that Hugo Chávez wanted to transport 211 tons of physical gold from Europe to Caracas, I've been wondering how on earth he possibly intends to do such a thing. — There are 99 tons already being held …
David Tuller / New York Times:
No Surprise for Bisexual Men: Report Indicates They Exist — In an unusual scientific about-face, researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence that at least some men who identify themselves as bisexual are, in fact, sexually aroused by both women and men.
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Shakesville, Gawker, AMERICAblog Gay and Towleroad News #gay
Bradley Keoun / Bloomberg:
Morgan Stanley at Brink Got $107B From Fed — As markets convulsed in September 2008, Morgan Stanley (MS) Treasurer David Wong briefed the Federal Reserve on a “dark” scenario in which the U.S. firm would need at least $10 billion of emergency loans from the central bank. — It got 10 times darker by month's end.
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Clusterstock, Man Are We Screwed, Firedoglake and Hot Air
DealBook:
Milken's Gift Stirs Dispute at U.C.L.A. Law School — When the U.C.L.A. School of Law announced a $10 million gift from Lowell Milken to establish a business law institute in his name earlier this month, the university described him as a “pioneer in education reform” and a “leading philanthropist.”
Discussion:
ProfessorBainbridge.com and Truth on the Market
Henry Blodget / Politics:
Here's Why Bank Of America's Stock Is Collapsing Again — It's deja vu all over again. — The stock of a humongous American bank, Bank of America (BAC), is collapsing. — This is stoking fears that Bank of America will go bust, taking the whole economy down with it. — Why is Bank of America's stock tanking?
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FT Alphaville, Modeled Behavior, Clusterstock, MarketBeat, Deal Journal and naked capitalism
New York Times:
It's a Flawed Settlement — The Obama administration has turned up the heat on Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general, to go along with a proposed settlement with the nation's largest banks over dubious foreclosure practices. Mr. Schneiderman should stand his ground in not supporting the deal.
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naked capitalism, AMERICAblog News, DownWithTyranny!, Gothamist, Felix Salmon, Salon and The Big Picture
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