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Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Michele Bachmann rally draws over 1,000 in Sarasota, but some prefer Rick Perry — SARASOTA — Hurricane Irene bypassed the state and spared Michele Bachmann's first campaign foray in Florida this weekend, but now she has to contend with Hurricane Perry. — Even as the Minnesota congresswoman …
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Bachmann Campaign: Bachmann Spoke ‘In Jest’ When She Said God Was Communicating Via Earthquakes And Hurricanes — Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) presidential campaign says critics are making much ado about nothing when it comes to her viral quote stating last week's East Coast earthquake …
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Bachmann memoir coming in November
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann: Natural disasters a warning to D.C.
Michele Bachmann: Natural disasters a warning to D.C.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Just a joke: Bachmann's hurricane message from God
Just a joke: Bachmann's hurricane message from God
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Three minutes, two teleprompters — President Obama required two heavy-duty teleprompters on Monday during a three-minute speech in which he nominated Alan Krueger to serve as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers. — “I am very pleased to appoint Alan and I look forward to working with him …
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
RNC knocks Krueger for past cap-and-trade support
RNC knocks Krueger for past cap-and-trade support
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Alan Krueger, Obama's Adviser Pick, Is Jobs Expert
Alan Krueger, Obama's Adviser Pick, Is Jobs Expert
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Is Rick Perry dumb? — Another Texas governor who drops his “g's” and scorns elites is running for president and the whispers are the same: Lightweight, incurious, instinctual. — Strip away the euphemisms, and Rick Perry is confronting an unavoidable question: is he dumb - or just misunderestimated?
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Jack Cashill / American Thinker:
Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write — On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action. — Although a paragraph from this letter …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Perry warns of military ‘adventurism’
Perry warns of military ‘adventurism’
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Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
No, Bachmann did not ask a crowd, ‘Who likes white people?’ — An edited video that makes it appear as if Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann asked an Iowa crowd, “Who likes white people?” is quickly spreading around the Web. However, if you watch the full …
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Ken Layne / Wonkette:
VIDEO: Michele Bachmann Asks White People, ‘Who Likes White People?’ — Who likes white people? Uhh, everybody except for black people and brown people and yellow people, we guess? Also, many actual white people don't much like white people, having read a history book or two.
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Joseph W. McQuaid / unionleader.com:
Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notes — The waitresses at the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester weren't happy with the Mitt Romney picture they have on their wall of fame. It's out of focus, they told him the other morning. — As he was about to leave, one of them grabbed him by the arm.
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Cantor: No Disaster Relief Funding For Hurricane Irene Without Budget Cuts — Despite the devastation caused by Hurricane Irene this weekend, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) today stood by his call that no more money be allocated for disaster relief unless it is offset by spending cuts elsewhere.
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Brian Patrick / Eric Cantor:
Memo On Upcoming Jobs Agenda
Memo On Upcoming Jobs Agenda
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
House GOP announces jobs plan focused on cutting regs and taxes
House GOP announces jobs plan focused on cutting regs and taxes
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Obama's uncle held by immigration authorities — FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama's uncle was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving in Massachusetts, told police he planned to arrange bail through the White House and is being held without bail by federal immigration officials, authorities said Monday.
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Patricia A. Turner / New York Times:
Dangerous White Stereotypes — ONE of the most noteworthy movies of the summer is “The Help.” Set in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s, it focuses on the relationships between white upper-middle-class women and the black domestics who took care of them and their children.
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Warren Buffett, hypocrite — This one's truly, uh ... rich: Billionaire Warren Buffett says folks like him should have to pay more taxes — but it turns out his firm, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn't paid what it's already owed for years. — That's right: As Americans for Limited Government …
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CNN:
TRENDING: New CNN Poll: Perry sits atop GOP field — Washington (CNN) - A new national survey is further proof that Texas Gov. Rick Perry's entrance earlier this month into the race for the White House has dramatically altered the battle for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
One in four Democrats wants to dump Obama — A new poll by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent of Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for president in 2012. — In response to the question, “Do you think the Democratic party …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Santorum: Gay community on ‘jihad’ against me for stance on marriage — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the gay community has “gone out on a jihad” against him for his stance against gay marriage. — “So the gay community said, 'He's comparing gay sex to incest and polygamy …
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Continuing Adventures Of Ron Paul, Cultural Conservative — If you described to me in loose terms a white southern Republican presidential candidate who's a strong social conservative nationalist, I wouldn't be even slightly surprised to learn that he also doesn't believe in evolution.
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Polygamist Leader Jeffs in Coma, Source Says — Warren Jeffs, the polygamous sect leader and convicted child rapist, is in a coma and may not survive, a source close to Jeffs tells ABC News. — Jeffs, 55, had been fasting for the past three days and became so weak that doctors at the Texas prison …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Rate Computer Industry Best, Federal Gov't Worst — Image of federal government is at an all-time low — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans view the computer industry the most positively and the federal government the least positively when asked to rate 25 business and industry sectors.
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Ken Williams / San Diego Gay and Lesbian:
BREAKING NEWS: Judge promises swift ruling on whether to unseal Proposition 8 video — SAN FRANCISCO - Chief District Judge James Ware said today that he “won't delay very long” before ruling on a motion to unseal the Proposition 8 video recordings. — The issue was the topic of a hearing …
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Editorials: Dance of the duds — Miss him yet? The candidates for his seat might make you. — The two candidates seeking to fill the Brooklyn-Queens congressional seat vacated by Anthony Weiner sat for interviews with the Daily News Editorial Board last week. “Horribly dispiriting” is the capsule review of the sessions.
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New Blue Nightmare: Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of Doom — Lord of the Rings aficionados know that the evil lord Sauron paid little attention to the danger posed by two hobbits slowly struggling across the mountains and deserts of Mordor until he suddenly realized that the ring …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
American Theocracy Revisited — During George W. Bush's presidency, many liberal and secular Americans came to regard religious conservatives not merely as their political opponents, but as a kind of existential threat. The religious right, they decided, wasn't a normal political movement.
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Michael Winerip / New York Times:
Teachers Get Little Say in a Book About Them — Can an education reform movement that demeans and trivializes teachers succeed? It's hard to imagine, but that is what is going on in parts of America today. — In Steven Brill's new book celebrating the movement, “Class Warfare …
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WikiLeaks — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. — Leak at WikiLeaks — Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources — Supporters of Julian Assange's WikiLeaks organization accidentally released unredacted US diplomatic cables onto the Internet.
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Ugly? You May Have a Case — Daniel S. Hamermesh, a professor of economics at the University of Texas, Austin, is the author of “Beauty Pays,” published this month. — BEING good-looking is useful in so many ways. — In addition to whatever personal pleasure it gives you …
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