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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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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
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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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Bachmann memoir coming in November — NEW YORK (AP) — Michele Bachmann has a book deal. — Sentinel, a conservative imprint of Penguin Group (USA), announced Monday that the Republican presidential candidate's memoir will arrive in November and already has been completed.
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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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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Bachmann Jokes Irene Was God's Warning
Bachmann Jokes Irene Was God's Warning
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Just a joke: Bachmann's hurricane message from God
Just a joke: Bachmann's hurricane message from God
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David Wessel / Wall Street Journal:
Labor Economist to Fill Key Post — President Barack Obama on Monday plans to nominate Princeton University's Alan Krueger to be chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, a White House official said. — If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Krueger, a labor economist …
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CNN:
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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Hayley Peterson / Campaign 2012:
Three minutes, two teleprompters
Three minutes, two teleprompters
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Jonathan Martin / Reuters:
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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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
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, taxes
House GOP announces jobs plan focused on cutting regs, taxes
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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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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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Against Science — Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn't a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that's too bad, because Mr. Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the G.O.P. — namely, that it is becoming the “anti-science party.”
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Leaders Bring Some Bad Blood to Race
GOP Leaders Bring Some Bad Blood to Race
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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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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.
ABCNEWS:
Warren Jeffs In Coma, May Not Survive: Source — 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 …
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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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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
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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americanthinker.com and National Review
Daniel S. Hamermesh / New York Times:
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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NY Daily News:
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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The Daily Beast:
The City: Beijing — Ai Weiwei finds China's capital is a prison where people go mad. — Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don't care who their neighbors are; they don't trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope.
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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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Benjamin Ginsberg / Washington Monthly:
Administrators Ate My Tuition — Want to get college costs in line? Start by cutting the overgrown management ranks. — No statistic about higher education commands more attention—and anxiety—among members of the public than the rising price of admission.
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Joe Scarborough / The Politico:
When the cost of victory is too high — Dick Cheney and Colin Powell are debating the run-up to the Iraq war in a messy public spat. While the former vice president's memoir, “In My Time,” may be causing “heads to explode” all over Washington, most would probably agree that the world is a safer place with Saddam Hussein out of power.
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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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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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TheAustralian:
Barack Obama's uncle has been arrested and held as illegal immigrant — President Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, at a closed immigration hearing last year. Onyango, half-sister of Obama's late father, moved to the United States in 2000 and she was ordered deported in 2004. Source: AP
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Postal Service paying fewer workers to do nothing — The U.S. Postal Service, expecting $7 billion in losses this year amid slumping mail volume, is still paying thousands of its workers millions of dollars each year to do nothing. — But it's paying tens of millions of dollars less for …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Huntsman Corporation insider launches PAC — Is this the Huntsman family fund we've been waiting for? — Our colleagues at POLITICO Influence note today that a new independent expenditure committee, Our Destiny PAC, has been set up to support Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign.
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