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The Politico:
Rick Perry panic fires up the left — In his two weeks as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry has done something that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney could do: wake up the left. — Perry panic has spread from the conference rooms of Washington, D.C., to the coffee shops of Brooklyn …
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The Daily Caller:
Rick Perry's camp defends 1993 HillaryCare praise — Texas Governor Rick Perry has been among the most vocal critics of President Obama's health care reform initiative, and of Mitt Romney's preceding health care program in Massachusetts. But in 1993, while serving as Texas Agriculture Commissioner …
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Wonkette, Hot Air, ThinkProgress, Politics, Swampland, New York Magazine, Campaign 2012 and The Caucus
John Ellis / Politics:
Rick Perry Is A Lot Closer To The 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination Than You Think
Rick Perry Is A Lot Closer To The 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination Than You Think
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney's ‘Career Politician’ Jab At Rick Perry Is First Sign Of ‘Death By A Thousand Cuts’ Strategy
Mitt Romney's ‘Career Politician’ Jab At Rick Perry Is First Sign Of ‘Death By A Thousand Cuts’ Strategy
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Jonathan Last Online, The Hill, American Spectator and Washington Post
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The scourge of ‘career politicians’
The scourge of ‘career politicians’
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Balloon Juice, The Caucus, Philly.com, No More Mister Nice Blog, A plain blog about politics and Daily Kos
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Former Powell Chief of Staff: Cheney “Fears Being Tried as a War Criminal” — Former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” is out Tuesday, and it's full of criticism and attacks on his Bush administration colleagues — from describing Condoleezza Rice as …
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Weasel Zippers, Taegan Goddard's …, No More Mister Nice Blog and Liberal Values
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why Dick Cheney Left Office Unpopular and Reviled
Why Dick Cheney Left Office Unpopular and Reviled
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Sky Dancing, Moe Lane, Booman Tribune, Attackerman, Raw Replay and Newshoggers.com
Barton Gellman / Swampland:
In New Memoir, Dick Cheney Tries to Rewrite History
In New Memoir, Dick Cheney Tries to Rewrite History
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The Mahablog, Guardian, skippy the bush kangaroo, Felix Salmon, Attackerman and Oliver Willis
US News:
Never-Wrong Pundit Picks Obama to Win in 2012 — Allan Lichtman, the American University professor whose election formula has correctly called every president since Ronald Reagan's 1984 re-election, has a belated birthday present for Barack Obama: Rest easy, your re-election is in the bag.
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Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, The Political Carnival and Daily Kos
NBC Washington:
Daryl Hannah Arrested at White House — Much-arrested Hollywood actress Daryl Hannah was taken away from the White House in restraints Tuesday afternoon. — Hannah was taking part in an ongoing protest against the unbuilt Keystone XL oil pipeline. — “Sometimes it's necessary to sacrifice …
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Gawker, Washington Post, Politics, Scared Monkeys, iOwnTheWorld.com, Mudville Gazette and AMERICAblog News
John Cook / Gawker:
How Bill O'Reilly Tried to Get His Wife's Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops — Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home.
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Adweek, Crooks and Liars, Mediaite, News Hounds, Gothamist and Booman Tribune, more at Mediagazer »
Fox News:
Sources: ATF Director to Be Reassigned Amid Fast and Furious Uproar — The acting director of the Justice Department division caught up in a firearms trafficking scandal is being removed from his post, sources told Fox News on Tuesday. — Kenneth Melson, who heads the Bureau of Alcohol …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Kenneth Melson, acting ATF chief, steps down
Kenneth Melson, acting ATF chief, steps down
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Gawker and Verum Serum
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Gunwalker scandal: ATF director out of top job
Gunwalker scandal: ATF director out of top job
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Hot Air, Politics, Confederate Yankee and AmSpecBlog
Neil Bowdler / BBC:
New body ‘liquefaction’ unit unveiled in Florida funeral home — Resomation founder Sandy Sullivan explains how the machine works — A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial “alkaline hydrolysis” unit at a Florida funeral home. — The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed …
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The Daily Pulp
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
White House takes shot at Rep. Cantor over Hurricane Irene disaster aid — White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday took a shot at House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor for insisting disaster aid for Hurricane Irene should be offset with other spending cuts.
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National Review, The Politico, Washington Monthly, TPMDC and The Impolitic
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Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
How The Economy Quietly Entered A Recession On Friday, And Why The GDP Predicts A Sub-Zero Nonfarm Payroll Number — While the key market moving event from last Friday may have been Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech which merely left the door open to future QE episodes, the most important event …
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Hot Air and Patterico's Pontifications
John Rondy / Reuters:
Labor leaders must pay for parade if GOP banned, mayor says — (Reuters) - The mayor of a Wisconsin town said on Tuesday a local labor council would have to reimburse the city up to $2,000 for a Labor Day parade if organizers exclude Republican lawmakers from attending.
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NewsBusters.org blogs, The Lonely Conservative, Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Christopher Hitchens / Slate Magazine:
Rick Perry's God — Does the Texas governor believe his idiotic religious rhetoric, or is he just pandering for votes? — I happened to spend several weeks in Texas earlier this year, while the Lone Star State lay under the pitiless glare of an unremitting drought.
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Pharyngula
Zilla / Zilla of the Resistance:
My First Blogiversary! — Today is the Zilla Blog's first birthday! — It was one year ago today that I opened this blog, which was originally named PolitiZilla but then I discovered that there was already a website with that name so I changed it to Zilla of the Resistance soon after.
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Maggie's Notebook and The Lonely Conservative
Adweek:
Is Controversy Selling for Tina Brown? Newsstand numbers for attention-grabbing covers revealed By Lucia Moses — Tina Brown has courted controversy with some of her recent Newsweek cover choices. Now, newly available sales numbers are showing that those covers did not necessarily translate …
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The Lonely Conservative, New York Magazine and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Justice Ginsburg: If I Were Nominated Today, My Women's Rights Work For The ACLU Would Probably Disqualify Me — Justice Ginsburg During Her Time As Director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project — In a speech yesterday at Southern Methodist University law school, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered …
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Sky Dancing, Washington Monthly, Associated Press, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Kos, ACS Blog and Poliglot
Candace Smith / ABCNEWS:
9/11 Coloring Book Draws Criticism for Portrayal of Muslims — As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, one publisher has memorialized it in a manner that's generating a lot of controversy. Instead of appealing to kids with doe-eyed puppies and flowers, his new coloring book …
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Stars & Stripes, ThinkProgress and Raw Replay
Lisa Lambert / Reuters:
Thousands of public employees laid off in 2010 — (Reuters) - Local and state governments axed more than 200,000 jobs in 2010, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday that showed the growing threat of public employee layoffs to the economic recovery.
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his vorpal sword, The Politico, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Carlos Santoscoy / On Top Magazine Headlines:
North Carolina Rep Paul Stam Likens Gay Marriage To Incest, Polygamy — North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul “Skip” Stam on Tuesday likened gay marriage to incest and polygamy. — The 61-year-old Stam made his remarks during a noontime press conference on a proposed constitutional amendment …
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The American Independent, Towleroad News #gay and Associated Press
Rasmussen Reports:
43% Now View ‘Tea Party’ Label As A Negative — Looks like it's a little more popular to be a liberal or a progressive these days, although conservative remains the best political label you can put on a candidate for public office. Being linked to the Tea Party is the biggest negative.
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Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and Daily Pundit
Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones:
Are Virginia's New Abortion Rules the Worst Yet? — On Friday evening, Virginia's Department of Health issued a strict new set of rules for abortion clinics—and women's health advocates fear that facilities that can't comply could be shuttered. — The regulations require Virginia's 22 clinics …
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AlterNet and The Raw Story
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Seduced by the cult of experts — It isn't surprising that Obama and his economic advisors' predictions have been so wrong. — When asked what posed the greatest challenge to statesmen, Harold Macmillan, the former British prime minister, responded, “Events, my dear boy, events.”
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Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Opinion L.A., Mother Jones and Betsy's Page
Cheryl Wetzstein / Washington Times:
ACLU battles schools over gay websites — Use of filters a rights issue — A fierce legal battle on free speech and family values is brewing about Internet filters used by school administrators to block students' access to gay educational and advocacy websites.
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Obama: 7 proposed regs would each top $1 billion — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration is considering seven new government regulations that would cost the economy more than $1 billion each a year, a tally Republicans will pounce on to argue that Congress needs the power to approve costly government rules.
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Flopping Aces, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin, Associated Press and iWatch News
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Post-9/11 politics of Rudy Giuliani — NEW YORK — He was the living symbol of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a hero to a traumatized nation seeking leadership in a time of crisis. Walking miles through the streets of Manhattan, Mayor Rudy Giuliani urged New York …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Developments in Financial Markets and the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet — The Manager of the System Open Market Account (SOMA) reported on developments in domestic and foreign financial markets during the period since the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met on June 21-22, 2011.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Jane Jamison, R.I.P. — Dell Hill from Uncoverage.net called today to tell me that the blog's founder, Jane Jamison, died Saturday. Dell told me — I hadn't previously known — that her name wasn't actually Jane Jamison, but that this was a pseudonym she used to keep her life …
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iOwnTheWorld.com, YID With LID, The Lonely Conservative and Right Wing News
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
TIR Exclusive: Palin to Fly to New Hampshire Following Iowa Appearance — High level Iowa Republicans tell TheIowaRepublican.com that Sarah Palin will fly to New Hampshire following her September 3rd appearance in central Iowa. — Speculation has been swirling about whether or not Palin …
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Politics, Hot Air, M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S … and Conservatives4Palin
Timothy P. Carney / Campaign 2012:
It's not a Ponzi Scheme if you can't exit! — Pointing out Social Security's similarities to a Ponzi Scheme irritates Social Security's defenders. Nick Baumann at the liberal Mother Jones created a cute Venn Diagram implying that the only overlap between a Ponzi Scheme and Social Security …
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Mother Jones, RedState, National Review, Hullabaloo and The Maddow Blog