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Sarah Palin Appearance at Tea Party Rally in Iowa ‘No Longer Confirmed’ — This post has been corrected. — Sarah Palin's Saturday appearance at a tea party rally in Indianola, Iowa, is on hold, a person close the former Alaska governor told The Wall Street Journal.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Palin appearance at Iowa tea party event now in doubt — (CNN) - Sources close to Sarah Palin told CNN Wednesday that the former Alaska governor is no longer likely to attend a tea party rally in Iowa on Saturday, an event that's been plagued by logistical issues.
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Iowa Caucuses and The American Independent
Molly Ball / The Politico:
Palin still on for Iowa, organizers say — Despite a report that Sarah Palin has canceled her planned appearance at a tea party group's rally in Iowa Saturday, organizers say she hasn't informed them of any change. — “As far as I know, everything is still a go,” Tea Party …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
FreedomWorks to protest Romney — A top tea party organizing group, FreedomWorks, is planning to protest Mitt Romney's appearance this weekend at a New Hampshire stop of a bus tour intended to encourage tea party sympathizers to participate in the Republican presidential nominating process.
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Palin's Participation in Iowa Rally “On Hold”
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Wonkette
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell's Iowa appearance back on
Christine O'Donnell's Iowa appearance back on
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TheBlaze.com
Quinnipiac University:
Perry Jumps To The Top Of GOP Pack, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Perry, Romney Each Run Neck And Neck With Obama — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has zoomed to the front of the line of GOP presidential candidates with a 24 - 18 percent lead over former Massachusetts …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney camp not panicking — yet — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's surge in the polls is prompting some high-profile Mitt Romney backers to urge the former Massachusetts governor to step up his efforts before it's too late. — Romney's high command said that was always the plan …
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GOP 12, Campaign 2012 and New York Magazine
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Where Pay for Chief Executives Tops the Company Tax Burden — At least 25 top United States companies paid more to their chief executives in 2010 than they did to the federal government in taxes, according to a study released on Wednesday. — The companies — which include household names like eBay …
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Brilliant at Breakfast, Hullabaloo and The BLT
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Some companies pay their CEOs more than Uncle Sam, study says
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Don Surber and No More Mister Nice Blog
Nanette Byrnes / Reuters:
Some U.S. firms paid more to CEOs than taxes: study
Some U.S. firms paid more to CEOs than taxes: study
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Politics and The Politico
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U.S. Files Antitrust Complaint to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger — The U.S. government sued to block AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market. — The Justice Department complaint was filed today in federal court in Washington.
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ThinkProgress, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Felix Salmon, CWA Union News, GigaOM, Hot Air, Politics, TPM Idea Lab, Gawker and New York Magazine, more at Techmeme »
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Cantor finds himself in a tricky spot on hurricane disaster aid — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's insistence that federal disaster aid be offset elsewhere in the budget runs directly counter to his position in the past when the money went to help his Virginia district.
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ThinkProgress, Chicago Tribune and msnbc.com
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Vermont Dem urges colleagues to help devastated state
Vermont Dem urges colleagues to help devastated state
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The Politico
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Eric Cantor Voted Against Bill To Offset Disaster Relief In 2004
Eric Cantor Voted Against Bill To Offset Disaster Relief In 2004
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ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
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Jon Huntsman to attack rivals in 2012 jobs speech — Jon Huntsman will call for a dramatic overhaul of the tax code when he delivers a jobs creation speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday afternoon — and kick off what his campaign says will be a new, more intense phase of his White House run.
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New York Magazine
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Chris Cillizza / Associated Press:
Jon Huntsman's last, best shot
Jon Huntsman's last, best shot
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Washington Post, The American Independent, Politics, Ben Smith's Blog and AmSpecBlog
New York Times:
The New Resentment of the Poor — In a decade of frenzied tax-cutting for the rich, the Republican Party just happened to lower tax rates for the poor, as well. Now several of the party's most prominent presidential candidates and lawmakers want to correct that oversight and raise taxes …
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The Caucus, The Mahablog, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos and Suburban Guerrilla
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Andre Carson: Tea party wants blacks ‘hanging on a tree’ — A top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus says tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see African Americans hanging from trees and accuses the movement of wishing for a return to the Jim Crow era.
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CNN, NewsBusters.org, Confederate Yankee, Datechguy's Blog, RedState, White House Dossier, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
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Nevada AG Catherine Cortez Masto Destroys BofA in New Lawsuit — Masto lights a stick. (photo: Jeff Hester) — Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's amended complaint in a lawsuit against Bank of America has so many interesting nuances, I think I need a new Internet to catalog them all.
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ProPublica
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Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Bank of America Accused of Breaching Accord
Bank of America Accused of Breaching Accord
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Reuters, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Credit Slips
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama targets GOP for fall offensive — “Kill the body, and the head will die.” — Joe Frazier — President Obama is preparing to fight a political war this fall on two fronts — the first against Republicans who want his job and the second against Republicans who want to make his job more difficult.
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The Other McCain, Pirate's Cove, JammieWearingFool, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Prairie Weather
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State Rep. Deborah Mell has legal gay marriage in Iowa — Christin Baker and State Rep. Deborah Mell reveal they got married recently in Iowa. Tuesday, August 30, 2011 | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times — State Rep. Deborah Mell (D-Chicago) quietly made Illinois history last week. — She got married.
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ThinkProgress, Iowa Independent, Towleroad News #gay and On Top Magazine Headlines
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Obama's uncle is called a fugitive — Said to ignore '92 deportation order — Onyango Obama is now being held on an immigration detainer in the Plymouth County House of Correction. — FRAMINGHAM - The uncle of President Obama arrested here last week on drunken driving and other charges …
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Boston Herald, Power Line, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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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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Babysitting bill in Calif. Legislature — Office of Sen. Doug LaMalfa — How will parents react when they find out they will be expected to provide workers' compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for...babysitters? Dinner and a movie night may soon become much more complicated.
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Maggie's Farm, Scared Monkeys, Wizbang and americanthinker.com
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Choi Takes the Stand, Delivering Tense Testimony and Impassioned Speeches — Former Army Lt. Dan Choi took the witness stand today during the second day of his federal trial for failing to obey a lawful order by a police officer, where he delivered several impassioned speeches protesting …
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ThinkProgress, This ain't Hell …, Towleroad News #gay, On Top Magazine Headlines and Firedoglake
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House freshmen push bills that benefit big donors — WASHINGTON - Several House freshmen who swept into power vowing to change Washington's ways are pushing legislation that could benefit some of their most generous campaign contributors, a USA TODAY review of legislative and campaign records shows.
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Mock, Paper, Scissors
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Comcast Loses Appeal In Antitrust Class-Action Suit — Lawsuit Seeking $875 Million Alleges MSO Violated Sherman Act and Overcharged Customers — A class-action lawsuit against Comcast — alleging the cable operator violated federal antitrust laws and overcharged subscribers …
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Crooks and Liars