memeorandum: President Zero — Read his lips: No new jobs. (Fred Barnes/Weekly Standard)

6:10 PM ET, September 3, 2011

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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:

Sarah Palin: America is ‘at a tipping point’ — Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks during the Tea Party of America's Restoring America Event at the National Balloon Festival Grounds in Indianola today. (Justin Hayworth/The Des Moines Register) — Indianola, Ia.

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Palin says ‘room for more’ in GOP race — DES MOINES — Sarah Palin tantalized supporters on the eve of her appearance at a tea party rally by telling reporters “there's room for more” candidates in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. But she gave no hint as to whether she was talking about herself.

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Erik Wasson / The Hill:

Palin still coy on presidential run — The audience at the Iowa Tea Party of America rally on Saturday chanted “Run Sarah, Run!” but former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin still won't say if she will be a candidate for president. — Palin instead unleashed an attack on “corporate crony capitalism” …

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O.Kay Henderson:
Palin: “there's room for more” (audio)

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Rod Nordland / New York Times:

Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit — TRIPOLI, Libya — Documents found at the abandoned office of Libya's former spymaster appear to provide new details of the close relations the Central Intelligence Agency shared with the Libyan intelligence service — most notably suggesting …

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Wall Street Journal:

Tripoli Files Show CIA Working With Libya — By SIOBHAN GORMAN in Washington and CHARLES LEVINSON and MARGARET COKER in Tripoli — The Central Intelligence Agency and Libyan intelligence services developed such a tight relationship during the George W. Bush administration …

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Paul Krugman:

Broken Windows, Ozone, and Jobs — I've actually been avoiding thinking about the latest Obama cave-in, on ozone regulation; these repeated retreats are getting painful to watch. For what it's worth, I think it's bad politics. The Obama political people seem to think that their route …

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Paul Krugman:

The Austerity Economy — Do the dismal economic numbers really reflect the turn to fiscal austerity? I keep hearing people say no, because austerity hasn't actually happened yet in America. But they're wrong. — The fact is that the fading out of the stimulus, and in particular of aid …

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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

President Zero — Read his lips: No new jobs. — 'The simplest question," Dick Cheney writes in his memoir In My Time, “is the most important one. ” He mentions this in the context of asking how many American nukes were aimed at Kiev during the Cold War.

Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:

Cameron Todd Willingham Execution: Rick Perry's Role Deserves Scrutiny … In the three weeks since Texas Gov. Rick Perry stormed into the 2012 presidential race, bigfooting past the Ames Straw Poll and surging to frontrunner status, the media have flocked to the new entrant like flies to cow manure.

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Jamie Klatell / The Hill:

Obama wants Congress to pass transportation bill, save jobs — President Obama on Saturday called for Congress to skip the “political posturing in Washington” and pass measures funding the nation's transportation programs. — In his weekly address, the president said a failure to pass …

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A.Killough / CNN:
Obama urges Congress to renew transportation bill in weekly address

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ABC News:

Former MI5 boss wants Al Qaeda settlement — The former head of MI5, Britain's intelligence unit, says she hopes the UK and US are looking at different ways to talk to Al Qaeda. — Eliza Manningham-Buller, who ran MI5 until 2007, has used a BBC lecture to say she hopes British and US intelligence …

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Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:

Professor is accused of being a biker-gang leader and drug dealer — Stephen J. Kinzey, who teaches kinesiology at Cal State San Bernardino, is being sought by authorities after they raided his Highland home and arrested nine alleged accomplices in a methamphetamine ring.

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A.Killough / CNN:

Giffords returns to Tucson — (CNN) - Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords flew to Tucson Friday for the holiday weekend, marking her second return since leaving for rehabilitation in January. — “The congresswoman misses Tucson very much,” said Pia Carusone, chief of staff for Giffords, in a statement.

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