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Rasmussen Reports:
Iowa Caucus: Iowa GOP: Perry 29%, Bachmann 18%, Romney 17%, Paul 14% — Confirming a surge seen in polling across the nation, Texas Governor Rick Perry has moved into first place among Republican voters in Iowa, host state to the first-in-the-nation caucus early next year.
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Iowa Caucuses, LifeNews.com, Scared Monkeys and National Review
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Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Rick Perry fires at Mitt Romney at S.C. town hall — CONWAY, S.C. — Rick Perry cut short a trip to South Carolina on Monday to head home to deal with wildfires in his state but got in a shot at Mitt Romney before he left. — “There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage …
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CNN, And So it Goes in Shreveport and Online NewsHour
CBS News:
“Doesn't appear” Palin will run: DeMint — The Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial start of the presidential campaign season, and many of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination have started to take shots at each other, not just at President Obama, reports CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford.
Discussion:
Maggie's Notebook and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Palin's Attack on ‘Corporate Crony Capitalism’ Spotlights Gap in GOP Field
Palin's Attack on ‘Corporate Crony Capitalism’ Spotlights Gap in GOP Field
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Big Government and Conservatives4Palin
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Perry to skip DeMint's presidential forum, will return to Texas to deal with wildfires
Perry to skip DeMint's presidential forum, will return to Texas to deal with wildfires
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CNN and Austin American-Statesman
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Perry to skip DeMint forum
Perry to skip DeMint forum
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Associated Press, Hot Air, TPMDC, The Political Carnival, HotAirPundit and Booman Tribune
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Bachmann bunked at S.C. gov's mansion
Bachmann bunked at S.C. gov's mansion
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The Raw Story and Daily Kos
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Poll finds Perry and Romney tied for lead with GOP Calif. voters
Poll finds Perry and Romney tied for lead with GOP Calif. voters
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gqrr.com and Los Angeles Times
Michelle Malkin:
Happy Labor Day: Top 10 union thug moments of the year — As the MSM whitewashes Big Labor's ugly threats, Tea Party smears, and history of coerced dues-subsidized racketeering this Labor Day, what better way to mark the holiday than with an illustrated list of top 10 union thug moments of the year.
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Doug Ross, Firedoglake, The TrogloPundit, The Gateway Pundit, PERRspectives, Nice Deb, Althouse, alicublog and Wizbang
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The last Labor Day? — Let's get it over with and rename the holiday “Capital Day.” We may still celebrate Labor Day, but our culture has given up on honoring workers as the real creators of wealth and their honest toil — the phrase itself seems antique — as worthy of genuine respect.
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The Huffington Post, Newshoggers.com, Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, The Reaction and Pirate's Cove
Patricia Bosworth / Daily Mail:
Rebel without a bra: Jane Fonda said her biggest regret was not sleeping with Che Guevara... but that was to please her husband — One day, at the height of her fame in the mid-Seventies, Jane Fonda turned up on the doorstep of her ex-husband, Roger Vadim. She was lugging a bulging sack.
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The Gateway Pundit, theblogprof, Weasel Zippers, neo-neocon, ParaPundit and Fausta's Blog
Washington Examiner:
You have a right to record the police — Tiawanda Moore was vindicated after a jury acquitted her of the “crime” of recording the police. (AP photo) — All over America, police have been arresting people for taking video or making sound recordings of them, even though such arrests are pretty clearly illegal.
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Hot Air, Alas, a Blog, Hit & Run and Don Surber
A.Killough / CNN:
Bachmann: Why is there a Department of Education? — (CNN) - Painting herself as a “constitutional conservative” Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told Sen. Jim DeMint's forum Monday that if elected president she would look to get rid of the Department of Education, among other things.
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National Review
Wolfgang Schäuble / Financial Times:
Why austerity is only cure for the eurozone — In recent weeks, debt markets have undergone wild gyrations, leading some analysts and commentators to question the progress achieved in taming the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone. More recently, economic data and forward-looking indicators …
Discussion:
AMERICAN FUTURE and Paul Krugman
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Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
The worst of the euro crisis is yet to come
The worst of the euro crisis is yet to come
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Paul Krugman, FT Alphaville and Washington Monthly
Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Signals Next Steps in Jobs Push — President Barack Obama signaled Monday he'll propose a major infrastructure program and an extension of a payroll tax break in the jobs speech he planned to deliver Thursday before a joint session of Congress. — In an animated Labor Day talk …
Discussion:
Calculated Risk
Christina Caron / ABCNEWS:
Going Broke: America Without a Post Office? — As the U.S. Postal Service begins shuttering offices across the country to stem their ever-growing $9.2 billion deficit, the entire agency now faces default and could shut down next summer, USPS spokesman Dave Partenheimer told ABCNews.com today.
Discussion:
Ricochet Conversation Feed and The Moderate Voice
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
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The Heritage Foundation, theblogprof, Don Surber, Washington Post, americanthinker.com, The Strata-Sphere, Althouse, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, The Moderate Voice, Betsy's Page, Questions and Observations, Gothamist, Outside the Beltway, National Review, Prairie Weather, Wake up America, OpenSecrets.org, Balloon Juice, Business Insider, Truthdig, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, The Lonely Conservative and Campaign 2012
NY Daily News:
Bloody weekend: 24 shot in 24 hours prompting Mayor Bloomberg to call for tougher gun laws — Twenty-four New Yorkers were hit by gunfire, one fatally, over 24 hours of violence this weekend, prompting Mayor Bloomberg to call the bloody stretch “unconscionable” and demand action from Washington.
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Gothamist, LewRockwell.com Blog and JammieWearingFool
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Fatal Distraction — Friday brought two numbers that should have everyone in Washington saying, “My God, what have we done?” — One of these numbers was zero — the number of jobs created in August. The other was two — the interest rate on 10-year U.S. bonds, almost as low as this rate has ever gone.
Discussion:
Grasping Reality …, Verum Serum, The Talking Dog, NewsBusters.org, The Moderate Voice and The Impolitic
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: “Take These Son Of Bitches Out” — Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa had some profane, combative words for Republicans while warming up the crowd for President Obama in Detroit, Michigan on Monday. “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers.
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
More U.S. Workers Unhappy With Health Benefits, Promotions — Workers least satisfied with on-the-job stress, tangible rewards for their work — WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. workers are more dissatisfied today with their health insurance benefits and their chances for promotion than they were before the global economic collapse.
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TPMDC, Democratic Strategist and The Raw Story