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Romney and Perry Clash, Drawing Lines in G.O.P. Sand — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The fight for the Republican presidential nomination began narrowing into an intense and ideological battle at a debate here Wednesday night, with Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Mitt Romney sharply clashing over Social Security …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
How Rick Perry Won the Debate — The most intellectually interesting portion of tonight's Republican presidential debate occurred in its opening moments, when Rick Perry and Mitt Romney sparred over their states' record of job creation. Perry cited his states record of creating jobs.
New York Times:
Attacking the Democrats, but Not Always Getting It Right — During more than an hour and 45 minutes of intense debate on Wednesday night, the Republican presidential candidates did not shy away from exchanging blows with each other. But some of the toughest criticism …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Electability a Primary Liability for Perry — I've developed a habit — it's probably a bad habit — of assigning letter grades to the Republican candidates based on my initial reaction to their performance in debates. After Wednesday night's debate in Simi Valley, I gave Rick Perry a B-minus, meaning an average performance.
International Business Times:
Ron Paul Debate: Rick Perry Physically Grabs Him, Points at His Face
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Z. Byron Wolf / Politics:
Rick Perry, Galileo and Global Warming
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact checking the GOP debate at the Reagan library
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The Politico:
At Reagan debate, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry place big bets on GOP direction
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
What Perry has ‘never struggled with at all’
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Shikha Dalmia / Hit & Run:
Social Security is Not a Ponzi Scheme, Mr. Perry
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Fireworks between Perry and Romney erupt early in debate
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum — * Obama prepares to sell the “American jobs act” …
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Washington Examiner:
Perry comes out strong, but faces grave danger
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Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Perry Leads — This was a very successful debate debut for Rick Perry.
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Lisa Fernandez / Mercury News:
FBI agents executing search warrant at Solyndra — Just days after the company filed for bankruptcy protection, federal agents swarmed around the Solyndra facilities in Fremont to execute a search warrant. — FBI agents were joined by officials from the Department of Energy's Office …
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RJ Middleton / NBC Bay Area:
FBI at Solyndra Headquarters
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Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
Solyndra officials made numerous trips to the White House, logs show
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Court rejects health law challenges — A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out two challenges to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul on procedural grounds. — Delivering a two-pronged win to the Obama administration, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said Virginia has no right …
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Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
Appeals court shoots down Virginia's healthcare challenge — A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed one of the highest-profile challenges to President Obama's healthcare reform law. — The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Fourth Circuit Majority Votes To Uphold The Affordable Care Act
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CNN:
Haley rules out Huntsman endorsement — Washington (CNN) - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday that she will not support Jon Huntsman's Republican presidential bid, a serious blow to the former Utah governor's chances in the key early primary state.
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Bachmann fills vacuum, announces rebuttal to Obama jobs speech — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), struggling to maintain visibility as a Republican presidential candidate, will rebut President Obama's jobs speech to Congress on Thursday, her congressional office said.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Why liberals fear the ‘Lochner’ decision — Liberal certitudes continue to dissolve, the most recent solvent being a robust new defense of a 1905 Supreme Court decision that liberals have long reviled — and misrepresented. To understand why the court correctly decided Lochner v. New York …
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Reuters:
New jobless claims rise to 414,000 last week — A man and woman enter a job fair at the Phoenix Workforce Connection in Phoenix, Arizona August 30, 2011. REUTERS/Joshua Lott — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. jobless claims rose unexpectedly last week, further evidence of a weak labor market …
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Bob Willis / Bloomberg:
Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Rose
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Yahoo! News:
Longshoremen storm Wash. state port, damage RR — LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.
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Paul Needham / The Huffington Post:
‘Reason To Believe’: Joe Scarborough Releases Powerful Antiwar Song … For all the similarities between America's war in Vietnam and those in Iraq and Afghanistan, this past decade's wars have not yielded the singular pop-cultural response that the earlier quagmire did.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Rising Fears of Recession — If history is a guide, the odds that the American economy is falling into a double-dip recession have risen sharply in recent weeks and may even have reached 50 percent. — Economies have a strong self-reinforcing nature. When people are optimistic, they spend …
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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
Google just got ZAGAT Rated! — “Did you know there's a place in Menlo Park near the Safeway that has a 27 food rating?” one of my friends asked me that about two years ago, and I was struck because I immediately knew what it meant. Food rating... 30 point scale... Zagat. And the place... had to be good.
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Michael J. Boskin / Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Presidency by the Numbers — The president constantly reminds us that he was dealt a difficult hand. But the evidence is overwhelming that he played it poorly. — When it comes to the economy, presidents, like quarterbacks, often get more credit or blame than they deserve.
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