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A.Killough / CNN:
TRENDING: Jindal to endorse Perry — Tampa, Florida (CNN) - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is backing Rick Perry for president, a major endorsement for the Texas governor as the campaign for the Republican nomination enters the crucial fall stretch of the primary calendar, a source tells CNN.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
2012 debate escalation! — Mitt Romney went on the attack against Rick Perry at the first possible opportunity Monday night, challenging the Texas governor on whether he “continues to believe that Social Security should not be a federal program ... or does he retreat from that view.”
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New York Times:
Perry Wears a Bull's-Eye at G.O.P. Debate — TAMPA, Fla. — The Republican presidential candidates aggressively confronted Gov. Rick Perry at a debate here on Monday night and pressed him to expound upon his views on Social Security and a controversial vaccination program for teenage girls that he signed into law in Texas.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Romney: Social Security Is Like a Criminal Fraud
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Brent Budowsky / Presidential Campaign:
Why Ron Paul scares Rick Perry
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Rick Klein / Politics:
Fred Malek: ‘Too Late’ for Palin to Run; GOP Nominee Will Be Perry or Romney
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Rick Perry / USA Today:
I am going to be honest with the American people
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mike Huckabee dings Rick Perry, says Mitt Romney more ‘electable’
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Jindal to Endorse Perry
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Conservatives join liberals in opposing Obama's payroll tax cut extension
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A.Killough / CNN:
Cantor says no to jobs bill spending — Washington (CNN) - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor continued to reach out to work with President Obama on his jobs bill Monday, but emphasized that Republicans are focused on items they support in the plan like the tax breaks and will oppose …
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Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
REVEALED: Obama's Jobs Plan To Raise $400 Billion In Taxes — White House Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew outlined President Barack Obama's plan to pay for his $447 billion jobs plan — mostly through tax increases. — Lew said itemized tax deductions and exemptions …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Seeks to End Tax Breaks to Pay for Jobs Plan — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama would pay for his $447 billion jobs plan by ending a series of tax breaks for oil and gas companies, hedge-fund managers and people making more than $200,000, the White House said Monday.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The President's Do-Over — A week after President Obama took …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama proposes tax hikes on wealthy to pay for $447B jobs bill
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The Politico:
GOP grumbles about jobs plan
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Christina Bellantoni / Roll Call:
Administration Willing to Go It Alone
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
We Don't Have Deficit Reduction Because Republicans Don't Want It
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Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
White House: Tax Hikes For The Wealthy Will Largely Pay For Jobs Bill
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Paul Krugman:
More About the 9/11 Anniversary — It looks as if I should say a bit more about yesterday's anniversary. So: — The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America - a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly Hosts Fiery Debate Over Paul Krugman's ‘Years Of Shame’ 9/11 Column — NY Times columnist Paul Krugman observed 9/11 this weekend with a provocative blog post entitled “Years of Shame.” In it he calls out “Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Get Krugman! … - A Defense of Rap Rock. Yes, a Defense of Rap Rock. - The Strange Designs of the Earliest Typewriters - Tony Bennett on What He Wishes He Said to Amy Winehouse
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Angry Rumsfeld cancels N.Y. Times
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The Politico:
Feinstein: ‘Wiped out’ by scandal — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she was “wiped out” by Kinde Durkee, a well-connected California Democratic political operative who served as treasurer for hundreds of state, local and federal campaign committees. — Durkee was arrested by the FBI …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Palin takes aim at GOP presidential candidates — In the immediate aftermath of Monday's GOP presidential debate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) launched jabs at the entire Republican field, a move sure to ramp up speculation that the 2008 vice presidential candidate will make her own bid for the nomination.
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ESO:
Fifty New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS — Richest haul of planets so far includes 16 new super-Earths — Astronomers using ESO's world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super-Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star.
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Morning Joe Skirmish As Smiley Recycles ‘Bush Lied’ — A skirmish broke out on Morning Joe today as Tavis Smiley claimed President George W. Bush “lied” the USA into the war in Iraq. Joe Scarborough and—surprisingly— Jon Meacham forcefully refuted Smiley's slur.
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John Cook / Gawker:
The Most Nerve-Wracking Moment of George W. Bush's Presidency Was When He Threw a Ball
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Breitbart.tv:
RUMSFELD'S BIGGEST REGRET: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TOO POLITICALLY CORRECT ABOUT RADICAL ISLAM — Donald Rumsfeld also complained about the Obama Administration's inability to even discuss radical Islamist terrorism and Fareed Zakaria interrupts him and says “But, he did kill Osama.”
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Matt Comer / QNotes:
N.C. House passes anti-LGBT amendment — Amendment now heads to Senate — RALEIGH, N.C. - The North Carolina House of Representatives passed today, 75-42, a proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment that would ban marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships and other relationship recognition for same-sex couples.
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Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
In ‘Doonesbury,’ Palin biography ‘The Rogue’ gets a comic-strip tease — It all started in the summer of 2010, when author Joe McGinniss migrated from Massachusetts to Alaska, to be closer to nature. Human nature, at least, as it plays out on the Sarah Palin homestead.
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