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9:10 PM ET, September 15, 2011

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James Carville / CNN:
What should the White House do?  Panic!  —  Editor's note: James Carville is a Democratic strategist who serves as a political contributor for CNN, appearing frequently on CNN's “The Situation Room” as well as other programs on all CNN networks.  Carville remains active in Democratic politics and is a party fundraiser.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama to highlight ‘urgent’ bridge repair in Boehner's home state  —  President Obama will promote his jobs bill at a bridge important to House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) district next week, the White House announced Thursday.  —  The White House said that Obama would visit …
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
New congressman jumps the gun on first floor speech  —  The newly elected Rep. Bob Turner (R-N.Y.) jumped the gun slightly on his first floor speech after being introduced in the House on Thursday.  —  Turner started to thank his colleagues without first being recognized to speak by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Mj Lee / The Politico:
New Gallup: Obama slips with Jews
Washington Times:
Big Brother Obama is watching
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Idiot Box: And the Winner of the Fox News Primary Is...  It was a self-inflicted, eye-glazing marathon—50 hours in late August spent watching a full sampling of the Fox News lineup.  Looking back, it seems like a nine-day hallucination of strident voices, blonde hair, and more pitchmen hawking gold coins …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Former President Carter has kind words for Romney, Bachmann
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Quinnipiac University:
PERRY BLOSSOMS AS BACHMANN WILTS IN VIRGINIA GOP RACE, QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY POLL FINDS; ROMNEY …
Time / Swampland:
Rick Perry Exclusive: The GOP's Fiery Front-Runner on His Rise, Record and Rhetoric  —  The hard-charging governor commands a Texas-sized lead in the polls.  In an interview with TIME's Richard Stengel and Mark Halperin, Perry defends his controversial résumé and explains …
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John Ellis / Business Insider:
Perry Is Failing The First Test(s)  —  Had Texas Governor Rick Perry performed better in the two most recent GOP presidential candidates' debates, he'd be well on his way to the 2012 nomination.  —  Yesterday, tellingly, he was in Virginia at the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty College shoring …
John T. Bennett / The Hill:
White House initially denies rep.'s request to attend Medal of Honor event  —  The White House initially denied a request by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) to attend a Medal of Honor ceremony for a fellow Marine Corps and Afghanistan war veteran, a congressional source said.
Discussion: theblogprof and Weasel Zippers
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Luis Martinez / Politics:
Dakota Meyer, Marine Medal of Honor Recipient, Says He's No Hero
Janet Maslin / New York Times:
Books of The Times: Joe McGinniss's ‘The Rogue,’ on Sarah Palin - Review  —  On May 22, 2010, Joe McGinniss moved into a strategically well-situated house in Wasilla, Alaska.  It was next door to the home of former Gov. Sarah Palin and her family, but that understates the highly exploitable proximity of the two places.
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Romney says record consistent on health care  —  Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney rejected the notion that he's shifted his positions on health care Thursday, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that his record shows consistent evidence of conservative platforms and beliefs.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Perry Supported By Republicans, Views Rejected
Nicholas Ballasy / The Daily Caller:
Barry Manilow on Ron Paul: ‘I agree with just about everything he says’  —  Grammy award-winning musician Barry Manilow told The Daily Caller that he agrees with “just about everything” 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul says, calling him a “solid” contender for the highest office in the land.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Mediaite
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Roderick Long / Bleeding Heart Libertarians:
The Libertarian Three-Step Program
Discussion: ThinkProgress
The Daily Beast:
White House Pressure for a Donor?  —  The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS.  Now Congress wants to know if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony.
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Professors offer more than $10,000 for proof that Bachmann's story about HPV is true  —  Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's story about a woman who claimed that her daughter suffered “mental retardation” after receiving a vaccine against HPV could fetch the woman's family thousands of dollars.
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Fox News:
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming  —  The global warming theory left him out in the cold.  —  Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
But Black People Govern Like This ...  Via Angry Black Lady, I know Michael Moore and Bill Maher think this is a great line: … But it really isn't.  In fact, it's racist, and Michael Moore would do well to stop repeating it.  It really is no better than the Kenyan anti-colonial bit, and in fact is good deal worse.
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Skeptical Dems get W.H. jobs pitch  —  Top White House advisers took their sales pitch of President Barack Obama's jobs plan to a skeptical audience Thursday afternoon: Senate Democrats, many of whom have already been openly critical of the $447 billion plan.
Discussion: CNN
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David Cohen / The Daily Caller:
‘American Jobs Act’: Gohmert's inspired act of plagiarism
Gina Sunseri / ABCNEWS:
Rick Perry's HPV Stance Grounded in Case of Heather Burcham, Who Died of Cervical Cancer  —  Heather Burcham, who died of cervical cancer, is often cited by Gov. Rick Perry as a reason he issued an order mandating girls in Texas get vaccinated against HPV.  It's an order he now regrets.
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Arlette Saenz / Politics:
HPV Vaccine: Dying Woman Influenced Rick Perry
Discussion: New York Post and Campaign 2012
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
House Clears Bill Restricting N.L.R.B.  —  WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a G.O.P.-backed bill that would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from continuing to pursue its effort to block Boeing from operating a new $750 million aircraft assembly line in South Carolina.
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CBS Los Angeles:
LA Porn Studio Begins Construction On ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ Underground Bunker … San Fernando Valley-based porn studio Pink Visual said the bunker is envisioned as “far more than a mere bomb shelter or subterranean survivalist enclave”, complete with a digital studio, gun racks and a rotating hydraulic stage.
New York Post:
Bam's terrible risk  —  Do President Obama's advisers realize they've got him frittering away the last political asset he has left?  —  As unpopular as the president's policies — and especially his results — have proved, a majority of Americans still like and, somehow, even trust him personally.
Discussion: National Review and Cold Fury
CBS News:
Supreme Court asked to halt Texas execution  —  HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Attorneys for a Texas death row inmate are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court just hours before the man's scheduled execution.  —  Forty-eight-year-old Duane Buck is scheduled for lethal injection Thursday evening …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Liberty University Students Call It ‘Un-Christian’ To Allow People To Die Because They Lack Health Insurance  —  ThinkProgress filed this report from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.  —  The most distasteful moment in Monday's Republican presidential debate …
Associated Press:
First lady makes headway calling for healthy foods  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Calorie by calorie, first lady Michelle Obama is chipping away at big portions and unhealthy food in an effort to help America slim down.  —  In the two and a half years since she announced her campaign to curb childhood obesity …
Orin S. Kerr / Wall Street Journal:
Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony?  —  Congress contemplates draconian punishment for Internet lies.  —  Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet.  So you could be jailed for lying about your age or weight on an Internet dating site.
 
 
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Why Speeches Don't Work  —  As of a month ago, people calling …
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