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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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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.
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John T. Bennett / The Hill:
White House initially denies rep.'s request to attend Medal of Honor event
White House initially denies rep.'s request to attend Medal of Honor event
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Weasel Zippers
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama to highlight ‘urgent’ bridge repair in Boehner's home state
Obama to highlight ‘urgent’ bridge repair in Boehner's home state
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Washington Monthly, The Politico and The Hill
Luis Martinez / Politics:
Dakota Meyer, Marine Medal of Honor Recipient, Says He's No Hero
Dakota Meyer, Marine Medal of Honor Recipient, Says He's No Hero
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Hot Air, Guardian and National Review
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Won't Include Social Security Reform In Recommendations To Super Committee
Obama Won't Include Social Security Reform In Recommendations To Super Committee
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
W.H. emails reveal media-fixated Solyndra
W.H. emails reveal media-fixated Solyndra
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Guardian, Weasel Zippers and The Hill
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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Quinnipiac University:
PERRY BLOSSOMS AS BACHMANN WILTS IN VIRGINIA GOP RACE, QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY POLL FINDS; ROMNEY, PERRY BOTH NECK AND NECK WITH OBAMA — Texas Gov. Rick Perry leads former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the presidential choice of Virginia Republicans 25 - 19 percent, with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann …
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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 …
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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 …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Perry Supported By Republicans, Views Rejected — Republicans give Rick Perry frontrunner status in their party's presidential primary race even as warning signs flash over his ability to win support in the general election. — The Texas governor is the preferred choice of 26 percent …
Michelle Malkin:
Yes, cancer sucks. But...
Yes, cancer sucks. But...
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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.
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Why Speeches Don't Work — As of a month ago, people calling on the president to propose a bold new jobs plan and advocate for it loudly were “Obama critics” and those of us saying this wouldn't work were “Obama apologists.” Well, last week he gave the big speech, the White House comms shop keeps pushing …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Some Democrats Are Balking at Obama's Jobs Bill
Some Democrats Are Balking at Obama's Jobs Bill
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
President Obama under attack — from Democrats
President Obama under attack — from Democrats
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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 …
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Adam Shah / Media Matters for America:
UPDATED: Right-Wing Lip Readers Take Michelle Obama Derangement Syndrome To A Whole New Level — UPDATE: Kristina Schake, communications director for First Lady Michelle Obama, made the following statement about these attacks: … Before today, when the right-wing media made up quotations …
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.
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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.
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Crony Capitalism on Steroids from GE to Solyndra — In my recent speech in Iowa, some eyebrows were raised when I took on our government's enormous economic problems caused by crony capitalism. As if on cue, just days later President Obama selected someone who exemplifies …
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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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Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
Obama sticker led cops to shooting suspect — A paroled killer's “Obama” bumper sticker was the break that helped cops nab the man accused of the cold-blooded murder of a Tedeschi's convenience store clerk, jurors in Edward Corliss' murder trial learned yesterday.
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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.
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired.com:
FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ — The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Liberal Sorcery — I want to double (or triple) down on these three posts by Yglesias. They're all somewhat themed around the president's job plan. As Matt rightly notes, this obsession with the president's want of liberalism really needs to confront the hard facts of Senators and congressmen who say things like this:
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The Politico:
Pass the bill, Obama says 90 times — Think the message is getting through to Congress? In five speeches over a week, President Obama has said “pass this bill” or some variant of it 90 times. — That's 18 times in his speech to Congress, 18 times at the University of Richmond …
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Wall Street Journal:
A Blue-State Bailout in Disguise — Our new study shows that under the Obama jobs bill, debt-ridden states will get another big handout. — Last Thursday, the president urged Congress to pony up roughly $200 billion in taxpayer money to “provide more jobs for teachers [and] …
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Thomas Dinham / BBC:
How I was the subject of anti-Semitic abuse in Cairo — Protests against Egypt's slow pace of reform continue to take place in Tahrir Square — Relations between Israel and Egypt have become increasingly strained in recent weeks, and in the Egyptian capital there is a mounting sense of tension, including incidents of anti-Semitism.
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