Top Items:
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 …
RELATED:
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
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 …
Discussion:
National Review, The Page, Prairie Weather, Washington Post and NewsBusters.org
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 …
Discussion:
Florida Times Union, National Review, Politics, Washington Wire, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Moe Lane, CNN, GOP 12, Reuters, Hotline On Call, Washington Post, The Hill and The 1600 Report
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 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Perry takes lead in Florida — after Monday debate; Update: Also national lead in Bloomberg poll, but ...
Perry takes lead in Florida — after Monday debate; Update: Also national lead in Bloomberg poll, but ...
Discussion:
Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, TPMDC, National Review and Daily Pundit
Michelle Malkin:
Yes, cancer sucks. But...
Yes, cancer sucks. But...
Discussion:
KTRK-TV, Bookworm Room, Conservatives4Palin and The Daily Caller
Kyle Adams / Real Clear Politics:
Poll: Perry Leads GOP Field in Florida
Poll: Perry Leads GOP Field in Florida
Discussion:
Naked Politics, Patterico's Pontifications, No More Mister Nice Blog and GOP 12
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.
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, The Politico, Salon, Via Meadia, Don Surber, Guardian, NO QUARTER, YID With LID, US Politics, Pajamas Media, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Flower & Thistle, AMERICAN DIGEST, Naked Politics, The Moderate Voice, Randy's Roundtable, Hot Air, Ricochet Conversation Feed, americanthinker.com, The Other McCain, Taylor Marsh, Datechguy's Blog and The Crawdad Hole
Mj Lee / The Politico:
New Gallup: Obama slips with Jews — President Barack Obama's support among Jews has dropped, new data shows. — Four out of 10 Jewish Americans currently disapprove of Obama, according to polling data provided to POLITICO by Gallup, which has yet to post the numbers on its website.
Discussion:
New York Times, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, The Politico, The Hill and Daily Kos
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
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Climate Depot, Human Events, Don Surber, Pajamas Media, Watts Up With That?, Moonbattery, Michelle Malkin, The Daily Caller, Pirate's Cove and Vox Popoli
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.
Discussion:
The Crawdad Hole, Balloon Juice and The Debate Link
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.
Discussion:
Hot Air, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Outside the Beltway, Ben Smith's Blog, The Right Scoop and The Daily Caller
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.
Discussion:
Hot Air, The Political Carnival and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
RELATED:
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 …
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
RELATED:
Roderick Long / Bleeding Heart Libertarians:
The Libertarian Three-Step Program
The Libertarian Three-Step Program
Discussion:
ThinkProgress
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.
Discussion:
AMERICAN DIGEST, Pajamas Media, The Jawa Report and iOwnTheWorld.com
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
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.
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, Althouse, Concurring Opinions and The Volokh Conspiracy
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.
Discussion:
Pajamas Media, Guardian, iWatch News and Politics
RELATED:
Arlette Saenz / Politics:
HPV Vaccine: Dying Woman Influenced Rick Perry
HPV Vaccine: Dying Woman Influenced Rick Perry
Discussion:
New York Post and Campaign 2012
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
House Is Expected to Pass Bill Aiding New Boeing Plant — Leading House Republicans on Thursday will take up the contentious debate over the National Labor Relations Board's efforts to block Boeing from operating a $750 million aircraft assembly line in South Carolina instead of Washington State.
RELATED:
Dave Jamieson / The Huffington Post:
NLRB Boeing Case: Bill To Weaken Labor Board Passed By House Republicans
NLRB Boeing Case: Bill To Weaken Labor Board Passed By House Republicans
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
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] …
Discussion:
Via Meadia, Salon, Pajamas Media, Betsy's Page and Maggie's Farm
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Senate Resoundingly Defeats Rand Paul Plan, Passes Disaster Relief Package — In a surprising show of bipartisanship, 78 Senators voted against Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) plan to offset disaster aid relief and FEMA funding with cuts to foreign aid. Only 20 senators voted for it.
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 …
Discussion:
National Review, AmSpecBlog, The American Conservative and Hit & Run
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.
Discussion:
JammieWearingFool
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 …
Luis Martinez / Politics:
Dakota Meyer, Marine Medal of Honor Recipient, Says He's No Hero — At a White House ceremony later today, Dakota Meyer will become the first living Marine to receive the Medal of Honor for heroism in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Meyer becomes the tenth recipient of the nation's highest award …
Discussion:
News Desk, CNN, Hot Air, Guardian and National Review
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:
Discussion:
Newshoggers.com, theblogprof and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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
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 …
Discussion:
The Politico and New York Times
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: Dems can still win back House — Despite two Democratic special-election losses this week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is still upbeat about the chances of taking back the House. — The California congresswoman on Thursday acknowledged the loss of New York's 9th …
Discussion:
The Crawdad Hole and Weasel Zippers