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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama and Perry, geese and ganders — The New York Times has an item this morning about tonight's Republican debate, and it featured this Getty Images photograph, taken before the start of last week's debate. — It wouldn't be especially interesting, except I also remember seeing this photograph several hundred times four years ago.
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The Caucus and Joe. My. God.
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Gallup:
More Voters Considering Romney Than Obama, Perry — Sixty-two percent would definitely vote for Romney or consider doing so — PRINCETON, NJ — More registered voters say they would definitely vote for Mitt Romney or might consider doing so (62%) than say the same about his two main rivals …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Handicapping the GOP Debate
Handicapping the GOP Debate
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New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Hill, Politics, Hot Air and The Right Scoop
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
In Reversal, Bachmann's Struggles Now Include Money
In Reversal, Bachmann's Struggles Now Include Money
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The Caucus and Daily Kos
Ed Kilgore / The New Republic:
Florida Will Decide the GOP Nominee. Who Has the Upper Hand There?
Florida Will Decide the GOP Nominee. Who Has the Upper Hand There?
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The Atlantic Online, Salon and Patterico's Pontifications
John Hawkins / The Huffington Post:
Why Do Liberals Have Such a Soft Spot for Cop Killers Like Troy Davis? — Mumia Abu-Jamal killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Leonard Peltier murdered FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Liberals enthusiastically supported both of them.
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Slate Magazine, theblogprof, Ann Coulter, WXIA-TV, Outside the Beltway, Confederate Yankee and Hullabaloo
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Night They Killed Troy Davis — Rutgers historian William Jelani Cobb was outside of the prison, last night, where Troy Davis was held and executed. He filed this report while bearing “witness to a great evil.” Jelani has guest-posted here before. We're always happy to have him back offering …
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Colorlines
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Bill Clinton Weighs In On Troy Davis Execution … Bill Clinton , Capital Punishment , Death Penalty , Video , Clinton Global Initiative , Troy Davis Case , Bill Clinton Capital Punishment , Bill Clinton Death Penalty , Bill Clinton Troy Davis , Troy Davis , Troy Davis Execution , Troy Davis Execution Date , Politics News
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The Politico, Mother Jones and This Just In
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Great $16 Muffin Myth — I've been reading all day about the $16 muffins the Department of Justice served at one of its conferences, and I finally got curious about this. Is it really true? So I went to the DOJ Inspector General's website, got the report, and searched for “muffin.”
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Runnin' Scared, Flower & Thistle, Outside the Beltway, FP Passport, The Impolitic, New York Magazine and Nation Now
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Grassley Says Heads Should ‘Roll’ Over Non-Existent $16 Muffin Scandal
Sen. Grassley Says Heads Should ‘Roll’ Over Non-Existent $16 Muffin Scandal
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CNN, The Politico and Hit & Run
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Bill Clinton: Netanyahu killed the peace process — Who's to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power …
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Weasel Zippers
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Larry Flynt / TMZ.com:
Gunning for Rick Perry — Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt is putting GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry in his crosshairs ... he'll be offering up to $1 million for anyone who can prove Perry has had an illicit sexual liaison ... TMZ has learned. — The ad — which Flynt …
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Mediaite, Business Insider and The Daily Caller
Tim Mak / Reuters:
Bill Clinton: Rick Perry's like Israeli ‘militants’
Bill Clinton: Rick Perry's like Israeli ‘militants’
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CNN, Weasel Zippers, Mother Jones, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, The Daily Dish and Ben Smith's Blog
Frank Jordans / Associated Press:
CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured … GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world's largest physics lab say they have clocked subatomic particles traveling faster than light, a feat that - if true - would break a fundamental pillar of science. — The readings have so astounded researchers …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Pajamas Media
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Steve Jones / Telegraph:
CERN scientists ‘break the speed of light’ — Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the universe. — Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers …
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Vox Popoli
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner chastises conservatives: You voted to spend more money — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) delivered a tough message to conservatives who rejected his government funding bill on Wednesday: You voted to spend more money. — Four dozen House Republicans broke ranks and opposed …
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TPMDC, The Politico, Daily Kos and Guardian
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NationalJournal.com:
House Republicans Regrouping on CR, Pondering Two Options — House Republicans will meet on Thursday afternoon to discuss their options to move forward on a short-term bill to fund the federal government that their party failed to pass a day earlier. — House GOP leadership aides …
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ThinkProgress, Crooks and Liars, Washington Monthly and Wonkette
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Explosive Email Shows Anti-Palin Author McGinniss, Random House Likely Published Literary Hoax — The awful launch week for the over-hyped, expected bestseller The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by controversial author Joe McGinniss, just got worse. Much worse.
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Power Line, Mediaite, Conservatives4Palin, Big Journalism, The Other McCain, Don Surber, All American Blogger and The Right Scoop
David Shepardson / Detroit News:
McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination — Washington— Livonia Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told The Detroit News this afternoon that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination after he failed to win access to the Republican presidential debates.
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The Politico, Wonkette, Washington Post, National Review, Iowa Caucuses, The Iowa Republican, Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's … and Althouse
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
U.S., allies walk out on Iran leader — Western diplomats walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after he questioned what he called the “mysterious September 11 incident” during his fiercely anti-American diatribe. — “[Who used] the mysterious Sept. 11 incident as a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq?”
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ThinkProgress, CNN and ABCNEWS
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Publications:
Who Benefited from Job Growth In Texas? — A Look at Employment Gains for Immigrants and the Native-Born, 2007 to 2011 — Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research and Ashley Monique Webster a demographerat the Center for Immigration Studies. — Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) …
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Campaign 2012, 24Ahead, No More Mister Nice Blog, National Review, Firedoglake, Business Insider and Vox Popoli
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David Frum / FrumForum:
The Texas Non-Miracle — About all those new jobs created under Gov. Rick Perry...
The Texas Non-Miracle — About all those new jobs created under Gov. Rick Perry...
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National Review
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
SarahPAC: With time running out before Palin's decision, send money — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin takes the stage at a tea party rally in Indianola on Sept. 3. (Michael Rolands/Record-Herald) — Alaska Republican Sarah Palin is “on the verge of making her decision of whether …
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Guardian, Business Insider, USA Today and The Daily Caller
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Scott McPherson / Advocate:
MAP: Which Countries Enlist Gay Soldiers? — The United States is now one of 26 countries worldwide that welcome gays and lesbians in the military, according to the Palm Center. — The United States is now one of 26 countries worldwide that welcome gays and lesbians in the military, according to the Palm Center.
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ThinkProgress
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Is Irish Austerity Paying Dividends? — Last year, the failure of Irish austerity was on the lips of every left-wing wonk in America. Paul Krugman, the leader of this school of thought, has compared austerity to bloodletting and other such primitive medical quackery (a comparison he repeated a couple of days ago).
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Free exchange, Agence France Presse and Marginal Revolution
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
If we want to help tech companies, let's help tech companies — Eric Jackson, a former employee of PayPal and now the CEO of the online-investing platform CapLinked, worries that implementing the “Buffett rule” would hurt the pool of investment money available to tech start-ups.
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Mother Jones, Modeled Behavior, ThinkProgress and The Heritage Foundation
James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him — The mystery isn't why Hewlett-Packard is likely to part ways with its chief executive, Léo Apotheker, after just a year in the job. It's why he was hired in the first place. — The answer, say many involved in the process, lies squarely with the troubled Hewlett-Packard board.
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AllThingsD, msnbc.com, GigaOM, New York Magazine and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Republicans demand Buffett's tax returns — The GOP is making a concerted effort to pressure billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett to release his tax returns to the public. — Republicans say Buffett — the public face of Obama's proposed “Buffett Rule” to increase taxes on the wealthy …
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Paul Krugman, Politics, TPMDC and Mother Jones
David Lat / Above the Law:
Judicial Diva Gone Wild? Chief Judge Jones Tells Judge Dennis to ‘Shut Up’ — Chief Judge Edith Jones: Underneath her robe beats a judicial diva's heart. — Can you enforce civility by being... uncivil? That's the question being raised, over and over again, by federal judges from Texas these days.
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JONATHAN TURLEY
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession — Before he announced his presidential bid, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) was commendably honest about his radical view of the Constitution. Perry repeatedly and proudly called Social Security and Medicare unconstitutional …
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Fox News, Crooks and Liars, Washington Monthly and The Atlantic Online
Rob Moritz / Arkansas News:
Missing moon rock found among Clinton's papers — LITTLE ROCK — An archivist sifting through boxes of former President Bill Clinton's papers and memorabilia from his time as Arkansas governor found a missing moon rock given to the state 35 years ago. — “It's sort of a mystery solved,” …
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Politics, The Politico and Reuters
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Panic? — That's what we've been seeing on world markets since Thursday trading began in Asia; this morning it hit the US with the kind of sickening thud we remember too well from 2008. Amid the general hurricane of bad economic news a few things stand out.
Eli Clifton / ThinkProgress:
Clinton: ‘There Is Not A Single Solitary Example’ Of A Country That Has Succeeded With A Tea Party Philosophy — Credit: Cibele Vieira / Clinton Global Initiative — Former President Bill Clinton blasted the “non-fact-based political debate” surrounding the Republican primary race …
Spectator:
The great euro swindle — Finally, the Eurosceptics have been vindicated. But will their dishonest opponents ever be held to account? — Very rarely in political history has any faction or movement enjoyed such a complete and crushing victory as the Conservative Eurosceptics. The field is theirs.
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National Review