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Handicapping the GOP Debate — The candidate with the best economic platform likely will prevail. — As Republicans gather in Florida for Thursday's Fox News-Google presidential debate in Orlando, the contest remains very fluid, raising the stakes (and hopes) for all nine candidates.
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Mediaite, The Hill, New York Magazine, Politics, Hot Air and The Right Scoop
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Romney discusses Perry, Palin and the polls — Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was interviewed by phone Wednesday by USA TODAY's Susan Page. Questions and answers have been edited for space and clarity. — Q: Does Gov. Perry's position on Social Security …
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Iowa Caucuses, Washington Wire, GOP 12, The Politico, Business Insider and Rasmussen Reports
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama and Perry, geese and ganders
Gallup:
More Voters Considering Romney Than Obama, Perry
More Voters Considering Romney Than Obama, Perry
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Top of the Ticket, FiveThirtyEight, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway and Boy in Bushwick
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Debate Preview: Six Things to Watch
Debate Preview: Six Things to Watch
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Advocate, The Politico, The Moderate Voice, New York Times and Connecting.the.Dots
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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Confederate Yankee and Hullabaloo
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Ann Coulter / Official:
COP-KILLER IS MEDIA'S LATEST BABY SEAL — For decades, liberals tried persuading Americans to abolish the death penalty, using their usual argument: hysterical sobbing. — Only when the media began lying about innocent people being executed did support for the death penalty begin to waver …
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Erick's blog, Associated Press, Clayton Cramer's Blog and thenation.com/blogs/163230
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Will the Troy Davis case be the one that finally turns America against the death penalty?
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CNN, Guardian, Salon, The Moderate Voice, The Maddow Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, News One, Law Blog and New York Magazine
The Politico:
Vote shows Boehner's lack of control — House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill. — The result was an embarrassing setback. — Wednesday night's rank-and-file rebuke of GOP leadership — with 48 Republicans bolting on a temporary spending bill …
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CNN, Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, Little Green Footballs, Booman Tribune, The Hill, Pirate's Cove, Opinion L.A. and Balloon Juice
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GOP House leaders rebuked on spending — The surprise defeat in the House Wednesday of a special funding measure to keep the federal government functioning past Sept. 30 was a sharp rebuke of the GOP leadership that controls the chamber and a testament to the fragility of the majority itself.
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Conservatives Stop New Boehner CR That Permitted Funding for Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, Palestinian Authority
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Weasel Zippers
Andrew Taylor / Business Week:
House disaster vote sets up showdown with Senate
House disaster vote sets up showdown with Senate
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The Reaction
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
House GOP flubs vote, inches closer to shutdown
House GOP flubs vote, inches closer to shutdown
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Washington Post and Right Wing News
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Palestine Logo Suggests Elimination of Israel — The logo of “the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations” - on their website and on top of their official statements at the U.N. - shows the Palestinian Authority's claim to a Palestine that stretches throughout …
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americanthinker.com, The Jawa Report, National Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Obama Rebuffed as Palestinians Pursue U.N. Seat
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JustOneMinute, msnbc.com, Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, The Caucus, Ynetnews and PhotoBlog
Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in Back of Bus
Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in Back of Bus
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US Politics, The Politico and Prairie Weather
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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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FP Passport, Nation Now and New York Magazine
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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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Firedoglake, Business Insider, Campaign 2012 and National Review
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Class warfare, Elizabeth Warren style — This must-watch clip of Elizabeth Warren aggressively rebutting the GOP's “class warfare” charge is burning up the internet, and once you watch it, you'll understand why: — Warren's camp tells me the event took place in Andover, Massachusetts last month …
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Tiffany Gabbay / TheBlaze.com:
ELIZABETH WARREN ON CLASS WARFARE: ‘THERE IS NOBODY IN THIS COUNTRY WHO GOT RICH ON HIS OWN’
ELIZABETH WARREN ON CLASS WARFARE: ‘THERE IS NOBODY IN THIS COUNTRY WHO GOT RICH ON HIS OWN’
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Pajamas Media and USA Today
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Bill Clinton: Rick Perry's like Israeli ‘militants’ — Former president Bill Clinton suggested Thursday that Texas Gov. Rick Perry was ideologically in line with “militant subgroups in Israel” and was too willing to let the Jewish state do whatever it wants.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Dish and Washington Monthly
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession
Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession
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The Atlantic Online
Washington Post:
Solyndra employees: Company suffered from mismanagement, heavy spending — Former employees of Solyndra, the shuttered solar company that exhausted half a billion dollars of taxpayer money, said they saw questionable spending by management almost as soon as a federal agency approved …
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Hot Air, The Other McCain, The Heritage Foundation, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, National Review and Pajamas Media
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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Don Surber
Paul Krugman:
Millionaires, The Middle Class, and Taxes — Actual Numbers — Further to this post about whether the Obama/Boo-Fay — sorry, Obama/ Buffett with two t's - claim is true: the Tax Policy Center has new numbers about the distribution of average tax rates by income class.
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Firedoglake, McClatchy Washington Bureau, White House.gov Blog and Economist's View
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Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close (and Not for the Interim Either) — Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is poised to be named the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard later today after the markets are closed, said multiple sources close to the situation.
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Washington Post, TechCrunch, MarketBeat, Gawker and msnbc.com, more at Techmeme »
Paul Krugman:
Meh — And I Mean That — OK, the Fed moved. It was a bit stronger than expected — and BB and company stood up to the GOP. — But seriously, they're trying to use a water pistol to stop a charging rhino. — Conventional monetary policy operates by changing the supply of monetary base, which is a unique, uniquely liquid asset.
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Grasping Reality … and TheMoneyIllusion
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