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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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Joe. My. God.
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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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Iowa Caucuses and Taegan Goddard's …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
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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New York Magazine, Mediaite, Politics, The Hill, Hot Air and The Right Scoop
USA Today:
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, The Politico, GOP 12, Business Insider and Rasmussen Reports
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 …
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Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, Top of the Ticket, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider and Boy in Bushwick
Detroit News:
McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination
McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination
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Ballot Box and The Daily Caller
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Debate Preview: Six Things to Watch
Debate Preview: Six Things to Watch
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Advocate, The Politico, New York Times, The Moderate Voice and Connecting.the.Dots
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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Firedoglake, CNN, Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, FrumForum, TPMDC, Little Green Footballs, Booman Tribune, Pirate's Cove, The Hill, Opinion L.A. and Balloon Juice
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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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The Politico and Guardian
NationalJournal.com:
House Republicans Regrouping on CR, Pondering Two Options
House Republicans Regrouping on CR, Pondering Two Options
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ThinkProgress
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Conservatives Stop New Boehner CR That Permitted Funding for Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, Palestinian Authority
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
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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Salon, 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
Bill Rankin / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Troy Davis, from gurney, proclaims innocence before execution
Troy Davis, from gurney, proclaims innocence before execution
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Facing South, Fox News, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, News One, Reuters, The Raw Story, The Jawa Report and Boing Boing
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, Outside the Beltway, FP Passport, Nation Now and New York Magazine
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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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The Politico, CNN and Hit & Run
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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Firedoglake, Campaign 2012, Business Insider, Vox Popoli and National Review
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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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Conservatives4Palin, Don Surber, All American Blogger and The Right Scoop
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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Washington Monthly and The Atlantic Online
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Anne Bayefsky / Weekly Standard:
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, National Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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
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 …
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
At hearing, supercommittee members display eagerness to tackle tax reform — The members of the new deficit-reduction supercommittee were hopeful Thursday that they could step up to the plate and tackle tax reform, saying it could be key to driving job growth.
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The Politico
Chapman University:
Dr. John C. Eastman — Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, former Dean — Dr. John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University School of Law …
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ThinkProgress, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
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 …, Tim Duy's Fed Watch and TheMoneyIllusion
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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Politics, TPMDC and Mother Jones
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
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