memeorandum: Market Insider — Global Meltdown: Investors Are Dumping Nearly Everything (Patti Domm/CNBC)

2:40 AM ET, September 23, 2011

Top Items:

N.H. poll shocker: Perry falls, Romney surges as does Jon Huntsman — Well, here are a couple of — no, make that several — new wrinkles in the Republican presidential contest in New Hampshire: — With the next televised debate tonight in Florida on Fox News, a new poll of likely …

Discussion: Left Coast Rebel, Hit & Run, Campaign 2012 and Outside the Beltway

Michelle Malkin:

Video: Perry's cringe-worthiest debate moment — This is a gimme. Seriously. — I mentioned Rick Perry's DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. — It gets second place. — The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should have been his most potent attack on Mitt Romney's chronic flip-flopping.

Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Riehl World View, The Right Scoop and Weekly Standard

David Shepardson / Detroit News:
McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination

Discussion: The Other McCain, National Review, Wonkette, Iowa Caucuses, The Politico, Washington Post, The Iowa Republican, Hot Air, Wall Street Journal and Althouse

Gallup:
More Voters Considering Romney Than Obama, Perry

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Top of the Ticket, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway, FiveThirtyEight and Boy in Bushwick

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Agony of the GOP Establishment

Discussion: Washington Post, Guardian, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign … and No More Mister Nice Blog

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Johnson touts his penchant for vetoes in GOP debate

Discussion: The Politico

Detroit News:
McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination

Discussion: Top of the Ticket, The Washington Independent, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, GOP 12 and Ballot Box

goproud.org:

Rick Santorum Owes Gay Soldier an Apology — For Immediate Release — Joint Statement of Christopher R. Barron, Chairman of the Board and Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director — (Washington, D.C.) - “Tonight, Rick Santorum disrespected our brave men and women in uniform, and he owes Stephen Hill …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Raw Replay and Joe. My. God.

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Republican Debate Crowd Boos Steven Hill, Gay Soldier Serving In Iraq — At Thursday night's Fox News/Google Republican Presidential Debate, the crowd was once again the star of an ugly moment. Moderator Megyn Kelly introduced a question via Youtube from Stephen Hill, a soldier who's currently serving in Iraq.

Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:

TPM2012 — Audience Members At Fox News Debate Boo Gay Soldier (VIDEO) — ORLANDO, FL — Members of the crowd gathered for the Fox News/YouTube debate booed a video of a gay soldier in Iraq who asked if the nine presidential candidates on stage would work to “circumvent” the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

Discussion: democracyarsenal.org, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Harry's Place

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Gay soldier booed at GOP debate, candidates stay mum

Discussion: The Politico

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:

GOP Ups Ante Big Time In Government Shutdown Fight — We should know tonight whether Congress is in genuinely the throes of another government shutdown fight, or whether Democrats and Republicans will figure out a way to avoid their impulses. — Instead of cutting a deal with Democrats …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Firedoglake and Daily Kos

Russell Berman / The Hill:

House approves stopgap funding, Reid says Senate will block — The House early Friday narrowly approved a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running into October, as Republican leaders secured the votes of conservatives who rejected a similar bill a day earlier.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin

Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner chastises conservatives: You voted to spend more money

Discussion: The Politico, TPMDC, Guardian and Daily Kos

Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: Senate unlikely to vote Thursday on spending measure

Discussion: CNN

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Rush Limbaugh On Gary Johnson Joke: 'Guess I've Become Show Prep For The GOP Debates' … NEW YORK — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson brought down the house at Thursday night's Fox News/ Google debate when he joked about how his “next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.”

Discussion: Rick Perry 2012 Campaign … and ThinkProgress

Rush Limbaugh:
“Mr. Boehner, Tear Down This Bridge”

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and The Daily Caller

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Oops, Obama touts his jobs plan today at an Ohio bridge that won't qualify

Discussion: Cincinnati.com, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today, Outside the Beltway, Fox News and Sense of Events

Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Obama To Republicans: ‘Help Us Rebuild This Bridge’

Discussion: nation.foxnews.com and ThinkProgress

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 …

Discussion: Don Surber and Vox Popoli

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 …

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

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

Discussion: American Power, New York Times, The Politico, Mother Jones and Reuters

Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Night They Killed Troy Davis

Discussion: The Daily Dish and Colorlines

John Hawkins / The Huffington Post:
Why Do Liberals Have Such a Soft Spot for Cop Killers Like Troy Davis?

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Slate Magazine, theblogprof, Nation Now, Outside the Beltway, Confederate Yankee and Hullabaloo

Jim Forsyth / Reuters:

Fancy last supper requests off the menu on Texas death row — (Reuters) - The Texas prison system abolished on Thursday the time-honored tradition of offering an opulent last meal to condemned inmates before their executions, saying they will get standard prison fare instead.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine and Hullabaloo

Hotline On Call:

Dem Poll: Obama Dragging Down His Own Party — One of the Democratic party's leading pollsters released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today painting an ominous picture for Congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse …

Discussion: RedState, Scared Monkeys, The Politico, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air

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.

Discussion: The Other McCain, Conservatives4Palin, Big Journalism, Mediaite, Power Line, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Whiskey Fire, Don Surber and The Right Scoop

Arlette Saenz / Politics:

HPV Vaccine Fact Check: Perry Misstated Relationship With Dying Woman — Although Rick Perry said at a debate on Thursday that he was “lobbied” by a 31-year-old woman suffering from cervical cancer to require young girls to receive the HPV vaccine, he did not meet the cancer patient until …

Discussion: New York Times, Austin American-Statesman, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, Washington Examiner, Trail Blazers Blog, Michelle Malkin, News Hounds and Washington Post

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 …

Discussion: Mediaite, Politics Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Business Insider and The Daily Caller

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 …

Discussion: Israel Matzav, Weasel Zippers and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

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.

Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Caucus and Joe. My. God.

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.

Discussion: Financial Times, Pajamas Media, New York Times and Hot Air

Patti Domm / CNBC:

Market Insider — Global Meltdown: Investors Are Dumping Nearly Everything — With no solution in sight for Europe and new fears of a global recession, investors dumped stocks and commodities and ran to the safety of U.S. Treasurys. — Treasury yields , as a result …

Kevin Drum Feed:

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.”

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Flower & Thistle, FP Passport, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, The Impolitic, New York Magazine and Nation Now

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 …

Jon Swaine / Telegraph:

David Cameron: world on brink of new economic crisis — The world stands on the brink of a new economic crisis that would leave countries like Britain “staring down the barrel”, David Cameron has warned. — David Cameron said that Western politicians must show more ‘leadership’

Discussion: Hot Air and Pajamas Media