memeorandum: Health Care Law: Obama Administration Returns to Court (Ariane De Vogue/ABCNEWS)

8:40 AM ET, September 23, 2011

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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: Raw Replay, ThinkProgress, Crooks and Liars, American Power, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.

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, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Harry's Place

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.

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:

Gay soldier booed at GOP debate, candidates stay mum — Some members of the GOP debate audience booed a gay soldier who asked via video whether the Republican candidates would reinstitute the recently repealed “don't ask, don't tell” policy of banning openly gay soldiers.

Discussion: The Politico

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: Campaign 2012, Weekly Standard, Pundit & Pundette, American Spectator, AmSpecBlog, Conservatives4Palin and Riehl World View

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:

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, Campaign 2012, Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway

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

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

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: ThinkProgress and Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …

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

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

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

Discussion: Michelle Malkin

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

Discussion: TPMDC, The Politico, Daily Kos and Guardian

Juana Summers / The Politico:

Tweeters pan Republican debaters, debate technology — With Fox News partnering with Google for Thursday night's debate, the emphasis was on interactivity that seemed custom-made to appeal to Twitter users. According to Google, more than 18,000 questions were submitted to the Fox News YouTube channel to be considered for the debate.

Discussion: YID With LID

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

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

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

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

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

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, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and The Politico

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

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

Lymari Morales / Gallup:

Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias — More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.

Discussion: Big Journalism and Weasel Zippers

Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:

Health Care Law: Obama Administration Returns to Court — Lawyers for the Obama administration will once again head to court to defend the health care reform law, this time from challengers who argue it violates their religious freedom. — The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia …

Discussion: Bloomberg and Healthwatch

Trang Do / WAFF-TV:

Derrick Mason executed at Holman Prison — Derrick Mason has been executed by lethal injection for the 1994 robbery and murder of a Huntsville convenience store clerk. The execution took place at Holman prison in Atmore, he was pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m Thursday.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Social Contract — This week President Obama said the obvious: that wealthy Americans, many of whom pay remarkably little in taxes, should bear part of the cost of reducing the long-run budget deficit. And Republicans like Representative Paul Ryan responded with shrieks of “class warfare.”

Discussion: Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Washington Post, FrumForum and Booman Tribune

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: New York Times, Israel Matzav, Weasel Zippers and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

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

Jill Jones / L.A. NOW:

Obama's Westside campaign office vandalized — Los Angeles police were investigating a Thursday night incident in which someone shot BB-gun pellets and threw an object into President Obama's Westside campaign office, authorities said. — The incident was reported at 7:25 p.m. at the office …

Discussion: The Politico and Business Insider

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 The Other McCain

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

Discussion: The Daily Dish and Colorlines

Fox News:

TRANSCRIPT: Fox News-Google GOP Debate — This is a rush transcript from the Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate on September 22, 2011 at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — BRET BAIER, ANCHOR …

Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog and Top of the Ticket

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 …

Jason Grotto / Chicago Tribune:

One-day rehiring nets former Chicago labor leader a $158,000 city pension — Most city workers spend decades in public service to build up modest pensions. But for former labor leader Dennis Gannon, the keys to securing a public pension were one day on the city payroll and some help from the Daley administration.

Discussion: msnbc.com, Mish's Global Economic …, Sister Toldjah, Right Wing News, americanthinker.com and iOwnTheWorld.com

Wall Street Journal:

Obama's Tax Morass — Barack Obama and his perpetually angry Democratic “base” are the outliers on comprehensive tax reform. — Barack Obama has a remarkable habit of dumping the responsibility for solving massive fiscal and political problems on someone else.

Discussion: Betsy's Page and New York Magazine