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NewsMax.com:
Rick Perry to Newsmax: I Regret ‘Heartless’ Comment on Immigration — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Presidential candidate Rick Perry on Wednesday apologized for saying …
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Jonathan Martin's post today on how Rick Perry's campaign has …
Jonathan Martin's post today on how Rick Perry's campaign has …
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Salon, The Politico, CNN, Daily Kos and Hit & Run
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
The Permanent Candidate — What's Driving Rick Perry?
The Permanent Candidate — What's Driving Rick Perry?
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ThinkProgress
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Rick Perry's wife says scrutiny faced during presidential campaign has been ‘intense’
Rick Perry's wife says scrutiny faced during presidential campaign has been ‘intense’
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ThinkProgress, Washington Wire and USA Today
Tom Tancredo / The Daily Caller:
Governor Perry's Muslim blind spot
Governor Perry's Muslim blind spot
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Little Green Footballs, Booman Tribune and Daily Kos
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Defiant Team Perry's plan: Hit harder
Defiant Team Perry's plan: Hit harder
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Smart Politics, The Hill, CNN, The TrogloPundit, msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Pirate's Cove, Little Green Footballs, Hot Air, Prairie Weather and Washington Post
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: GOP Race Top Tier Now Romney, Perry and Cain — Three September debates have shaken-up the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Herman Cain has jumped into the top tier. Rick Perry's stumbled. Mitt Romney's holding steady. — And Michele Bachmann is hitting bottom.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney up in Florida — Rick Perry's led the Republican field in every Southern state that we've polled since he entered the Presidential race...until now. Mitt Romney continues to lead the way in Florida with 30% to 24% for Perry, 10% for Gingrich, 8% for Ron Paul, 7% for Herman Cain …
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LifeNews.com, GOP 12, Outside the Beltway and nation.foxnews.com
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case on Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear a case concerning the 2010 health care overhaul law. The development, which came unexpectedly fast, makes it all but certain that the court …
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ACS Blog, Business Insider, TalkLeft and New York Magazine
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate Magazine:
The Supreme Court is less interested in ruling on Obama's health care law than you think. — Apparently the Obama administration believes that 2012 will not be crazy enough already. That would explain why it has decided not to appeal a ruling from a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court …
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The New Republic and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Stephanie Cutter / White House.gov Blog:
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Hear Health Care Lawsuit
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Hear Health Care Lawsuit
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Justice Blog, CNN, Daily Kos, The 1600 Report and msnbc.com
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S. appeals on health care (UPDATED)
U.S. appeals on health care (UPDATED)
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aca litigation blog, Opinion L.A., The Volokh Conspiracy and Law Blog
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Man arrested in ‘step-by-step’ plot to blow up Capitol, Pentagon — The FBI arrested and charged a man Wednesday for allegedly plotting to blow up the Capitol and the Pentagon. — The 26-year-old Massachusetts man, Rezwan Ferdaus, was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation …
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National Review, The Politico and Business Insider
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Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
FBI Arrests Man For Plotting To Attack Capitol, Pentagon With C-4 Loaded Remote Controlled Planes — Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old Massachusetts resident was arrested in an FBI sting on Wednesday after allegedly plotting to use large remote controlled model airplanes packed with C-4 plastic explosives …
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Boston Herald, Hot Air, The Jawa Report, The Political Carnival and The Gateway Pundit
Kevinliptak / CNN:
TRENDING: Cain: Black community ‘brainwashed’ into voting for Dems — Washington (CNN) - The one African-American running for the GOP presidential nomination said Wednesday the black community was ‘brainwashed’ for traditionally siding with liberal politicians.
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Business Insider, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Christie's Father: ‘I Think He Would Beat Obama’
Christie's Father: ‘I Think He Would Beat Obama’
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Mediaite and UrbanGrounds
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Heresies of Chris Christie
The Heresies of Chris Christie
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American Spectator, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller and The Other McCain
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Waiting on Christie — Jonathan Martin writes that Rick Perry's …
Waiting on Christie — Jonathan Martin writes that Rick Perry's …
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Hot Air
Charlie GrapskiFollow / Daily Kos:
Bologna's Second Attack with Pepper Spray — Gradually the exploits of Detective Inspector Anthony (Tony Baloney) Bologna have eeked their way even into the mainstream media. It has become well known that he engages, in violation of policy, in an O.C. (Pepper) Spray attack on four defenseless women without provocation.
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City Room:
Officer's Pepper-Spraying of Protesters Is Under Investigation — The police and Manhattan prosecutors are separately examining a high-ranking officer's use of pepper spray on a number of female protesters at a demonstration on Saturday. — Raymond W. Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department …
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New York Times, Guardian, Gawker, The Moderate Voice, The Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Tea Partiers Want A New Dollar Coin And Refuse To Listen To The Free Market In The Process — Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal government money.
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Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice and The Hill
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Energy Department approves $1 billion in solar loan guarantees — The Energy Department announced Wednesday that is has finalized more than $1 billion in loan guarantees for two separate solar projects. — The decision comes several weeks after Solyndra, a California-based solar manufacturer …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What's behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests? — It's unsurprising that establishment media outlets have been condescending, dismissive and scornful of the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Any entity that declares itself an adversary of prevailing institutional power is going to be viewed …
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Obama's top ‘fat cat’ strays
Obama's top ‘fat cat’ strays
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Salon, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Campaign 2012, Hullabaloo, National Review, Betsy's Page and DealBook
Peter Hamby / CNN:
First on CNN: Florida will likely hold Jan. primary, threatening presidential calendar — Washington (CNN) — Florida is now expected to hold its presidential primary on the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray …
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
Bachmann says she is “comeback kid”
Bachmann says she is “comeback kid”
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Iowa Caucuses, Guardian, HotAirPundit, Business Insider and The Politico
Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Setti Warren said to be quitting US Senate race — Newton mayor Setti Warren, whose US Senate campaign has been short on cash and eclipsed by the emergence of Elizabeth Warren, plans to announce tomorrow that he is dropping out, according to an early supporter who received a phone call this afternoon.
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Politics, Hotline On Call and Ballot Box
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Al-Qaida calls on Ahmadinejad to end 9/11 conspiracy theories — Terrorist organisation's magazine reportedly says it is ‘ridiculous’ for Iran's president to blame the attacks on the US government — Al-Qaida has sent a message to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
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LewRockwell.com Blog
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Lee Ferran / ABCNEWS:
Al Qaeda to Iran: Stop Spreading 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Al Qaeda to Iran: Stop Spreading 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, ThinkProgress and Pirate's Cove
Bloomberg:
Solyndra's $733M Plant Had Robots, Spa Showers — The glass-and-metal building that Solyndra LLC began erecting alongside Interstate 880 in Fremont, California, in September 2009 was something the Silicon Valley area hadn't seen in years: a new factory. — It wasn't just any factory.
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Cold Fury and National Review
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Obama's Racial Crisis — In the current racial circus, the president of the United States, in addressing an assembly of upscale black professionals and political leaders, adopts the style of a Southern Baptist preacher of the 1960s. He alters his cadences and delivery to both berate and gin …
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Pajamas Media, Pundit & Pundette and Sadly, No!
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Ali A. Akbar / Tea Party Brew:
A Tea Party Invitation to Morgan Freeman
A Tea Party Invitation to Morgan Freeman
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Hot Air, The Other McCain, American Spectator, The Moderate Voice and Pajamas Media
Rick Richman / New York Sun:
Clinton, in a Sharp Turnaround, Warns Against Even Symbolically Recognizing Jerusalem as Capital of Israel — Secretary of State Clinton, in a sharp departure from her stance when she was a senator, is warning that any American action, even symbolically, toward recognizing Jerusalem …