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Jbfrank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Perdue suggests suspending Congressional elections for two years — was she serious? — UPDATED: File this in the random-things-politicians-say file. — Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Democrats Emerge From Closet, Oppose Democracy — How many Democrats are National Socialists at heart? Quite a few, I suspect, and every now and then the Democrats' totalitarian urges break through to the surface. Thus, we have the Governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, suggesting that we …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs
NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs
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New York Times:
Gov. Chris Christie Keeps Political Fans Guessing — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey failed to address intense speculation about his presidential ambitions Tuesday night as he delivered a foreign policy speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
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Megan DeMarco / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie slams Obama, talks foreign policy during Reagan Library speech
Gov. Christie slams Obama, talks foreign policy during Reagan Library speech
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Chris Christie Presidential Speculation Ends Just As Quickly As It Spiked
Chris Christie Presidential Speculation Ends Just As Quickly As It Spiked
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Christie source: Run still possible
Christie source: Run still possible
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Obama's top ‘fat cat’ strays — JP Morgan honcho Jamie Dimon, once a “fat cat” ally of President Obama, seems to have strayed to Republican contender Mitt Romney. — Dimon, a lifelong Democrat who was rumored to be on Obama's short list for treasury secretary before he settled on Tim Geithner …
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Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street
Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street
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Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR:
Newsworthy? Determining the Importance of Protests on Wall Street
Newsworthy? Determining the Importance of Protests on Wall Street
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Charles Mead / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Protesters Joined by Susan Sarandon
Wall Street Protesters Joined by Susan Sarandon
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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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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Defiant Team Perry's plan: Hit harder
Defiant Team Perry's plan: Hit harder
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Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Solyndra Said to Have Violated Terms of Its U.S. Loan — Solyndra LLC had such steep financial problems in late 2010 that the company violated terms of its loan-guarantee agreement with the Department of Energy and technically defaulted on its $535 million loan, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker demands independent probe into Solyndra — A Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is calling on the White House to appoint an independent investigator to examine the administration's decision to approve a $535 million loan guarantee for a now-bankrupt solar company.
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Blacks leave Obama — Behind the president's whining to the Black Caucus, begging them to “quit grumbling,” is a decline in his personal popularity among African-American voters that could portend catastrophe for his fading reelection chances. — According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey …
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Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
Obama Jobs Plan May Prevent 2012 Recession — President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. — The legislation …
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Germany slams ‘stupid’ US plans to boost EU rescue fund — Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a “stupid idea” and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others.
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Daniel Howes / Detroit News:
Ford pulls its ad on bailouts
Ford pulls its ad on bailouts
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Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
For David Plouffe, a top Obama adviser, a new strategy and old doubts — View Photo Gallery — President Obama's reelection campaign and DNC together raised $86 million in the second quarter of 2011. Outside of fundraising, the president is ramping up support for his reelection …
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Palin sends more mixed signals — Sarah Palin, as often, sent ambivalent signals in her interview on Fox News last night. — The clip that everyone is buzzing about last night and this morning as a sign that she's leaning against a run: … I say “ambivalent signals” because …
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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
O-bummer! MTV tunes out prez campaign — President Obama's re-election campaign wants to connect with young Americans and reached out recently to MTV for help — but the cable network turned them down, sources tell The Post. — The president's Get Out the Vote campaign, run by Buffy Wicks …
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Raghavan Mayur / Investor's Business Daily:
A President Who's Well-Liked Falls Well Short On Execution — President Obama faces head winds from independents, an important voting bloc for re-election in 2012. Many of them think well of him personally, but they are disenchanted. They don't like his policies, and they see him as inexperienced.
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Financial Times:
Split opens over Greek bail-out terms — By Peter Spiegel in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Berlin — A split has opened in the eurozone over the terms of Greece's second €109bn bail-out with as many as seven of the bloc's 17 members arguing for private creditors to swallow a bigger writedown …
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
EPA delays auto emissions, mileage rule rollout — The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are delaying the release of proposed regulations establishing the next round of joint greenhouse gas and mileage standards for cars and light trucks.
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Mary Clare Jalonick / The Huffington Post:
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Is The Deadliest In A Decade; 16 Dead So Far … WASHINGTON — Health officials say as many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade.
America Live / Fox News Insider:
Megyn Kelly Responds to ‘The View’ Co-Host Joy Behar's Interview With VP Joe Biden on “Boo-ing” in Fox News/Google Debate After Gay Soldier Asks Question — On Tuesday's episode of the talk show “The View,” co-host Joy Behar asked guest Vice President Joe Biden about “booing” …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid playing for leverage with jobs bill — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has made it clear that he will not schedule a vote on President Obama's jobs package until after the upper chamber moves a China currency bill that the administration does not support.
Ali A. Akbar / Tea Party Brew:
A Tea Party Invitation to Morgan Freeman — My name is Ali Akbar. I'm a 26 year-old African-American small business owner and a tea party activist. I'm not writing to rake you over the coals in the way that many conservatives have done in the last 48 hours.
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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Perry's Not the Only GOP Star to Support Tuition Breaks for Illegal Immigrants' Kids — GOP immigration debate shows rift between party establishment and conservative grassroots. — Ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended Texas Gov. Rick Perry's policy for children of illegal immigrants.
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Wall Street Journal:
As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines — For centuries, a bedrock principle of criminal law has held that people must know they are doing something wrong before they can be found guilty. The concept is known as mens rea, Latin for a “guilty mind.”
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