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10:55 PM ET, October 3, 2011

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Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Faced With Perry's “Niggerhead” Controversy, Conservatives Slam...Herman Cain  —  Postracial politics?  Yeah, right.  —  Post Comment  —  As Texas Gov. Rick Perry deals with the fallout from the revelation that his family leases a hunting camp called “Niggerhead,” Herman Cain is facing his own backlash …
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Emily Ramshaw / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Critics Defend Him In Racist Camp Name Furor … Keywords: - Texas Governor Rick Perry, - Race, - Rick Perry Personal, - Rick Perry Politics  —  At a critical juncture in his race for the GOP presidential nomination, Gov. Rick Perry has been forced to do something no candidate wants …
Marc Caputo / St. Petersburg Times:
Fla poll: Romney 28%, Cain 24, Gingrich 10, Perry 9  —  Debates matter.  So did Florida's straw poll.  Just ask two guys: Herman Cain and Rick Perry.  —  Cain is now running in second place in Florida now that his support surged nearly 19 percentage points after last month's Republican Party …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
‘Niggerhead’
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney says the name of Rick Perry's hunting camp is ‘offensive’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:   Perry Declares ‘There Is Nothing In That Constitution’ That Allows Medicaid To Exist
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rick Perry Signed 2007 Mandate Requiring 30 Minutes Of Daily Exercise For Texas Students
Discussion: Campaign 2012 and ThinkProgress
The New York Observer:
Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video]  —  Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Foxnews.com (as of this writing) …
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New York Times:
Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small  —  A loose-knit populist campaign that started on Wall Street three weeks ago has spread to dozens of cities across the country, with protesters camped out in Los Angeles near City Hall, assembled before the Federal Reserve Bank …
NY Daily News:
TWU blasts city for putting handcuffed Occupy Wall Street protesters on buses
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul supports anti-Wall Street protests
Discussion: The Politico and Ben Smith's Blog
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
ESPN yanks Hank Williams for comparing Obama to Hitler  —  Hank Williams Jr., the voice famous for asking millions of viewers if they're ready for some football, has been pulled from Monday's broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News this morning.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Obama is Hitler: Hank Williams Jr. Impersonates a Tea Party Sign on Fox & Friends  —  Hank Williams Jr. joined the morning crew of Fox & Friends and meandered off the rails.  It even had the Ailes puppet crew freaking out, causing them to disavow his comments at the end of the segment.
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Hank Williams Jr. Likens Obama To Hitler In Uncomfortable Fox and Friends Interview  —  Country music singer Hank Williams Jr. compared President Obama to Adolph Hitler in an awkward interview Monday morning on Fox and Friends.  Williams called the golf summit the president had with Speaker …
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007  —  New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Calls Himself ‘Underdog’ in 2012 Race for White House  —  George Stephanopoulos of ABC News interviews President Barack Obama live on ABCNews.com and Yahoo! today at 2:35 EST. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)  —  Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today …
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Gary Langer / Politics:
Majority Expects Obama to Lose Re-Election  —  A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong.  —  Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Is America Suffering from Rogue Leaders or Broken Institutions?  —  Overzealous presidents and a weakened Congress are the source of our problems.  And the remedy is obvious.  —  Today on Twitter, several progressive Washington DC-based journalists sent around a link to a paragraph written …
Discussion: Alas, a Blog
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The Huffington Post:
Dick, Liz Cheney Praise Anwar Al-Awlaki Killing, Say Obama Owes Bush Administration An Apology
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Jawa Report
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy’ Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers  —  When President Obama released his plan for “the Buffett rule,” which involves closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires pay their fair share in taxes, he explained that …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Cost Of A Demobilized Left  —  Watching the growth of Occupy Wall Street solidarity protests around the country, it's hard not to be reminded of the lost opportunity to mobilize a left-wing popular movement back in the winter of 2008-2009 and the spring of 2009.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Obama's tax hikes would really impact the rich, in three easy charts  —  Ever since Obama redoubled his push to hike taxes on the rich, conservatives have been ridiculing Obama's invocations of fairness, insisting that the rich are already paying a rising share of the overall tax burden …
Discussion: Political Mojo
Neal Stephenson / World Policy Institute:
Innovation Starvation  —  My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space.  Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking black-and-white television, watching the early Gemini missions.
Alexander Mooney / The 1600 Report:
Obama: No regrets over Solyndra  —  President Obama Monday said he does not regret a half-billion dollar government loan to the now-bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra and vigorously defended his administration's policy of providing assistance to similar entities.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Obama was advised against visiting Solyndra after financial warnings
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Rep. Cantor rejects Obama, says president's jobs package is dead  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) declared President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill dead on Monday in its current form, flatly rejecting the president's latest plea for Congress to vote on the measure.
Discussion: The Politico, ABCNEWS, Firedoglake and CNN
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul  —  Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama's targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.  —  Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week's killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader …
Michael Marshall / New Scientist:
Political backlash to geoengineering begins  —  Political opposition to technologies that could artificially cool the planet is in full swing.  A field test of geoengineering, planned for October in Sculthorpe, UK, has been postponed for six months.  Meanwhile, the European Parliament …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Bloomberg Whiffs, Part 1  —  Last Friday, I wrote about a Bloomberg Markets story on Koch Industries which at that time was still in preparation.  According to multiple reports, the story was expected to focus on claims that a European Koch subsidiary had business transactions in Iran …
Amanda Knox / The Daily Beast:
Inside Obama's Populist Makeover  —  The president's friends (and foes) on what prompted his lurch to the left—and whether it will work.  Plus, Michael Tomasky on Obama's new centrist battle plan.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Risk-averse America  —  Economist Robert Litan of the Kauffman Foundation likes to recall that half of today's Fortune 500 companies began as start-ups in a recession or a bear stock market.  And why not?  During a recession, it's cheaper to hire new workers, rent office space, buy supplies.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
It's between Christie and his wife  —  I've been avoiding doing a tick-tock of “will-he-or-won't-he” on Chris Christie's deliberations this weekend, and his camp has stayed off the grid.  Christie himself has also stayed mum, and he has no media availability tomorrow.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
West Virginia too close to call  —  The race for Governor of West Virginia is looking more and more like a toss up, with Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin now leading Republican Bill Maloney only 47-46.  Tomblin's lead was 46-40 on a poll conducted at the beginning of September and he had led …
 
 
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Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Investment  —  I get the sense that a lot of people believe …
Discussion: TheMoneyIllusion and ThinkProgress
Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
More aides leave Bachmann presidential campaign
Michael Scherer / Swampland:
What Mitt Romney Has to Lose-and Obama Has to Gain-from the ‘Buffett Rule’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Amanda Knox / The Daily Beast:
Chris Christie's Best Reason to Run
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Mallory Simon / This Just In:
Live blog: Amanda Knox to go free after jury overturns murder conviction
Discussion: The Daily What, CNN and TalkLeft
Democracy Now:
PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY OCT. 3, 1PM: Amy Goodman Announces Major Settlement in Federal Lawsuit …
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Tweet Science  —  Twitter is building a machine to convert 140 …
Bob Inglis / Bloomberg:
Conservative Means Standing With Science on Climate: Bob Inglis
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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