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Bloomberg:
Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales — In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France.
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Patrick / Politicalgates:
In new bombshell story, “Bloomberg Markets” …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Firedoglake, Teamster Nation and Booman Tribune
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Perry's Link to N-Word Place Name Puts Campaign on Defensive — The campaign of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas found itself on the defensive on Sunday over a report that he had hunted at and taken guests to a West Texas camp with a racially charged name that his father, and later Mr. Perry, had leased.
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Los Angeles Times, The Caucus, Gawker and Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered
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Michelle Malkin, New York Magazine, Crooks and Liars, The Crawdad Hole, Jesus' General, Runnin' Scared and Rumproast
Rick Perry / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Warren, Brown in dead heat: UMass Lowell/Herald poll — Joe K, Deval would do better — Democrat Elizabeth Warren's meteoric ascent in Massachusetts politics has landed her in a virtual dead heat with Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, while two Democrats who passed on the race …
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The New Republic, Business Insider, The Politico, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Page
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama campaign goes on attack — President Obama's re-election campaign argues in a memo set to be released this morning that Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney — the two frontrunners for the Republican nomination — have “embraced policies that the American people oppose” …
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Washington Monthly, The Caucus, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Boston Globe and DownWithTyranny!
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.
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Michelle Malkin, National Review, Pajamas Media, The Right Scoop, Atlas Shrugs and Weasel Zippers
NY Daily News:
TWU blasts city for putting handcuffed Occupy Wall Street protesters on buses — The Transport Workers Union will go to court Monday to try to stop the city from forcing bus drivers to transport Wall Street protesters arrested by the NYPD, the Daily News has learned.
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Runnin' Scared, Guardian, City Room, New York Times, Daily Kos and New York Magazine
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Nick Greene / Runnin' Scared:
Why Did the New York Times Change Their Brooklyn Bridge Arrests Story?
Wilson Dizard / New York Post:
Hackers joining Wall Street protests
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City Room, The Raw Story and Mediaite
Kevinliptak / CNN:
BREAKING: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21 — Washington (CNN) - South Carolina's Republican presidential primary will be held on Jan. 21 of next year, two GOP sources tell CNN. — South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly will formally announce the date later this morning.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Outside the Beltway and The Page
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada GOP moving presidential caucus to January
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Politics, Ballot Box, The State, Concord Monitor and msnbc.com
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Cain wins straw poll at GOP women's forum — GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain won this weekend's straw poll at the National Federation of Republican Women's Convention reports NBC News. — Cain received 48.9 percent of the vote, well ahead of the second place finisher Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 14.1 percent.
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Mort Zuckerman / Financial Times:
Why business despairs of Obama — Take a deep breath. The industrialised world, America included, seems stuck in one of those horror movies, where the monster, thought to be slain, morphs into something even more scary. The fear is that a double-dip, or worse, is now upon us.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
STATE FOR SALE … - POLITICS - PROFILES - THE TALK OF THE TOWN - COMMENT - TABLE OF CONTENTS - THE FINANCIAL PAGE - NEWS DESK - THE POLITICAL SCENE
Fran Tarkenton / Wall Street Journal:
What if the NFL Played by Teachers' Rules? — Imagine a league where players who make it through three seasons could never be cut from the roster. — Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player's salary is based on how long he's been in the league.
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The Politico, Betsy's Page, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Lonely Conservative
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Holding China to Account — The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of many players. Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldn't stop us from holding individual bad actors to account. — And that's what Senate leaders will be doing this week …
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Firedoglake, JustOneMinute, Reuters, Washington Post, LewRockwell.com Blog and Paul Krugman
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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Taegan Goddard's … and Don Surber
BBC:
British passport forms to get same-sex parents option — The proposals will allow transgender people to opt out of identifying their gender — UK passport forms are being updated to include options for same-sex parents. — New forms including “parent one” and “parent two” alongside …
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ThinkProgress and Towleroad News #gay
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
Eric Cantor's America — The House majority leader is trying to stop the U.S. government in its tracks. And so far, he's doing a pretty effective job. — On a stormy evening in early September, a couple of hours before Barack Obama would present his new jobs plan to a joint session of Congress …
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Taegan Goddard's …
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
New State Laws Are Limiting Access for Voters — Since Republicans won control of many statehouses last November, more than a dozen states have passed laws requiring voters to show photo identification at polls, cutting back early voting periods or imposing new restrictions on voter registration drives.
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ThinkProgress, Brennan Center for Justice and The Monkey Cage
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