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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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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
‘Niggerhead’ — Ok, then: … In all seriousness, I think this says very little about Rick Perry, and a lot more about the country he seeks to govern. A few choice quotes: … And from the Times: … Surely there are people, in both stories, who find the name offensive.
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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 …
Rick Perry / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered
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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Cain denies playing ‘race card’
Cain denies playing ‘race card’
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Perry Declares ‘There Is Nothing In That Constitution’ That Allows Medicaid To Exist
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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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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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.
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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 …
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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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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 …
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.
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Brennan Center for Justice:
Voting Law Changes in 2012 — PUBLICATIONS — Ahead of the 2012 elections, a wave of legislation tightening restrictions on voting has suddenly swept across the country. More than five million Americans could be affected by the new rules already put in place this year …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Donor, officials warned Obama not to visit Solyndra after financial warnings — A Silicon Valley investor and senior administration officials warned the White House to reconsider having President Obama visit a solar start-up company because of its mounting financial problems, saying he might be embarrassed later.
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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 …
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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.
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 …
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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.
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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Washington Examiner:
Thank Wal-Mart for your new bank card fee — When Bank of America announced last week that it would charge $5 a month to customers who make purchases with their debit card, customers railed against the bank. — Many conservatives and libertarians said the anger should be aimed at Congress …
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New York Times:
A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant Struggles — WASHINGTON — In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run by a politically connected clean energy start-up that has relied heavily on an Obama administration loan guarantee and is now facing financial turmoil.
Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
More aides leave Bachmann presidential campaign — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is losing her pollster and senior adviser in a staff exodus that raises questions about the viability of her White House bid and her campaign finances. — Pollster Ed Goeas plans to leave …
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