memeorandum: Lawmaker wants state to reinstate dwarf tossing (Frank Cerabino/Palm Beach Post)

7:55 PM ET, October 6, 2011

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Joseph / CANNONFIRE:

OWS: Here's the message you've all been waiting for — Lots of people, including this writer, have criticized the Occupy Wall Street movement for lacking a concrete goal. I have found it. I've come up with a single, clear demand — easily stated and easily realized.

Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: ‘God bless’ Wall Street protesters

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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Would Accept Surtax on Incomes Over $1 Million

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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama on Bank Prosecutions: They Did Nothing Illegal, Only Found Loopholes That We Worked to Close

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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
5 questions for President Obama

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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Wall Street Corruption, Solyndra, and Fast & Furious: Today's Q's for O - 10/6/2011

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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Herman Cain Aims Another Rant at Wall Street Protesters

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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Obama's jobs bill to get Senate vote

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Braden / 100.7 WZLX:

Senator Scott Brown Calls In & Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On — WZLX's Kevin Karlson: “Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?” — Senator Scott Brown (laughs) “Thank God.”

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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:

Scott Brown quips about Elizabeth Warren's appearance on Boston radio show — Republican Senator Scott Brown made a crack about Democrat Elizabeth Warren's physical appearance on a radio show this morning. — Brown was responding to a crack Warren made in Tuesday's debate …

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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:

TPM2012 — Scott Brown Replies To Warren: ‘Thank God’ She Didn't Take Her Clothes Off (AUDIO) — Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) was interviewed on a local talk radio show Thursday morning. And he had an interesting response to a recent line from Democratic frontrunner Elizabeth Warren.

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Scott Brown, on Elizabeth Warren's claim she kept her clothes on during college: “Thank God” — During the Massachusetts Senate debate earlier this week, Elizabeth Warren and the other Dem candidates were reminded by the debate moderator that Scott Brown had posed nude in college, and asked what they had done to pay for school.

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Nick Baumann / Political Mojo:
Scott Brown Calls Elizabeth Warren Ugly

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David Frum / FrumForum:

Palin: Already Almost Forgotten — “I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets...” — From Sarah Palin's statement announcing her decision not to run for president. — Um, probably not. Sarah Palin's political voice had dwindled well before she announced her decision not to run.

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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:

Huntsman Hits Palin for ‘Stringing People Along’ — ABC News' Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) and Sarah Kunin (@sarah_kunin) Report: — In an interview with ABC's “The View,” presidential candidate Jon Huntsman rebuked former Gov. Sarah Palin for “stringing people along” as she decided whether to run for president.

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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Sarah Palin industry faces depression

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Scott Olson / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin's Die Hard Supporters ‘Stunned,’ ‘Disappointed’

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Lindsey Boerma / NationalJournal.com:

Cain Says He ‘Would Not Be Comfortable’ As Perry's Running Mate — Businessman Herman Cain, a Republican candidate for president, says he would consider running for vice presidential with anyone other than Texas Gov. Rick Perry. — HOUSTON — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain …

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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain open to VP offer from any Republican candidate except Perry

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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Who will be the GOP messiah? — Barack Obama is so doomed politically …

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Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America: Laura Ingraham Isn't Sure If Obama Is Black

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Laura Ingraham: Would A Herman Cain Presidency Be Historic Because Obama Has White Relatives? (UPDATE)

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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Secret panel can put Americans on “kill list' — (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Execution by secret WH committee — Reuters describes the bureaucratic panel that, with no oversight or transparency, orders citizens killed by the CIA — Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there's a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters:

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Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:

GOP Solyndra probe wants Obama's BlackBerry messages — The GOP's demand for all White House communications on Solyndra covers President Barack Obama's personal BlackBerry messages too, Rep. Cliff Stearns said Thursday. — The Florida Republican said he made the precedent-setting request …

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Repeating the same mistake, expecting new results

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The White House:
News Conference by the President

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Washington Post:

Solyndra controversy claims casualty as head of Energy Department loan program steps down — The head of the Energy Department's controversial loan guarantee program has decided to step down, department officials confirmed to The Washington Post on Thursday.

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Darius Dixon / The Politico:
DOE loan program official Jonathan Silver steps down

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Frank Cerabino / Palm Beach Post:

Lawmaker wants state to reinstate dwarf tossing — Some news on the job-creation front in Florida. — A state legislator has found yet another example of government regulation getting in the way of job creation. — So Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, filed a bill this week to bring back …

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Mary Beth Wilson / NBC Miami:
Lawmaker Files Bill to Repeal State Ban on Dwarf Tossing in Bars

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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:

Lindsey Graham On ‘Intimidation’: 'If You're A Southern White Guy, It Is Part Of Your Life' — GOP presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry (TX) has faced severe backlash this week as the result of stories that he had opposed a campaign to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouses across …

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Robert Bryce / Wall Street Journal:

Five Truths About Climate Change — During the decade that Al Gore dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%. — Over the past two months, environmental activists have held protests at the White House and elsewhere hoping to convince the Obama administration …

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New York Post:

‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic — So now the Fast and Furious affair has reached Stage 2 of the classic Washington scandal: House Republicans have called for a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder himself for possible perjury.

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Carol Felsenthal / Pundits Blog:
Eric Holder: Been there, done that

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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:

Why So Few Steve Jobses? — I've always been an Apple guy. I had an Apple II GS, rocked System 6 on a Mac IIse, learned HyperCard, helped put together an alt-weekly in college with PageMaker on PowerMac G3s, had a first-generation iPod, bought an iPhone on the weekend of its release, etc.

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Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
The Steve Jobs I Knew

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Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Rick Santorum savages Mitt Romney over Nevada calendar report — Rick Santorum tore into Mitt Romney Thursday for a report that the former Massachusetts governor's campaign lobbied Nevada Republicans to break GOP rules and hold an early caucus for his own benefit.

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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada Republicans set Jan. 14 caucus

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Buck Sexton / TheBlaze.com:

REPORT: IRANIAN WARSHIP ROUTE TO U.S. COAST LEAKED ONLINE — Last week, an Iranian Naval Commander threatened to deploy ships off the U.S. coast as a provocative show of force. — Now it looks like Iran might actually be serious. — A new map that allegedly shows the expected path …

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Tim Mak / The Politico:

Email: ‘Time to kill the wealthy’ — Several influential New York lawmakers have received threatening emails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don't renew the state's tax surcharge on the millionaires, according to reports. — “It's time to tax the millionaires!” reads the email, according to WTEN in Albany.