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Rick Perry / Wall Street Journal:
My Tax and Spending Reform Plan — Individuals will have the option of paying a 20% flat-rate income tax and I'll cap spending at 18% of GDP. — The folks in Washington might not like to hear it, but the plain truth is the U.S. government spends too much.
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John Harwood / The Caucus:
10 Questions for Rick Perry — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is seeking to jump-start his Republican presidential campaign by proposing a new tax system: a 20 percent flat rate on individual and corporate income, down from the current 35 percent top rate, and elimination of existing taxes on estates, capital gains and dividends.
CBS News:
Herman Cain tops Mitt Romney in latest CBS/NYT poll — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — Businessman Herman Cain is now atop the field of Republican White House hopefuls, squeaking past former Massachusetts …
The Politico:
Rick Perry readies assault on Mitt Romney — The Rick Perry relaunch has finally arrived. — After weeks battling questions about how he plans to salvage his listing presidential bid, the Texas governor has finally started spelling out an answer. It involves opening his $15 million campaign war chest …
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Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz blasts Perry's flat tax plan as ‘definition of insanity’
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Perry campaign calls on Romney to release tax returns
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Jason Embry / Austin American-Statesman:
First Reading: Details of Perry's tax proposal
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
It's on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street — Wow, this is going to be good: Occupy Wall Street is now officially an issue in what may be the highest-profile and most polarizing Senate race in the country. — National Republicans are now attacking Elizabeth Warren …
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The Daily Beast:
Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Warren? — The Harvard professor has spooked the right. As she begins her high-profile Senate campaign against GOP star Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the consumer advocate tells Samuel P. Jacobs how she created ‘much of the intellectual foundation’ for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Occupy Wall Street: The Book — Progressive publishing house OR Books will release a 200-page first draft of history entitled Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America as soon as December 17, using volunteers from the movement's Education and Empowerment Committee …
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Quinnipiac University:
Opposition To Ohio's SB 5 Grows, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Women, Union Members Push Kasich Deeper In Hole — Ohio voters support 57 - 32 percent the repeal of SB 5, the centerpiece of Gov. John Kasich's legislative program, as the margin against the governor's measure has almost doubled …
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CNN:
Romney avoids weighing in on Ohio union fight — Terrace Park, Ohio (CNN) -Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stepped into the middle of the charged battle over organized labor in Ohio on Tuesday, but he avoided weighing in on the contentious legislation that would dramatically limit …
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Hwilkinson / Politics Extra:
Romney visits GOP call center, sidesteps Ohio issues — GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a 45-minute visit to a Terrace Park Republican phone bank operation this morning, where volunteers have been making thousands of phone calls to voters urging yes votes on state issues 2 and 3.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Herman Cain's Amazing Campaign Ad … - Saletan: Bachmann Thinks Our Military Was in Iraq Not To Liberate It but To Own It - The President of ASU on Rick Scott's Stupid Idea To Cut Funding for Liberal Arts Education - My Seven Beliefs About Tim Tebow: 1) He Is Not a Viable NFL Quarterback …
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John Berman / ABCNEWS:
'It's a Phenomenon!' Why Herman Cain's Campaign is Smoking — “It's a phenomenon, but so is the Herman Cain campaign.” — That is the only explanation Mark Block, Herman Cain's campaign chief, has for the white-hot focus on his new campaign video; the one where Block is smoking.
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
New Cain ad showing chief of staff smoking cigarette catches attention
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Answering the Cain question
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Cops arrest Occupy Oakland protesters — (10-25) 05:58 PDT OAKLAND — Oakland police arrested dozens of people at a plaza outside City Hall, two weeks after the protesters began building an intricate encampment as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement against corporate greed and economic inequality.
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Mercury News:
Police arrest protesters, tear down Occupy Oakland tent city — Early Tuesday, the city began ousting protesters who have camped out for two weeks at the Occupy Oakland tent city on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Police started assembling around the tent city at 14th Street and Broadway at about 3 a.m.
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Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Watch live: ‘Occupy Oakland’ attacked by police
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Crooks and Liars
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Vice President Biden complains after dust-up with conservative reporter — Joe Biden's office has complained to the Senate press gallery about a confrontation the vice president had with a conservative journalist last week on Capitol Hill. — Biden aides asked whether Senate rules were broken …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
A 53% Surge in Poverty Rate Is Reshaping Suburbs — PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio — The poor population in America's suburbs — long a symbol of a stable and prosperous American middle class — rose by more than half after 2000, forcing suburban communities across the country to re-evaluate their identities and how they serve their populations.
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Televangelist Pat Robertson Calls GOP Field Too ‘Extreme’ To Win General Election — You know you've hit rock bottom when one of the most radical, hate-spewing figures in America calls you “extreme.” That's how televangelist Pat Robertson described the field of GOP candidates, Right Wing Watch reports.
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Even Pat Robertson Thinks Republican Voters Are Too Extreme
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Allison Kopicki / The Caucus:
Most Republican Primary Voters Remain Uncommitted — A large majority of Republican primary voters have yet to make up their minds about the candidate they would like to see as their party's nominee for president in 2012, with the nation's first nominating contests just two months away.
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Obama's Latter-Day McGovernism — When Pres. Barack Obama took the podium last Friday to abruptly announce the imminent end of the Iraq War, he ended on a ringing McGovernite note: “After a decade of war, the nation that we need to build — and the nation that we will build — is our own.”
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Of Course the Iraq War Would End in Iran's Empowerment
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ESeifert / Democracy Corps:
Occupy Politics — The latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps reveals an intensely anti-establishment, anti-Washington, anti-Wall Street moment. [1] Three-quarters of all voters say the country is on the wrong track; just 15 percent believe we are heading …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Indecision Forever
Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Obama's celebrity-rich L.A. tour causes traffic jams — President Obama's fundraising swing through Los Angeles made for a tougher afternoon commute for some motorists on Monday. — The traffic problems were most intense in Hancock Park and Mid-City, with east-west commuters facing some delays.
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