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Jeanne Devon / The Huffington Post:
Internal Emails Suggest Palin to Run for President — What's Your Reaction: — ~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10 — It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would mount a bid for the White House in 2012.
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Power Line, Conservatives4Palin.com, Fox News, Patterico's Pontifications, Flopping Aces, sisu, Daily Kos, GOP 12, The Stranger … and American Power
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Internal Email Suggests Palin to Run for President — ~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10 — by Jeanne Devon — It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would mount a bid for the White House in 2012.
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Rough Sketch, Daily Kos, Wonkette, Gawker, AMERICAblog News, Salon, Taegan Goddard's … and US News
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Palin Backers Suspect Huckabee Loyalists on Joe Miller Staff Behind E-Mail Leak — “This is the worst sort of betrayal I've ever seen,” one source close to Sarah Palin said in describing the leak of an e-mail that Todd Palin sent to Joe Miller, the Alaska GOP Senate candidate.
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Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin.com, Da Techguy's Blog, Weigel and NewsBusters.org
CNN:
TRENDING: Obama-Clinton ticket ‘on the table,’ Woodward says — (CNN) - Some called a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing the “Dream Ticket” in 2008. It didn't happen. — But what about 2012? — “It's on the table,” veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN's John King in an interview Tuesday on John King, USA.
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TalkLeft, Right Pundits, Mediaite, New York Magazine, A Spork in the Drawer and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Woodward: Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012 is ‘on the table’
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Daschle: Public Option ‘Taken Off The Table’ In July Due To ‘Understanding People Had With Hospitals’ — Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD)'s new book Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate To Make Way for Health Care Reform comes out next week …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Truth about the public option momentarily emerges, quickly scampers back into hiding — (updated below) — As I've noted before, the column of mine which produced the greatest level of hate mail and anger in the last year — both in terms of intensity and quantity — was this one from August …
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The Huffington Post and TalkLeft
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Beck On Family's Home Burning Down As Firefighters Watched: ‘We Are Going To Have To Have These Things’ — As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, last week South Fulton Fire Department firefighters from Obion, Tennessee, stood by and watched as the Cranick family's home burned down …
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Hot Air, The Right Scoop, Hullabaloo and The Hinterland Gazette
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Would You Let This House Burn? — This sounds like a seminar topic …
Would You Let This House Burn? — This sounds like a seminar topic …
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National Review, AlterNet.org, EconLog, Guardian, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic Online
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The Worst Column of the Year: Congratulations Richard Cohen! — It is getting increasingly difficult to keep track of all the idiotic columns written about the Tea Party. But as we become inured to all the hyperventilating from Frank Rich, Eugene Robinson, and Bob Herbert …
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Tea party, religious right often overlap, poll shows
Tea party, religious right often overlap, poll shows
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Behind the Numbers, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Fix, A Spork in the Drawer and Balloon Juice
JSOnline:
NFL asks Feingold to take down ad — The National Football League has asked the Russ Feingold campaign to take down a newly released ad that uses footage from NFL games. — NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Journal Sentinel that the league did not license the footage used in the ad.
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The output gap in two graphs — Neil Irwin (with graphics help from Alicia Parlapiano) has a series of interactive graphs explaining both what's wrong with the economy and how long it will take to fit itself at different rates of growth. I've copied one of the first atop this post, and this comes from Neil's introduction:
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Fox News Polls: GOP Poised to Gain or Hold Senate Seats in Key States — Democrats have a mountain to climb in West Virginia. — The latest Fox News battleground state surveys of five key states shows Republicans in good position to gain two seats and hold two seats left open by GOP retirements.
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Dana Milbank / The Huffington Post:
Mormon Prophesy Behind Glenn Beck's Message — What's Your Reaction: — In one of his first appearances on Fox News, Glenn Beck sent a coded message to the nation's six million Mormons — or at least those Mormons who believe in what the Latter-day Saints call “the White Horse Prophecy.”
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Howard Kurtz Joins The Daily Beast — trending topics - INNOVATORS SUMMIT - GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK - ELECTION ORACLE - FACEBOOK MOVIE - FASHION WEEK — Media and investigative reporter Howard Kurtz joins The Daily Beast as Washington Bureau Chief. — The Daily Beast turns two tomorrow …
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TBD All News, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Salon, The Wire, Scocca, The Moderate Voice, Roger Ailes, Gawker and Balloon Juice
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The Incidence of Unemployment and Underemployment, by Income — As we ponder the plight of the over-$250K household income group (see the poignant story here), I think it worthwhile to examine the unemployment and underemployment rates for lower-income households.
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The Washington Independent, EconLog and Clusterstock
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Rick Sanchez apologizes to Jon Stewart for calling him a ‘bigot’ — Tweet — Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez apologized to comedian Jon Stewart for calling him a “bigot” in radio interview last week, Sanchez's wife revealed Monday. — “Rick apologized to jon stewart today,” Sanchez's wife …
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Weasel Zippers, WTSP.com 10 News Local News and HotAirPundit
The Politico:
Newt Gingrich memo: ‘Paychecks vs. food stamps’ — Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and now general chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future, plans to send this memo Tuesday to candidates across the country suggesting a “closing argument” for the final month of the campaign.
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Political Insider and GOP 12
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Female lobbyists cry foul as Republican lawmakers keep their distance on the Hill — Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) won't meet with women behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, fearing how staffers and aides could perceive it. — “It was Bill Graham's policy, and if it's good enough for Billy Graham, it's good enough for me,” Wamp said.
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protein wisdom and TBD All News
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Bachmann foe: She isn't doing ‘@#%!’ — So long, Minnesota Nice. — Rep. Michele Bachmann's Democratic opponent is going off color with a new ad using an expletive to describe her service to the district. — In a web-only 30-second video posted Monday, Democrat Tarryl Clark accused Bachman …
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Liberty Pundits Blog, Washington Post, Derek Wallbank, Hot Air and Gateway Pundit
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Obama will win in 2012 — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that President Barack Obama will win re-election in two years, especially if the Republican Party re-takes control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections.
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Spiegel Online, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Biden: If I hear one more GOP budget gripe, ‘I am going to strangle them’ — Vice President Biden jokingly expressed his frustration toward Republicans on Tuesday, accusing them of having insincere concerns about the budget deficit. — Biden jokingly said that GOP protests about the need …
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Weasel Zippers and CNN
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Every color but camo — Tweet — My daughter is looking through college-recruitment materials, and pretty much all of them go on at great length about “diversity.” To judge from the brochures — not only the text but also the relentless photos of ethnically diverse students in various settings …
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The Moderate Voice, Mudville Gazette, WTSP.com 10 News Local News, Peter Daou, The DSCC and The Page
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
That's Where the Money Is — It's beyond astonishing to me that John Boehner has a real chance to be speaker of the House of Representatives. — I've always thought of Mr. Boehner as one of the especially sleazy figures in a capital seething with sleaze.
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The Future of Capitalism and Washington Monthly
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My Take: A Christian response to anti-gay bullying — Editor's Note: Warren Throckmorton, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Grove City College. Along with Michael Frey, he leads the Golden Rule Pledge and blogs at warrenthrockmorton.com. Don't miss an “AC360°” …
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Opinion L.A. and Box Turtle Bulletin
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Democrats pour cash into redistricting bid — In an unusual public alliance of “good government” groups and liberal activists, several Democratic groups are quietly pouring millions of dollars into supporting two obscure Florida ballot measures that could be crucial to the long-term battle for control of Congress.
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Riehl World View
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U.S. Tourist Calls on Obama to Step up Search for Husband's Body in Alleged Mexican Pirate Attack — An American woman who says her husband was gunned down by Mexican pirates called on the Obama administration Tuesday to step up the search for his body, as Mexican authorities begin to question her account.
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Pat Dollard and Wonkette
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Missouri Tea Partiers, Joe The Plumber Join Movement Against ‘Radical’ Anti-Puppy Mill Legislation — Dog bites man or man bites dog? — A conservative group in Missouri is picking up the backing of the Tea Party and Joe The Plumber in its quest to stop the Humane Society of the United States …
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Firedoglake, Towleroad News #gay, Wonkette, Shakesville, JoeTrippi.com, Oliver Willis, Speakeasy and Balloon Juice
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Hoffman drops out — A reader forwards this email from the NRCC about Doug Hoffman pulling out of the race in NY-23, which is hard to see as anything but a massive headache for Democratic Rep. Bill Owen and a major gain for Republican Matt Doheny:
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Taxes and Presidential Math — Let's compare the size of the tax cuts to the total amount of spending over the next ten years and see how ‘drastically’ it would expand the deficit. — Here is President Obama, talking on September 29 in Richmond, Virginia: — “Now, I'm not a math teacher.
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protein wisdom, The New Republic and National Review