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11:40 AM ET, August 13, 2011

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A.Killough / CNN:
Bachmann involved in unusual campaign moment  —  Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was at the center of an unusual campaign moment on Friday that involved reporters trying to ask her questions - and the Republican presidential candidate essentially being cocooned by a ring of protectors.
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Molly Ball / The Politico:
Ames Straw Poll: A viewers guide  —  The task of interpreting straw poll results seems straightforward enough: Whoever gets the most votes wins; whoever gets the fewest loses.  —  But that's not how the campaigns, and the media horde closely covering them, look at things.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Ames straw poll forecast: Cloudy with chance of Pawlenty  —  DES MOINES - The winner of Saturday's Iowa GOP straw poll won't be known until sometime after 6 p.m. But you'll be able to hazard a good guess hours earlier simply by eye-balling the crowd gathered in and around the Hilton Coliseum at Iowa State University.
Iowa Caucuses:
Gay teen who heckled Bachmann speaks  —  Gabe Aderhold, left, argues with a man from the audience today who told him he was “out of line.”  (The Register)  —  Gabe Aderhold said before heckling Michele Bachmann at today's Iowa State Fair that his mission was to help educate the representative …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and ThinkProgress
Niall Stanage / Ballot Box:
Perry's entrance to shake up the Republican presidential field  —  The battle for the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nomination will be altered dramatically Saturday when Gov. Rick Perry (Texas) announces he is entering the race.  —  Perry's declaration is expected to come in a 1 p.m. speech …
Discussion: CNN
Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Fried food and retail politics at the Iowa State Fair
Discussion: emptywheel and Radio Iowa
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Joe Scarborough's Brutally Honest Take on Michele Bachmann: “She Is A Joke”
A.Killough / CNN:
Santorum: Poor results Saturday could doom prez bid
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Great Deflation  —  Like a leaky balloon, Barack Obama keeps getting smaller.  —  (Best of the tube this weekend: Watch us on a Lou Dobbs special, “Global Market Chaos,” Sunday 8-9 p.m. ET on Fox Business.  We'll be on the political panel toward the end of the program.)
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
11th Circuit strikes down Obamacare mandate  —  This is the big case involving 26 states.  In January, Judge Roger Vinson struck the entire law finding that the mandate could not be severed from the rest of the law.  —  The 11th Circuit ruled that the mandate was unconstitutional …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Eleventh Circuit's Affordable Care Act Decision Cannot Be Squared With The Constitution
Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
Part of ‘Obamacare’ Ruled Unconstitutional
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Attack on Althouse at the Wisconsin Capitol singalong.  —  As discussed in an earlier post, a man attacked me today at the Capitol.  We captured the assault on 2 different cameras, and I'm not editing the material together (at least not at this point).  First, here's what Meade got on the Flip camera.
Discussion: JSOnline and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
To defuse ‘flash’ protest, BART cuts riders' cell service.  Is that legal?  —  To forestall a planned protest, Bay Area Rapid Transit turned off cellphone service, angering passengers and raising questions about First Amendment rights in an age of social media protests.  —  Atlanta
Discussion: Daily Kos and DownWithTyranny!
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Eve Batey / SF Appeal:
BART Officer Contradicts Spokesperson, Says Transit Agency Did Block Cell Phone Service Thursday Night
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
New York Times:
Faltering Rhode Island City Tests Vows to Pensioners  —  When the small, beleaguered city of Central Falls, R.I., filed for bankruptcy this month, it sought to cut the pension checks it has been sending its retired police officers, firefighters and other workers by as much as half.
Norman Podhoretz / Wall Street Journal:
What Happened to Obama?  Absolutely Nothing.  —  He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president.  —  It's open season on President Obama.  Which is to say that the usual suspects on the right (among whom I include myself) are increasingly being joined …
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
Guardian:
Shepard Fairey beaten up after spat over controversial Danish mural  —  Artist best known for the posters that helped elect Barack Obama is accused of peddling pro-government propaganda  —  When graffiti artist Shepard Fairey turned his talents to US politics, his reward was international acclaim …
George's Bottom Line:
David Axelrod: Rick Perry Has a ‘Record of Decimation’  —  That's what the Obama campaign's top political strategist told me this morning when I asked him about the latest 2012 candidate, Rick Perry.  The Texas Governor made it clear his campaign will focus on his state's record of job growth …
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David Brody / The Brody File:
Sarah Palin and The Brody File One-On-One at Iowa State Fair  —  Sarah Palin came over and agreed to do a one-on-one interview with me at the Iowa State Fair Friday afternoon.  Just her and me.  This took place during her private lunch reception.  I asked her to come over and talk with me and she did.
Discussion: The Hill
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Standard and Poors punctures Michele Bachmann's blissful fantasy  —  Wow, what colossally bad timing.  Here's Michele Bachmann at the debate last night, insisting that the Standard and Poors downgrade proved that she was right to oppose raising the debt ceiling:
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Joseph Pleasant / WATE-TV:
Music teacher caught having sex with doll outside school  —  SPRING HILL, Tenn. - Police in Spring Hill arrested a local music teacher Thursday morning after he was caught engaging in a sex act with a doll outside a local elementary school.  —  Officers were called to Allendale Elementary School …
Lemkin:
Cokie's Law vs. Social Security  —  Dean Baker at Beat the Press: … This is exactly right.  All this nonsense about S&P's downgrade “causing” movement in the US stock market (which, as far as the MSM is concerned, is entirely comprised of the Dow Jones index) is wrong.  Foolish, even.
Discussion: Blue Gal
A.Killough / CNN:
Romney wealth valued up to $250 million  —  (CNN) - The turbulent financial climate of recent years has not had a noticeable impact on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's own wallet, according to personal financial information released Friday by his campaign.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Mitt Romney worth up to $250 million
Discussion: The Note and New York Magazine
The Atlantic Online:
The Case for Calling Them Nitwits  —  They blow each other up by mistake.  They bungle even simple schemes.  They get intimate with cows and donkeys.  Our terrorist enemies trade on the perception that they're well trained and religiously devout, but in fact, many are fools and perverts …
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Jennifer S. Bryson / Public Discourse:
Pornography and National Security
Discussion: Hullabaloo and alicublog
 
 
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Reuters:
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Matt Bai's Mystical Powers
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Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
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Charles Krauthammer / National Review:
The System Works  —  Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Betsy's Page