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4:50 PM ET, August 19, 2011

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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: ‘Idiot’ jab lobbed at Perry  —  (CNN) - Former Treasury official Bruce Bartlett labeled newly-minted Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry “an idiot” Friday.  —  Bartlett, who served at Treasury under former President George H.W. Bush and as a domestic policy adviser …
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Paul Waldman / TAPPED:
Rick Perry Talks About Sex  —  We sure are talking about Rick Perry a lot.  But why stop now — he's not only new, but interesting in ways that some of his opponents aren't.  Jonathan Chait brings us this video of Perry seemingly flummoxed when confronted with the fact that his preferred policy …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Perry, parties, and pragmatism  —  This fascinating clip made the rounds yesterday, and with good reason.  To get a sense of how Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) evaluates evidence, it's an illustrative three minutes.  —  I can't find a full transcript, but to offer a flavor …
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Bank of America's Dead Drop To Rick Perry: “We Will Help You Out”  —  Should we be surprised, frightened, disgusted or simply say “we knew it”, that in the informal mixer just after Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry spoke at a Politics and Eggs breakfast in Bedford …
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Palin Agrees With Perry About ‘Treasonous’ Fed Chair: ‘Perhaps I Would Have Used Similar Terms’
Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
Michelle's Separate Travel Costs Taxpayers Thousands  —  Michelle Obama and President Obama traveled to Martha's Vineyard just hours apart, costing taxpayers thousands in additional expenses so she could have just a bit of extra vacation time.  —  Mrs. Obama and her daughters arrived …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
White House releases picture of Obama being briefed at Martha's Vineyard
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Wall Street Journal:
The President's Island Retreat
Discussion: Althouse and Betsy's Page
Sarah Palin / SarahPAC:
Thank You, Iowa!  —  A week later we are still remembering all the great patriotic Iowans we met at the state fair.  We are also still trying to work off that delicious fried butter on a stick and red velvet funnel cake.  I look forward to being back in Iowa in Indianola on September 3rd.
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Des Moines Register:
Iowa Politics Insider: Palin event switches site to handle crowd
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Palin out with new video targeting Iowa
Discussion: The Politico
Aaron Glantz / New York Times:
Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises  —  Flanked by a cadre of local political leaders, Mayor Chuck Reed of San Jose used a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a solar power company last week to talk up the promise of the green economy.  —  Mr. Reed called the opening of the new headquarters …
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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Key Dems: Obama's ‘green jobs’ plan a bust
JSOnline:
Feingold says he won't run in 2012  —  He'll continue teaching law, working on book  —  By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel  —  Democrat Russ Feingold has decided he will not be a candidate for political office next year, taking himself out of the running in 2012 for either U.S. senator …
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New York Post:
Parking ‘squat’  —  Eleven years ago, Charles Mysak snagged a primo parking spot on the corner of Columbus Avenue and 68th Street — and he hasn't budged since.  —  The sidewalk bookseller keeps his inventory piled up in the beat up green '94 Civic, held partially together with duct tape …
Bruce Horovitz / USA Today:
Burger King freshens fast-food image, kicks King to the curb  —  In the first of many steps to reinvent itself over the next year, the struggling fast-feeder Friday will announce that it's dethroning the creepy King character — and other wacky, teen-targeting stuff — and refocusing on a customer it had all but forgotten: Mom.
Daily Mail:
Teen girl gang assaults woman in brazen daylight attack outside Philadelphia City Hall  —  An astonishing video has emerged of a vicious gang of teenage girls assaulting a female pedestrian as she walks outside a city hall in broad daylight.  —  The woman, who has not been named …
Discussion: American Power and UrbanGrounds
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Bad luck?  Bad faith?  —  “We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. .   . .  But over the last six months, we've had a run of bad luck.”  —  Decorah, Iowa, Aug. 15  —  A troubled nation wonders: How did we get mired in 9.1 percent unemployment …
Discussion: The New Republic and Betsy's Page
Memphis Commercial Appeal:
West Memphis Three  — WEST MEMPHIS 3 - TITANS TRAINING CAMP - OVERTON SQUARE - THE EARLY YEARS - BASTED DAYS AND PASTED NIGHTS  —  All members of the West Memphis Three will be released today after pleading guilty to first-degree murder charges in the 1993 deaths of three West Memphis 8-year-olds.
Discussion: The Daily What
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:   Deal Frees ‘West Memphis Three’ in Arkansas
Julie Na / ABCNEWS:
Thousands Camp Out for Job Fair as Jobless Rate Rises  —  Thousands of unemployed waited overnight, camping out in their business suits and office heels and braving the tormenting heat in Atlanta to stand in line for a job fair Thursday.  Authorities treated 20 people for heat exhaustion …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary  —  Technical information:  —  Employment: (202) 691-6559 * sminfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/sae  —  Unemployment: (202) 691-6392 * lausinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/lau  —  Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / Healthwatch:
VIDEO: Herman Cain says he'd ‘be dead’ under ‘ObamaCare’  —  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said he would “be dead” if “ObamaCare” had been in place when he was diagnosed with cancer.  —  Speaking at a campaign event Thursday in Lexington, S.C., the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Liberal Values
Pat Dooris / KGW-TV:
DeFazio says Obama lacks will to fight, may lose Oregon  —  EUGENE, Ore. - Oregon Congressman Peter Defazio is traveling around his district and leveling verbal body blows at President Obama.  —  In his Eugene office Wednesday, Defazio accused the President of lacking the will to fight for the promises he made to get elected.
Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
Team Pawlenty awaits decision from Chris Christie  —  Since Tim Pawlenty ended his bid for the presidency last Sunday, his former staffers and key fundraisers have held off from endorsing another candidate or moving to another campaign.  There's a reason.  —  Team Pawlenty is waiting …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Race 4 2012
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama's Base Problem  —  There's been plenty of bad news for Barack Obama this month in the form of his approval numbers, but our polling finds that his problems go deeper than that.  Democratic enthusiasm about voting in next year's election has hit a record low this month.
Paul Krugman:
Awesome Wrongness  —  I hear that there was some action in the markets yesterday.  But we were too busy sipping champagne at the Nobel Museum to care.  —  OK, seriously: things are looking really terrible, And crucially, they're looking terrible in the wrong way, at least if you wanted …
Discussion: The Confluence
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
A prime aim of the growing Surveillance State  —  Several weeks ago, a New York Times article by Noam Cohen examined the case of Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old copyright reform advocate who was arrested in July, after allegedly downloading academic articles that had been placed behind a paywall …
Kevin Baron / Stars & Stripes:
Panetta: Iraq has already said yes to extended U.S. presence  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that Iraq has already said yes to extending noncombat U.S. forces there beyond 2011, and that the Pentagon is negotiating that presence.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bachmann on why she worked for IRS: “First rule of war is ‘know your enemy’”  —  This is fun.  Michele Bachmann, on the campaign trail today, offered what seems to be a new explanation for her previous work as a lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service, something that has drawn some ire from the right.
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Obama's Approval Has Dropped 36 Points Among Hispanics, Says Gallup  —  (CNSNews.com) - Only 49 percent of Hispanic Americans said last week they approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, according to the Gallup poll.  That is down 36 points from the high of 85 percent …
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Beer and Neoliberalism Redux
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Economy & Budget:
Is defense spending really on the chopping block?
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Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
Why Americans Hate Economics
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Biden to China: ‘You have nothing to worry about’ on US debt
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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James Pethokoukis:
Obama faces worst-case 2012 scenario
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New York Post:
Why Bam's doomed  —  Unless something extraordinarily dramatic …
Discussion: Politics
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Woman disables anti-Islam websites
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Michael C. Bender / St. Petersburg Times:
Gov. Rick Scott's original transition e-mails accidentally deleted, state now says
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Mortgage Rates Hit 50-Year Low
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