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9:30 AM ET, September 12, 2011

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CNN:
New CNN Poll: Perry on top when it comes to electability  —  Tampa, Florida (CNN) - Hours before the start of the first-ever CNN/Tea Party Republican debate, a new national survey indicates that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is maintaining his lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Pawlenty endorses Romney  —  Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty endorsed Mitt Romney for president Monday, praising his onetime rival for his “leadership ability” and the “depth and scope of [his] private-sector experience.”  —  “I believe he's going to be our party's nominee,” Pawlenty said on …
Discussion: Mediaite and Outside the Beltway
Rick Perry / USA Today:
I am going to be honest with the American people  —  The first step to fixing a problem is honestly admitting there is a problem.  America's goal must be to fix Social Security by making it more financially sound and sustainable for the long term.  But Americans deserve a frank and honest discussion …
New York Times:
Muted in Last Debate, Bachmann Looks to Rejoin Conversation
Discussion: CNN, The Politico and National Review
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Turner poised for big upset  —  Republican Bob Turner is poised to pull a huge upset in the race to replace Anthony Weiner as the Congressman from New York's 9th Congressional District.  He leads Democrat David Weprin 47-41 with Socialist Workers candidate Christopher Hoeppner at 4% and 7% of voters remaining undecided.
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
A post 9/11 return to normalcy — Romney attacks labor — GOP surging in NY-9, NV-2—RNC to step up Solyndra attacks—Previewing tonight's Tampa debate—DNC ad campaign boosts Obama jobs plan  —  SNEAK PEEK - ROMNEY TACKLES LABOR: Mitt Romney's campaign will release a new web video later …
Tim Pawlenty / National Review:
My Endorsement: Mitt Romney for President  —  Great crises often produce great leaders.  Unfortunately, sometimes the timing isn't right, and neither is the leader.  —  Barack Obama came into office in the midst of a great economic crisis.  Although hopes were high, he did not rise to the occasion.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
An Impeccable Disaster  —  On Thursday Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank or E.C.B. — Europe's equivalent to Ben Bernanke — lost his sang-froid.  In response to a question about whether the E.C.B. is becoming a “bad bank” thanks to its purchases of troubled nations' debt …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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New York Times:
Financial Crisis in Europe Is Flaring Again  —  Fears about Europe's deteriorating finances intensified on Sunday as new doubts about the health of French banks, as well as Germany's willingness to help Greece avert default, left investors bracing for another global stock market downturn this week.
Wolfgang Munchau / Financial Times:
Stop rejoicing. This was no victory for the eurozone
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Winning ugly  —  By all appearances, Republicans are poised to win tomorrow's special election in New York's 9th, a seat left vacant by Anthony Weiner's resignation.  It's generally a Democratic stronghold, making the likely GOP victory quite surprising.  —  There are plenty of factors at play …
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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
In Cheney's memoir, it's clear Iraq's lessons didn't sink in  —  A key lesson of the 9/11 decade for presidents and other national security decision makers is the importance of rigorously testing intelligence evidence: poking holes in it, setting out contradictions, figuring out what may have been overlooked or left out.
Discussion: The Politico and Daily Kos
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Ronald Kessler / NewsMax.com:   Cheney to Newsmax: Israel Will Attack a ‘Nuclear’ Iran
Daily Mail:
100 protesters burn American flag outside U.S. embassy in London during minute's silence for 9/11  —  Protesters set fire to the U.S. flag outside the American embassy in London today during a minute's silence to mark the moment the first hijacked airliner hit the World Trade Centre.
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Janny Scott / New York Times:
In Tapes, Candid Talk by Young Kennedy Widow  —  In the early days of the Cuban missile crisis, before the world knew that the cold war seemed to be sliding toward nuclear conflict, President John F. Kennedy telephoned his wife, Jacqueline, at their weekend house in Virginia.
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Explosion at French nuclear waste plant  —  One worker reported dead in blast at Marcoule nuclear waste processing site in southern France  —  One person has been reported killed and four injured in an explosion at a nuclear waste processing plant in France.
Daily Mail:
U.S. backs move to let Taliban open headquarters in Qatar in the hope of ending war in Afghanistan  —  Talks to end the 10-year war in Afghanistan could be on the horizon after the U.S. backed a plan to let the Taliban open political headquarters in the Middle East.
Ynetnews:
Was Iran behind 9/11?  —  US lawsuit charges that Iran, Hezbollah involved in facilitation of September 11 attacks.  Ynetnews presents special report about dramatic revelations that could change everything we knew about 9/11  —  Ronen Bergman  —  Commission members didn't know what to do.
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Heidi Avellan / Worldmeets.us:
After September 11, We ‘Lost What We Wanted to Defend’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
CTV.ca:
77 U.S. troops wounded in attack on Afghan base
Brent Baker / NewsBusters.org:
Flashback: ‘Bastard in the Sand’ Parody Sung by Martin Short Accompanied by the ‘Singing Navy SEALS’
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and Nice Deb
John Eligon / New York Times:
Larceny Trial of John Haggerty Could Hurt Bloomberg
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Redistricting sparks big-time feuds
 Earlier Items: 
Janet Daley / Telegraph:
9/11: The dark day that brought out the worst in Britain
Discussion: National Review
ABCNEWS:
9/11 Flights of Fancy Lead to Moments of Fear
Washington Post:
Steven Pearlstein  —  The magical world of voodoo ‘economists’
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The covert commander in chief
 

 
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