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7:50 AM ET, September 14, 2011

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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Republican Bob Turner wins New York special election  —  Businessman Bob Turner (R) defeated state Assemblyman David Weprin (D) in the special election for the House seat held by former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (D).  —  Turner's victory is regarded as an upset given the Democratic history …
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Republicans win Weiner's seat  —  Republican Bob Turner won former Rep. Anthony Weiner's (D-N.Y.) House seat on Tuesday, a bad sign for President Obama and down-ticket Democrats heading into next year's election.  —  Turner was leading Democrat David Weprin by 53 percent to 47 percent …
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
GOP Wins in NY House Race, Seen as Obama Rebuke  —  Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that started as a contest to replace Rep. Anthony Weiner after he resigned in a sexting scandal but became a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic policies.
Washington Post:
Republican wins Democratic New York House seat  —  With the outcome of his own reelection effort 14 difficult months away, President Obama suffered a sharp rebuke Tuesday when voters in New York elected a conservative Republican to represent a Democratic district that has not been in GOP hands since the 1920s.
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
In NY-9 special election, Dems race to stave off an upset  —  NEW YORK - Democrats here spent Tuesday in the final throes of a frantic, last-ditch effort to stave off a loss in the special election race to replace Anthony Weiner.  —  Democrat David Weprin, trailing Republican Bob Turner in multiple polls …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Politics
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
NY-09 Results (AP Calls Race for Republican)(Victory Song and Tweet of Night added)  —  I know you wanted the Official Legal Insurrection Victory Dance, or at least a little celebratory dance.  But as mentioned earlier in the night, this district was heavily Jewish and Asian, so we will go to song:
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
GOP coasts to victory in Nevada race
Discussion: The Politico
The Politico:
Twin defeats spark Democratic fears
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
For Democrats, It's 2010 All Over Again
The Atlantic Online:
Bob Turner Wins New York 09 Special Election
Discussion: PolitickerNY, Israpundit and Ballot Box
Henry I. Miller / National Review:
Gardasil and the GOP  —  More than an hour into last night's debate, Rep. Michele Bachmann attacked Gov. Rick Perry on the HPV vaccination controversy — or more accurately pseudo-controversy.  It stems from an executive order issued by Perry in 2007 that required all Texas girls to receive Gardasil …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Perry ‘taken aback’ by debate crowd reaction  —  TAMPA, FL — The morning after a sometimes-rocky appearance in front of a Tea Party debate audience, Gov. Rick Perry said he was “taken aback” by cheers from some crowd members on a hypothetical question of whether a young man who decides …
Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media:
Sarah Palin's Alaska Took Federal Funds to Increase Access to Gardasil
Ben Howe / RedState:
Bachmann Stayed Quiet on Mandatory Vaccinations While Serving Minnesota
ABCNEWS:
Emails: Obama White House Monitored Huge Loan to ‘Connected’ Firm  —  Chris Gronet, right, talks about solar technology with President Barack Obama on a tour of the Solyndra solar panel company, in this May 26, 2010 file photo, in Fremont, Calif. (Paul Chinn/Pool/Getty Images)
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Washington Post:
White House pressed on $500 million loan to solar company now under investigation  —  The Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval …
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
WH Pressured OMB on Solyndra Decision
The Hill:
House GOP widening scope of Solyndra probe, wants answers from White House
Discussion: The Politico
Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:
Obama Approval Plummets on Jobs Plan: Poll  —  A majority of Americans don't believe President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan will help lower the unemployment rate, skepticism he must overcome as he presses Congress for action and positions himself for re- election.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: President gets no bounce from speech, but disapproval rating peaks
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann: U.S. Immigration ‘Worked Very, Very Well’ Under The Asian Exclusion Act  —  Under Bachmann's Immigration Policy, Lt. Hikaru Sulu Would Not Be Allowed In The United States  —  In 1924, Congress passed a package of immigration laws — including the National Origins Act …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:   West to Bachmann: Everglades are off limits
Bill Schneider / Reuters:
It's Perry vs. New Deal  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry made his views pretty clear at the CNN-Tea Party Express debate Monday when he told Mitt Romney, “If what you're trying to say is that back in the '30s and '40s that the federal government made all the right decisions, I disagree with you.”
Discussion: CNN
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Jaime Fuller / TAPPED:
Today in SAT Prep: Romney Is to Clinton as Perry Is to Obama
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Obama's bill makes it illegal to discriminate against unemployed  —  President Obama's American Jobs Act, which he presented to Congress on Monday, would make it illegal for employers to run advertisements saying that they will not consider unemployed workers, or to refuse to consider or hire people because they are unemployed.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Wisconsin unions start feeding on each other  —  If you want a good measure of how deeply the collective bargaining bill in Wisconsin has disrupted public sector unions, there is no better example than the Wisconsins Education Association Council (WEAC).  —  Last month WEAC announced that it was laying off 40% of its staff.
Todd Gregory / Media Matters for America:
Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip  —  In the annals of mindless partisan sniping, this may place at the top.  —  This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip.  Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Gawker and Wonkette
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Connecting the Dots: How the Left Works  —  We wrote here and in several follow-up posts about the New York Times's outrageous front-page smear of Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  Times reporter Eric Lichtblau falsely accused Issa of using his Congressional office to enrich himself.
Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Time for Germany to make its fateful choice  —  “Perhaps future historians will consider Maastricht a decisive step towards the emergence of a stable, European-wide power.  Yet there is another, darker possibility ... The effort to bind states together may lead, instead, to a huge increase in frictions among them.
Terry L. Jones / Opinionator:
The Terrifying Tigers  —  Lt. Col. Charles de Choiseul was not a happy man.  It was September 1861, and de Choiseul, a well-educated French Creole, had been ordered to take temporary command of Maj. Chatham Roberdeau Wheat's First Special Battalion of Louisiana Infantry while Wheat recovered …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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Judicial Watch:
DOJ Protects Teachers With Unacceptable English Skills
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Paul Krugman:
The Problem With Quasi-Monetarism  —  This seems to be a methodology Tuesday (oh well)!
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
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