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12:40 PM ET, September 27, 2011

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Karen McVeigh / Guardian:
Occupy Wall Street: ‘Pepper-spray’ officer named in Bush protest claim  —  Anthony Bologna, NYPD officer named in pepper-spray incident, is accused of civil rights violations at the time of the 2004 Republican national convention protests  —  A senior New York police officer accused …
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DealBook:
Goldman Sachs Draws Up Deeper Cuts  —  Goldman Sachs, bracing for what could be one of its worst quarters since it went public 12 years ago, is preparing to expand its cost-cutting initiative by hundreds of millions of dollars, a move that could lead to additional job losses at the Wall Street bank.
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Wall Street Demonstrations Test Police Trained for Bigger Threats  —  When members of the loose protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street began a march from the financial district to Union Square on Saturday, the participants seemed relatively harmless, even as they were breaking the law by marching in the street without a permit.
Bloomberg:
Romney Lures Obama Wall Street Donors in Race for Campaign Cash
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Politics
Ben White / The Politico:
Obama out West: Opens slashing re-election effort …
Discussion: Business Insider
Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
Obama advisors raised warning flags before Solyndra bankruptcy  —  Treasury chief Timothy F. Geithner and others were worried that the selection process for federal loan guarantees fell short and raised the risk that funds could be going to the wrong firms.  —  Reporting from Washington …
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and Washington Post
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Washington Post:
The birthing of Solyndra  —  Solyndra is trying to rival her big sister Katrina's ability to make the federal government look incompetent.  But whose baby is she?  —  Since the solar-energy company went belly-up a few weeks ago — leaving taxpayers on the hook for $535 million in loan guarantees …
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Critic of Obama clean-energy loans lobbied Energy Department
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and The Politico
Shushannah Walshe / Politics:
Sarah Palin Threatens to Sue ‘Rogue’ Book Publisher  —  Sarah Palin's family attorney John Tiemessen has written a letter to Maya Mavjee, the publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, that Palin may sue her, the company, and the book's author Joe McGinniss …
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Burgess Everett / The Politico:
McGinniss attacks media over alleged snubs
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Palin ‘on the Verge’ of a Decision About Presidential Run
Discussion: GOP 12
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Huntsman: ‘We are going to focus singularly on New Hampshire’  —  Washington (CNN) - Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman on Tuesday confirmed what has become an open secret in Republican circles: that his campaign is pinning its hopes on a strong showing in the crucial early primary state of New Hampshire.
Discussion: Washington Wire
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Huntsman Spot in Oct. 18 Debate Endangered  —  Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah, has been in every presidential debate since he threw his hat in the ring last June.  —  Now, that may change.  —  CNN, which is hosting a debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 18, has set criteria for participation …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Wealthy, Influential and Pushing a Christie Bid for President  —  They are rich.  They are unattached.  They are looking for a little excitement.  —  Meet the Draft Christie committee, a small but influential group of Republican-leaning donors and activists, many based in New York …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
MSNBC Is Close to Falling to Third Place in Cable News Ratings  —  How badly has MSNBC been hurt by the loss of Keith Olbermann?  Enough, apparently, to be on the verge of falling back into third place among the cable news networks.  —  The ratings results for the month of September show that CNN …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Lost Decade?  —  If you want a big swig of despair, listen to the people who know something about the global economy.  Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary, is arguing that America and Europe are on the verge of a disastrous double-dip recession.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate leaders announce bipartisan agreement to avert government shutdown  —  Senate leaders announced a bipartisan agreement Monday evening that would keep government agencies funded until Nov. 18, potentially ending a contentious dispute over how to pay for disaster funds.
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Gail Russell Chaddock / Christian Science Monitor:
Government shutdown averted: Why did Congress get this close?
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Agonist
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Republicans Can Win, but They Can't Lead  —  ORLANDO — Jon Huntsman, poor dear, truly is a lost soul.  He came here this weekend, for the Florida presidential debate and the ensuing straw poll, running what appeared to be a complicated simulacrum of a national presidential campaign.
Julie Mason / The Politico:
POTUS testy in BET interview  —  Making the cross face: Obama sits down with Emmett Miller  —  President Obama, slipping in the polls among black supporters and under fire from black Democratic leaders for policies they say fail to address black poverty and unemployment …
Teds Take:
Class Warfare - Yuck!  —  Let me get this on the record.  —  My dad was a waiter.  My mom was a secretary.  Neither attended college.  I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and Lowell, Massachusetts.  I attended public schools.  My parents - in their best year - earned $31,000 combined.
Discussion: National Review and Hot Air
NY Daily News:
Bible-thumping heckler identified as David Serrano calls President Obama ‘the Antichrist’  —  A bizarre Bible-thumping heckler called President Obama “the Antichrist” as the Secret Service dragged him out of a presidential fund-raiser Monday.  —  The bearded young man …
Wall Street Journal:
Blue-State Math Is Boon to Obama, Target for GOP  —  Amid those dark political clouds overhead right now, President Barack Obama can console himself with this silver lining: The electoral map remains stacked in favor of him and his Democrats.  —  In a close presidential election …
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
BBC:
Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban  —  Saudi women will soon be allowed to vote but driving remains a banned activity  —  A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the country's ban on female drivers.  —  The woman, identified only as Shema, was found guilty of driving in Jeddah in July.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Decision on health-care law means Supreme Court will likely determine constitutionality next summer  —  The constitutionality of the 2010 health-care law will likely be determined by the Supreme Court this term, meaning the decision could come next summer in the thick of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Shira Schoenberg / Boston Globe:
Obama aide Axelrod acknowledges hurdles to president's reelection  —  GOFFSTOWN , N.H.- With a still-foundering economy and Americans increasingly fed up with the government, President Obama's top campaign strategist today acknowledged the difficulties the incumbent president will face.
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Business Insider
Paul Krugman:
Stimulus Tales  —  Dean Baker is upset with David Brooks — not for the first time.  Let me just put in a word here.  —  The story of Keynesian economists and the Obama stimulus, as anyone who's been reading me knows, runs as follows: When information about the planned stimulus began emerging …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Super Committee's Cuts Anything But Automatic … WASHINGTON — The 12-member super committee created to slash the federal deficit is powered by the threat that if it doesn't come up with $1.2 trillion in savings, automatic, across-the-board cuts will be instituted to reach that same goal, with half of those cuts hitting the Pentagon.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Eschaton
 
 
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