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2:45 AM ET, September 28, 2011

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Jbfrank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Perdue suggests suspending Congressional elections for two years — was she serious?  —  UPDATED: File this in the random-things-politicians-say file.  —  Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Democrats Emerge From Closet, Oppose Democracy  —  How many Democrats are National Socialists at heart?  Quite a few, I suspect, and every now and then the Democrats' totalitarian urges break through to the surface.  Thus, we have the Governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, suggesting that we …
Discussion: Instapundit and Hit & Run
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Five Things Conservative Voters Would Hate About Chris Christie  —  Did you hear the news?  Chris Christie is going to save the Republicans from Rick Perry, who was supposed to save them from Mitt Romney but turned out to be a completely inept debater and a traitor on issues like illegal immigration …
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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Perry's Not the Only GOP Star to Support Tuition Breaks for Illegal Immigrants' Kids  —  GOP immigration debate shows rift between party establishment and conservative grassroots.  —  Ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended Texas Gov. Rick Perry's policy for children of illegal immigrants.
Discussion: The Shark Tank and National Review
Fox News:
Sources: Christie Definitely a ‘No’ for 2012  —  Chris Christie say he has finally made a definitive decision, once and for all, not to run for president in 2012, sources close to the New Jersey governor told Fox News on Tuesday.  —  Despite the intensity that has heightened in recent days …
Chris Megerian / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie won't enter presidential race, his brother insists
Ari Fleischer / CNN:
It's too late for Chris Christie to run
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Christie source: Run still possible
Discussion: CNN and New York Magazine
Daniel Howes / Detroit News:
Ford pulls its ad on bailouts  —  'Didn't take the money' boast ruffles feathers  —  For the only Detroit automaker that “didn't take the money” of the federal auto bailouts, Ford Motor Co. keeps paying a price for its comparative success and self-reliant turnaround.
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Germany slams ‘stupid’ US plans to boost EU rescue fund  —  Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a “stupid idea” and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others.
Discussion: Business Insider
Michelle Malkin:
Chicago on the Potomac: White House reportedly takes Ford to woodshed over anti-bailout ad …
Discussion: LaborUnionReport.com
Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street  —  Straw Poll on Direct Action (photo: Collin David Anderson)  —  Over the past ten days, hundreds of people have occupied Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in New York as part of Occupy Wall Street.
Discussion: NPR, Jesus' General and The Raw Story
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Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR:
Newsworthy? Determining the Importance of Protests on Wall Street
Discussion: Wonkette and Concurring Opinions
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
O-bummer!  MTV tunes out prez campaign  —  President Obama's re-election campaign wants to connect with young Americans and reached out recently to MTV for help — but the cable network turned them down, sources tell The Post.  —  The president's Get Out the Vote campaign, run by Buffy Wicks …
Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and Don Surber
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Blacks leave Obama  —  Behind the president's whining to the Black Caucus, begging them to “quit grumbling,” is a decline in his personal popularity among African-American voters that could portend catastrophe for his fading reelection chances.  —  According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey …
Discussion: The Politico
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
‘Nightmare’ in Libya: 20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing  —  U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner.  —  But now that calculation is out the window …
America Live / Fox News Insider:
Megyn Kelly Responds to ‘The View’ Co-Host Joy Behar's Interview With VP Joe Biden on “Boo-ing” in Fox News/Google Debate After Gay Soldier Asks Question  —  On Tuesday's episode of the talk show “The View,” co-host Joy Behar asked guest Vice President Joe Biden about “booing” …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Financial Times:
Split opens over Greek bail-out terms  —  By Peter Spiegel in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Berlin  —  A split has opened in the eurozone over the terms of Greece's second €109bn bail-out with as many as seven of the bloc's 17 members arguing for private creditors to swallow a bigger writedown …
Wall Street Journal:
As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines  —  For centuries, a bedrock principle of criminal law has held that people must know they are doing something wrong before they can be found guilty.  The concept is known as mens rea, Latin for a “guilty mind.”
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House GOP wants to cash out dollar bill  —  Several House Republicans have introduced legislation to retire the dollar bill and replace it with a mandated dollar coin.  A couple of senators, however, have introduced a competing measure to protect the paper dollar from, as they say, the “unpopular one dollar coin.”
Brad Friedman / Salon:
Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control  —  Exclusive: A laboratory shows how an e-voting machine used by a third of all voters can be easily manipulated  —  It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date.  —  Voting machines used by as many as a quarter …
WCVB-TV:
Protesters Greet Former Defense Secretary  —  1 Arrest Made At Old Meeting House Event  —  BOSTON — Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got a rude welcome in Boston Monday night as he promoted his new book.  —  Several protesters tried to disrupt a forum with Rumsfeld …
Discussion: Examiner and Crooks and Liars
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood Abortion Business  —  A Congressional committee has taken the first steps in investigating the Planned Parenthood abortion business over abuses ranging from financial disparities to its compliance with federal regulations on taxpayer funding to concerns …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems hammer GOP's Planned Parenthood funding probe
Hoover Institution:
Obama's Jobs Bill: Read It and Weep  —  by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)  —  An infernal mish-mash of taxes, subsidies, and regulations.  —  The dim news about the current economic situation …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Rick Perry's Revisionist Take On The Original Tea Party  —  In a move reminiscent of Sarah Palin's infamous revisionist take on Paul Revere's midnight ride, Rick Perry doesn't seem to actually know what the original Tea Party of the 1770s was about:  —  Contrary to Perry's assertion …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Wonkette
Alexander Mooney / The 1600 Report:
Oops!  White House fails basic geography test  —  Looks like someone in the White House press office needs to brush up on his or her U.S. geography.  —  The press office issued credentials to those reporters and photojournalists who are covering the president's trip this week to Washington state, California, and Colorado.
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Report: Consumers spent less, earned less in 2010  —  Government survey shows consumer spending and incomes fell for 2nd straight year in 2010  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers earned less and spent less for a second straight year in 2010.  The government report released Tuesday offered …
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Billionaire Owner of Washington Wizards Wants Obama to Stop Calling Him Rich  —  Pictured: Ted Leonsis watches his s**tty basketball team while simultaneously carrying the nation on his back.  —  Looks like Ted Leonsis, the billionaire who owns the Washington Wizards, got his fee-fees hurt …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The NRA's self-parody  —  It can't be easy for the National Rifle Association right now.  They have, to a very real extent, simply won the larger debate.  It's over — no one is working on gun control legislation.  President Obama, considered by the NRA to be a terrible threat, has actually expanded gun rights.
Los Angeles Times:
‘Ben-Hur’ to get belated 50th-anniversary release on disc  —  The 1959 film from William Wyler, which won 11 Oscars including best picture, will have remastered DVD and Blu-ray editions with plenty of extras.  —  William Wyler's 1959 epic, “Ben-Hur,” which dominated the Academy Awards in winning 11 Oscars …
Discussion: Power Line and Big Hollywood
Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
Heckler Screamed ‘Anti-Christ’ At Obama Before Being Whisked Away  —  A heckler disrupted opening remarks President Obama was giving at a House of Blues event in Los Angeles Monday night.  —  Obama had just told the event's master of ceremonies Tyler Ferguson, an actor on the TV show Modern Family …
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
The Most Radical Anti-Abortion Measure in America  —  Due to the handiwork of a fringe religious activist, Mississippians will soon vote on a ballot initiative that would ban abortion in cases of rape and incest.  —  Post Comment  —  The most controversial item on the Mississippi ballot …
New York Times:
Health Insurers Seek Higher Premiums  —  Major health insurance companies have been charging sharply higher premiums this year, outstripping any growth in workers' wages and creating more uncertainty for the Obama administration and employers who are struggling to drive down an unrelenting rise in medical costs.
 
 
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
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David Nir / Daily Kos:
Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation Poll: Huge support for Buffett Rule
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Agence France Presse:
US ‘deeply disappointed’ by Israel settler homes plan
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Shantal Parris Riley / poughkeepsiejournal.com:
Archbishop Dolan speaks out against same-sex marriage
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Matt O'Brien / The New Republic:
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Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
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Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Three reasons the White House is taking health reform straight to Supreme Court