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5:35 PM ET, September 29, 2011

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Perry Slumps in Polls, but Not to Romney's Gain  —  There have been three scientific national polls released of Republican voters since the Sept. 22 debate: a CNN poll that was conducted over the last weekend, and polls by Fox News and Economist/YouGov released on Wednesday.
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David Frum / The Week Magazine:
Why the GOP should embrace Mitt Romney
Discussion: Pajamas Media and FrumForum
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Huckabee to Interview Romney on His Show
Discussion: The Daily Caller and GOP 12
Serena Williams / The Onion:
Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage  —  WASHINGTON—Brandishing shotguns and semiautomatic pistols, members of the 112th U.S. Congress took a class of visiting schoolchildren hostage this morning, barricading themselves inside the Capitol rotunda, where they remain at press time.
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Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
The Onion's tweets about Capitol gunfire prompt panic, mockery  —  The Onion, a satirical news Web site and newspaper known for its ability to elicit peals of laughter, isn't getting too many guffaws on this one.  The site tweeted Thursday:  —  The site also posted the news to its Facebook page.
Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
Onion takes heat from Capitol Police after tweets about gunfire
Discussion: The Politico and The Hill
Maya Rodriguez / WWL-TV:
Anti-Obama sign in Uptown neighborhood draws controversy  —  NEW ORLEANS — There are several political signs attracting all kinds of attention in one Uptown neighborhood.  —  On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the corner of Calhoun and Coralie streets, looking at several signs depicting President Barack Obama …
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Michelle Malkin:
Adventures in liberal tolerance, part 999,901  —  Anti-Obama signs in New Orleans — on private property — have set off a frenzy of prog protests against free speech.  Former and current politicians have “met” with the property owner as mobs gather near the offender's home.
Stephen Gutowski / MRCTV:   Liberals Try to Remove Anti-Obama Signs in New Orleans
Joel Siegel / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Is New Jersey Governor Too Overweight to Become President?  —  For Chris Christie, there was no way around it.  “In case you haven't noticed, I'm slightly overweight,” he said during a debate in his successful campaign for governor.  —  Two years later, Christie is the man …
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New York Post:
Christie seriously considering presidential bid after GOP prodding  —  By JOSH MARGOLIN in New York and S.A. MILLER in Washington  —  After months of hedging, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is giving serious thought to jumping into the ring for a GOP presidential run — and could make his decision next week, The Post has learned.
New York Post:
A ‘Furious’ revelation  —  This just might be the smoking gun we've been waiting for to break the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money …
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Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
ATF Fast and Furious guns turned up in El Paso
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Democrats Dispirited About Voting in 2012  —  Republicans' enthusiasm for voting matches 2004 and exceeds 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — In thinking about the 2012 presidential election, 45% of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual …
Joe Kemp / NY Daily News:
Shocking video shows attempted murder of teen outside Brooklyn McDonald's  —  Three toughs pulled off a choreographed plan to pass a gun between them like a hot potato before one of them opened fire at a teen outside a Brooklyn McDonald's - and all of it was caught on camera.
Discussion: ANIMAL, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Americans reject the right's bogus ‘class warfare’ charge  —  It's become an article of faith among conservatives — and even some neutral commentators — that Obama'a newly aggressive populism and call for tax hikes on the rich is “class warfare,” a nakedly partisan play for the Democratic base …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Fewer than 1 in 3 say Obama favors the ‘have-nots,’ but many say GOP helps the ‘haves’
Discussion: THEROOT.COM and Daily Kos
Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair:
California and Bust  —  The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario.  After a hair-raising visit with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who explains why the Golden State has cratered …
Discussion: Gawker
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Joe Biden: The economy belongs to us, not Bush  —  Vice President Joe Biden said in a live interview with Miami public radio station WLRN Thursday that the Obama administration - not the Bush administration - now has ownership of the struggling U.S. economy.
Bloomberg:
U.S. Decries Salaries, Staffing in New UN Budget  —  The Obama administration told the United Nations that too few of its 10,307 workers are being cut and average salaries, currently $119,000 a year, have risen “dramatically.”  —  The U.S. ambassador for UN management and reform …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Pajamas Media
Scottrose / pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com:
Breaking: anti-gay N.C. Senator Forrester falsifies credentials - and an open letter to the lawmaker  —  NOTE FROM PAM: It's sad that a lawmaker, namely North Carolina State Senator James Forrester, is so blinded by ignorance and bigotry that he embarrasses himself — and his cause …
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UW-Stout Chancellor Doubles Down on Censorship of ‘Firefly’ and Anti-Fascism Posters  —  The chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) has declared that he will not defend faculty First Amendment rights from censorship.  UWS censored theater professor James Miller's poster featuring …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
More Than 300,000 Ohio Voters Submit Petition Suspending Gov. Kasich's Anti-Voter Law  —  Earlier this year, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a sweeping bill intended to make it harder to vote in his states' elections.  Kasich's anti-voter law drastically cuts back on early voting and erects …
Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties  —  He may prove the most disastrous president in our history in terms of civil liberties.  —  President Obama failed to close Guantanamo Bay, continued warrantless surveillance and military tribunals and asserted the right to kill U.S. citizens he views as terrorists.
KFSN-TV:
Teacher penalizes students for saying “bless you”  —  FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Northern California teacher says he doesn't want to hear a common courtesy in his classroom.  —  He's even lowering students' grades if they say “bless you” after someone sneezes.
Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
Draft spending bill would defund Obama healthcare law  —  House Republicans released a draft spending bill Thursday that would cut off funding for many parts of the healthcare reform law, though the bill remains deadlocked in the Appropriations Committee.  —  The draft legislation would attempt to derail implementation of the law.
Discussion: The Politico, Daily Kos and TPMDC
Daily Mail:
Ladies and gentleman, we are currently cruising down Wall Street because we are fed up with our bosses!  Pilots stage protest  —  Wall Street saw yet another surge in protesters today - as hundreds of Continental and United Airlines pilots demonstrated in New York City's financial district.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Agonist
New York Post:
Exclusive: Crook busted after robbing same bank for third day in row  —  Now that's customer loyalty.  —  A greedy bank robber starred in his own criminal version of “Groundhog Day” — holding up the same downtown Sovereign branch on three consecutive days before he was finally busted yesterday, police sources told The Post yesterday.
Discussion: Gothamist
 
 
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Obama administration widens challenges to state immigration laws
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
After demise of 'don't ask,' activists call for end to military ban on transgenders
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Will Seek Health Care Law Waiver To Establish Single Payer In His State
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Mariah Blake / Washington Monthly:
Revisionaries  —  How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids' textbooks.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
The Perils of Ignoring History
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
New York Times:
Killing the Recovery  —  The world has barely dug out of recession …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Erica Pearson / NY Daily News:
Deportation would force 19-year-old and mom to leave ‘everything I know’, including dad and siblings
Discussion: Nation Now and New York Magazine
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Interns File Suit Against ‘Black Swan’ Producer