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7:45 PM ET, October 2, 2011

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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered  —  Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family's secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Rick Perry disputes Washington Post story on slur  —  The presidential campaign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) complained Sunday that a front-page Washington Post story contains “incorrect, inconsistent” claims.  —  The article, headlined “Rick Perry and a word set on stone …
Fox News:
Cain: Name of Perry's Hunting Camp ‘Insulting’ to Blacks  —  Businessman Herman Cain on Sunday called it “insulting” that the family of Rick Perry leased a hunting camp with a racially charged name well into the 1980s and possibly even later.  —  According to a Washington Post article that appeared Sunday …
Discussion: Erick's blog
Rich Oppel / The Caucus:
Perry Open to Military Intervention in Mexico's Drug War
Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo:
An excellent beginning by David Atkins  —  An excellent beginning  —  The official list of grievances of the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street: … There are those who will argue that this list is far too broad and inclusive for a specifically anti-Wall Street protest.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The Bankers and the Revolutionaries  —  AFTER flying around the world this year to cover street protests from Cairo to Morocco, reporting on the latest “uprising” was easier: I took the subway.  —  The “Occupy Wall Street” movement has taken over a park in Manhattan's financial district and turned it into a revolutionary camp.
New York Post:
Wall St. protesters shut down Brooklyn Bridge
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Restless House Republican members pointing fingers at one another  —  House Republicans return to Washington this week a restless bunch in the wake of an embarrassing legislative defeat and months before they face primary voters in the 2012 election.  —  The stunning downfall of a stopgap spending bill …
Bloomberg:
Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales  —  In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Business Insider
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Breitbart.tv:
ROSEANNE: RICH SHOULD BE BEHEADED IF THEY DON'T GIVE UP WEALTH
Discussion: Moonbattery and The Right Scoop
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Cheney wants Obama apology for saying Bush administration ‘overreacted to 9/11’  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney applauded the U.S. drone strike that killed American-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki but added that President Obama now owed the Bush administration an apology for claiming they “overreacted to 9/11.”
Washington Wire:
Christie Stays Mum on 2012 Run at N.J. National Guard Event  —  With fervor growing about “will he or won't he,” a larger than normal local and national press corps watched eagerly as Gov. Chris Christie presided over an annual awards ceremony for National Guard at a training center on the New Jersey shore.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Obama HRC Speech 2011: President Talks Gay Rights At Human Rights Campaign Dinner … Barack Obama , Human Rights Campaign , Obama Gay Rights , Dadt , Gay Marriage , Gay Rights , Same-Sex Marriage , Video , Defense Of Marriage Act , Obama Gay Rights Speech , Obama HRC Speech …
Discussion: Power Line, GayPatriot and The Politico
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Mike O'Brien / Daily Mail:
It's Obama Fried Chicken!  OFC pops up in China... but can the President also match the secret recipe of Colonel Sanders?  —  Is Obama abandoning his bid for a second term in the White House and is giving Colonel Sanders a run for his money by opening a chain of fried chicken joints?
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
 
 
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BBC:
Tory conference: Cameron in jobs and homes vow
Discussion: Guardian
Washington Examiner:
Barone: Time to raise Cain to contender status
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Mark Steyn / Investor's Business Daily:
Finally, The Cognoscenti Ask: What Could We Be Thinking?
Discussion: Cold Fury
Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
Supreme Court to hear case on Medicaid rates
Haaretz:
Hamas: ‘Resistance’ against Israel is only option left for Palestinians
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Israel Matzav
 

 
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Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more

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Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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