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11:51 AM ET, October 3, 2011

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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.
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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Perry's Link to N-Word Place Name Puts Campaign on Defensive  —  The campaign of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas found itself on the defensive on Sunday over a report that he had hunted at and taken guests to a West Texas camp with a racially charged name that his father, and later Mr. Perry, had leased.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
‘Niggerhead’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Mojo
Rick Perry / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Warren, Brown in dead heat: UMass Lowell/Herald poll  —  Joe K, Deval would do better  —  Democrat Elizabeth Warren's meteoric ascent in Massachusetts politics has landed her in a virtual dead heat with Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, while two Democrats who passed on the race …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama campaign goes on attack  —  President Obama's re-election campaign argues in a memo set to be released this morning that Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney — the two frontrunners for the Republican nomination — have “embraced policies that the American people oppose” …
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Rep. Tsongas to endorse Warren for Senate in Mass.
Discussion: CNN
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007  —  New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
NY Daily News:
TWU blasts city for putting handcuffed Occupy Wall Street protesters on buses  —  The Transport Workers Union will go to court Monday to try to stop the city from forcing bus drivers to transport Wall Street protesters arrested by the NYPD, the Daily News has learned.
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Wilson Dizard / New York Post:
Hackers joining Wall Street protests
Discussion: City Room, The Raw Story and Mediaite
Kevinliptak / CNN:
BREAKING: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21  —  Washington (CNN) - South Carolina's Republican presidential primary will be held on Jan. 21 of next year, two GOP sources tell CNN.  —  South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly will formally announce the date later this morning.
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada GOP moving presidential caucus to January
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Cain wins straw poll at GOP women's forum  —  GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain won this weekend's straw poll at the National Federation of Republican Women's Convention reports NBC News.  —  Cain received 48.9 percent of the vote, well ahead of the second place finisher Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 14.1 percent.
Discussion: Reuters, CNN and GOP 12
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Ann Gerhart / Washington Post:
Ann Romney on campaign trail, helping her husband ‘get through this together’
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Page
Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
Herman Cain Media Coverage Quintuples after Florida Straw Poll Win
Discussion: GOP 12 and msnbc.com
Mort Zuckerman / Financial Times:
Why business despairs of Obama  —  Take a deep breath.  The industrialised world, America included, seems stuck in one of those horror movies, where the monster, thought to be slain, morphs into something even more scary.  The fear is that a double-dip, or worse, is now upon us.
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Fran Tarkenton / Wall Street Journal:
What if the NFL Played by Teachers' Rules?  —  Imagine a league where players who make it through three seasons could never be cut from the roster.  —  Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality.  Each player's salary is based on how long he's been in the league.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Holding China to Account  —  The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of many players.  Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldn't stop us from holding individual bad actors to account.  —  And that's what Senate leaders will be doing this week …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
West Virginia too close to call  —  The race for Governor of West Virginia is looking more and more like a toss up, with Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin now leading Republican Bill Maloney only 47-46.  Tomblin's lead was 46-40 on a poll conducted at the beginning of September and he had led …
BBC:
British passport forms to get same-sex parents option  —  The proposals will allow transgender people to opt out of identifying their gender  —  UK passport forms are being updated to include options for same-sex parents.  —  New forms including “parent one” and “parent two” alongside …
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
Eric Cantor's America  —  The House majority leader is trying to stop the U.S. government in its tracks.  And so far, he's doing a pretty effective job.  —  On a stormy evening in early September, a couple of hours before Barack Obama would present his new jobs plan to a joint session of Congress …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
New State Laws Are Limiting Access for Voters  —  Since Republicans won control of many statehouses last November, more than a dozen states have passed laws requiring voters to show photo identification at polls, cutting back early voting periods or imposing new restrictions on voter registration drives.
 
 
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Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
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Joseph Gerth / Courier-Journal:
Steve Beshear widens lead in governor's poll: Other Democrats may ride coattails
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Michele Bachmann's campaign is sputtering in Iowa
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