‘Niggerhead’  —  Ok, then: … In all seriousness, I think this says very little about Rick Perry, and a lot more about the country he seeks to govern.  A few choice quotes: … And from the Times: … Surely there are people, in both stories, who find the name offensive.

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.

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.

Conservative Means Standing With Science on Climate: Bob Inglis  —  Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — Normally, the country can count on conservatives to deal in facts.  We base policies on science, not sentiment, we insist on people being accountable for their actions, and we maintain that markets, not mandates, are the path to prosperity.

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.

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.

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.

Monday round-up  —  Today, the Court officially begins the October Term 2011, which is widely expected to be one of the most exciting and important Terms in recent memory.  Bloomberg, the San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal …

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 …

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.

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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VIDEO: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy’ Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers  —  When President Obama released his plan for “the Buffett rule,” which involves closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires pay their fair share in taxes, he explained that …

Thank Wal-Mart for your new bank card fee  —  When Bank of America announced last week that it would charge $5 a month to customers who make purchases with their debit card, customers railed against the bank.  —  Many conservatives and libertarians said the anger should be aimed at Congress …

A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant Struggles  —  WASHINGTON — In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run by a politically connected clean energy start-up that has relied heavily on an Obama administration loan guarantee and is now facing financial turmoil.

Tweet Science  —  Twitter is building a machine to convert 140 characters on Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, narcissism, the struggle for human freedom, and Starbucks into cash—and quick, before its moment passes.  Is this asking too much of even the world's best technologists?

Furiously unraveling  —  The joke goes that anything named “Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” ought to be a convenience store instead of an arm of the federal government, but what's going on in Washington these days with the embattled agency is no laughing matter.