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7:20 PM ET, October 3, 2011

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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
‘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.
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Rick Perry / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered  —  The rock was about five feet across and three feet tall, smooth and relatively flat, the word in block letters stretching across its surface, said the former worker from the Hendrick ranch …
Emily Ramshaw / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Critics Defend Him In Racist Camp Name Furor … Keywords: - Texas Governor Rick Perry, - Race, - Rick Perry Personal, - Rick Perry Politics  —  At a critical juncture in his race for the GOP presidential nomination, Gov. Rick Perry has been forced to do something no candidate wants …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:   Perry Declares ‘There Is Nothing In That Constitution’ That Allows Medicaid To Exist
Michael Crowley / Swampland:
Michael Steele on Perry's Hunting Camp: “It's Very Troubling”
CNN:
Cain: I'm ‘not playing the race card’ with Perry
The New York Observer:
Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video]  —  Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Foxnews.com (as of this writing) …
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Cost Of A Demobilized Left  —  Watching the growth of Occupy Wall Street solidarity protests around the country, it's hard not to be reminded of the lost opportunity to mobilize a left-wing popular movement back in the winter of 2008-2009 and the spring of 2009.
NY Daily News:
TWU blasts city for putting handcuffed Occupy Wall Street protesters on buses
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul supports anti-Wall Street protests
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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.
New York Times:
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.
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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Calls Himself ‘Underdog’ in 2012 Race for White House  —  George Stephanopoulos of ABC News interviews President Barack Obama live on ABCNews.com and Yahoo! today at 2:35 EST. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)  —  Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today …
Gary Langer / Politics:
Majority Expects Obama to Lose Re-Election  —  A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong.  —  Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Rep. Cantor rejects Obama, says president's jobs package is dead  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) declared President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill dead on Monday in its current form, flatly rejecting the president's latest plea for Congress to vote on the measure.
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Firedoglake and CNN
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Janet Hook / Washington Wire:
Cantor: Obama's Job Bill Is Dead in Congress
Discussion: Economist's View
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
It's between Christie and his wife  —  I've been avoiding doing a tick-tock of “will-he-or-won't-he” on Chris Christie's deliberations this weekend, and his camp has stayed off the grid.  Christie himself has also stayed mum, and he has no media availability tomorrow.
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Washington Examiner:
York: The crazy math of a Chris Christie candidacy
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
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 …
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul  —  Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama's targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.  —  Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week's killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader …
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.
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.
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Ben White / The Politico:
(Not so) happy TARP anniversary …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and DealBook
Washington Examiner:
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Obama's tax hikes would really impact the rich, in three easy charts  —  Ever since Obama redoubled his push to hike taxes on the rich, conservatives have been ridiculing Obama's invocations of fairness, insisting that the rich are already paying a rising share of the overall tax burden …
Discussion: Political Mojo
Neal Stephenson / World Policy Institute:
Innovation Starvation  —  My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space.  Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking black-and-white television, watching the early Gemini missions.
Amanda Knox / The Daily Beast:
Inside Obama's Populist Makeover  —  The president's friends (and foes) on what prompted his lurch to the left—and whether it will work.  Plus, Michael Tomasky on Obama's new centrist battle plan.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Risk-averse America  —  Economist Robert Litan of the Kauffman Foundation likes to recall that half of today's Fortune 500 companies began as start-ups in a recession or a bear stock market.  And why not?  During a recession, it's cheaper to hire new workers, rent office space, buy supplies.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Bob Inglis / Bloomberg:
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.
 
 
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Is America Suffering from Rogue Leaders or Broken Institutions?
Discussion: Alas, a Blog
Marc Caputo / St. Petersburg Times:
Fla poll: Romney 28%, Cain 24, Gingrich 10, Perry 9
Amanda Knox / The Daily Beast:
Chris Christie's Best Reason to Run
Mallory Simon / This Just In:
Live blog: Amanda Knox to go free after jury overturns murder conviction
Discussion: The Daily What, CNN and TalkLeft
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
McCaskill won't be in Missouri Tuesday for President Obama's visit
CNN:
EPA to test air quality after Texas chemical plant fire
Discussion: Nation Now and newsfeed.time.com
Democracy Now:
PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY OCT. 3, 1PM: Amy Goodman Announces Major Settlement in Federal Lawsuit …
Discussion: Gawker and Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Panetta's (Mostly) Unfair Criticism
Discussion: Associated Press
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Tweet Science  —  Twitter is building a machine to convert 140 …
New York Post:
FDNY welcomes 1st transgender firefighter in city history
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
McCain Dismisses Cheney's Demand That Obama Apologize For Rebuking Bush Administration's Use Of Torture
New York Post:
Furiously unraveling  —  The joke goes that anything named …