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A sound of blunder

I know, I know -- it's an utterly implausible cartoon.  Republicans would never seek out answers from a scientist.  And obviously Michele Bachmann would insist that they need travel no further than six thousand years to reach the dawn of time...

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/sUVa3bwhZ2U/-A-sound-of-blunder

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Niggerhead Ranch

Ahem: 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 in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. ?Niggerhead,? it read. I’ve learned in long years [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/02/333905/niggerhead-ranch/

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Cain: Perry "insensitive" on hunting camp name

GOP candidate says Texas Gov.'s alleged delay in removing racially offensive name from rock at hunting camp demonstrates "insensitivity"

Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~3/ikeVozkP5qY/main20114488.shtml

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Even if government shuts down, most of Congress won't

When it comes to coping with a government shutdown, the legislative and executive branches are certainly separate - but they may not be equal.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704020.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Open thread and Sunday preview: Boehner's dystopian problem, tulip madness and more

Sunday essays on deck ?.

• Calling for better youth voter education Denise Oliver-Velez asks "Whatever happened to Civics?"
• Hunter has a proposal for Grover Norquist.
• Laura Clawson looks at one of the big trends in reality television: the conspicuous consumption habits of the working- and lower-middle class.
• David Nir will discuss how the dystopians are ruining John Boehner's life.
• Dante Atkins is happy that Elizabeth Warren's words are catching on in high places.
• Tulips, fools, derivatives, greater fools, makers, and Mark Sumner.
• DemFromCT will talk about the upcoming flu season, with a special emphasis on vaccines, mandatory or otherwise.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/ObJTjpOx06E/-Open-thread-and-Sunday-preview:-Boehners-dystopian-problem,-tulip-madness-and-more

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Gay marriage defeat leaves couples crestfallen

Ken Goodman's fondest wish was to return to Silver Spring with the man he has been with for 15 years and get married in front of his childhood friends and his parents.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/12/AR2011031204220.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Tim Cook's Time To Shine At Apple's iPhone Event On October 4

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/02/tim-cook-apple-iphone_n_991271.html

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Rep. Peter King's Muslim hearing: Plenty of drama, less substance

One half of the Muslim contingent in Congress paused, his voice high and breaking. He tugged at his glasses. He held up a finger and gathered himself.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031002045.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Obama?s Former Bodyguard Seeks to Unseat Democratic Senator

A former Secret Service agent who vowed to take a bullet for Presidents Obama and Bush is now trying to take Benjamin Cardin?s Senate seat.

Source: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/99GQclTt-QM/

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Is This Christie's Moment?

John Heilemann, New York Magazine
Almost exactly eight years ago, Hillary Clinton was deliberating, intensely and in secret, over a fateful political decision: Should she launch a late entry into the 2004 presidential race? Much of the Democratic Establishment, from A-list donors and officeholders to activists and ordinary voters, were beseeching her to jump in. Her party’s existing candidates were widely seen as underwhelming—inadequate to the task of taking on an eminently beatable incumbent. John Kerry was too flaccid and Howard Dean too hot, Dick Gephardt past his sell-by date and John Edwards a...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/10/01/is_this_christie039s_moment_264591.html

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