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• GOP debate features first appearance for Perry (AP)
• Perry leaves Texas wildfires, heads to GOP debate (AP)
• 2 Texans trade barbs in GOP presidential race (AP)
• Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobs (AP)
• Romney jobs plan: cut taxes, slap China, drill oil (AP)
• Erskine Bowles joins Facebook board (Politico)
• Gore: Obama bows to polluters (Politico)
• Education Secretary Duncan tours Rust Belt (AP)
• Palestinian hits out at U.S. policy on U.N. bid (Reuters)
• Top House Republican vows no disaster aid hold-up (AP)
• Can Tammy Baldwin become America's first openly gay senator? (The Week)
• NBC’s Andrea Mitchell announces she has breast cancer (Daily Caller)
• Foreign affairs committee chair: Reported Hezbollah base in Cuba ‘unsurprising’ (Daily Caller)
• Why is Ann Coulter so Down on Sarah Palin? (ContributorNetwork)
• What a union 'take out' looks like (The Week)

GOP debate features first appearance for Perry (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:12 PM PDT AP - Squaring off for the first time, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were facing each other Wednesday night along with struggling contender Michele Bachmann and other presidential hopefuls at a GOP campaign debate.

Perry leaves Texas wildfires, heads to GOP debate (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:27 PM PDT AP - Call it a leadership test in real time.

2 Texans trade barbs in GOP presidential race (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:11 PM PDT AP - A Texas-sized rivalry is brewing in the Republican presidential contest.

Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobs (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:34 PM PDT AP - The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again. Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise with him on jobs — but also assailed his plans in advance of his prime-time speech.

Romney jobs plan: cut taxes, slap China, drill oil (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:23 PM PDT AP - Casting himself as America's CEO, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday outlined a sweeping economic plan that would reduce regulations and taxes on companies, sanction China over its currency practices and weaken the clout of labor unions.

Erskine Bowles joins Facebook board (Politico) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:02 PM PDT Politico - Th former White House chief of staff joins a growing Washington presence at the social network.

Gore: Obama bows to polluters (Politico) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:09 PM PDT Politico - He criticizes Obama in a new blog post.

Education Secretary Duncan tours Rust Belt (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:06 PM PDT AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan set out Wednesday on a three-day bus tour across the Rust Belt manufacturing region. His message is that education can help revitalize the economy in distressed areas that had been dominated by industries such as coal, steel and the production of cars.

Palestinian hits out at U.S. policy on U.N. bid (Reuters) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT Reuters - The United States is showing "disdain" for Arabs by trying to prevent the Palestinians from gaining statehood recognition at the United Nations, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Top House Republican vows no disaster aid hold-up (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:01 PM PDT AP - A top Republican said Wednesday that the GOP-controlled House will act quickly on any disaster aid request by President Barack Obama and that help for victims of Hurricane Irene and earlier disasters doesn't necessarily have to be paid for with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. The Democratic leader of the Senate said the chamber will soon vote on billions of dollars in disaster aid.

Can Tammy Baldwin become America's first openly gay senator? (The Week) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT The Week - The first out-of-the-closet lesbian elected to Congress is now running for one of Wisconsin's Senate seats

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell announces she has breast cancer (Daily Caller) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:29 PM PDT Daily Caller - NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell announced on air Wednesday that she has, and has undergone treatment for, breast cancer.

Foreign affairs committee chair: Reported Hezbollah base in Cuba ‘unsurprising’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:12 PM PDT Daily Caller - The Republican chairwoman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs said she would not be surprised if reports that Hezbollah has established a base in Cuba are true.

Why is Ann Coulter so Down on Sarah Palin? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:42 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Allahpundit at Hot Air is reporting on how Ann Coulter has not only suggested Sarah Palin is not electable but that "She's become sort of the Obama of the tea party, she's just 'The One' to a certain segment of right-wingers."

What a union 'take out' looks like (The Week) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:40 AM PDT The Week - When the Teamsters' James Hoffa says he wants to "take out" the Tea Party, what exactly does he mean? A 2003 labor settlement offers some clues

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