Palin sees room for more White House candidates - Yahoo! News

Palin sees room for more White House candidates - Yahoo! News: " Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on Friday there was room for more candidates in the presidential race, but stopped short of announcing whether she would launch her own bid for the White House.

Palin, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in 2008, has said she expects to make a decision this month about whether to seek the party's nomination to run against President Barack Obama in next year's election.
Speaking in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, Palin declined to say if an announcement could come Saturday, when she is due to address a Tea Party rally in Indianola, Iowa.

Palin said she was "happy with the field of candidates" in the Republican campaign, but added: "I always think that there's room for more, though, because spirited debate and more competition will allow an even better discourse.""

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Perry book a treasure trove for foes - Yahoo! News

Perry book a treasure trove for foes - Yahoo! News: "Rick Perry describes Social Security as a “violent” attack on core American values. He says Sarah Palin may have been right that the Affordable Care Act created death panels. He says it was “unprincipled” to establish the Department of Homeland Security.

That’s not the provocative, distorted language of a 2012 attack ad — at least, not yet. Rather, those are words right out of the Texas governor’s 2010 book, “Fed Up!” — a slim volume that may be one of the biggest gifts ever given to the opponents of a presidential candidate.

It’s a treasure trove of oppo research, a target so ripe that Perry himself pointed to it last year as prime evidence he wasn’t interested in running for president.
“I wouldn’t have written that book if I was going to run for the presidency of the United States,” he said in one national interview."

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: How to build your own supervillian!

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Why Obama and others are suddenly rolling out jobs plans - Yahoo! News

Why Obama and others are suddenly rolling out jobs plans - Yahoo! News: "Why now? It's not like unemployment is a new problem that's just been discovered. The US jobless rate has been above 8 percent for 2-1/2 years.

But, although the health of the economy and state of the job market rank consistently as Americans' top concerns in polls, Washington's attention to the question of how to improve job creation has ebbed and flowed. Several factors explain the recent resurgence, and most of them are not too difficult to guess:"

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BBC News - Iraq: US troops' first fatality-free month since 2003

BBC News - Iraq: US troops' first fatality-free month since 2003: "August was the first month since the US-led invasion in 2003 that no US soldiers were killed in Iraq.

An independent group, icasualties.org, has displayed the statistics for August on its website, which tracks US fatalities in Iraq every month.

US Col Douglas Crissman said it showed how far Iraqi security forces had come.

Figures for Iraqi civilian and security forces deaths in August are not yet available, but the month has seen major attacks with substantial loss of life."

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Romney camp not panicking — yet - Yahoo! News

Romney camp not panicking — yet - Yahoo! News: "Rick Perry’s surge in the polls is prompting some high-profile Mitt Romney backers to urge the former Massachusetts governor to step up his efforts before it’s too late.
Romney’s high command said that was always the plan — and that they expect to engage Perry during next month’s debates, which will usher in the stretch run of the GOP presidential campaign.
The former Massachusetts governor also will accelerate his pace starting this Labor Day weekend, campaign officials say."

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Hurricane Irene: How You Can Help

Hurricane Irene: How You Can Help:

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