- Libyan rebels take Tripoli; Obama applauds as Gaddafi’s four-decade reign crumbles.
- Bruce Bartlett calls Perry an “idiot,” people who’ve covered him/written books about his campaigns beg to differ.
- The AP looks at his health care approach.
- Clarence Thomas and the legal battle against health reform.
- The Strib digs on Bachmann’s time as an IRS attorney.
- Huntsman fully embraces the role of moderate scold, to much applause from the DNC. It lends a bit more credence to the notion his eye is on 2016.
- Romney has decided to bulldoze his 3,000-sq. ft. ocean front mansion in California and replace it with an 11,000 sq. ft. ocean front mansion.
- The payroll tax cut extension debate explained.
- A bearish take on the deficit supercommittee.
- To the disappointment of liberals everywhere, Russ Feingold says he won’t run for office next year.
- Bloomberg finally reports the totality of the Fed’s financial crisis loans.
- The Obama administration leans on NY’s crusading AG over mortgage fraud settlement.
- And I’ve been away for a few days, so let me know what thrilling August storylines developed in my absence (beside “presidential vacation=history’s greatest crime”).
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