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The Bank of America building is shown at the Bank of America Plaza in downtown Los Angeles on Friday Oct.8,2010. Bank of America Corp., the nation's largest bank, said Friday it would stop sales of foreclosed homes in all 50 states as it reviews potential flaws in foreclosure documents. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) (Richard Vogel)

Glenn Greenwald

Joe Scarborough

A voter in Glendale, Wis., casts a ballot in a Democratic primary on Thursday, July 12, 2011, as part of recall efforts against Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling. Darling is one of six Republican state senators being targeted for recall for supporting Republican Gov. Scott Walkers budget-repair bill this winter. Three Democratic state senators are also being targeted for recall for fleeing the state to stall action on the bill. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Bambi Lynn of Fairlawn, Ohio, wipes away tears during a prayer vigil at Copley Community Park in Copley Township, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. A man gunned down two people outside an Ohio home and two more in a car Sunday morning, then shot his girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead including the gunman, who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said. Lynn is fearful that one of the victims is a co-worker. (AP Photo/Phil Long) (AP)

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Rep. Michele Bachmann on the cover of Newsweek. Right: Then Democratic presidential hopeful, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean addresses supporters during his caucus night party in West Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, Jan. 19, 2004.

FILE - In this June 18, 2011 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Should Perry conclude that voter discontent has left him an opening to enter the presidential race, the longtime Texas governor would be among the GOP field's most conservative candidates. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP)

Perry opposes federal payments he once received

Natasha Lennard

A property is on fire near Reeves Corner in Croydon, south London Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Glenn Greenwald

Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama

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Trader Andrew Stavros reacts after the close of trading in the NASDAQ, 100 Index pit, on the floor of The CME Group Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, in Chicago. Stocks plummeted at the close after anxiety overtook investors on the first trading day since Standard & Poor's downgraded American debt. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (M. Spencer Green)

The hopeless politics of 2011

Ryan Lizza, "The New Yorker" Washington correspondent, on "Countdown"

Natasha Lennard

Gov. Rick Perry

Rick Perry is a front-runner, and that's horrible

How to fight the two-party monopoly

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President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Mari Morneau, of Gilbert, shoots at Caswells Shooting Range Tuesday, April 6, 2010 in Mesa, Ariz. On Monday, April 5, 2010, Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law two bills supported by gun-rights activists. One of the bills signed Monday would broaden the state's current restrictions on local governments' ability to regulate or tax guns and ammunition. The other bill declares that guns manufactured entirely in Arizona are exempt from federal oversight and are not subject to federal laws restricting the sale of firearms or requiring them to be registered. (AP Photo/Matt York) (Matt York)

Arizona's armed library guard debate

A Shiite Bahraini woman gestures as others shout anti-government slogans outside a public forum Saturday, July 23, 2011, outside a religious community center in Sanabis, Bahrain, denouncing the alleged destruction and vandalizing of Shiite mosques, community centers and cemeteries during a government crackdown on a largely Shiite spring uprising. Clerics who spoke during the meeting, blamed Saudi Arabia for targeting religious sites, because they allegedly distrust their own Shia minority and sent forces to help quell the Bahrain uprising. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

D.C. firm inks lucrative contract with Bahrain

Pamela Geller

Murtaza Hussain

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John Paul Rollert

Natasha Lennard

Bank of America's corporate headquarters is shown in Charlotte, N.C. (AP/Chuck Burton)

FILE - In this July 25, 2011, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks during a rally at the Delaware County fairgrounds in Manchester, Iowa. Same-sex marriage might seem like a straightforward issue: You're for it or against it. Yet for the field of Republican presidential hopefuls, it's proving to be an awkward topic as public attitudes change and more states legalize gay unions, the latest being New York. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) (Charlie Neibergall)

Michele Bachmann's radical theocratic influences

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President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, take part in a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2011, with Republican and Democratic leaders regarding the debt ceiling. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Former president James Madison and President Barack Obama

The man who could teach Obama to fight

Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talk after a remembrance ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, June 22, 2011. Russia marks on Wednesday the 70th anniversary of the start of the Soviet war against Nazi Germany, known to Russians as "The Great Patriotic war". REUTERS/Dennis Sinyakov (RUSSIA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CONFLICT POLITICS) (Â© Denis Sinyakov / Reuters)

FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in the warehouse at Screen Machine Industries during a campaign stop in Pataskala, Ohio. Same-sex marriage might seem like a straightforward issue: You're for it or against it. Yet for the field of Republican presidential hopefuls, it's proving to be an awkward topic as public attitudes change and more states legalize gay unions, the latest being New York. Romney and Tim Pawlenty were among those refusing to sign the pledge, but both issued statements stressing that they favored limiting marriage to one-man, one-woman unions. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) (AP)

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