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Reason Morning Links: Lobbyists Sink Their Teeth in the Deficit Panel, Pot Tops New White House Petition Site, Senate Republican Wants to Defund ATF Gun-Smuggling Operations

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  • The Hill: "Members of the deficit-reduction supercommittee have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from special-interest groups, including a significant chunk from healthcare interests that want the panel to fail." 
  • Herman Cain meets with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, retracts his retraction about the electrified border fence, and claims he received a threat of some sort: "When you become a top-tier candidate, a lot of nuts come out of the closet."
  • Pot legalization is at the top of the "We the People" site, a petition venture the White House launched to show that Obama is genuinely listening to the people he ignores. 
  • Thieves steal $200,000 worth of presidential equipment—including the teleprompter. 
  • Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) pushes to defund ATF's gun-running investigations. 
  • Rolling Stone on how Obama came to support intervention in Libya. 
  • At just 9.1 percent, China's economy is growing at its slowest rate in years.  

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