*UPDATE*…(Chron) –The death toll grew Monday to 10, as another injured person died late Sunday, Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Jamii Uboldi said. Authorities said 70 people were treated at hospitals, and that four remained in critical condition.

(WSJ) —  RENO, Nev.—A local deputy police chief said nine people had died after a vintage World War II fighter plane slammed into a crowd of onlookers Friday at an air race here, while another 17 people were still being treated for injuries and 24 had been treated and released under a vintage sign store offering vintage signs for sale.

(SUN)…THREE people are thought to have been killed after a plane crashed in front of the grandstands at an air race in America yesterday.  A medical official said more than 54 people were injured at the Reno National Championship Air Races — 25 critically.  It was described as a “mass casualty situation” by a spokesman for the race in Nevada.  In shocking footage from the show, planes pass in front of the crowd at high speed before one aircraft suddenly smashes into the ground from an almost vertical angle.  It creates a huge cloud of dust and debris and screams are heard.

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(Scoamf) – Okay, this is my favorite one of the ‘Downfall Parodies’ yet.  Go ahead…Google it, I’ll wait.  Looks like this meme is just starting to take off, so I imagine YouTube will be pulling it down shortly.   Besides being chock full of satisfying good nicknames to call Obama, (i.e.  King Putt), the Tom Jones background music is a nice touch too. (Remember, I warned you about the language.)

(CBS)…Manchester, N.H. – “It’s great to spend Labor Day with you,” Palin told a large crowd of tea party supporters in Manchester, N.H., on the traditional kick off day of the presidential primary season. “You could be grilling up some steaks with your neighbors and instead, you’re concerned about your country and taking a stand.”
Palin drew about 600 people, more than double the number that turned out for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a tea party event in Concord, N.H., on Sunday. Many had hoped to hear the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee announce her candidacy, some of them chanting “Run, Sarah, run.” She smiled. “I appreciate your encouragement. I do,” Palin told them, with well-practiced coyness.   (more…)

(CBS/AP)…PERUGIA, Italy – The appeals case of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, resumed Monday with lawyers questioning independent experts who cast doubt on the evidence used in the first trial.
The 24-year-old from Seattle who has been behind bars since the November 2007 murder was in the Perugia courtroom, as was her co-defendant and onetime boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.
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DC based “Freedomworks” has stirred up quite a bit of controversy within the tea party movement with their latest suggestion that Mitt Romney can still possibly gain the support of their organization.   Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks appeared on “The Factor”, and said the following…“If he would repudiate Obamacare/Romneycare, if he would take a stand on the budget, if he would get some specifics about where he is on these issues, I think he has a chance. We believe that he can come around, he hasn’t been willing to do that and we believe a press conference just isn’t going to cut it.”
After weeks of playing coy, it seems Gov. Romney has had his ‘Come to Jesus’ moment, and has now decided to court the tea party vote.  (more…)

As Sarah Palin took to the stage to the sound of enthusiastic applause and the crowd yelling, “Run Sarah…Run”,  I was immediately reminded of the rally’s location, “Balloon Classic Field”.  It was the perfect venue for a candidate filled with hope and rising expectations.  She delivered a forty minute campaign-style speech that marked three years to the day since she accepted the nomination as the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate.  It  was also delivered entirely without the aid of a teleprompter.  She told the crowd that we’ll know by the end of the month as to whether or not she’ll be throwing her hat into the ring. If she does decide to run at this later date,  I’m sure by December no one will care WHEN she announced. 
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Full schedule for ‘Restoring America’ rally in Indianola: music, prayer and Sarah Palin

Today’s rally will be carried live on C-SPAN from 12-2pm eastern.  For the full schedule of today’s rally see below.
(DesMoinesRegister)…A grassy field in Iowa will become the scene of a festival of conservative rhetoric and patriotic music Saturday, while television cameras capture the event for a nationwide audience.The star attraction, Alaska Republican Sarah Palin, will speak at about 1:15 p.m. at the Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” rally in Indianola, organizer Charlie Gruschow told The Des Moines Register today.  Palin won’t reveal during the event whether or not she intends to seek the 2012 GOP nomination, CNN’s Peter Hamby reports. But the event falls on the three-year anniversary of her address to the Republican National Convention when she became the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, he notes.   (more…)

(Politico)(h/t PhillyCon)…Fox News released its first poll Thursday since Rick Perry’s entry into the presidential race, showing the Texas governor drawing 26 percent of the GOP primary vote and leading Mitt Romney by 8 points.  What caught one reader’s attention, though, wasn’t the size of Perry’s lead, but the name of Fox’s Republican pollster: Shaw & Company Research, a Texas-based firm that conducts the Fox survey in cooperation with the Democratic pollster Anderson Robbins Research.
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