Your afternoon reading:

• "The House of Representatives has blocked consideration of a resolution calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to apologize for not immediately 'doing away' with a rock bearing the controversial name of his family’s West Texas hunting camp, 'Niggerhead.'" — Rick Perry hunting camp resolution blocked by House, The Washington Post
  

• "Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) denied that a racial epithet was visible on a rock outside the hunting camp his family once leased in his first on-camera television interview since the Post reported its existence over the weekend. 'I think there were very much some strong ...

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