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10:00 AM ET, October 10, 2008

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Serge F. Kovaleski / New York Times:
In Dozens of Calls, Palins and Aides Pressed for Trooper's Removal  —  ANCHORAGE — The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one of his troopers, Michael Wooten.  This time, the director of Gov. Sarah Palin's Anchorage office was on the line.
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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On the eve of a report on a legislative panel's abuse-of-power investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report clearing her of any wrongdoing.
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Sensitive Palin ethics report kept secret, for now  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor.
Anchorage Daily News:
Troopergate findings are due today
Discussion: The Caucus
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama on Ayers: ‘I assumed that he had been rehabilitated’  —  In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host this afternoon, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former '60s radical who would become …
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Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
A Question of Barack Obama's Character  —  WASHINGTON — Convicted felon Tony Rezko.  Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.  And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters.
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Is Negative Rhetoric a License to Taunt?
Washington Post:
Anger Is Crowd's Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally  —  There were shouts of “Nobama” and “Socialist” at the mention of the Democratic presidential nominee.  There were boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down as a media caravan moved through the crowd Thursday …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Panic attacks: Voters unload at GOP rallies  —  The unmistakable momentum behind Barack Obama's campaign, combined with worry that John McCain is not doing enough to stop it, is ratcheting up fears and frustrations among conservatives.  —  And nowhere is this emotion on plainer display …
CNN:
Voter registration forms faked, officials say  —  CNN Special Investigations Unit  —  CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
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Maggie Thurber / Thurber's Thoughts:   BREAKING: Federal Court says Ohio Secretary of State broke voter laws
CNNMoney.com:
Global stock selloff  —  Markets fall on fears about world crisis - expectations mount for response.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Global fears about the financial crisis deepened on Friday as stock markets the world over fell sharply and government officials scrambled to contain the damage.
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Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Fix the Credit Problem, Not its Symptoms
Discussion: Jules Crittenden and The Agonist
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Moment of Truth  —  Last month, when the U.S. Treasury Department allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, I wrote that Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, was playing financial Russian roulette.  Sure enough, there was a bullet in that chamber: Lehman's failure caused the world financial crisis, already severe, to get much, much worse.
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New York Times:
Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records  —  Last December, someone using the name “Test Person,” from “Some Place, UT,” made a series of contributions, the largest being $764, to Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign totaling $2,410.07.  —  Someone identifying himself as …
Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Magic  —  And now, America, we introduce the Great Obama!  The world's most gifted political magician!  A thing of wonder.  A thing of awe.  Just watch him defy politics, economics, even gravity!  (And hold your applause until the end, please.)  To kick off our show tonight …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
As Fears Ease, Baghdad Sees Walls Tumble  —  BAGHDAD — Market by market, square by square, the walls are beginning to come down.  The miles of hulking blast walls, ugly but effective, were installed as a central feature of the surge of American troops to stop neighbors from killing one another.
Discussion: Stop The ACLU and On Deadline
Wall Street Journal:
Dodd and Countrywide  —  The Senator should take the witness stand.  —  Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld was under oath Monday when he was grilled on Capitol Hill about his role in the current financial meltdown.  But if Members really want to understand the credit mania, they should also call Chris Dodd.
Eric Pfanner / International Herald Tribune:
Iceland is all but officially bankrupt  —  REYKJAVIK: People go bankrupt all the time.  Companies do, too.  But countries?  —  Iceland was on the verge of doing exactly that on Thursday as the government shut down the stock market and seized control of its last major independent bank.
Discussion: Vox Popoli and pandagon.net
John Dickerson / Slate:
JOHN MCCAIN'S SUPPORTERS ARE MADDER (AND SCARIER!)  THAN HE IS.  —  At a normal campaign rally, it's the candidate who tries to whip the crowd into a frenzy.  At John McCain's town-hall Waukesha, Wis., Thursday, it was the other way around.  “I'm mad, and I'm really mad,” said one man who'd been called on to ask a question.
Discussion: Swampland and BrothersJudd Blog
The Huffington Post:
McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama “A Guy Of The Street,” Raises Drug Use  —  Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a McCain campaign co-chairman, edged up to an explicitly racial attack on Barack Obama on Thursday, describing the Illinois Senator as a “guy of the street” before raising his youthful drug use.
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CNN:
McCain surrogate raises Obama's past drug use
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Nouriel Roubini / Nouriel Roubini's Global …:
The world is at severe risk of a global systemic financial meltdown and a severe global depression  —  The US and advanced economies' financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in free fall, money markets have shut …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Class War Before Palin  —  Modern conservatism began as a movement of dissident intellectuals.  Richard Weaver wrote a book called, “Ideas Have Consequences.”  Russell Kirk placed Edmund Burke in an American context.  William F. Buckley famously said he'd rather be governed …
Discussion: Eunomia, Legalities and Obsidian Wings
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Hoover vs. Roosevelt?  —  Hope vs. fear, new vs. old: Barack Obama and John McCain have placed their bets.  These are the terms on which the 2008 presidential campaign will be decided.  —  That's why it's unfair for political bystanders to attack Obama and McCain for offering few specifics as to how they'd fix an ailing economy.
Discussion: The Corner and The Moderate Voice
Salon:
Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals  —  Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy.  “Her door was open,” says Chryson — and still is. … Video: Interview with former Alaskan Independence Party chairman Mark Chryson
John Stossel / ABCNEWS:
Maybe It's Your Civic Duty Not to Vote  —  Should Uninformed Voters Be Casting Their Vote on Nov. 4?  —  We keep hearing how important it is for everyone to vote and that voting is our civic duty.  —  Celebrities like Christina Aguilera, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diddy and Dave Matthews urge everyone to get out and vote.
Fredreka Schouten / ABCNEWS:
Obama, Paul net most military workers' campaign donations  —  Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Ron Paul have little in common politically, except their opposition to the Iraq war.  —  Both top a new list of presidential candidates receiving campaign contributions from people who work …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
 
 
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Jim Treacher / Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher?:
ATTN: ALL THOSE WHO WOULD DARE TO CRITICIZE OUR DEAR LEADER
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Christopher Hitchens / Vanity Fair:
America the Banana Republic
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Lawmakers Weigh Plan for Stimulus
Discussion: Townhall.com and Economist's View
The Huffington Post:
Victory Within Grasp, Obama Faces A New Choice
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Nuclear Aid by Russian to Iranians Suspected
Discussion: Commentary
Boston Herald:
Pollster: Don't believe the Dem hype
Discussion: Zogby, Reason, MyDD and Political Machine
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Debate May Have Helped Obama
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Stocks are on track for their worst year since 1937
Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
The time has come to ask: What might happen to our country …
David Von Drehle / Time:
The Limits of Race  —  Lincoln County, Mo., a fast-growing …
Discussion: folo, FOX Embeds and TIME.com
Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:
Who is Barack Obama? Part II
Discussion: This ain't Hell …
Ross Douthat:
Ayers, McCain and the Dow
 

 
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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC's new deal with Macy's to keep the Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and Peacock has an average annual fee of $60M+, up from ~$20M in the current deal

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

 
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