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Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
McDonald's May Drop Health Plan — McDonald's Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul. — The move is one of the clearest indications …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate blocks recess appointments with deal between Dems, GOP — Senate Democrats agreed Wednesday night to a Republican demand to block President Obama from making recess appointments while Congress is out of town campaigning for the midterm elections. — Democratic leaders have agreed …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Carl Paladino alleges Andrew Cuomo affair — New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino alleged Tuesday that Democrat Andrew Cuomo was unfaithful to his ex-wife years ago, a stunning accusation that validated his earlier prediction that the race would be getting nastier.
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Jennifer Fermino / New York Post:
Paladino and Post reporter square off — Tweet — Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino and Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker last night got into an angry confrontation — during which Paladino threatened, “I'll take you out.” — It started when Dicker asked Paladino …
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Celeste Katz / The Daily Politics:
Breaking: Carl Paladino Gets Into Confrontation With Albany Reporter …
Breaking: Carl Paladino Gets Into Confrontation With Albany Reporter …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
TRENDING: NY governor candidate to reporter: 'I'll take you out'
TRENDING: NY governor candidate to reporter: 'I'll take you out'
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NY Daily News:
New Yorkers outraged as bureaucrats order city to change lettering on every single street sign — The city will change the lettering on every single street sign - at an estimated cost of about $27.5 million - because the feds don't like the font. — Street names will change from all capital letters …
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Jeremy Olshan / New York Post:
$27 million to change NYC signs from all-caps — Tweet — The Capital of the World is going lower-case. — Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century …
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Sen. Murkowski targets Tea Party Express in new ad — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Wednesday released two new TV ads her campaign says will counter the Tea Party Express. — Earlier this week, the group unveiled its own TV ad targeting Murkowski, which spokesman Levi Russell said he hopes …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Lisa Murkowski surges in Alaska (or does she?)
Lisa Murkowski surges in Alaska (or does she?)
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Alaska Polls Suggest Murkowski Has Upside as Write-In
Alaska Polls Suggest Murkowski Has Upside as Write-In
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Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Private Moment Made Public, Then a Fatal Jump — It started with a Twitter message on Sept. 19: “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.” — That night, the authorities say …
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Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Victim of Secret Dorm Sex Tape Posts Facebook Goodbye, Jumps to His Death
Victim of Secret Dorm Sex Tape Posts Facebook Goodbye, Jumps to His Death
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney, Palin at Front of GOP Presidential Field — Preferences for leaders similar among conservative, moderate/liberal Republicans — PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin lead other potential candidates in Republicans' preferences for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.
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Quinnipiac University:
Angry Voters Push Rubio To Top In Florida Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Republican Most Shares Their Values — Republican Marco Rubio holds a solid 46 - 33 percent likely voter lead over Gov. Charlie Crist, running as an independent in the race for Florida's U.S. Senate seat …
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New York Times:
Democrats Find Many Big Donors Cutting Support — Many wealthy Democratic patrons, who in the past have played major roles financing outside groups to help elect the party's candidates, are largely sitting out these crucial midterm elections. — Democratic donors like George Soros …
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Hotline On Call:
Democrats Aren't Staging A Comeback — Democratic strategists have recently started experiencing a new feeling of optimism. There are indications, they say, that the party is showing the smallest signs of a turnaround, and that rumors of their electoral demise have been premature.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
In run-up to midterms, glimmers of hope for Democrats?
In run-up to midterms, glimmers of hope for Democrats?
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New York Times:
In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue — Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran's race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.
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Wall Street Journal:
Grading the Governors — A new Cato Institute report on the fiscal best and worst. — It's been a rough couple of years to be a Governor, but some have adjusted to austere times better than others. The Cato Institute today releases its 10th biennial survey of the best and worst Governors …
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Dave Kehr / New York Times:
Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85 — Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who earned an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in Stanley Kramer's 1958 movie “The Defiant Ones,” but whose public preferred him in comic roles in films like “Some Like It Hot” (1959) and …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Spokesman: Obama may get chance to add more ‘fresh legs’ at White House — President Obama might have more opportunities to get some “fresh legs” in the White House, according to a top administration spokesman. — White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton hinted on Thursday …
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The Politico:
Congress cools on Colbert — Members of Congress have been fooled time after time after time by Stephen Colbert, and after last week's mockery, they have a message for the satirist who makes a living lampooning them: Colbert, you're dead to us. — Colbert's act had steadily been losing cachet …
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Rep. Mike Castle says no to write-in bid — Longtime Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) announced late Wednesday that he will not launch a write-in bid for Senate this fall, ceding the stage to Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell (R) and New Castle County Executive Chris Coons (D).
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Mike Castle won't run as a write-in candidate in Delaware
Mike Castle won't run as a write-in candidate in Delaware
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Eliot A. Cohen / Washington Post:
'Obama's Wars': The gang that couldn't shoot straight — or shut up — Senior Washington officials, in this administration or its predecessors, talk to Bob Woodward for all kinds of reasons — to fluff up their vanity, to avenge slights, to neutralize rivals, to gratify egos or, most laughably, to shape the historical record.
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Waxman says net neutrality bill dead, FCC should assert regulatory authority — Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) confirmed Wednesday afternoon that his net neutrality bill was effectively scrapped after Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) declined to support the legislation.
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Compare and Contrast: Karl Marx' 10 Point Program of Communism and the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Agenda — According to Karl Marx, the following ten elements were requisite conditions for “a transition from capitalism to communism.” — 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
SARAH PALIN TO HEADLINE 2 RNC RALLIES — Boehner vows to reform ‘rigged’ congressional rules — Dems launch ‘full-throated’ plan to more starkly define Boehner with ads, events and websites — EXCLUSIVE: The RNC says Sarah Palin will hold two Victory 2010 fundraising rallies: Oct. 16 in Anaheim and Oct. 23 in Orlando.
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Loyalty to Obama Costs Democrats — DOYLESTOWN, Pa.—Rep. Patrick Murphy, a fresh-faced rising Democratic star and loyal backer of President Barack Obama's agenda, is facing the fight of his life in a suburban Philadelphia district Mr. Obama won easily two years ago.
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Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
Immigration Bill to Include LGBTs — Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey is expected to introduce comprehensive immigration legislation before the Senate adjourns this week for the midterm recess, according to Politico, and a source tells The Advocate that the legislation will be LGBT-inclusive.
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Washington Times:
Israel lobby aided Hill visits for U.N. report author — S. African excoriated Gaza war campaign — South African Judge Richard Goldstone's U.N. report on the Gaza conflict drew widespread criticism from the U.S. Jewish community. (Associated Press) — J Street — the self-described pro-Israel …
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