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TMZ.com:
Meg Whitman: My Maid's Full of It — Meg Whitman's campaign just gave us documents suggesting that her former maid, Nicky Diaz Santillan, actually lied to Meg about her immigration status when she was hired back in 2000. — The documents, which Whitman claims Nicky filled out and signed …
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Anthony York / PolitiCal:
Former Whitman housekeeper alleges she was treated like ‘garbage’ — The California governor's race took on a circus-like atmosphere Wednesday as a former housekeeper for Meg Whitman alleged the Republican gubernatorial nominee employed her for nearly nine years, even though Whitman knew the housekeeper was in the country illegally.
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Michelle Malkin:
Meg Whitman's illegal alien maid problem
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
October surprise: Meg Whitman's former maid admits she's an illegal alien
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Evan Halper / PolitiCal:
Whitman housekeeper says she was fired, treated like ‘garbage’ [Updated]
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Meg Whitman's nanny problem
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Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Murkowski deadlocked with Miller in Alaska — (CNN) - The wild three-way Senate race in Alaska now appears to be a two-person fight for the top spot, according to a new poll. — A CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that 38 percent …
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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Poll: Murkowski Close in Alaska; Dems Pull Away in Calif. — From left: Joe Miller, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Scott McAdams — From left: Michael Dinneen / AP; J. Scott Applewhite / AP; Chris Miller / AP — In Alaska, Republican Lisa Murkowski is giving the GOP nominee for her Senate-seat, Joe Miller, a real race to contend with.
Manu Raju / The Politico:
GOP senators lash out at DeMint — South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint last week accused his Senate Republican colleagues of doing “everything” in their power to help Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign against GOP nominee Joe Miller. — And he pounded them in a fundraising solicitation for doing …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Alaska Polls Suggest Murkowski Has Upside as Write-In
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Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Rubio opens Senate lead while governor's race stays a dead heat
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Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Democrats on top in California governor and Senate contests
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Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Deadlocked in fight for Obama's Illinois Senate seat
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Public Policy Polling and The Capitol Fax Blog
CNN:
Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to ‘punk’ CNN correspondent — Editor's note: CNN takes an unprecedented look inside the young conservative activist movement in the documentary “Right On The Edge,” which airs Oct. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST. — Lusby, Maryland (CNN) …
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Abbie Boudreau / CNN:
Our Documentary Takes A Strange Detour — (Programming note: “Right On The Edge” airs this Saturday and Sunday at 8 and 11 p.m. ET). — I've been a reporter for nine years. My first official day on the job was on 9-11. I was the bureau chief in Dubuque, Iowa, working as a one-man band.
Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
James O'Keefe isn't a punk. He's worse.
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Speakeasy
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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Celeste Katz / The Daily Politics:
Breaking: Carl Paladino Gets Into Confrontation With Albany Reporter …
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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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The Politico, Michelle Malkin and Pajamas Media
Steven Thrasher / Village Voice:
White America Has Lost Its Mind — The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion — About 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American mind began to unravel. — It had been a pretty good run up to that point.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Boehner surprise: Dems barely get votes to adjourn after floor speech — House Democrats on Wednesday barely won a 210-209 vote to adjourn the House without extending the Bush tax cuts. — Thirty-nine House Democrats voted against adjournment after Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) …
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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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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Two senators put hold on women's museum — WASHINGTON — A letter from two senators is the only thing blocking congressional approval of a decade-long effort to build a women's history museum in the nation's capital. — Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., have placed a …
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Tanya Somanader / Think Progress:
Coburn, DeMint Block National Women's History Museum Because 'Quilters …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid, Coburn in floor spat over shark bill
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Today in Assassination News . . . There has been much discussion lately of the legal questions surrounding the Obama administration's plan to assassinate U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda goon, Islamist propagandist, and general bum. The Christian Science Monitor has a pretty good discussion here …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Power To Kill American Citizens At War With The US
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Rep. 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
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Hot Air and The American Pundit
Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Obama letter offered Netanyahu security pledges — President Barack Obama has written a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offering “a string of assurances to Israel in return for a two-month moratorium extension,” a prominent Washington Middle East expert has revealed.
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Power Line and washingtoninstitute.org
Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Victim of Secret Dorm Sex Tape Posts Facebook Goodbye, Jumps to His Death — Rutgers University Freshman Jumped From the George Washington Bridge — A Rutgers University freshman posted a goodbye message on his Facebook page before jumping to his death after his roommate secretly filmed him during a …
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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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Flopping Aces
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Nominations Confirmed: September 29 — Senators have unanimously confirmed the following nominees to serve in President Obama's Administration: — Nancy Lindborg, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development for Democracy …
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