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Jason Mattera / Human Events:
HUMAN EVENTS Reporter Assaulted at Leftist Rally — A liberal protester at the “One Nation Working Together” march physically assaulted a HUMAN EVENTS reporter who was videotaping Rep. Charlie Rangel (D.-N.Y) at the event at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
‘This Week’ Wages ‘Holy War’ Month Before Midterms: ‘We Believe that One Day the Flag of Islam will Fly Over the White House’ — You have to wonder what on earth ABC's “This Week” host Christiane Amanpour is thinking by holding a so-called town hall meeting this close to a pivotal midterm election.
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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Rev. Franklin Graham: Islam ‘evil’ — Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of Rev. Billy Graham, called Islam “wicked” and “evil” on Sunday during a televised town hall-style discussion about American's feelings about the religion. — “They want to build as many mosques and cultural centers …
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Angle: “I'm not sure I can win” if Ashjian's in, nat'l GOPers “have lost their principles,” need to “leave me alone” — That's just some of what GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle said during a meeting Wednesday evening with Tea Party of Nevada candidate Scott Ashjian and Tea Party …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tell us what you really think, Ms. Angle — Jon Ralston today posted a remarkable audio recording of Nevada Republican Sharron Angle meeting privately with a conservative rival, Scott Ashjian, and his allies. — The recording is worth listening to in full despite its poor quality.
Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats playing on opponents' words
Democrats playing on opponents' words
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Third Party Rising — A friend in the U.S. military sent me an e-mail last week with a quote from the historian Lewis Mumford's book, “The Condition of Man,” about the development of civilization. Mumford was describing Rome's decline: “Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FRIEDMAN'S THIRD-PARTY MESS.... Thomas Friedman joins a long list …
FRIEDMAN'S THIRD-PARTY MESS.... Thomas Friedman joins a long list …
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Reason.tv: What We Saw At And Who We Talked With at the One Nation Rally in DC: Rangel, Jackson, Sharpton, the AFT, AFL-CIO, & More... Reason.tv reports from the “One Nation Working Together” rally for “Jobs, Justice, and Education” on Saturday, October 2 in Washington, D.C. The event …
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NY Daily News:
Tea Party-backed Carl Paladino gets millions in tax breaks, but creates just a handful of jobs — For the last decade, anti-big government candidate Carl Paladino has pocketed millions of dollars in tax breaks by promising to jump-start economic revival in and around his native Buffalo.
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Neil Steinberg / Washington Post:
Chicago, get ready for Rahm Emanuel's charm offensive — CHICAGO — So Rahm Emanuel, the ultimate sharp-elbowed Washington power broker, thinks he can just quit his job as White House chief of staff, catch a plane to O'Hare, slip on a Bears jacket midflight, land smiling and convince a majority …
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thepage.time.com:
TRUMP CARD — PAGE EXCLUSIVE: New Hampshire voters polled by phone on their feelings about The Donald and 2012. — Read the startling details after the jump. — According to sources familiar with the calls, New Hampshire residents received a telephone poll in September testing multiple …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I'm just saying.) — Glenn Beck, the conservative television and radio host, is an amateur historian. Very amateur. — One day, he rhetorically asked his Fox News viewers: “Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s?”
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Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
The Rise of Black Republicans — I bet you haven't heard of Tim Scott, Allen West or Ryan Frazier. If they were Democrats, I might lose that bet. — But they're not. Mr. Scott, Mr. West and Mr. Frazier are three of the 14 black candidates running for Congress as Republicans this November.
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Michael Patrick Leahy / Big Journalism:
News the Old Media Won't Tell You: More Trash at One Sparsely Attended Left Wing Rally Than at All the Tea Parties Around the Country in a Year and a Half — The pictures and videos of all the trash left behind at Saturday's left wing “One Nation” rally on the Mall in Washington …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so — I told you so. — On April 15, 2009, as the first nationwide wave of Tea Party protests broke out, I wrote: “What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before.
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Verizon Wireless to Pay Millions in Refunds — WASHINGTON — Verizon Wireless said on Sunday that it would pay up to $90 million in refunds to 15 million cellphone customers who were wrongly charged for data sessions or Internet use, one of the largest customer refunds by a telecommunications company.
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Travel.State.Gov:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE — Europe — The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to the potential for terrorist attacks in Europe. Current information suggests that al-Qa'ida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks. European governments have taken action to guard …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
U.S. Issues Terrorism Alert for Travel to Europe
U.S. Issues Terrorism Alert for Travel to Europe
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Sanders: GOPs ‘do not want Americans to succeed’; Obama should steer left — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that Republicans “do not want Americans to succeed” in laying out his case for energizing the liberal base to go to the polls in November. — Sanders, a self-proclaimed …
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David S Morgan / CBS News:
Sanders: GOP Doesn't Want America to Succeed
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Cornyn: ‘Significant’ wins ahead; Menendez: No GOP Senate ahead — The two heads of the senatorial campaign arms sparred Sunday over how their parties would fare in elections a month from now, with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (N.J.) …
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