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Lynn Sweet:
Rahm Emanuel: Experts say not a legal resident of Chicago, cannot run for mayor — BY ABDON M. PALLASCH — CHICAGO—The first question isn't: Can Rahm win? It's: Can Rahm run? — Sunday, Rahm Emanuel announced in a video posted on a website that he is preparing to run for mayor of Chicago.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Emanuel's ‘Glad to be home’ video filmed in Washington — Rahm Emanuel kicked off his campaign for mayor of Chicago with a homecoming video, filmed in front of a bookshelf with a vase and a family photograph. — “I was born here, and my wife Amy and I raised our three children here,” he says.
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Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers, The Capitol Fax Blog, Mediaite, Politics Daily, WLS-AM 890 and Wonkette
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Tennessee County's Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down — As ThinkProgress has noted, there are currently two competing visions of governance in the United States. One, the conservative vision, believes in the on-your-own society, and informs a policy agenda …
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Daniel Foster / National Review:
Pay-to-Spray Firefighters Watch as Home Burns — Oy, this is bad for the libertarians: … That bolded paragraph is what really gets to me. I have no problem with this kind of opt-in government in principle — especially in rural areas where individual need for government services and available infrastructure vary so widely.
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ECHIDNE of the snakes, Salon, JustOneMinute, The Volokh Conspiracy and Matthew Yglesias
Slate:
How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism. — It's dark and silent. Reporters trickle into the grand ceremonial room from a door on the left; like everyone, they've been instructed that no recording devices of any sort are allowed. A clutch of spectators, some of whom have been waiting for hours, enters at the rear.
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Firedoglake, Hit & Run, The Volokh Conspiracy, Ezra Klein, SCOTUSblog, PointOfLaw Forum, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Kagan's recusals take her out of action in many of the Supreme Court's cases — Elena Kagan begins hearing cases as the Supreme Court's 112th justice Monday morning. But anyone who wants to see her in action needs to be sharp. — Kagan will hear the first case argued before the court …
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Slate:
Trick 2: Misdirection — Every great illusionist masters …
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Josh Blackman's Blog, The Plum Line and National Review
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
It's the first Monday in October, time for people like Barry Friedman …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
O'Donnell said China plotting to take over US — WASHINGTON — Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn't divulge.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sen. Franken to stump for Del. Senate nominee Coons
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Brian Alexander / msnbc.com:
Pretzel nation: Americans have sex in 41 combinations — We aren't as bland as we might think, new study shows — Americans are often portrayed as being bland sexual mopes, compared to say, the French. But according to a new study, we actually routinely choose from more spicy combinations …
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aolnews.com:
Survey on America's Sexual Habits: We're Getting Friskier
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Condom Use Is Highest for Young, Study Finds
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The Daily Dish, culturekitchen and Feministing
Gallup:
GOP Well Positioned Among Likely Midterm Voters — Voting preferences remain close among registered voters — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's generic ballot for Congress among registered voters currently shows Republicans with 46% of the vote and Democrats with 43%, similar to the 46% to 46% tie reported a week ago.
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The Note:
Joe Miller: End Federal Minimum Wage, ‘Defund Certain Components’ of EPA — ABC News' Rick Klein reports: — Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller was in Washington last week to raise money and meet with some of the same establishment Republicans who supported his opponent in his primary.
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The Atlantic Online, The Moderate Voice and Joe. My. God.
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Alaska's Joe Miller Wants to Abolish Federal Minimum Wage
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Hotline On Call, The DSCC, Think Progress, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, msnbc.com, The Note, Washington Monthly, The Plum Line, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Ominous new Gallup findings for Democrats: Blacks still love Obama, others not so much — The good news for President Obama is his popular support among blacks is holding steady at 91%. — The bad news is no other group of potential voters likes him that much.
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theblogprof, National Review, Gateway Pundit and HillBuzz
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Approval Averages 45% in September
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Beltway Confidential, The Plum Line, Politics Daily, Liberty Pundits Blog, YID With LID, Ezra Klein and Weasel Zippers
Twitter Blog:
newtwitterceo — By all accounts Twitter is on a roll. We've redesigned our web site to great user feedback. Our user and usage numbers are growing at a rapid clip all around the world. We've launched an early, but successful, monetization effort. And, many top engineers …
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Hillicon Valley, New York Times, Guardian, TechCrunch, Scripting News, Fortune, Gawker, BlogPost, New York Magazine, Mashable!, Daring Fireball and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Pence's Priorities: Stopping Marriage Equality Is As Important As Fixing The Economy — Rep. Mike Pence's (R-IN) surprise win of the presidential straw poll at the Values Voters summit last month has generated speculation that he is positioning himself for a White House bid as a champion …
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msnbc.com, O.KayHenderson.com and Shakesville
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Matt Vasilogambros / Iowa Independent:
Pence rallies social conservatives, sidesteps 2012 questions
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Right Wing Watch and GOP 12
BBC:
‘German militants’ killed in Pakistan drone attack — US drone attacks have increased during the past month — At least eight al-Qaeda militants - some of whom were German nationals - have been killed in a drone attack in Pakistan, officials have told the BBC.
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Michael Georgy / Reuters:
Drone strike kills 8 Germans in northwest Pakistan
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The Jawa Report
Project Veritas:
Statement regarding CNN — Now that I've had a chance to watch CNN's “Right on the Edge” documentary, I'm happy to comment. I apologize for not saying anything sooner, but don't want to comment until I have all the facts at my disposal. — As you can imagine in our line of work …
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The Politico, Wonkette, Talking Points Memo, TPMMuckraker and Weigel
Kieran Crowley / New York Post:
Gay skydive teach axed for ‘gal grope’ — Tweet — A skydiving instructor who joked with a female student that he couldn't be falling for her because he's gay has filed a discrimination suit, claiming he was cut loose from his job because of the quip. — Donald Zarda was strapped tightly …
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MyFox DC, Left Coast Rebel, The Other McCain, JammieWearingFool, Gawker, New York Magazine and The Awl
DownWithTyranny!:
Could Congressional Progressives Come Out Of The Midterms In A Stronger Position? — There's the roll-up-your-sleaves-and-get-to- work way to win elections and then there's the Inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom about what candidates are supposed to do. Inside the Beltway it's …
The Huffington Post:
West Virginia Conservative Foundation's New Ad Warns Of Rep. Nick Rahall's Outreach To Arab-Americans (VIDEO) — What's Your Reaction: … Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) is the target of a well-funded attack campaign by a conservative nonprofit called the West Virginia Conservative Foundation …
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Weigel, TPMDC, New York Magazine and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Geert Wilders trial suspended after he attacks judge — Geert Wilders, the anti-Islam politician, told a Dutch court that he stood by his opinions that the Koran is a “fascist book” and Islam is as dangerous as Nazism, as he went on trial for inciting racial hatred.
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Jihad Watch, Right Pundits and Weasel Zippers
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Mondale to Obama: Ditch the ‘idiot boards’ — Former Vice President Walter Mondale suggested in an interview today President Obama stop relying on “idiot boards” — teleprompters, that is — to deliver his message to the American people. — “He uses these idiot boards to read speeches in television …
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CNN, Hot Air, MyFox DC and Pajamas Media
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Chasing Fox — The loud, cartoonish blood sport that's engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN—and is making our body politic delirious. — In the spring of 2006, a year and a half after he was hired to run CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein went to his boss Jim Walton with an idea. CNN was in trouble.
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Washington Post, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, NewsBusters.org and JustOneMinute
Ambarish Kenghe / Google TV Blog:
Here comes Google TV — It's been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we're happy to give you an update on our progress. For those who haven't yet heard of it, Google TV is a new way to think about TV: it's a platform that combines …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fear and Favor — A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you're starring in “The Birth of a Nation,” but you're actually just extras in a remake of “Citizen Kane.” — True, there have been some changes in the plot.
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Gibbs won't rule out DNC appointment — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday he loves his job, but he would not rule out a transition to chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). — Reports over the weekend indicated Gibbs was being considered for the DNC post …
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