Angle: “I'm not sure I can win” if Ashjian's in, nat'l GOPers “have lost their principles,” need to “leave me alone”  — Team Angle on tape: Shows she is ‘blunt, plain spoken’ leader: Team Reid: ‘supreme hypocrisy’ by trying to make deal  —  That's just some of what GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle …

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.

AS THE WORLD BURNS  —  How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.  —  On April 20, 2010, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman, along with three aides, visited Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, at the White House.

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.

DNC boasts best fundraising month in 2010 cycle with $16M  —  Democrats boasted their best fundraising month of this cycle, raising over $16 million in the month of September.  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will report over $16 million in revenues from last month when its files …

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.

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 …

Cheap Debt for Corporations Fails to Spur Economy  —  As many households and small businesses are being turned away by bank loan officers, large corporations are borrowing vast sums of money for next to nothing — simply because they can.  —  Companies like Microsoft are raising billions …

Interest-group spending for midterm up fivefold from 2006; many sources secret  —  Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from.

How an unloved bail-out saved America  —  America's troubled asset relief programme - better known as Tarp - died on Sunday, at the age of two.  The causes of death were bitter politics and financial illiteracy.  Hatched in the post-Lehman bankruptcy panic, Tarp allowed Barack Obama …

Restoring Honor vs. One Nation: The Animated Gif  —  I have tweaked the photos a bit to make them more similar (exposure, sharpening, etc.) but I have not done anything to the crowds or any cloning.  Quite a difference:  —  Remember, the organizers were claiming they definitely had more people.

Rendell Says He'd Like to Succeed Emanuel, Not Expecting Offer From Obama  —  Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says he'd love to replace Rahm Emanuel as Barack Obama's next chief of staff, while allowing that he may be the last person the president would pick for the job.

Democrats seize on signs of hope  —  Once-despondent Democrats now believe that they may be able to avert a total midterm wipeout, as a series of important states now appears to be trending in their direction or growing more competitive.  —  The bad news: In a sign of how hostile …

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.

British intelligence denies US terror warnings sparked by new info  —  US warning of commando terror attacks in Europe irritates European officials, who say no evidence plot is imminent  —  Fresh warnings of possible terror attacks in Europe issued by the US were not sparked any new intelligence …

Rousseff falls short of outright win in Brazil election  —  For Serra's supporters, a second round is an achievement in itself  —  Brazil's presidential election will go to a second round after Dilma Rousseff failed to gain the 50% of votes needed for an outright victory.

First Monday  —  The Supreme Court enjoys all but free rein in selecting which cases to review.  From the end of one term in the summer until the start of the next, on the first Monday in October, the work of the court is to sift through thousands of petitions from parties that lost …

Disloyal Dems: Will Pelosi strike back?  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become a punching bag for struggling Democratic House colleagues this fall, but some mouthy members have hit below the belt, raising questions about whether they'll face a Pelosi punishment after the elections.