memeorandum: British intelligence denies US terror warnings sparked by new info (Richard Norton-Taylor/Guardian)

8:45 AM ET, October 4, 2010

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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 …

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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:

Brown: Tea Partiers ‘do not seem to much like America the way we are’ — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) argued in an op-ed that the Tea Party is divisive, driven by anger and doesn't like America “the way we are.” — Writing in Monday's USA Today, Brown said that liberals should be proud …

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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.

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Michael Patrick Leahy / Big Journalism:
News the Old Media Won't Tell You: More Trash at One Sparsely …

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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so

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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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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Reason.tv: What We Saw At And Who We Talked With at the One Nation …

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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

DNC boasts best fundraising month in 2010 cylce 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 …

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John / Verum Serum:

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.

Discussion: Flopping Aces, NewsBusters.org, Atlas Shrugs, Moonbattery and Gateway Pundit

Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:

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 …

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

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.

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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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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’

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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.

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T.W. Farnamand Dan Eggen / Washington Post:

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.

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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 …