Paladino Attacks Gays in Brooklyn Speech  —  The Republican candidate for governor, Carl P. Paladino, told a gathering in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Sunday that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that homosexuality was acceptable, and criticized his opponent …

Obama has the book thrown at him: Moment a missile narrowly misses the U.S. President's head during campaign rally  —  This is the astonishing moment a book was apparently hurled at the head of U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia.  —  The flying missile narrowly missed hitting the President today.

Obama continues attack on Chamber of Commerce  —  The White House intensified its attacks Sunday on the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its alleged ties to foreign donors, part of an escalating Democratic effort to link Republican allies with corporate and overseas interests ahead of the November midterm elections.

Hey, Small Spender  —  Here's the narrative you hear everywhere: President Obama has presided over a huge expansion of government, but unemployment has remained high.  And this proves that government spending can't create jobs.  —  Here's what you need to know: The whole story is a myth.

3 Share Nobel Economics Prize for Labor Analysis  —  The 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded on Monday to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A Pissarides for their work on markets where buyers and sellers have difficulty finding each other, in particular in labor markets.

Newt Gingrich: on the edge or over the line?  —  In August, Newt Gingrich compared backers of a mosque near Ground Zero to Nazis putting up signs at the Holocaust museum.  In September, came his assertion that President Barack Obama is motivated by a “Kenyan anti-colonial” world view.

Cable news chatter is changing the electoral landscape  —  When Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News program, he read her some advice from another Fox commentator, Sarah Palin.  —  Palin, urging the Delaware Republican to “speak through Fox News,” …

Congressional Staffers Gain From Trading in Stocks  —  WASHINGTON—Chris Miller nearly doubled his $3,500 stock investment in a renewable-energy firm in 2008.  It was a perfectly legal bet, but he's no ordinary investor.  —  Mr. Miller is the top energy-policy adviser to Nevada Democrat …

RACE OF THE DAY: W.Va.-01  —  When former President Bill Clinton rallies for Gov. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) Monday, standing in his shadow will be Democratic congressional candidate Mike Oliverio, who's in a tight open seat race against Republican David McKinley this fall.

Shadowy players in a new class war  —  The 2010 election is turning into a class war.  The wealthy and the powerful started it.  —  This is a strange development.  President Obama, after all, has been working overtime to save capitalism.  Wall Street is doing just fine, and the rich are getting richer again.

HOLY COW!  Republican AZ-7 Challenger McClung Now in ‘Dead Heat’ with Grijalva  —  BOSTON — Just got back from Sean Bielat headquarters, where one volunteer said she's starting to sense a “Scott Brown feeling” about the campaign against Barney Frank.  Logged onto my e-mail and saw a tip …

Mankiw's Taxes  —  Greg Mankiw admits that he could afford to pay higher tax rates, but says that higher rates do affect his incentives to take on more work: … Do you see the card he palmed?  Basically, the effect of letting the Bush cuts expire is so tiny that the only way to make it noticeable …