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Tom Brown / Reuters:
Judge lets states' healthcare suit go forward — (Reuters) - U.S. states can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform law, a Florida judge ruled on Thursday. — U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had already indicated at a hearing …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Lawsuit against health care bill will be heard — A federal judge in Florida has allowed key parts of a lawsuit against the federal health care overhaul to proceed, presaging a long legal battle over the legislation. — Judge Roger Vinson of Florida's Northern District, a Reagan appointee …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Florida judge: Fight against insurance mandate can proceed
Florida judge: Fight against insurance mandate can proceed
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Justice Department seeks stay on gay ban injunction
Justice Department seeks stay on gay ban injunction
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Judge disses Dems' ‘Alice in Wonderland’ health defense
Judge disses Dems' ‘Alice in Wonderland’ health defense
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
POLL: Voters more likely to see Democrats as dominated by extremists — Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP. — This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
It's an attack ad that writes itself: The House Republican leader, Rep. John Boehner (Ohio), votes with liberal Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a majority of the time. — The statistic seems impossible to believe, given the ferocity with which Boehner denounces Pelosi, the progressive champion …
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Dave McKinney / Chicago Sun Times:
Whitney is ‘Whitey’ on some ballots — SPRINGFIELD — The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled as “Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas — and election officials said Wednesday …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yo, Rich Whitey! — Rich Whitney is the Green party candidate for governor in Illinois this year. But there's been a small matter of a typo on the state's electronic voting machines. On electronic voting machines in 23 wards — about half of which are predominantly African-American districts …
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Eric Lach / TPMDC:
Illinois Candidate's Name Misspelled As ‘Rich Whitey’ On Electronic-Voting Machines
Illinois Candidate's Name Misspelled As ‘Rich Whitey’ On Electronic-Voting Machines
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Ezra Klein:
Why don't the markets care about the foreclosure crisis? — The foreclosure mess really looks pretty bad. Here's one vision of the worst-case, bad-case and even not-so-bad scenarios. They're all grim. Here's a “doomsday scenario.” The words “TARP” and “two” are getting thrown around a lot …
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Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
Foreclosure-Gate's Doomsday Scenario — The documentation problems surrounding mortgages originated during the housing boom just get uglier and uglier. One of the most recently surfaced worries is also one of the most serious. Bank analyst Josh Rosner envisions a doomsday scenario …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Why Christine O'Donnell Could Be More Dangerous Than Sarah Palin — Because she has the idiot bravado of the talk show regular. — I write this 2/3rds of the way into her “debate” with Chris Coons in Newark, Delaware. Sarah Palin was wounded by Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell can't name Supreme Court case
Christine O'Donnell can't name Supreme Court case
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CNN: Chris Coons “can barely contain his disdain for his opponent”
CNN: Chris Coons “can barely contain his disdain for his opponent”
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Since Dick Cheney shot him, Harry Whittington's aim has been to move on — AUSTIN — Nearly five years on, Harry Whittington still speaks with a slight flutter in his voice — a “warble,” he calls it, inadvertently choosing a bird metaphor. His easy East Texas drawl changed forever …
Dana Davis Rehm / NPR:
Why Can't NPR Staff Go To ‘Rally To Restore Sanity’ Or ‘March To Keep Fear Alive’? — The answer is they can - if they are assigned to cover the events. — But news staff and others covered by NPR's ethics policy should not go. — We've received enormous attention from media …
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
News outlets caution staffers about Stewart-Colbert events
News outlets caution staffers about Stewart-Colbert events
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Why the Reid-Angle debate matters so much — Debates, like newspaper endorsements, tend to be a slightly overrated commodity in politics. — Typically, debates are mundane affairs watched closely by small groups of partisans on each side — factors that virtually ensure they are not …
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Entering tonight's debate, poll shows Angle ahead of Reid
Entering tonight's debate, poll shows Angle ahead of Reid
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Murkowski backers worry about spoilers — As Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) makes her write-in bid for Senate official, filing paperwork with state elections officials Wednesday, she faces a new concern—some backers worry that opponents are searching for a way to torpedo her campaign …
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Election 2010: Alaska Senate
Election 2010: Alaska Senate
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New York Times:
Bankers Ignored Signs of Trouble on Foreclosures — At JPMorgan Chase & Company, they were derided as “Burger King kids” — walk-in hires who were so inexperienced they barely knew what a mortgage was. — At Citigroup and GMAC, dotting the i's and crossing the t's on home foreclosures …
Shaggles / Media Matters for America:
Beck calls on his listeners to donate to Chamber of Commerce, says he's in for $10K — From the October 14 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: — Please upgrade your flash player. The video for this item requires a newer version of Flash Player.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Glenn Beck asks listeners to give Chamber its biggest fundraising day ever
Glenn Beck asks listeners to give Chamber its biggest fundraising day ever
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes — A new analysis of political signs displayed at a tea party rally in Washington last month reveals that the vast majority of activists expressed narrow concerns about the government's economic and spending policies …
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Marilyn Werber Serafini / Washington Post:
GOP pollster warns candidates on ‘repeal and replace’ — As the November elections approach, House Republican leaders are trying to capitalize on public dislike of the new health-care law - about half of voters oppose it - by vowing to “repeal and replace” it.
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
After O'Reilly's Rants About How ‘Muslims Killed Us On 9/11!’ Goldberg And Behar Storm Off Set — This morning, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly appeared on The View and chatted with the hosts about a variety of the day's issues. At one point, the discussion turned to the topic of Park 51 …
Charles Johnson / Guardian:
Pamela Geller and the bloggers of hate — My site gave Geller her ‘break’ on the web. These days, I work hard to stop such extremists drowning out the moderate majority — If you happened to read the Sunday New York Times last weekend, you might have seen Anne Barnard and Alan Feuer's profile …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Yes, voters do care about secret cash funding elections! — It has become an article of faith among certain Beltway inside-game commentators that there's no way the Dem attack on secret money funding elections could ever have a prayer of working. Surely the issue is too esoteric …
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Wall Street Journal:
Capitalism Saved the Miners — The profit = innovation dynamic was everywhere at the mine rescue site. — It needs to be said. The rescue of the Chilean miners is a smashing victory for free-market capitalism. — Amid the boundless human joy of the miners' liberation, it may seem churlish to make such a claim.
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NPR:
‘Nonpolitical’ Groups Target Democrats In Ad Blitz … This election season, more money than ever is flowing from supposedly nonpolitical groups into TV ad campaigns. — Americans for Job Security ad targeting Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) — Most of the ads are negative …
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Laura Roberts / Telegraph:
India's richest man Mukesh Ambani moves into £630m home — The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, has moved into his new home in Mumbai which is 27 storeys high and worth £630m. — Ambani, his wife and three children have moved into the building which is named Antilia, after a mythical Island.
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New York Magazine
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
The Pink House — The White House is going pink. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the White House will be bathed in pink light as President Obama honors National Breast Cancer Awareness month. — White House spokesman Bill Burton tweeted the news Thursday morning:
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John Rossomando / The Daily Caller:
Republicans plan January takedowns of Obama's ‘czars’ — Republicans will have President Barack Obama's czars and his use of regulatory powers to circumvent congressional inaction on issues such as cap and trade in GOP crosshairs if the party takes control in January.
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Abby Phillip / The Politico:
Valerie Jarret apologizes for remark about gay teen — White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett apologized this morning for referring to a gay teen who committed suicide as having made a “lifestyle choice.” — The comments were made to Washington Post reporter John Capehart in an interview …
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