Top Items:
Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller security guards handcuff editor — The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller on camera at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
RELATED:
Alaska Dispatch:
Alaska Dispatch editor detained at Miller event [updated] — Alaska Dispatch founder and editor Tony Hopfinger was grabbed and handcuffed by a private security detail working for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller on Sunday while trying to ask the Fairbanks Republican questions following …
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice, Little Green Footballs, Ben Smith's Blog and Riehl World View
Craig Medred / Alaska Dispatch:
Miller guard says editor refused to leave private event — A security guard who pushed Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger into a wall and handcuffed him after a town hall meeting for Senate candidate Joe Miller on Sunday afternoon in Anchorage said he did so because Hopfinger refused to leave a private event.
Discussion:
Politics Daily and Balloon Juice
KTUU-TV:
Miller security allegedly arrests journalist at public event
Miller security allegedly arrests journalist at public event
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and skippy the bush kangaroo
The Huffington Post:
Joe Miller Security Guards Handcuff & Detain ‘Alaska Dispatch’ Editor
Joe Miller Security Guards Handcuff & Detain ‘Alaska Dispatch’ Editor
Discussion:
Guardian, BAGnewsNotes and Conservatives4Palin.com
William Yardley / The Caucus:
News Editor Detained by Security Guards for Alaska Senate Candidate
News Editor Detained by Security Guards for Alaska Senate Candidate
Discussion:
FrumForum
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BUCK COMPARES HOMOSEXUALITY TO ALCOHOLISM.... Ken Buck has already made quite a name for himself as Colorado's right-wing Senate candidate. From extremist positions on the issues to inexplicable professional misjudgments, the Republican nominee stands out — but not in a good way.
Discussion:
The Reaction and Balloon Juice
RELATED:
msnbc.com:
Meet the Press transcript for Oct. 17, 2010
Meet the Press transcript for Oct. 17, 2010
Discussion:
Petrelis Files, Althouse, Politics Daily, The Politico and The Daily Caller
Hotline On Call:
Buck Stumbles in Debate, Opens Door For Bennet
Buck Stumbles in Debate, Opens Door For Bennet
Discussion:
GayPatriot, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars and Outside the Beltway
Michael Riley / Denver Post:
Buck's remarks on homosexuality loom after Meet the Press debate
Buck's remarks on homosexuality loom after Meet the Press debate
Discussion:
AMERICAblog News and Wonk Room
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Asked 7 Times, Fiorina Fails To Give A Frustrated Wallace One Solution To Cut Spending — Touting her outisde, business-executive saavy, GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R-CA) constantly chants the GOP mantra to cut government spending. She even released a budget plan last month intended …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, TBogg, News Hounds and Ballot Box
RELATED:
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Rand Paul To Jack Conway: ‘You Demean Kentucky’ — Whatever was left of the gloves in the heated Kentucky Senate race came off tonight. In a televised debate from the University of Louisville, Republican nominee Rand Paul lashed out at his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway …
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and The Reality-Based Community
RELATED:
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
How GOP could win the 10 seats needed to take back Senate — Since 1930, party control of the House has flipped seven times. And each time, Senate control has also switched. — The reason is simple: Wave elections are, well, wave-y. If the voting public wants to send a message to the majority party …
Discussion:
Washington Wire, Scared Monkeys, Outside the Beltway and The Page
RELATED:
James Hohmann / The Politico:
The Democrats' brutal weekend
The Democrats' brutal weekend
Discussion:
Commentary, Stop The ACLU, CNN, The Hill and The Caucus
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook in Privacy Breach — Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring. — Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc …
Discussion:
Telegraph, Guardian, New York Magazine, Boing Boing and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Barbara Starr / CNN:
NATO official: Bin Laden, deputy hiding in northwest Pakistan — Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said.
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Raw Story, Barcepundit and The Page
Michael Sandoval / National Review:
Slaphappy in CO-7: Perlmutter Slaps Frazier (Literally-w/video) Over Health Care; Candidates Exchange Verbal Jabs — Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter and GOP challenger Ryan Frazier verbally sparred over many issues, from energy and taxes to foreign policy and the national debt.
Discussion:
JammieWearingFool and Gateway Pundit
The Huffington Post:
Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter — LISTEN TO THE FULL OBAMA April 6. FUNDRAISER SPEECH HERE Some highlights - Obama responds to Krugman toward the end of the audio (46:20); Obama discloses his trip to Pakistan (40:17); Obama discusses fundraising successes …
Discussion:
Betsy's Page and RedState
RELATED:
Byron York / Beltway Confidential:
Obama: Dems are in trouble because Americans aren't thinking clearly
Obama: Dems are in trouble because Americans aren't thinking clearly
Discussion:
Questions and Observations and The Daily Caller
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rare and Foolish — Last month a Chinese trawler operating in Japanese-controlled waters collided with two vessels of Japan's Coast Guard. Japan detained the trawler's captain; China responded by cutting off Japan's access to crucial raw materials. — And there was nowhere else to turn …
Discussion:
naked capitalism and FrumForum
IEC:
The IEC make decisions to announce the Elections results. — The IEC Management Team gather at IEC, National Tally Center in Kabul, to audit the documents and make decisions on announcing election results. To see the IEC decisions please click here. — The IEC Releases Partial and Preliminary Results
RELATED:
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Widespread Fraud Is Seen in Afghan Elections
Widespread Fraud Is Seen in Afghan Elections
Discussion:
FrumForum
BBC:
France: Saudis warn of new al-Qaeda threat — French security forces have been on high alert for several weeks following earlier attack warnings — Saudi Arabia has warned France it is the target of an imminent al-Qaeda attack, French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has said.
Discussion:
Israel Matzav and protein wisdom
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Video: Angle tells Hispanic kids “I'm not sure those are Latinos” in her ad (!), says really about northern border (!!) — If this isn't Sharron Angle, the great revisionist historian, in a nutshell, I'm not sure what is. — In the video clip at right, you not only can see the GOP U.S …
Discussion:
Little Green Footballs
New York Times:
Amid Anger at Albany, Poll Shows Support for Cuomo — New York voters are profoundly pessimistic about the state economy, worried that they or someone in their household will be laid off in the coming year, and convinced that Albany is rife with corruption.
Discussion:
Politerati, Daily Kos, Front Row Washington and The Page
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Groups Push Legal Limits in Advertising — A recent television commercial sponsored by an Iowa-based nonprofit group, American Future Fund, attacking Representative Bobby Bright, an Alabama Democrat, could hardly have been more explicit in its closing: “On Election Day,” the narrator said, “take the right path.
Discussion:
The Politico, Prairie Weather and The Hill