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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Call a Waaahmbulance: NAACP exhaustively details how the Tea Party's connections empower racism — Cue the right-wing wailing and gnashing of teeth: The NAACP has now fully backed up its accusations of racism within the Tea Party movement with a meticulously documented report …
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Kansas City Star, Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Hatewatch and Hullabaloo
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Jordan Fabian / Ballot Box:
Pa. Democrat admits helping Tea Party candidate — A Pennsylvania Democratic House candidate on Tuesday admitted to helping a third candidate get on the ballot in the hopes he would siphon votes away from his Republican opponent. — Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee running for the seat …
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Philly.com, POWIP, Don Surber, JammieWearingFool, National Review, iOwnTheWorld.com, Suburban Guerrilla and All American Blogger
Spiegel Online:
‘Obama Has Turned Out to Be an Utter Disaster’
‘Obama Has Turned Out to Be an Utter Disaster’
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Pajamas Media, Mediaite, The Politico, Raw Story, Left Coast Rebel, The Daily Caller, Riehl World View and Hot Air
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Tea Party Express's pricey cruises
Tea Party Express's pricey cruises
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CNN, Anchorage Daily News and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: Voters are not worried about ‘extreme’ label on candidates
THE HILL POLL: Voters are not worried about ‘extreme’ label on candidates
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The Note, The Politico and Commentary
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Stays DADT Injunction — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a temporary stay of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips's Oct. 12 order in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States halting all enforcement of the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy.
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Bush defends bailout of financial firms — Former President George W. Bush said a decision to use taxpayer money to bolster the financial system in 2008 wasn't difficult and was needed to avoid an economic collapse. — “Depression, no depression,” Bush told about 2,000 people during …
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Emily Guevara / Tyler Morning Telegraph:
Sold-Out Crowd Gives Former President Bush Three Standing Ovations During Speech — Former President George W. Bush pulled back the curtain of the Oval Office and gave East Texans a picture of what his job was like during the high and low points. — With trademark humor and conviction …
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Wake up America, Ben Smith's Blog and Weekly Standard
Lpratapas / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: All tied up in Alaska Senate race — (CNN) - A new poll indicates a dead-even race in the Alaska battle between Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller and GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who's running for re-election as a write-in candidate. But a CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation …
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Time and Conservatives4Palin.com
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Vauhini Vara / Washington Wire:
Joe Miller Files FEC Complaint
Joe Miller Files FEC Complaint
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Progressive Alaska and The Immoral Minority
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election — In 2006, Koch Industries owner Charles Koch revealed to the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore that he coordinates the funding of the conservative infrastructure of front groups …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
What Role Have Scalia And Thomas Played In The Koch Money Machine?
What Role Have Scalia And Thomas Played In The Koch Money Machine?
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The Huffington Post, The Caucus and NewsBusters.org blogs
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Soros Donates $1 Million to Media Matters — Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros.
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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Soros gives $1 million to Media Matters
Soros gives $1 million to Media Matters
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Big Government, Mediaite, iOwnTheWorld.com, Media Matters for America and The Huffington Post
Andy Borowitz / News Desk:
Shouts & Murmurs: Three Things to Do When Clarence Thomas's Wife Calls You — Like many Americans, over the past several years I have been the recipient of multiple unwelcome voicemails from the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. These calls have come in the middle of the night …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Maddow Falsely Claims Politician Had Advance Warning of Oklahoma City Bombing — I'm pretty sure that this was an error, not a knowing misstatement—when you're on a daily news cycle, the sad fact is that you probably won't remember everything you've ever said. Nonetheless, this demands a retraction:
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers — A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most historians but often made by groups seeking …
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Grim's Hall, Rough Sketch, The Atlantic Online, The Lede, Gawker, Little Green Footballs, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Maddow Blog and Unfogged
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Every big Senate race just got closer — A new wave of polling shows virtually every close Senate race growing even more competitive, raising the pressure on both parties in the final days of the midterm campaign. — In several states, Democratic candidates are on the upswing.
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New York Magazine and Swampland
New York Times:
Spitzer's Harvard Club Application? Rejected — In his emergence from political disgrace, Eliot Spitzer has played multiple roles: political commentator, financial columnist, college professor, and, most recently, CNN host. — One role he will not be playing: a member of the Harvard Club of New York City.
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Mediaite, Gothamist, Above the Law, Room Eight, The Daily Politics, New York Magazine and DealBook
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Glenn Beck: Evolution Is 'Ridiculous — I Haven't Seen A Half-Monkey, Half-Person Yet' — Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half-person? No? Well neither has Glenn Beck, which is how he knows evolution doesn't exist. — On his radio show today, Beck wondered how many people …
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Rough Sketch, Little Green Footballs, Washington Monthly, Pharyngula, Raw Story, Climate Progress and TPMMuckraker
Luke Funk / Traffic News:
Audit: NJ Turnpike Wasted Millions On Perks — MYFOXNY.COM - Auditors say the New Jersey Turnpike Authority wasted $43 million on unneeded perks and bonuses. In one case, an employee with a base salary of $73,469 earned $321,985 when all payouts and bonuses were included.
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POWIP and National Review
Erica Orden / Metropolis:
Rent Is Too Damn High: Single Issue, Singular Candidate … With his pledge to let a person “marry a shoe,” Rent Is Too Damn High candidate Jimmy McMillan became the crowd-pleaser of Monday night's governor debate. — McMillan, 64, may not have a particularly expansive platform …
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msnbc.com, Modeled Behavior, The Daily Politics and New York Magazine
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Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Opposing Excessive Rent, but Vague About His Own
Opposing Excessive Rent, but Vague About His Own
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New York Post, Gothamist, City Room, Left Coast Rebel and New York Magazine
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11 — Oct. 2008: American-born Al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. — Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass …
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Hot Air, Emptywheel, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Colorado Pols:
You Knew They'd Hit The Wrong Markey Eventually — UPDATE #2: Rep. Ed Markey (the Democrat from Massachusetts — the male Markey) chimes in with his own quote: … UPDATE: We've created this handy-dandy tool that allows you to quickly figure out which Markey you are trying to discuss …
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Politics Daily, CNN, Colorado Independent, TPMDC, New York Magazine and skippy the bush kangaroo
Dan Froomkin / NiemanWatchdog.org:
Nine stories the press is underreporting — fraud, fraud and more fraud — From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers — a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it from a lot of the media coverage, though.
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Firedoglake
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
A Culture of Poverty — In 2008, I was sent out to the Democratic convention to work on a piece for this magazine about Michelle Obama. I had just been hired on as a contributing editor, and was ecstatic. There was a community of young bloggers out there—Chris Bodenner, Alyssa Rosenberg, Dayo Olapade etc.
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Rival Gives Frank Some Unflattering New Steps — REVERE, Mass. — Representative Barney Frank was dancing around the issues — first doing a version of the Running Man, then the Sprinkler, then a disco boogie. — The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation.
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Boston Globe, Power Line, The Other McCain and Da Techguy's Blog
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Voters Oppose the Reelection of Anyone Who Voted for the Health Care Law, Auto Bailouts, Stimulus Plan — Incumbents, beware: The major votes you've cast in Congress over the past couple years appear likely to come back to haunt you this Election Day. — A new Rasmussen Reports …
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The Atlantic Online, Gateway Pundit and Wake up America
Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Don't Blame Citizens United — Since the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United ruling in January, Democrats have consistently blamed it for allowing secretive, shady, special-interest money to flow unabated into the U.S. political system, corrupting elections at an unprecedented pace.
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Democrats suffer from Americans' unwillingness to accept economic reality — It's one of the great fallacies in politics: Candidate Jones says X, Y and Z during the campaign. Candidate Jones wins the election. Ergo, the public agrees with X, Y and Z. — Certainly there are times …
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Dennis the Peasant, The Atlantic Online, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Daily Kos
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Dems call for McCain investigation — National Democrats have asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate whether Arizona Sen. John McCain violated campaign finance laws when his campaign paid to run ads for Republican House candidates in Arizona. — The Democratic Congressional …
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Daily Kos
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Making Ignorance Chic — Casanova's rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an intelligent woman she was beautiful. — The false choice between intellectualism and sexuality in women has persisted through the ages. There was no more poignant victim of it than Marilyn Monroe.
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Conservatives4Palin.com, Taylor Marsh, Commentary, AMERICAblog News, Prairie Weather and National Review
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
White House rejects gay judicial nominee — The White House has rejected the recommended nomination of a New York attorney who would have become the first openly gay man to sit on the federal bench, because of comments he reportedly made about the Pledge of Allegiance and Christmas that were deemed anti-Christian.
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Towleroad News #gay and Ben Smith's Blog