Top Items:
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NPR Ends Analyst's Contract After Comments on Muslims — NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel. — NPR said in a statement that it gave Mr. Williams notice of his termination on Wednesday night.
RELATED:
Michelle Malkin:
Firing offense: NPR axes Juan Williams for opinions on Muslims & post-9/11 travel — Un-freaking-believable. — Cable news blogger Johnny Dollar red-flagged NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik's Twitter feed, which announced tonight that liberal NPR analyst/Fox News contributor Juan Williams' contract …
P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:
Screw Free Speech, NPR Fires Juan Williams for Muslim Remarks
Discussion:
Breitbart.tv and News Hounds
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 …
Discussion:
Blue Gal
RELATED:
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
John Roberts's America — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — I wish Chief Justice John Roberts could spend a day and a night in the Rocky Mountains experiencing what his activist Supreme Court majority has dumped on the American voter in 2010. — The sludge flow from out-of-state, secretive political groups is unrelenting.
New York Times:
The Justices and Decorum Outside the Courtroom
Discussion:
Washington Post, The Caucus and Law Blog
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
What Role Have Scalia And Thomas Played In The Koch Money Machine?
Discussion:
NewsBusters.org blogs, No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post
The Huffington Post:
Justices Scalia And Thomas's Attendance At Koch Event Sparks Judicial Ethics Debate
Discussion:
Yglesias, No More Mister Nice Blog, Comments from Left Field and The Washington Independent
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 …
Discussion:
Hullabaloo
RELATED:
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Climate Change Doubt Is Tea Party Article of Faith
Discussion:
The Reality-Based Community and New York Times
Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: Voters are not worried about ‘extreme’ label on candidates
Discussion:
The Note, The Politico and Commentary
Judy L. Thomas / Kansas City Star:
NAACP releases report accusing tea party groups of links to bigots
Discussion:
Politics Daily, Confederate Yankee, Pajamas Media, CBS News, Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and ThinkProgress
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Tea Party Express's pricey cruises
Discussion:
Washington Post, CNN, Anchorage Daily News, Liberal Values and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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.
Discussion:
New York Magazine and Swampland
RELATED:
Steve Peoples / Roll Call:
GOP Has Absentee Ballot Advantage in Pennsylvania
Discussion:
National Review and Beltway Confidential
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.
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
George Soros' “foreign” money — George Soros announced today that he was making his first-ever contribution to Media Matters, in the amount of $1 million. Rush Limbaugh denounced this as “foreign money in American politics” and called Soros “a foreigner.”
Discussion:
Media Matters for America and Mediaite
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.
RELATED:
Fox News:
Federal Appeals Court Says Military's Gay Ban Should Stay in Place for Now — SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court says the military should keep in place its “don't ask, don't tell” policy for now. — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Obama administration's request …
RELATED:
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Majority of independent voters say Dem leadership is more left wing than they are — In another potentially troubling sign for Democratic candidates, three in five independent voters in key House districts say Congress's Democratic leadership is to the left of them on the political spectrum.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Time and Conservatives4Palin.com
RELATED:
Vauhini Vara / Washington Wire:
Joe Miller Files FEC Complaint
Discussion:
The Immoral Minority and Progressive Alaska
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.
Discussion:
Boston Globe, The Other McCain, Power Line and Da Techguy's Blog
RELATED:
Teddy Applebaum / Dover-Sherborn Press News RSS:
Bielat raises more money than Frank in the congressman's hometown
Discussion:
Boston Globe, Weasel Zippers, American Glob, JammieWearingFool and GayPatriot
Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
Majority says no ‘change’ under Obama, or change for the worse — A majority of voters in key battleground races say President Obama has either brought no change to Washington or has brought change for the worse. — In 10 competitive House districts, 41 percent of likely voters say Obama …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, GayPatriot and Gateway Pundit
David Weigel / Weigel:
Cindy Sheehan Goes Republican — After a fashion, anyway: She encourages Nancy Pelosi to debate her Republican opponent, John Dennis, and suggests that voters should take a look at him. … I talked to Dennis, who is happy with the quasi-endorsement — he, too, mentioned that he was backed by Gonzalez …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers and Beltway Confidential
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 …
Discussion:
Newsalert
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Citing Rep. Grayson's ‘gutter theatrics,’ GOP challenger refuses to debate — After Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) attacked his Republican challenger Dan Webster as “Taliban Dan” in a recent campaign ad, Webster is refusing to share the stage with him for a debate.
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Times and JammieWearingFool
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
Rough Sketch, Pharyngula, Little Green Footballs, Washington Monthly, Mediaite and Climate Progress
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.
Discussion:
Above the Law, Mediaite, Gothamist, ProfessorBainbridge.com, The Daily Politics, New York Magazine and DealBook
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Coalition Routs Taliban in Southern Afghanistan — ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces have been routing the Taliban in much of the insurgency's base of Kandahar Province in recent weeks, forcing many hardened fighters to flee strongholds they have held for years in the face …
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Newshoggers.com and Registan.net
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.
Discussion:
Firedoglake
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.
Discussion:
POWIP and National Review
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
