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RedState:
Exclusive Video: Lauren Valle Before The Head Stomp Vid — RedState has obtained exclusive video of the precipitating events prior to the “head stomping incident” at a recent Rand Paul event, which can be viewed below the fold. — Let us begin with what should be obvious and unnecessary to discuss: don't stomp on anyone's head.
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Ryan J. Reilly / TPMDC:
Kentucky Stomper Wants An Apology From Woman He Assaulted (VIDEO) — Tim Profitt — the former Rand Paul volunteer who stomped on the head of a MoveOn activist — told told local CBS station WKYT that he wants an apology from the woman he stomped and that she started the whole thing.
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The Moderate Voice, Lance Mannion, Barefoot and Progressive, Washington Monthly, Left Coast Rebel, WKYT-TV, Indecision Forever, The Awl, Wonkette, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Impolitic, Raw Story, Blue Bluegrass, Boing Boing, Balloon Juice, pandagon.net, The Poor Man Institute, Talking Points Memo, First Draft and Lisa Graas
Gabriel Roxas / WKYT-TV:
Paul supporters who clashed with liberal activist speak out … A Rand Paul supporter is being ordered to appear in court so a judge can decide whether charges are warranted after he was caught on camera stomping on a liberal activist. — NEWSFIRST talked with the two men at the center of the whole ordeal.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Head-Stomper To Victim: ‘I Would Like For Her To Apologize To Me’ — Tim Profitt, the former Bourbon County campaign coordinator for Kentucky GOP Senate nominee Rand Paul's campaign, gave the AP a non-apology apology yesterday for stomping on the head of a MoveOn.org activist outside …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Conway campaign keeps hammering Paul on stomping incident
Conway campaign keeps hammering Paul on stomping incident
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The Politico and SFGate
Chris Carl / WDEL 1150AM, Wilmington, DE:
O'Donnell campaign threatens to sue WDEL — The Christine O'Donnell campaign is apologizing to WDEL after it demanded that video of an O'Donnell appearance on “The Rick Jensen Show” be destroyed and threatened a lawsuit if it wasn't. — In a Tuesday afternoon appearance on WDEL, O'Donnell …
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TPMDC, WDEL 1150AM & WDEL.com, Wonkette, Raw Story, Gawker, The Daily Dish, The Eye and Washington Post
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell threatened to sue radio station — Christine O'Donnell threatened Tuesday to sue a Delaware radio station for not turning over a videotape of an interview with the Republican Senate nominee. — A campaign official demanded that WDEL give them the tape of the interview …
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The Atlantic Online and Outside the Beltway
Fhardingj / CNN:
TRENDING: O'Donnell threatened to sue radio station
TRENDING: O'Donnell threatened to sue radio station
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller admits to lies about his actions — DISCIPLINE: Suspension, probation in 2008 after admitting to violating ethics policy while borough attorney. — scockerham@adn.com — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Joe Miller admitted in 2008 that he lied after being caught using Fairbanks …
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Docs: Miller lied about misconduct — Documents released Tuesday by the local government attorney's office that once employed Alaskan Senate candidate Joe Miller reveal the GOP nominee admitted to inappropriately using his colleague's computers for political activity after initially lying about doing so.
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CNN, Rough Sketch, The Note, SpeakEasy and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The GOP's Deficit Plan: Borrow As You Go — The Republicans have a new plan to make it easier to rack up deficits: … Let me explain what this is all about. “Paygo” was a reform imposed by the 1990 budget agreement that required Congress to offset the cost of any new entitlement program …
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Yglesias and A plain blog about politics
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Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
Employers in U.S. Start Bracing for Higher Tax Withholding
Employers in U.S. Start Bracing for Higher Tax Withholding
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The Atlantic Online, Beltway Confidential and The Sundries Shack
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GET TO KNOW ‘CUTGO’.... The “Paygo” policies of the 1990s proved …
GET TO KNOW ‘CUTGO’.... The “Paygo” policies of the 1990s proved …
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Booman Tribune
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Why American Voters Are Suing Dr Obama — A British take on the mid-term elections: … Wolf rightly calls this a “propaganda coup,” and it is indeed primarily Roger Ailes' achievement. But Wolf also criticizes Obama's policy on the same line as Krugman, but with less of a sledgehammer.
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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Why US voters are suing Dr Obama — An ambulance stops by the roadside to help a man suffering from a heart attack. After desperate measures, the patient survives. Brought into hospital, he then makes a protracted and partial recovery. Then, two years later, far from feeling grateful, he sues the paramedics and doctors.
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Connecting.the.Dots, Swampland and Economix
Washington Post:
Feds arrest N.Va. man in D.C. Metro bomb plot — Federal law enforcement authorities have arrested a Northern Virginia man in connection with an alleged plot to carry out a series of terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system, according to a federal indictment.
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City Desk, TBD All News, Gawker, TPMMuckraker, Talking Points Memo and Boing Boing
Michelle Malkin:
Hah: Sharron Angle sends Behar flowers; Update: Open-borders Behar responds on The Spew, reiterates “bitch” comment — After Joy Behar's “bitch” session on The Spew yesterday, Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle struck back...with flowers and a cheery note. — Via Elizabeth Crum at NRO Battle '10:
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The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Big Hollywood, Examiner and Conservatives4Palin.com
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Just the Story, Ma'am. — Last week I asked why reporters don't more often ask candidates, “What exactly are you talking about?” when they make sweeping claims about things like our freedoms being taken away. And last night, Rachel Maddow's program featured her doing just that when talking …
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Washington Monthly, ACS Blog and The Plum Line
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Suppressing the Vote, GOP Style
Suppressing the Vote, GOP Style
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Minneapolis Star Tribune, Indecision Forever and National Review
Alex Altman / Time:
Poll: Independents Keep GOP Ahead in Four Key Senate Races — From left: Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle, moderator Mitch Fox and Senate majority leader Harry Reid appear at a debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 14, 2010 — Democrats may not lose their Senate majority …
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The Page, Hotline On Call and Conservatives4Palin.com
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Jon Stewart Ridicules The Seeming Hypocrisy Of John McCain's Political Career — Last night was the second of The Daily Show's taping in Washington D.C. (in advance of the weekend's Rally to Restore Sanity) and Jon Stewart's exploration of incongruous political rhetoric was once again, the topic of the show.
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Raw Story, SpeakEasy, TPMDC, TBD All News and TPM LiveWire
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Ryan Kearney / TBD All News:
A guide to the misguided criticism of the Stewart/Colbert rally
A guide to the misguided criticism of the Stewart/Colbert rally
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Rough Sketch, sisu and PostPartisan
Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Health Care Is Ailing Democrats — Dems who stuck with Obama on health care are in the deepest trouble. — Election Day isn't until Tuesday, but the postgame spin has already begun. Conventional wisdom is blaming Democrats' expected poor performance on the lousy economy.
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Politics Daily
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The Huffington Post:
Obama Conducts First Sit-Down With Progressive Bloggers — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has gone on a veritable media blitz as the election has approached, speaking to reporters in off-record settings, doing sit-down interviews with traditional …
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AMERICAblog News, Political Punch, Pam's House Blend, Ben Smith's Blog and Gateway Pundit
Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
2012 Begins: Dems Seek Pentagon Info on Likely Obama Challengers — DNC Requests Records Related to Palin, Romney, Seven Other Possible 2012 Contenders — The Democratic National Committee formally has asked the Pentagon for reams of correspondence between military agencies …
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Conservatives4Palin.com
Bruce Horovitz / USA Today:
Kimberly-Clark rolls out tube-free Scott toilet paper — The toilet paper roll is about to undergo its biggest change in 100 years: going tubeless. — On Monday, Kimberly-Clark, one of the world's biggest makers of household paper products, will begin testing Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper …
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Blue Gal, The Atlantic Online, Gizmodo and The Consumerist
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
In Writings of Obama, a Philosophy Is Unearthed — When the Harvard historian James T. Kloppenberg decided to write about the influences that shaped President Obama's view of the world, he interviewed the president's former professors and classmates, combed through his books, essays …
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Prairie Weather
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Early Voting v. Likely Voters — The Democratic National Committee's targeting team sent senior political strategists and White House officials another early voting memo today, and their bottom line is this: while there are states that Republicans can crow about—Florida is one of them …
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Public Policy Polling
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Dem game plan: Divide and conquer — With just six days left until Election Day, a key component of the Democratic strategy to hold the House is becoming clear: In more than a dozen close races, Democrats are encouraging and advancing little-known, conservative third-party candidates …
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Front Row Washington and The Monkey Cage
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
In its biggest foreign market, BMW gets skilled workers for less — GREER, S.C. - When German automaker BMW put out the call recently to hire a thousand factory workers here, the people who responded reflected the upheaval occurring in the U.S. economy. — Among the applicants …
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The Huffington Post and The Atlantic Online
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Caffeine and Alcohol Drink Is Potent Mix for Young — Mixing alcohol and caffeine is hardly a new concept, but a rash of cases involving students and others who landed at hospitals after drinking beverages that combine the two in a single large can has alarmed college and health officials around the country.
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Classical Values, Left Coast Rebel, Gawker and The Agonist
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
W.Va. probe worries Democrats — A federal investigation into West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin's administration has taken a disturbing turn for his Democratic supporters: agents reportedly have subpoenaed the director of the state Aviation Division, along with flight logs and records for official government aircraft.
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Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, NRSC, TPMMuckraker and National Review
Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Mighty Talons of the Climate Hawks — I don't really have much to say about it, but I've spent the past few days being taken in by Dave Roberts' effort to popularize the concept of “climate hawks” so I thought I should do my part. — What's a climate hawk?
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The New Republic