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Serena Williams / The Onion:
Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage — WASHINGTON—Brandishing shotguns and semiautomatic pistols, members of the 112th U.S. Congress took a class of visiting schoolchildren hostage this morning, barricading themselves inside the Capitol rotunda, where they remain at press time.
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Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
The Onion's tweets about Capitol gunfire prompt panic, mockery
The Onion's tweets about Capitol gunfire prompt panic, mockery
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Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
Onion takes heat from Capitol Police after tweets about gunfire
Onion takes heat from Capitol Police after tweets about gunfire
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The Politico, The Lonely Conservative and The Hill
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Joe Biden: The economy belongs to us, not Bush — Vice President Joe Biden said in a live interview with Miami public radio station WLRN Thursday that the Obama administration - not the Bush administration - now has ownership of the struggling U.S. economy.
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Steven Nelson / The Daily Caller:
Biden: Voters should blame Obama, not Bush, for economy — Vice President Joe Biden told Florida radio station WLRN on Thursday that voters should hold President Barack Obama, not former President George W. Bush, accountable for the poor state of America's economy.
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Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Perry Slumps in Polls, but Not to Romney's Gain — There have been three scientific national polls released of Republican voters since the Sept. 22 debate: a CNN poll that was conducted over the last weekend, and polls by Fox News and Economist/YouGov released on Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Taking Cain Seriously
Taking Cain Seriously
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Opinionator:
Is This Man the G.O.P.'s Best Bet for 2012?
Is This Man the G.O.P.'s Best Bet for 2012?
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David Frum / The Week Magazine:
Why the GOP should embrace Mitt Romney
Why the GOP should embrace Mitt Romney
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Huntsman Moves Headquarters to New Hampshire
Huntsman Moves Headquarters to New Hampshire
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Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With The Wall Street Protesters — According to Daily Kos, The New York Transit Workers Union (TWU) voted to support the Wall Street Protestors at their meeting last night. — A member of TWU Local 100 told a reporter that they would join the protest Friday at 4PM.
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Latest from Crain's New York Business:
Veteran agitators flock to Occupy Wall Street — The city's most experienced agitators—the labor and community groups that typically organize local marches, rallies and sit-ins—have been largely missing from the Occupy Wall Street protest that is in its 13th day at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.
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Maya Rodriguez / WWL-TV:
Anti-Obama sign in Uptown neighborhood draws controversy — NEW ORLEANS — There are several political signs attracting all kinds of attention in one Uptown neighborhood. — On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the corner of Calhoun and Coralie streets, looking at several signs depicting President Barack Obama …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Democrats Dispirited About Voting in 2012 — Republicans' enthusiasm for voting matches 2004 and exceeds 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — In thinking about the 2012 presidential election, 45% of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual …
Joel Siegel / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Is New Jersey Governor Too Overweight to Become President? — For Chris Christie, there was no way around it. “In case you haven't noticed, I'm slightly overweight,” he said during a debate in his successful campaign for governor. — Two years later, Christie is the man …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Irony alert: Romney cites wrong Brit in defense of flip-flops — By NBC's Garrett Haake and Jo Ling Kent — Speaking to a New Hampshire Town Hall audience of more than 250 yesterday, Mitt Romney addressed perceptions that he is a flip-flopper by quoting from a political leader he often cites on the trail, Winston Churchill.
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New York Post:
A ‘Furious’ revelation — This just might be the smoking gun we've been waiting for to break the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House GOP Unveils Plan To Cut NPR, Job Training And Education Programs … WASHINGTON — Setting a collision course with Democrats that could drag out for months, House Republicans on Thursday unveiled plans to cut federal money for job training, heating subsidies and grants to better-performing schools.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The other big jobs fight
The other big jobs fight
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Telegraph:
Hugo Chavez in hospital ‘for kidney failure’ — Hugo Chavez, who has been fighting cancer, was rushed to a military hospital for emergency care following kidney failure, according to reports. — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — The leftist, staunchly anti-US stalwart Chavez went …
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Joe Kemp / NY Daily News:
Shocking video shows attempted murder of teen outside Brooklyn McDonald's — Three toughs pulled off a choreographed plan to pass a gun between them like a hot potato before one of them opened fire at a teen outside a Brooklyn McDonald's - and all of it was caught on camera.
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TheBlaze.com:
OBAMA'S SENIOR ADVISOR VALERIE JARRETT: THE POINT OF GOVERNMENT IS TO GIVE PEOPLE A LIVELIHOOD SO THEY CAN PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILIES — Order By: — I thought we were against slavery — Log in to Reply — wow freakin wow. — She needs to read the Constitution!
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Eva Rodriguez / Washington Post:
Obama may have more than five votes to uphold health-care law — The Obama administration's decision on Wednesday to seek review of a lower court's ruling on the constitutionality of its signature health-care program almost guarantees a Supreme Court decision by next June. And the administration is predicting victory.
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FIRE:
UW-Stout Chancellor Doubles Down on Censorship of ‘Firefly’ and Anti-Fascism Posters — The chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) has declared that he will not defend faculty First Amendment rights from censorship. UWS censored theater professor James Miller's poster featuring …
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The Nation:
Charles Koch to Friedrich Hayek: Use Social Security! — This article appeared in the October 17, 2011 edition of The Nation. — Recommended by — There's right-wing hypocrisy, and then there's this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed …
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O.Kay Henderson:
Gingrich chides reporter for asking him about campaign $$ (AUDIO) — During a Q&A session with reporters this afternoon, Seema Mehta of The LA Times asked Gingrich about his fundraising for the quarter. — AUDIO of Mehta & Gingrich … AUDIO: Q & A with reporters
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
More Than 300,000 Ohio Voters Submit Petition Suspending Gov. Kasich's Anti-Voter Law — Earlier this year, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a sweeping bill intended to make it harder to vote in his states' elections. Kasich's anti-voter law drastically cuts back on early voting and erects …
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Firedoglake and The Political Carnival
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Issa questions White House pressure in Ford's decision to pull ad — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he was “deeply concerned about undue political pressure exerted by the White House” in a letter to the Ford Motor Company on Thursday. — The House Oversight Committee …
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