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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 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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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Examiner, National Review, The Lonely Conservative and Pajamas Media
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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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Mediaite, Don Surber, Politics, Sister Toldjah and Campaign 2012
Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
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Political Mojo, Opinion L.A., The Atlantic Online and Cato @ Liberty
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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Hullabaloo, The Crawdad Hole, The Hinterland Gazette and First Draft
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Michelle Malkin:
Adventures in liberal tolerance, part 999,901 — Anti-Obama signs in New Orleans — on private property — have set off a frenzy of prog protests against free speech. Former and current politicians have “met” with the property owner as mobs gather near the offender's home.
Stephen Gutowski / MRCTV:
Liberals Try to Remove Anti-Obama Signs in New Orleans
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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Booman Tribune, Guardian, Firedoglake, The Gateway Pundit, The Political Carnival and Mediaite
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Daily Mail:
Ladies and gentleman, we are currently cruising down Wall Street because we are fed up with our bosses! Pilots stage protest — Wall Street saw yet another surge in protesters today - as hundreds of Continental and United Airlines pilots demonstrated in New York City's financial district.
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Balloon Juice and The Agonist
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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Florida close — Mitt Romney's return to the top of the GOP field …
Florida close — Mitt Romney's return to the top of the GOP field …
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GOP 12, Campaign 2012 and Washington Post
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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The Impolitic, Gothamist, Indecision Forever, Outside the Beltway, Ben Smith's Blog, Trail Blazers Blog and Politics
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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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Wall Street Journal, Pajamas Media, Confederate Yankee, RedState, Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette and The Daily Caller
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Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
ATF Fast and Furious guns turned up in El Paso
ATF Fast and Furious guns turned up in El Paso
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The Washington Independent
Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Fewer than 1 in 3 say Obama favors the ‘have-nots,’ but many say GOP helps the ‘haves’ — Nearly half of all Americans say President Obama treats society's “haves” and “have-nots” about equally, perhaps blunting Republican criticism that he is engaged in “class warfare.”
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THEROOT.COM and Daily Kos
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Americans reject the right's bogus ‘class warfare’ charge
Americans reject the right's bogus ‘class warfare’ charge
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos
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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ANIMAL, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
Opinionator:
Is This Man the G.O.P.'s Best Bet for 2012? — Gail Collins: David, are you reconciled to the fact that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee? — David Brooks: Oh, I went through that phase a few weeks ago after the debate at the Reagan library.
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Booman Tribune, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Campaign 2012 and driftglass
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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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Pajamas Media, LewRockwell.com Blog and FrumForum
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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FrumForum, Business Insider and New York Magazine
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Janeane Garofalo: Racist Republicans Support Herman Cain — Janeane Garofalo: “Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican party. Conservative movement and tea party movement, one in the same. ”
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Big Hollywood, Weasel Zippers, Moonbattery, The Crawdad Hole and Pajamas Media
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Garofalo: GOP using Herman Cain ‘to keep the racism very covert’
Garofalo: GOP using Herman Cain ‘to keep the racism very covert’
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Politics, Verum Serum, Hot Air and Mediaite
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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The Heritage Foundation, The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
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
Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair:
California and Bust — The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario. After a hair-raising visit with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who explains why the Golden State has cratered …
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FT Alphaville and Gawker
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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Techdirt, The Huffington Post, National Review, Joanne Jacobs and The Daily Caller
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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