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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, a satirical news Web site and newspaper known for its ability to elicit peals of laughter, isn't getting too many guffaws on this one. The site tweeted Thursday: — The site also posted the news to its Facebook page.
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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
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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The Caucus, New York Times, Daily Kos, Politics, Salon, Hot Air, Poll Watch Daily, Patterico's Pontifications and The Daily Dish
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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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Booman Tribune, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Campaign 2012 and driftglass
Wall Street Journal:
Taking Cain Seriously
Taking Cain Seriously
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Washington Post, CBS Philly, Betsy's Page, The New Republic, CNN and Public Policy Polling
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 and FrumForum
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Huckabee to Interview Romney on His Show
Huckabee to Interview Romney on His Show
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The Daily Caller and GOP 12
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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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
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, Examiner, Hot Air, National Review and Pajamas Media
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Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties — He may prove the most disastrous president in our history in terms of civil liberties. — President Obama failed to close Guantanamo Bay, continued warrantless surveillance and military tribunals and asserted the right to kill U.S. citizens he views as terrorists.
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Political Mojo, Opinion L.A., The Atlantic Online and Cato @ Liberty
Steven Nelson / The Daily Caller:
Biden: Voters should blame Obama, not Bush, for economy
Biden: Voters should blame Obama, not Bush, for economy
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Politics and Campaign 2012
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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Veteran agitators flock to Occupy Wall Street
Veteran agitators flock to Occupy Wall Street
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Daily Kos, Runnin' Scared, The Raw Story, New York Magazine and Hullabaloo
Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With The Wall Street Protesters
A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With The Wall Street Protesters
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Guardian, Firedoglake, The Gateway Pundit, The Political Carnival and Mediaite
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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New York Post:
Christie seriously considering presidential bid after GOP prodding — By JOSH MARGOLIN in New York and S.A. MILLER in Washington — After months of hedging, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is giving serious thought to jumping into the ring for a GOP presidential run — and could make his decision next week, The Post has learned.
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Salon, Guardian, City Room, The Daily Caller, The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
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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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
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 …
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
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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Booman Tribune, The Heritage Foundation, The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
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, The Crawdad Hole, Moonbattery 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
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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The Huffington Post, National Review, Techdirt, The Daily Caller and Joanne Jacobs
Scottrose / pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com:
Breaking: anti-gay N.C. Senator Forrester falsifies credentials - and an open letter to the lawmaker — NOTE FROM PAM: It's sad that a lawmaker, namely North Carolina State Senator James Forrester, is so blinded by ignorance and bigotry that he embarrasses himself — and his cause …
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ThinkProgress, Holy Bullies …, Good As You and Joe. My. God.
KFSN-TV:
Teacher penalizes students for saying “bless you” — FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Northern California teacher says he doesn't want to hear a common courtesy in his classroom. — He's even lowering students' grades if they say “bless you” after someone sneezes.
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Mediaite, Examiner and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Bloomberg:
U.S. Decries Salaries, Staffing in New UN Budget — The Obama administration told the United Nations that too few of its 10,307 workers are being cut and average salaries, currently $119,000 a year, have risen “dramatically.” — The U.S. ambassador for UN management and reform …
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The Daily Caller and Pajamas Media
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
Daniel Strauss / Ballot Box:
Huntsman campaign moves HQ to New Hampshire — The Huntsman campaign announced Thursday that its headquarters would move from Florida to New Hampshire. — The move from Orlando to Manchester comes after a pair of polls showed the former Utah governor gaining modest traction in the early primary state …
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CNN
New York Post:
Exclusive: Crook busted after robbing same bank for third day in row — Now that's customer loyalty. — A greedy bank robber starred in his own criminal version of “Groundhog Day” — holding up the same downtown Sovereign branch on three consecutive days before he was finally busted yesterday, police sources told The Post yesterday.
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Gothamist