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5:20 PM ET, October 6, 2011

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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown quips about Elizabeth Warren's appearance on Boston radio show  —  Republican Senator Scott Brown made a crack about Democrat Elizabeth Warren's physical appearance on a radio show this morning.  —  Brown was responding to a crack Warren made in Tuesday's debate …
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Braden / 100.7 WZLX:
Senator Scott Brown Calls In & Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On  —  WZLX's Kevin Karlson: “Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?”  —  Senator Scott Brown (laughs) “Thank God.”
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Scott Brown, on Elizabeth Warren's claim she kept her clothes on during college: “Thank God”  —  During the Massachusetts Senate debate earlier this week, Elizabeth Warren and the other Dem candidates were reminded by the debate moderator that Scott Brown had posed nude in college, and asked what they had done to pay for school.
Nick Baumann / Political Mojo:
Scott Brown Calls Elizabeth Warren Ugly  —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) doesn't think anyone should have to see Elizabeth Warren naked.  —  At Tuesday night's primary debate, Warren, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to challenge Brown, used a question about how she paid for tuition to take a jab at the freshman Senator.
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Scott Brown Replies To Warren: 'Thank God …
David Frum / FrumForum:
Palin: Already Almost Forgotten  —  “I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets...”  — From Sarah Palin's statement announcing her decision not to run for president.  —  Um, probably not.  Sarah Palin's political voice had dwindled well before she announced her decision not to run.
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Huntsman Hits Palin for ‘Stringing People Along’  —  ABC News' Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) and Sarah Kunin (@sarah_kunin) Report:  —  In an interview with ABC's “The View,” presidential candidate Jon Huntsman rebuked former Gov. Sarah Palin for “stringing people along” as she decided whether to run for president.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Sarah Palin industry faces depression
Richard Adams / Guardian:
Sarah Palin: the end of an error
Discussion: Associated Press and The Reaction
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Secret panel can put Americans on “kill list'  —  (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Execution by secret WH committee  —  Reuters describes the bureaucratic panel that, with no oversight or transparency, orders citizens killed by the CIA  —  Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there's a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters:
Lindsey Boerma / NationalJournal.com:
Cain Says He ‘Would Not Be Comfortable’ As Perry's Running Mate  —  Businessman Herman Cain, a Republican candidate for president, says he would consider running for vice presidential with anyone other than Texas Gov. Rick Perry.  —  HOUSTON — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain …
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Who will be the GOP messiah?  —  Barack Obama is so doomed politically …
Discussion: CNN, GayPatriot and Hot Air
Washington Post:
Solyndra controversy claims casualty as head of Energy Department loan program steps down  —  The head of the Energy Department's controversial loan guarantee program has decided to step down, department officials confirmed to The Washington Post on Thursday.
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Wall Street Corruption, Solyndra, and Fast & Furious: Today's Q's for O - 10/6/2011
Discussion: emptywheel
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
5 questions for President Obama
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Don Surber
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Why So Few Steve Jobses?  —  I've always been an Apple guy.  I had an Apple II GS, rocked System 6 on a Mac IIse, learned HyperCard, helped put together an alt-weekly in college with PageMaker on PowerMac G3s, had a first-generation iPod, bought an iPhone on the weekend of its release, etc.
Discussion: Political Mojo
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New York Post:
‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic  —  So now the Fast and Furious affair has reached Stage 2 of the classic Washington scandal: House Republicans have called for a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder himself for possible perjury.
Discussion: National Review
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Carol Felsenthal / Pundits Blog:
Eric Holder: Been there, done that
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Lynn Sweet
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
‘Calm down’ about Fast and Furious gun sting, ATF acting director says
MyFox New York:
Occupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Mace, Batons  —  Protest broadens scope  —  MYFOXNY.COM - While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests on Wednesday night, Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by mace from a police officer and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan was hit by an officer's baton.
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Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
GOP Congressman: Wall Street protests are ‘attack upon freedom’
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and Outside the Beltway
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama on Bank Prosecutions: They Did Nothing Illegal, Only Found Loopholes That We Worked to Close
Discussion: TPMDC, Political Mojo and Rolling Stone
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
GOP Solyndra probe wants Obama's BlackBerry messages  —  The GOP's demand for all White House communications on Solyndra covers President Barack Obama's personal BlackBerry messages too, Rep. Cliff Stearns said Thursday.  —  The Florida Republican said he made the precedent-setting request …
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Boehner: 'We're Legislating; He's Campaigning'
Discussion: Daily Kos
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Email: ‘Time to kill the wealthy’  —  Several influential New York lawmakers have received threatening emails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don't renew the state's tax surcharge on the millionaires, according to reports.  —  “It's time to tax the millionaires!” reads the email, according to WTEN in Albany.
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Taryn Fitsik / WTEN-TV:   NY Assembly members receive threatening emails
Frank Cerabino / Palm Beach Post:
Lawmaker wants state to reinstate dwarf tossing  —  Some news on the job-creation front in Florida.  —  A state legislator has found yet another example of government regulation getting in the way of job creation.  —  So Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, filed a bill this week to bring back …
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada Republicans set Jan. 14 caucus  —  Mark your calendars.  —  Nevada Republicans on Wednesday evening set Jan. 14 for the GOP presidential caucuses here, clearing the way for New Hampshire and Iowa to schedule their traditional first-in-the nation voting dates.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Rick Santorum savages Mitt Romney over Nevada calendar report
Discussion: GOP 12 and Daily Kos
Robert Bryce / Wall Street Journal:
Five Truths About Climate Change  —  During the decade that Al Gore dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%.  —  Over the past two months, environmental activists have held protests at the White House and elsewhere hoping to convince the Obama administration …
Buck Sexton / TheBlaze.com:
REPORT: IRANIAN WARSHIP ROUTE TO U.S. COAST LEAKED ONLINE  —  Last week, an Iranian Naval Commander threatened to deploy ships off the U.S. coast as a provocative show of force.  —  Now it looks like Iran might actually be serious.  —  A new map that allegedly shows the expected path …
The White House:
News Conference by the President  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody.  I will take your questions in a second.  But first, I just want to say a few words about the economy.  —  Next week, the Senate will vote on the American Jobs Act.  And I think by now I've made my views pretty well known.
 
 
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