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10:15 AM ET, November 10, 2011

Top Items:

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Video: Perry implodes; Update: Campaign is over, says top fundraiser — Via Business Insider. A few choice quotes. Larry Sabato: … Rich Lowry: … Mona Charen: … He's down to 4.9 percent now on InTrade; before the debate he was at 9.3 percent.

Discussion: American Prospect, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, Mediaite, GOP 12, Maggie's Farm, The Moderate Voice, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Weasel Zippers, The Page and Taylor Marsh

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Rick Perry crashes, Cain cheered at GOP debate — ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Rick Perry comeback hit a potentially disastrous snag Wednesday night, as the Texas governor again froze on the debate stage — this time, while attempting to list three federal agencies he'd eliminate as president.

Discussion: CNN, The Caucus, Media Decoder, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, Connecting.the.Dots, Pat Dollard, Michelle Malkin, The Page, Gawker, The Lonely Conservative and Althouse

Zeke Miller / Business Insider:

PERRY DEBATE DISASTER: This Is The Moment That Officially Killed His Campaign — For Good — At today's CNBC debate Texas Gov. Rick Perry was asked a question about his tax and spending plan — but completely blew an otherwise strong answer by looking like a complete fool.

Discussion: zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml, Gawker, Pirate's Cove, thump and whip, Outside the Beltway, Towleroad News #gay, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Campaign 2012

ABCNEWS:

Rick Perry on His ‘Oops’: There's No ‘Perfect Candidate’ — Texas Governor Rick Perry hit the airwaves this morning to try to recover from a performance that one presidential scholar deemed “the most devastating” of any primary debate. — “The bottom line is that we're going to get up every …

Discussion: Campaign 2012, The Politico and Wonkette

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

The ‘oops’ heard 'round the world — Some debate screw-ups are so memorable, they practically become iconic. Gerald Ford claiming there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe,” Dan Quayle comparing himself to JFK, and James Stockdale asking who he is and what he's doing there were all pretty unforgettable.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Maddow Blog, The Hinterland Gazette, The Atlantic Online and The Reality-Based Community

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Most Brutal Debate Video and Tweets Ever

Discussion: Say Anything and JustOneMinute

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Ford. Quayle. Stockdale. Now, Poor Rick Perry

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk

The Politico:
Romney rivals continue to implode

Discussion: msnbc.com, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Washington Post and CNN

Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Abolishing The Department Of Energy

Discussion: Washington Post

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Debate crowd cheers Cain in face of sexual harassment claims

Discussion: CNN

ESPN:

Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier out — Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach. — Paterno said in a statement Wednesday he would retire after the season …

Discussion: Fox Sports, UrbanGrounds, Balloon Juice, The Moderate Voice, Scared Monkeys and NBC Philadelphia

Mark Viera / New York Times:

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Is Fired — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Graham B. Spanier, one of the longest-serving and highest-paid university presidents in the nation, who has helped raise the academic profile of Penn State during his tenure, stepped down Wednesday night in the wake …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, LA Times Sports Blog, Maggie's Notebook, Jezebel, Clayton Cramer's Blog and Sky Dancing

CBS News:

Paterno fired over Penn St. child abuse scandal — Penn State football coach Joe Paterno arrives home Nov. 9, 2011, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo) — The Penn State Scandal — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - In a massive shakeup, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier …

Discussion: Mediaite, CBS Boston, The Daily Dish, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Crooks and Liars, Political Mojo and ESPN

Nate Schweber / New York Times:
Penn State Students Clash With Police in Unrest After Announcement

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Gawker, Rod Dreher, CBS Chicago and Balloon Juice

Sports Illustrated:
The Penn State scandal echoes a hockey horror

Discussion: Rod Dreher, Salon.com, The Huffington Post and Ed Driscoll

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Personal Foul at Penn State

Discussion: Booman Tribune, American Spectator, Mediaite, Don Surber and Althouse

Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:

The Financial Folly of Fairness — When I was a young and naive economics writer, I used to write about developing countries a fair amount. Time and again they would make these bizarre and pointless moves, like suddenly and for no apparent reason defaulting on a bunch of debt.

Discussion: Political Mojo

Simon Nixon / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Bank on ECB Rescuing Italy

Discussion: New Economic Perspectives and naked capitalism

Paul Krugman:
This Is The Way The Euro Ends

Discussion: emptywheel, Brad DeLong, Financial Times, Donklephant, New York Times, Felix Salmon, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake, US Politics, New Atlanticist and Balloon Juice

Craig Whitlockand Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:

Remains of war dead dumped in landfill — The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of some dead troops' body parts by burning them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burying the remains at sea.

Discussion: Hot Air, ABCNEWS, Outside the Beltway, Pat Dollard, Mediaite and US Politics

Mike Paluska / CBS Atlanta 46:

Investigator: Herman Cain innocent of sexual advances — Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix. — Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.

Discussion: Herman Cain PAC, Doug Ross and PoliPundit.com

Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:

Reggie Love, Obama ‘body man,’ to leave White House by year's end — Reggie Love, a key member of the Obama entourage, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year, people close to the administration said. — Love, 30, is a popular, gregarious figure in the White House.

Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Page

Quinnipiac University:

Obama, Romney Tied In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; Cain, Romney Duel For Gop Lead In All Three States — One year before the presidential election, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are running neck and neck in Florida …

Discussion: GOP 12, The Strata-Sphere, The Politico, Naked Politics and Taegan Goddard's …

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Google+ Is Dead — The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone. — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt didn't post his first Google+ message until three months after it went live — AFP/Getty Images.

Discussion: Rod Dreher

Stuart Tomlinson / Oregonian:

Police arrest man at Occupy Portland camp for throwing Molotov cocktail into stairwell at World Trade Center — A 29-year-old man was arrested this morning inside the Occupy Portland encampment, police said, on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail onto a staircase at the World Trade Center last night.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

CNBC Debate Anchor Challenges Herman Cain Over ‘Princess Nancy’ Comment Given Recent Scandal — After Wednesday night's GOP debate on CNBC, candidate Herman Cain was asked about the booing that took place when he was asked about the allegations against him, as well as his decision to refer to Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy.”

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:

Obama Administration to Delay New 15-Cent Christmas Tree ‘Fee’ — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to delay implementation and revisit a proposed new 15 cent fee on fresh-cut Christmas trees, sources tell ABC News. The fee, requested by the National Christmas Tree Association in 2009 …

Jeremy Holden / Media Matters for America:
Artificial War On Christmas Campaign Launches Fake Obama “Christmas Tree Tax”

Discussion: The Heritage Foundation, Mediaite and No More Mister Nice Blog

Elmo Roper / CJR:

A Plea for the Polls — ‘The press seems to behave as if it were operating in a simpler yesterday’ … It may be human to err, but to err time and time again, in precisely the same way, is folly of divine dimensions. — I am talking about journalists—when they tackle the job of predicting elections.

Discussion: American Prospect

Felicity Barringer / New York Times:

Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban — Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation's parks chief abruptly blocked the plan …

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:

Conservatives uniting to defeat Romney — A coalition of conservatives is working to organize the disparate groups opposing Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential nominee. — While much has been made of Romney's lack of support amongst conservative Republicans, the sense of malaise …

Discussion: Prairie Weather

New York Times:

Back to Common Sense at the Polls — It might have been “too much too soon,” a chastened Gov. John Kasich of Ohio admitted on Tuesday night, after his state's voters overwhelmingly rejected his attempt to break public employee unions. He certainly was right about “too much,” …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, Washington Post, The Caucus and Gothamist

Bill Graves / Oregonian:

Basic Rights Oregon will not put same-sex marriage on 2012 ballot — After a three-year campaign to build support for legalizing same-sex marriage, Oregon's largest gay rights group has decided against putting the issue up for a vote in 2012. — Feedback from an online survey of over 1,000 people …

Herman Cain PAC:

Herman Cain Accuser Karen Kraushaar works for Obama and she's ugly — Ew, gross! Who the hell does this ugly b1tch think she's fooling? — Just to be clear, Karen Kraushaar is the one on the left. — Via The Daily...