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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Introducing The New Polling Firm of Madoff, Marist, Quinnipiac and Ponzi  —  After a few weeks spent tracking down and questioning pollsters and the reporters of polls, I can assure the reader that pollsters are the modern-day alchemists.  They promise to turn numbers into predictive gold.
New York Times:
Cramming and Pruning for First Presidential Debate  —  WASHINGTON — In a conference room at the Democratic headquarters, President Obama has been preparing for the debate next week, but the reviews of his staff are already in.  Too long, they tell him.  Cut that answer.  Give crisper explanations.
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Miranda Green / The Daily Beast:
Debates Rarely Nudge the Needle
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Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Defining moment eludes Mitt Romney  —  Mitt Romney could use a big moment.  —  Since he began stumping, the GOP presidential nominee's campaign events have been nearly identical — perfectly staged and choreographed, but forgettable.  If it weren't for the occasional state flag hanging behind him …
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BBC:
Youngest inmate leaves Guantanamo  —  Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to five war crimes  —  The youngest prisoner to be held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has been returned to his native Canada.  —  Omar Khadr had been held at the US base in Cuba since 2002, after being detained in Afghanistan aged 15.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
SFC Speer's Killer Leaves Gitmo
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
Omar Khadr repatriated to Canada
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, 1926 - 2012: Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Transformed Times, Dies at 86  —  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper's founding in 1851 …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama ‘saddened’ by death of former NYT publisher Sulzberger
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Is torturing “material witnesses” constitutional?  —  I always get a sick feeling when I see DAs on cop shows blithely say they can hold a suspect as a material witness until they find the evidence to charge him.  (They always “need” to because the suspect is “one of the really bad ones.")
Discussion: New York Times
BuzzFeed:
And, Paul Ryan Gets Mocked By Storage Ad  —  Manhattan Mini-Storage does it again.  Much more of a personal jab than the Mitt Romney billboard .  —  Like I said yesterday, when MMS's political ads are related to storage, they're good.  But this is just a pointless cheap shot.  —  Via: newsweek
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Faces Crucial Rulings in Coming Term  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday to confront not only a docket studded with momentous issues but also a new dynamic among the justices.  —  The coming term will probably include major decisions on affirmative action …
Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
Will The Post be about news or opinion?  —  Republicans think the news media are being too easy on Barack Obama.  In fact, 60 percent of them say so, a figure that's up from 55 percent four years ago, when Obama ran against Sen. John McCain.  That's the conclusion of a poll conducted Sept. 20-23 …
Mark Steyn / National Review:
President of the Future  —  One of the reasons why Barack Obama is regarded as the greatest orator of our age is that he's always banging on about some other age yet to come — e.g., the Future!  A future of whose contours he is remarkably certain and boundlessly confident …
Yahoo! News:
Goodbye, Columbus: Why top Ohio Republicans think Romney has lost the state  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio - There are only two plausible explanations for what is going on this week in this swing state central to virtually all Mitt Romney's victory strategies.  —  Either many top Ohio Republicans …
Decision Virginia:
Warner won't rule out bid for governor  —  There was a lot Sen. Mark Warner said in our interview on NBC12 First at 4 today, but is what he refused to say that is perhaps the most telling.  Asked directly to rule out a potential run for governor of Virginia in 2013, Warner changed the subjected …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Politico
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Obama administration tells contractors again: Don't issue layoff notices  —  The Obama administration issued new guidance intended for defense contractors Friday afternoon, reiterating the administration's position that the companies should not be issuing layoff notices over sequestration.
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Sara Sorcher / NationalJournal.com:
White House Moves To Head Off Sequester Layoffs
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Intelligence office says it got Libya attack wrong, not White House  —  WASHINGTON — Extremists from groups linked to al Qaida struck the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack,” the top U.S. intelligence agency said Friday, as it took responsibility …
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. intelligence now says Benghazi attack “deliberate and organized”
Discussion: The Rightnewz
 
 
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