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6:25 PM ET, October 12, 2012

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usccb.org:
USCCB Responds To Inaccurate Statement Of Fact On HHS Mandate Made During Vice Presidential Debate  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued the following statement, October 12.  Full text follows:  —  Last night, the following statement was made during …
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Alex Wong / Rolling Stone:
The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh  —  I've never thought much of Joe Biden.  But man, did he get it right in last night's debate, and not just because he walloped sniveling little Paul Ryan on the facts.  What he got absolutely right, despite what you might read this morning …
Discussion: National Review and Balloon Juice
CBS News:
Poll: Biden takes debate over Ryan, uncommitted voters say  —  Fifty percent of uncommitted voters who tuned into Thursday night's vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., said they see Vice President Joe Biden as the winner over Mitt Romney's GOP running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., according to an instant poll taken by CBS News.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Biden rattles Ryan  —  In the hours before Thursday night's vice presidential debate, word leaked that the Romney-Ryan campaign had instructed moderator Martha Raddatz to address Paul Ryan as “Mister” rather than “Congressman.”  —  To her credit, Raddatz ignored such instructions and referred …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Dispenses With the Niceties  —  In case you missed it, I predicted that Paul Ryan would wipe the floor with Joe Biden.  That did not so much happen.  Ryan did not perform quite as well as I expected - he seemed greener, younger, and he visibly gulped when challenged.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Debate watchers split on who won VP debate  —  Danville, Kentucky (CNN) - Call it a draw.  —  Forty-eight percent of voters who watched the vice presidential debate think that Rep. Paul Ryan won the showdown, according to a CNN/ORC International nationwide poll conducted right after Thursday night's faceoff.
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
TiVo: ‘47 percent’ exchange most-watched
Discussion: PolicyMic, CNN and Mediaite
BuzzFeed:
Joe Biden Says Planned Parenthood Can't Perform Abortions Under Law
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Delight in ‘Laughing Joe’
Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS, Bloomberg and Poliglot
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Confusing Strength With Aggression
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOP not smiling over Biden's laughter at debate vs. Ryan
Rick Wilson / Ricochet Conversations Feed:   The Edge of Panic  —  Last night's performance by Biden â€" …
Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. : You Want To Win The Debate, But You Also Want To Win The Post-Debate
Discussion: Instapundit
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney says Biden ‘doubling down on denial’ on Libya attacks
Discussion: CNN and Politico
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Generation War
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
White House: Obama and Biden were never aware of requests for more Benghazi security  —  Vice President Joseph Biden speaks only for himself and President Barack Obama, and neither man was aware that U.S. officials in Libya had asked the State Department for more security before the Sept. 11 attack …
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
VIDEO CAPTURED LIBYA ATTACK  —  Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi.  Eli Lake reports.  —  Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks …
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
White House throws Hillary under the 2012 bus [VIDEO]  —  The White House is throwing Hillary Clinton under the 2012 election bus.  —  Top officials have already claimed the nation's intelligence agencies did not alert the White House to the growing danger facing the State Department's facility in Benghazi …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sen. Corker: Obama must have known what happened in Libya
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Dana Hughes / ABCNEWS:
Clinton: ‘To This Day We Do Not Have A Complete Picture’
Bloomberg:
The Final Word on Mitt Romney's Tax Plan  —  Mitt Romney's campaign says I'm full of it.  I said Romney's tax plan is mathematically impossible: he can't simultaneously keep his pledges to cut tax rates 20 percent and repeal the estate tax and alternative minimum tax; broaden the tax base enough …
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Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
The 6 Studies Paul Ryan Cited Prove Mitt Romney's Tax Plan Is Impossible
Discussion: National Review
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Friday Night Lights’ Creator Accuses Mitt Romney of Plagiarism in Threatening Letter (Exclusive)  —  “Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series,” Berg writes in the letter, challenging the GOP contender's use of “Clear Eyes.  Full Hearts.
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Stacy Lambe / BuzzFeed:
“Friday Night Lights” Director Accuses Mitt Romney Of Plagiarism
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Lindsay Lohan endorses Mitt Romney  —  LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, Lindsay Lohan referred to Obama's Presidential victory as “amazing,” but cut to 2012, and it seems the “Mean Girls” star has had a serious change of heart.  —  “I think unemployment is very important for now, so as of now I think …
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Walter Hickey / Business Insider:
Lindsay Lohan Endorses Romney, And It's Actually A Really Big Deal  —  Lindsay Lohan came out in support of Mitt Romney yesterday.  —  While most would, at first glance, write this off as gossip, it's the latest instance of an evolving trend that jeopardizes President Obama's chance at winning the White House.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 11: Obama's Swing State ‘Firewall’ Has Brittle Foundation  —  President Obama's position has been stronger in state polls than in national surveys on recent days, a streak that extended itself in Thursday's polling.  —  Although Mr. Obama got a distinctly poor poll in Florida …
Discussion: MiamiHerald.com
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
Todd Akin: No ‘Science’ Behind Evolution  —  Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has had trouble with facts about reproduction.  He said in August that women cannot get pregnant from “legitimate rape” because “the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down.”  And in 2008, Akin claimed that it is …
Lee Enterprises / Missoulian:
Grenade burns sleeping girl as SWAT team raids Billings home  —  A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West End home Tuesday morning.  —  “She has first- and second-degree burns down the left side …
Gene Maddaus / The Informer:
Brad Sherman Grabs Howard Berman At Debate, Challenges Him To A Fight  —  Think Biden-Ryan was a hard-fought debate?  Then you missed the Berman-Sherman brawl up in the Valley today.  —  Congressman Brad Sherman put his arm around rival Congressman Howard Berman and challenged him to a fight, saying “Do you want to get into this?”
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Nobelprize.org:
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2012  —  The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 is to be awarded to the European Union (EU).  The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
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Washington Post:
2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union
 
 
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