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12:50 PM ET, October 11, 2010

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Daily Mail:
Obama has the book thrown at him: Moment a missile narrowly misses the U.S. President's head during campaign rally  —  This is the astonishing moment a book was apparently hurled at the head of U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia.  —  The flying missile narrowly missed hitting the President today.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Man Streaks in Front of Obama for $1 Million  —  If billionaire Alki David is an honest man, the man who streaked in front of Barack Obama at the president's rally today in Philadelphia will be paid $1 million for his stunt.  The man who performed today's stunt, which captured the attention …
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
VIDEO- BOOK HURLED AT OBAMA IN PHILADELPHIA  —  The state-run media today reported that Obama's Sunday event, before a mostly black audience, was somewhat smaller and less enthusiastic than last week's rally in Madison...  Except for the book that was hurled at his head that the media ignored.
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Paladino Laces Speech With Antigay Remarks  —  The Republican candidate for governor, Carl P. Paladino, told a gathering in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Sunday that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that homosexuality was acceptable, and criticized his opponent …
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NY Daily News:
Carl Paladino accused of ‘stunning homophobia’ after anti-gay rant at meeting with Jewish leaders  —  Flame-throwing Republican Carl Paladino erupted again, declaring Sunday that being gay is “not the example that we should be showing our children.”  —  “I don't want [children] …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GOP MINORITY OUTREACH TAKES ANOTHER HIT.... Once in a while …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Mediaite
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Ezra Klein:
Peter Diamond wins the Nobel Prize, continues being blocked by the Senate  —  For months now, Sen. Richard Shelby has been blocking the nomination of economist Peter Diamond to join the board of the Federal Reserve.  “I do not believe he's ready to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board …
Discussion: citizenvox.org and Money & Company
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:   A Prize for Unemployment
Washington Post:
Obama continues attack on Chamber of Commerce  —  The White House intensified its attacks Sunday on the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its alleged ties to foreign donors, part of an escalating Democratic effort to link Republican allies with corporate and overseas interests ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Wall Street Journal:
Shutting Up Business  —  Democrats unleash the IRS and Justice …
Discussion: Commentary and Nice Deb
Mark Halperin / Time:
Why Obama Is in the Jaws of Political Death  —  Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise.  From above, by elite opinion about his competence.  From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment.  And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November's elections.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Hey, Small Spender  —  Here's the narrative you hear everywhere: President Obama has presided over a huge expansion of government, but unemployment has remained high.  And this proves that government spending can't create jobs.  —  Here's what you need to know: The whole story is a myth.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Manchin: If healthcare reform can't be fixed, ‘repeal the whole thing’  —  West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D), who is in a tough fight for a Senate seat, said Monday he'd support repealing the healthcare reform law if it can't be fixed.  —  Manchin, who's been falling behind in his race …
Discussion: Think Progress and Weasel Zippers
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Joe Manchin takes aim at the cap and trade bill (literally)
Discussion: Raw Story
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
RACE OF THE DAY: W.Va.-01  —  When former President Bill Clinton …
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Congressional Staffers Gain From Trading in Stocks  —  WASHINGTON—Chris Miller nearly doubled his $3,500 stock investment in a renewable-energy firm in 2008.  It was a perfectly legal bet, but he's no ordinary investor.  —  Mr. Miller is the top energy-policy adviser to Nevada Democrat …
John Hamilton / Media Matters for America:
“Progressive Hunter”  —  Jailhouse Confession: How the right-wing media and Glenn Beck's chalkboard drove Byron Williams to plot assassination … Byron Williams' alleged domestic terror plot began in Groveland, a tiny Gold Rush town nestled high in the Sierras, three hours east of San Francisco.
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama to Press for Infrastructure  —  WASHINGTON - President Obama will join mayors, governors and current and former transportation secretaries on Monday to argue for a major initiative to repair and modernize the nation's roads, rails and air systems, just weeks before an election …
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Rachel Streitfeld / CNN:
Obama tries for bipartisan roads plan
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Incumbents Polling Below 50 Percent Often Win Re-Election, Despite Conventional Wisdom  —  Read enough polling commentary, and you're sure to encounter arguments like this one: … That was from The Hotline's Josh Kraushaar.  Here is Real Clear Politics' Sean Trende making a version of the same claim.
Mike / Rortybomb:
Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies, 2: What is a Note, and Why is it So Important?  —  (This is a series giving a basic explanation of the current foreclosure fraud crisis: Here is Part One.  This is Part Two.)  —  The SEIU has a campaign: Where's the Note?  Demand to see your mortgage note.
Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
Can Bielat Beat Barney?  —  NEWTON, Massachusetts — Brian Phillips was wearing flip-flop sandals Sunday at the nondescript office near the corner of Elliot and Chestnut streets that is headquarters for one of this fall's most remarkable congressional campaigns.
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Anti-mosque lawsuit slammed as bigotry
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Washington Post:
Cable news chatter is changing the electoral landscape
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The Politico:
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