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2:10 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 …
The Politico:
With black voters, Barack Obama gets personal
Discussion: WyBlog and Pat Dollard
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
3 Share Nobel Economics Prize for Labor Analysis  —  The 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded on Monday to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides for their work on markets where buyers and sellers have difficulty finding each other …
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Ezra Klein:
Peter Diamond wins the Nobel Prize, continues being blocked by the Senate
Discussion: citizenvox.org and Money & Company
Edward L. Glaeser / Economix:
The Work Behind the Nobel Prize
Reuters:
Americans, British-Cypriot win 2010 economics Nobel
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
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.
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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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Obama Was Right About Xenophobic Bitter Clingers
Wall Street Journal:
Shutting Up Business  —  Democrats unleash the IRS and Justice …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Commentary
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.
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 …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Joe Manchin takes aim at the cap and trade bill (literally)  —  West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is up with a new ad in which he, literally, shoots at the controversial cap and trade legislation that passed the House last year in an attempt to show his independence from Washington Democrats.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
RACE OF THE DAY: W.Va.-01  —  When former President Bill Clinton …
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
Ezra Klein:
Column: An ugly word for an ugly economy  —  You may not know the term “hysteresis.”  It's the “lagging of an effect behind its cause,” and it's an ugly word that sounds like a foot fungus.  It's also an ugly thing to have happen to your economy.  And it may be what's happening to ours.
Discussion: Eschaton
Ben McGrath / New Yorker:
SEARCH AND DESTROY  —  Nick Denton's blog empire.  —  For years after starting Gawker Media, the online publishing network, in 2002, Nick Denton ran the company out of his apartment, in SoHo.  “He said, ‘If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything,’ ” …
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Fiorina, Whitman down tequila shots  —  California's top Republican candidates, Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina and gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman, took a timeout from taking shots at their opponents over weekend to take shots of tequila.  —  Appearing at the Hispanic 100 Lifetime Achievement …
The Politico:
Newt Gingrich: On the edge or over the line?  —  In August, Newt Gingrich compared backers of a mosque near ground zero to Nazis putting up signs at the Holocaust museum.  In September, there was his assertion that President Barack Obama is motivated by a “Kenyan anti-colonial” worldview.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Keka's Open Salon Blog:
White Men With Guns—Reconstruction Redux  —  I saw it.  But I couldn't believe it.  —  There I was, in a fast food drive through, behind a man whose back window decal, in small white letters, sent me a message that sent a chill down my spine—just as he'd hoped it would, no doubt.  It said:
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.
 
 
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Incumbents Polling Below 50 Percent Often Win Re-Election …
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