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12:55 PM ET, October 18, 2010

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Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller security guards handcuff editor  —  The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller on camera at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
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Alaska Dispatch:
Alaska Dispatch editor detained at Miller event [updated]  —  Alaska Dispatch founder and editor Tony Hopfinger was grabbed and handcuffed by a private security detail working for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller on Sunday while trying to ask the Fairbanks Republican questions following …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Miller blames ‘irrational blogger’  —  Miller's statement blames the editor of an Alaska website for last night's incident:  —  While I've gotten used to the blog Alaska Dispatch's assault on me and my family, I never thought that it would lead to a physical assault.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GOP SENATE CAMPAIGN ‘ARRESTS’ JOURNALIST.... I've occasionally seen items that characterize Alaska as being like “a whole different country.”  It would have to be, since in the United States, Senate campaigns don't try to take journalists into custody.
Thomas Lamb / Red County:
Joe Miller's Security Detail vs. The Alaska Dispatch
Jack Brammer / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Rand Paul refuses to shake hands with opponent Conway after debate  —  LOUISVILLE — A debate filled with unabashed personal attacks concluded Sunday night with Republican Rand Paul briskly brushing past Democrat Jack Conway, refusing to shake the hand of an opponent who raised questions about his religious beliefs.
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Claire McCaskill: Jack Conway ad ‘very dangerous’  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Monday that a controversial ad run by Democratic Senate nominee Jack Conway in Kentucky is “very dangerous” and “came close to the line” of appropriateness.  —  McCaskill, who said as recently as Sunday …
Discussion: National Review, RedState and Hot Air
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Sympathy For Rand Paul
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Tales of the Tea Party  —  A month ago, a U.C.L.A. graduate student named Emily Elkins spent hours roaming a Tea Party rally on the Washington Mall, photographing every sign she saw.  —  Elkins, a former CATO Institute intern, was examining the liberal conceit that Tea Party marches are rife with racism and conspiracy theorizing.
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook in Privacy Breach  —  Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds  —  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring.  —  Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc …
Paul Krugman:
Epitaph For An Administration … Surely this can serve as a generic statement: … Stimulus, bank rescue, China, foreclosure; it applies all along.  At each point there were arguments for not acting; but the cumulative effect has been drift, and a looming catastrophe in the midterms.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Barbara Starr / CNN:
NATO official: Bin Laden, deputy hiding in northwest Pakistan  —  Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Dems take in twice as much “foreign” money as Republicans  —  Over the weekend, some Democrats began questioning the White House strategy of demonizing third-party groups for potentially using foreign-raised money in political messaging.  Now we know why.  Apparently, the shrieking …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
How GOP could win the 10 seats needed to take back Senate  —  Since 1930, party control of the House has flipped seven times.  And each time, Senate control has also switched.  —  The reason is simple: Wave elections are, well, wave-y.  If the voting public wants to send a message to the majority party …
New York Times:
In Climate Denial, Again  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney has to be smiling.  With one exception, none of the Republicans running for the Senate — including the 20 or so with a serious chance of winning — accept the scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for global warming.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Ed Perlmutter slaps away rival's hand  —  A congressional debate in Colorado briefly turned physical over the weekend, when Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) slapped Republican Ryan Frazier.  —  Perlmutter quickly apologized for the incident, which occurred Saturday when Frazier challenged Perlmutter …
Discussion: Althouse
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Michael Sandoval / National Review:
Slaphappy in CO-7: Perlmutter Slaps Frazier (Literally-w/video) …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Ashcroft case granted  —  The Supreme Court, finishing its first sitting of the new Term, agreed on Monday to hear a single new case, a plea by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft for immunity to a lawsuit claiming he misused a federal anti-terrorism law.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rare and Foolish  —  Last month a Chinese trawler operating in Japanese-controlled waters collided with two vessels of Japan's Coast Guard.  Japan detained the trawler's captain; China responded by cutting off Japan's access to crucial raw materials.  —  And there was nowhere else to turn …
Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Another Kirk ‘exaggeration’?  —  Did he do it again?  —  Rep. Mark Kirk claims credit for being a driving force behind a bill signed into law this year that requires the president to crack down on companies doing business with Iran.  —  But the bill's sponsor, Rep. Howard Berman …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The DSCC
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
New Poll: Van Tran Pulls Even with Loretta Sanchez in CA-47  —  In a media exclusive, Townhall.com has obtained a brand new, eye-opening poll from California's 47th Congressional District—conducted by Public Opinion Strategies: … Sanchez has put her foot in her mouth throughout the campaign …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Liz Cheney Exposes Howard Dean In Lie About His Connection To George Soros and MoveOn.org  —  When Bob Schieffer invited Liz Cheney and Howard Dean on “Face the Nation” to discuss a number of issues related to the upcoming midterm elections, he must have had a feeling sparks were going to fly.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
MERS-y, Mercy Me: The Sewer Drain at the Bottom of the Housing Market  —  If you still think, like Shaun Donovan, that the crisis in the mortgage markets merely concerns foreclosure paperwork, you need to take a look at these two Law Review papers from Professor Christopher Lewis Peterson of the University of Utah (via).
Edward Luce / CNBC:
Republicans Pledge to Probe Home Loans for the Poor  —  The Republican party will launch aggressive inquiries into alleged abuse of mortgages for low-income buyers if it takes control of the House of Representatives next month.  —  Darrell Issa, who would head the lower chamber's main …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Dennis Menaced?  —  Is Kucinich in trouble?  —  THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained the results of a private poll conducted last night in Ohio-10, the Cleveland-area district held for seven terms by Democrat Dennis Kucinich.  Kucinich has been widely viewed as safe—even though he fell short …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
msnbc.com:
Islamic court: OK to beat wife if no marks left  —  Man in United Arab Emirates was initially fined $136 for hitting spouse, daughter  —  A man can beat his wife and kids as long as he leaves no physical marks, the United Arab Emirates' highest court has found.
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Pentagon expecting leak of Iraq war documents  —  The Pentagon said Sunday that it has a 120-member team prepared to review a leak of as many as 500,000 documents about the Iraq war, which are expected to be released by the WikiLeaks Web site this month.  —  Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman …
Discussion: Firedoglake, The Page and CNN
 
 
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