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5:30 PM ET, October 20, 2010

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Jordan Fabian / Ballot Box:
Pa. Democrat admits helping Tea Party candidate  —  A Pennsylvania Democratic House candidate on Tuesday admitted to helping a third candidate get on the ballot in the hopes he would siphon votes away from his Republican opponent.  —  Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee running for the seat …
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Judy L. Thomas / Kansas City Star:
NAACP releases report accusing tea party groups of links to bigots  —  Three months ago in Kansas City, the NAACP first raised charges of racism within the tea party movement.  Today a report is being released accusing tea party groups of providing platforms to anti-Semites and other bigots.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Tea Party of populist posers  —  On the morning of Oct. 14, a cyber-insurgency caused servers to crash at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  —  The culprits, however, weren't attacking the chamber; they were well-meaning citizens who overwhelmed the big-business lobbying group with a sudden wave of online contributions.
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Tea Party Express's pricey cruises
Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: Voters are not worried about ‘extreme’ label on candidates
Discussion: The Politico, The Note and Commentary
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Secretive Republican Donors Are Planning Ahead  —  A secretive network of Republican donors is heading to the Palm Springs area for a long weekend in January, but it will not be to relax after a hard-fought election — it will be to plan for the next one.  —  Koch Industries …
The Huffington Post:
Justices Scalia And Thomas's Attendance At Koch Event Sparks Judicial Ethics Debate
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Emily Guevara / Tyler Morning Telegraph:
Sold-Out Crowd Gives Former President Bush Three Standing Ovations During Speech  —  Former President George W. Bush pulled back the curtain of the Oval Office and gave East Texans a picture of what his job was like during the high and low points.  —  With trademark humor and conviction …
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Bush: ‘I Miss Being Pampered’
Discussion: Shakesville
Lpratapas / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: All tied up in Alaska Senate race  —  (CNN) - A new poll indicates a dead-even race in the Alaska battle between Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller and GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who's running for re-election as a write-in candidate.  But a CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
DeMint going up on air for Miller
Discussion: The Mudflats and National Review
Michael Scherer / Time:
Poll: Murkowski Stays Close with Miller — but Write-In Confusion Could Hurt Chances
Andy Borowitz / News Desk:
Shouts & Murmurs: Three Things to Do When Clarence Thomas's Wife Calls You  —  Like many Americans, over the past several years I have been the recipient of multiple unwelcome voicemails from the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  These calls have come in the middle of the night …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer cutting monster checks to help out fellow Senate Democrats  —  Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has gone on a late-season spending spree to help Democratic candidates.  —  A new campaign finance report shows Schumer cut two checks to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) worth $1 million each in September.
Discussion: CNN and Weigel
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Fox News:
Palin: ‘Queen Bee’ of GOP ‘Mean Girls’ Has Message for Times' Dowd |
Discussion: Don Surber, Washington Post and Hot Air
Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
Mayor Endorses Sen. Gillibrand's ‘Stunning’ Looks
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Maddow Falsely Claims Politician Had Advance Warning of Oklahoma City Bombing  —  I'm pretty sure that this was an error, not a knowing misstatement—when you're on a daily news cycle, the sad fact is that you probably won't remember everything you've ever said.  Nonetheless, this demands a retraction:
Discussion: Political Byline
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Soros Donates $1 Million to Media Matters  —  Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros.
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers  —  A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most historians but often made by groups seeking …
Josh Margolin / New Jersey Online:
GOP Pennsylvania congressman says he would support Gov. Christie as presidential contender  —  ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The Christie-for-president drumbeat continued today as Gov. Chris Christie made yet another out-of-state stop on his national political tour.  —  Rep. Charlie Dent …
Discussion: The Hill
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Chris Christie: No vice presidential run in 2012
Discussion: GOP 12
CNN:
Obama requests emergency stay of 'don't ask, don't tell' order  —  Washington (CNN) — Finding itself in a strange legal position, the Obama administration filed an emergency request Wednesday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the military from allowing openly gay troops from serving.
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Military Moves to Accept Gay Recruits
Investor's Business Daily:
Decrees Of Separation  —  First Amendment: A law school audience fell into fits of laughter when a Senate candidate asked, “Where in the Constitution is separation of Church and State?”  In fact, the phrase is nowhere in the document.  —  Tuesday's debate between Delaware's U.S. Senate hopefuls …
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Colorado Pols:
You Knew They'd Hit The Wrong Markey Eventually  —  UPDATE #2: Rep. Ed Markey (the Democrat from Massachusetts — the male Markey) chimes in with his own quote: … UPDATE: We've created this handy-dandy tool that allows you to quickly figure out which Markey you are trying to discuss …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Making Ignorance Chic  —  Casanova's rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an intelligent woman she was beautiful.  —  The false choice between intellectualism and sexuality in women has persisted through the ages.  There was no more poignant victim of it than Marilyn Monroe.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Pelosi's Favorable Rating as Speaker Drops to 29%, a New Low  —  Nearly 6 in 10 independents now view her unfavorably  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's favorable rating is down seven percentage points since May to 29%, a new low for her since assuming the top congressional post.
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
A Culture of Poverty  —  In 2008, I was sent out to the Democratic convention to work on a piece for this magazine about Michelle Obama.  I had just been hired on as a contributing editor, and was ecstatic.  There was a community of young bloggers out there—Chris Bodenner, Alyssa Rosenberg, Dayo Olapade etc.
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Just Knock It Off  —  Some of Israel's worst critics are fond of saying that Israel behaves like America's spoiled child.  I've always found that analogy excessive.  Say what you want about Israel's obstinacy at times, it remains the only country in the United Nations that another U.N. member …
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Handoff, or Fumble?  —  How consumer psychology will determine the fate of our economic recovery.  —  In a much-anticipated speech on Friday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke invoked a favorite metaphor of economists to describe the current, critical period in the recovery.
New York Times:
Spitzer's Harvard Club Application?  Rejected  —  In his emergence from political disgrace, Eliot Spitzer has played multiple roles: political commentator, financial columnist, college professor, and, most recently, CNN host.  —  One role he will not be playing: a member of the Harvard Club of New York City.
Dan Froomkin / NiemanWatchdog.org:
Nine stories the press is underreporting — fraud, fraud and more fraud  —  From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers — a vast criminal enterprise.  You wouldn't know it from a lot of the media coverage, though.
Discussion: Firedoglake
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
As G.O.P. Seeks Spending Cuts, Details Are Scarce  —  WASHINGTON — In Indiana, Representative Mike Pence, the No. 3 House Republican, complains about “runaway federal spending on steroids.”  —  In Alaska, the Republican candidate for the Senate, Joe Miller, talks about “out of control spending.”
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
Figuring Out the Cost of Mortgage Put-Backs.  —  One important aspect of the foreclosure fraud scandal are the increasing number of “put-backs,” cases where investors who own failing mortgage-backed securities are discovering just how bad the paperwork is behind these instruments and legally forcing …
 
 
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Emperor's Clothes  —  Jon Cohn asks a question about the provision …
Discussion: The New Republic
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Dems want FEC slam on Linda McMahon
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Continuing Closeness in Illinois
Discussion: The Capitol Fax Blog
Rep. Phil Roe / Congress Blog:
Social Security COLA and impacts on seniors (Rep. Phil Roe)
Discussion: The Politico
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Voters Oppose the Reelection of Anyone Who Voted for the …
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Ex-Congressman Linked to Chandra Levy Writing Book
Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
They're not elites, they're just wrong
 Earlier Items: 
Ezra Klein:
The individual mandate's problem is not the Constitution
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Wonk Room
Frank J. Fleming / Pajamas Media:
Republicans Kind of Suck ... Which Is Why They Will Win Huge in November
Discussion: Moe Lane
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Democrats suffer from Americans' unwillingness to accept economic reality
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Rise of the bitter clingers
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