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2:40 AM ET, October 21, 2010

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NPR Ends Analyst's Contract After Comments on Muslims  —  NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel.  —  NPR said in a statement that it gave Mr. Williams notice of his termination on Wednesday night.
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Michelle Malkin:
Firing offense: NPR axes Juan Williams for opinions on Muslims & post-9/11 travel  —  Un-freaking-believable.  —  Cable news blogger Johnny Dollar red-flagged NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik's Twitter feed, which announced tonight that liberal NPR analyst/Fox News contributor Juan Williams' contract …
P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:
Screw Free Speech, NPR Fires Juan Williams for Muslim Remarks
Discussion: Breitbart.tv and News Hounds
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 …
Discussion: Blue Gal
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Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
John Roberts's America  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — I wish Chief Justice John Roberts could spend a day and a night in the Rocky Mountains experiencing what his activist Supreme Court majority has dumped on the American voter in 2010.  —  The sludge flow from out-of-state, secretive political groups is unrelenting.
New York Times:
The Justices and Decorum Outside the Courtroom
Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:   Don't Blame Citizens United
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Dems call for McCain investigation
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Call a Waaahmbulance: NAACP exhaustively details how the Tea Party's connections empower racism  —  Cue the right-wing wailing and gnashing of teeth: The NAACP has now fully backed up its accusations of racism within the Tea Party movement with a meticulously documented report …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Climate Change Doubt Is Tea Party Article of Faith
Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: Voters are not worried about ‘extreme’ label on candidates
Discussion: The Note, The Politico and Commentary
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Every big Senate race just got closer  —  A new wave of polling shows virtually every close Senate race growing even more competitive, raising the pressure on both parties in the final days of the midterm campaign.  —  In several states, Democratic candidates are on the upswing.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Swampland
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Steve Peoples / Roll Call:
GOP Has Absentee Ballot Advantage in Pennsylvania
Aharding / CNN:
TRENDING: ‘Extreme’ debate in Pennsylvania
Discussion: The Politico
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.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
George Soros' “foreign” money  —  George Soros announced today that he was making his first-ever contribution to Media Matters, in the amount of $1 million.  Rush Limbaugh denounced this as “foreign money in American politics” and called Soros “a foreigner.”
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Stays DADT Injunction  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a temporary stay of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips's Oct. 12 order in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States halting all enforcement of the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy.
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Advocate:   Appeals Court Grants DADT Stay
Fox News:
Federal Appeals Court Says Military's Gay Ban Should Stay in Place for Now  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court says the military should keep in place its “don't ask, don't tell” policy for now.  —  The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Obama administration's request …
Discussion: Hot Air and BLACKFIVE
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New York Times:
Court Keeps Military Gay Policy for Now
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Majority of independent voters say Dem leadership is more left wing than they are  —  In another potentially troubling sign for Democratic candidates, three in five independent voters in key House districts say Congress's Democratic leadership is to the left of them on the political spectrum.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi expects to stay on top
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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: Time and Conservatives4Palin.com
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Vauhini Vara / Washington Wire:
Joe Miller Files FEC Complaint
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Rival Gives Frank Some Unflattering New Steps  —  REVERE, Mass. — Representative Barney Frank was dancing around the issues — first doing a version of the Running Man, then the Sprinkler, then a disco boogie.  —  The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation.
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Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
Majority says no ‘change’ under Obama, or change for the worse  —  A majority of voters in key battleground races say President Obama has either brought no change to Washington or has brought change for the worse.  —  In 10 competitive House districts, 41 percent of likely voters say Obama …
David Weigel / Weigel:
Cindy Sheehan Goes Republican  —  After a fashion, anyway: She encourages Nancy Pelosi to debate her Republican opponent, John Dennis, and suggests that voters should take a look at him. … I talked to Dennis, who is happy with the quasi-endorsement — he, too, mentioned that he was backed by Gonzalez …
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Bush defends bailout of financial firms  —  Former President George W. Bush said a decision to use taxpayer money to bolster the financial system in 2008 wasn't difficult and was needed to avoid an economic collapse.  —  “Depression, no depression,” Bush told about 2,000 people during …
Discussion: Newsalert
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Citing Rep. Grayson's ‘gutter theatrics,’ GOP challenger refuses to debate  —  After Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) attacked his Republican challenger Dan Webster as “Taliban Dan” in a recent campaign ad, Webster is refusing to share the stage with him for a debate.
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 …
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Glenn Beck: Evolution Is 'Ridiculous — I Haven't Seen A Half-Monkey, Half-Person Yet'  —  Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half-person?  No?  Well neither has Glenn Beck, which is how he knows evolution doesn't exist.  —  On his radio show today, Beck wondered how many people …
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.
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Coalition Routs Taliban in Southern Afghanistan  —  ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces have been routing the Taliban in much of the insurgency's base of Kandahar Province in recent weeks, forcing many hardened fighters to flee strongholds they have held for years in the face …
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
Luke Funk / Traffic News:
Audit: NJ Turnpike Wasted Millions On Perks  —  MYFOXNY.COM - Auditors say the New Jersey Turnpike Authority wasted $43 million on unneeded perks and bonuses.  In one case, an employee with a base salary of $73,469 earned $321,985 when all payouts and bonuses were included.
Discussion: POWIP and National Review
 
 
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Clout St:
Quinn, Brady lash out on ethics, taxes, education at governor debate
Discussion: Chicago Breaking News
Steve / CBS New York:
Pilot Refuses Full-Body Scan, Says TSA Doesn't Make Travel Safer
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks
Aharding / CNN:
White House Dispatch: ‘Baby on Board’ in the Beast
Discussion: The Politico
The Huffington Post:
Obama Team On Furor Over Foreclosures: ‘Problem For The Banks and Servicers To Fix’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
White House rejects gay judicial nominee
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Fox News Jabs MSNBC's “Lean Forward” Campaign With Their Own “Move Forward” Promos
Discussion: Pajamas Media and The Daily Caller
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11
Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
 Earlier Items: 
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Likely voters ready to embrace GOP
Discussion: Washington Post and Politics Daily
Flathead Beacon:
Presidential Material?  —  Three weeks before a pivotal midterm …
Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
Mayor Endorses Sen. Gillibrand's ‘Stunning’ Looks
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Voters Oppose the Reelection of Anyone Who Voted for the …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
A Culture of Poverty
Ryan Sibley / Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group:
Dark money: Super PACs fueled by $97.5 million that can't be traced to donors
Frank J. Fleming / Pajamas Media:
Republicans Kind of Suck ... Which Is Why They Will Win Huge in November