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10:50 PM ET, October 11, 2011

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ABCNEWS:
U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot in Washington, D.C. Disrupted  —  FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States” tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.  —  The officials said the plot included the assassination …
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The United States Department of Justice:
Two Men Charged in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States  —  WASHINGTON - Two individuals have been charged in New York for their alleged participation in a plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States …
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Would Iran Really Want to Blow Up the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.?  —  The alleged Iranian plot would make great material for a spy novel, but it would go against Iran's own interests and past behavior  —  Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel al-Jubeir speaks in Annapolis / Reuters
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
U.S. Accuses Iranians of Plotting to Kill Saudi Envoy  —  Federal authorities foiled a plot by men linked to the Iranian government to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and to bomb the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a news conference on Tuesday.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Jim Messina broaches a provocative line  —  There's been at least some discussion this year about the “sabotage” question — whether Republicans are deliberately hurting the country, holding back the economy on purpose, for the express purpose of undermining the Obama presidency.
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Associated Press:
GOP senators vote to defeat Obama's jobs bill
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate passes China currency bill
Discussion: Pat Dollard
The Hill:
The Hill's Whip List of selected senators on Obama's jobs bill
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Will Dems fall short of majority for jobs bill?
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A note about motions to proceed
Discussion: BBC, The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
The Politico:
Obama jobs bill stalls in Senate
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Shaheen to fly in for jobs vote
Discussion: Campaign 2012
The Politico:
Herman Cain: 'I'm going after Romney' at debate  —  In a radio interview just now, Herman Cain previewed his Tuesday night debate plan: “I'm going after Romney.”  —  “I'm not going after Perry.  I don't need to go after Perry,” Cain said, per POLITICO's Juana Summers.
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Fox News:
Christie to Endorse Romney Ahead of GOP Debate  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, plans to endorse Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon, Fox News has learned.  —  The event is set to take place …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Tonight in New Hampshire  —  The latest in a series of debates …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cain leads in Iowa
Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Christie endorses Romney, underscores frontrunner status
Discussion: Firedoglake and GOP 12
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Left's Nervous Breakdown  —  Obama has failed, and his supporters are turning to nihilism.  —  The White House is “bracing for the defeat of President Obama's jobs bill,” the Hill reports.  That's hardly surprising, since Republicans control the House—except that it is the Senate …
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Ari Rabin-Havt / Media Matters for America:
We Need a New System  —  In the Spring of 2000, my friend and former colleague Zack Exley arrived in Washington, DC, to observe the protests that had engulfed the city during the World Bank's annual meeting.  Driving into Washington from the airport, out the window of his taxi he saw …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
About those ‘53 percent’  —  Republicans have been preoccupied for much of the year with those Americans who don't make enough money to qualify for a federal income tax burden.  Some are working-class families who fall below the tax threshold; some are unemployed; some are students; and some are retired.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Milquetoast Radicals  —  The U.S. economy is probably …
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Israel Reaches Deal With Hamas to Free Gilad Shalit  —  JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas announced an agreement on Tuesday to exchange more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza for five years, a deal brokered by Egypt that seemed likely to shake …
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Haaretz:
Israel cabinet approves Gilad Shalit prisoner swap
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air
Reuters:
Israel, Hamas agree on prisoner swap to free Shalit
Discussion: The Jawa Report, CNN and ThinkProgress
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Gilad Shalit Prisoner Exchange
Discussion: Room Eight
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Inside the Cain Tax Plan  —  Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul.  —  With recent polls showing increased support for Herman Cain as the G.O.P. presidential nominee …
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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Cain defends 9-9-9 plan as not ‘off a pizza box’
Discussion: The Politico
Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:
Cain: The Godfather's years
Neil W. McCabe / Human Events:
SunPower: Twice As Bad As Solyndra, Twice As Bad For Obama  —  Congressman's son lobbied for failing solar panel company … How did a failing California solar company, buffeted by short sellers and shareholder lawsuits, receive a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee for a photovoltaic …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama ‘heartbroken’ NBA season will be delayed  —  President Obama said Tuesday that he's “a little heartbroken that the NBA season is getting delayed” at a fundraiser in Orlando with Magic star Dwight Howard.  —  NBA commissioner David Stern announced Monday that at least the first two weeks …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
Slovakia Rejects Euro Bailout  —  WARSAW — Slovakia's Parliament rejected participating in a crucial euro rescue fund on Tuesday night in a vote that backfired on the prime minister, who had tied her government to the legislation through a confidence vote.  —  Negotiations to try to stave off …
Lou Chibbaro Jr / Washington Blade:
Longtime gay activist Kameny dead  —  Frank Kameny (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key)  —  Franklin E. Kameny, one of the nation's most prominent gay rights leaders, died in his home today from an apparent natural causes.  He was 86.  —  The death came less a month …
Discussion: Good As You and Joe. My. God.
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Gulf Shrimp Are Scarce This Season; Answers, Too  —  LAFITTE, La. — The dock at Bundy's Seafood is quiet, the trucks are empty and a crew a fraction of the normal size sits around a table waiting for something to do.  But the most telling indicator that something is wrong is the smell.
Adam Weinstein / Mother Jones:
Rick Scott to Liberal Arts Majors: Drop Dead  —  Florida's unpopular tea party governor, Rick Scott, wants more of the state's youths to pick up college degrees... but only if the degrees are useful to corporations and don't teach students to question social norms.  “You know what?
 
 
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Bachmann Introduces “American Jobs, Right Now” Blueprint for Economic Prosperity and Job Creation
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Tammy Stables Battaglia / Detroit Free Press:
Majority of Highland Park's streetlights removed as city struggles with monthly energy bill
Discussion: Detroit News and Crooks and Liars
Inside Higher Ed:
The Lecturers' Filibuster
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Considers Replacing Firefighters With Free Prison Laborers
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A MUSLIM LIFE OF BRIAN? NO WAY, SAYS PYTHON
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The Woman Who Knew Too Much  —  Millions of Americans hoped …
 

 
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