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WCVB.com:
Sen. Scott Brown staffers caught on video chanting Indian war whoops, making tomahawk chops  —  Rally video surfaces after campaigns release ads about Warren's heritage  —  Brown staffers caught chanting Indian war whoops  —  Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown chanted Indian “war whoops” …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Really, Scott Brown?  —  I've been wondering about this for a few days.  Scott Brown has made the ‘controversy’ over Elizabeth Warren's purported Native American heritage a centerpiece of the final lap of the campaign.  Indeed, his staffers went so far today as to taunt Warren with “tomahawk chops” mocking her claims.
Discussion: Blue Mass Group
Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Dems: GOP staffers mocked Warren with chants, ‘chops’
Eric Kleefeld / Talking Points Memo:
Warren Ad: Scott Brown ‘Attacking My Family’ On Native American Claims
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Boston Herald:
Miner: Elizabeth Warren's biz ‘hypocritical’
Elizabeth Hartfield / ABCNEWS:   Mass. Senate Race: Elizabeth Warren Represented Coal Mining Co.
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Demands Return Of Unionized NFL Referees: ‘It Is Time To Get The Real Refs’  —  The Green Bay Packers lost on a controversial last-second play that was ruled incorrectly by scab officials Monday night, leading Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan (also from Wisconsin) …
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:   Union-buster Walker calls for return of union refs
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Ryan criticizes refs for call in disputed Green Bay Packers game
Discussion: CNN, Politico and NFL.com
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Obama to NFL: “Get the permanent refs back”
Steve Benen / Associated Press:
Scott Walker discovers the value of union workers
John Brennan / Meadowlands Matters:
Breaking: NJ state Senate President says just say “no” to replacement officials
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
The President continues to offer up apologies....When tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide...  In his speech today to the United Nations, President Obama stated six times that the attacks across the Islamic world are attributed to a silly video.
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This Just In:
President Obama's remarks at the U.N. General Assembly  —  The following are U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday:  —  Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: I would like to begin today by telling you about an American named Chris Stevens.
New York Times:
Obama's Speech to the United Nations General Assembly — Text
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Allen West to U.N.: U.S. ‘Angel of Death’
Discussion: Mediaite and Reuters
Washington Post:
Washington Post polls: Obama lead in Ohio, edge in Fla. hamper Romney path to victory  —  President Obama has grabbed a significant lead over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in Ohio and holds a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls by The Washington Post.
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BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Challenges The Polls  —  Adviser says internal polling says the race is much tighter than the public polls suggests.  “We are, by any stretch, within the margin of error in Ohio,” says Beeson.  —  Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters  —  DAYTON, Ohio — Amid a flurry …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney's problem: Ohio, Ohio, Ohio  —  Of all the hurdles in Mitt Romney's path, there is none as daunting - or as alarming to other members of his party - as the state of Ohio.  —  This morning's Washington Post poll found Obama leading Romney by 8 points in the Buckeye State.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Conservative Mind  —  When I joined the staff of National Review as a lowly associate in 1984, the magazine, and the conservative movement itself, was a fusion of two different mentalities.  —  On the one side, there were the economic conservatives.  These were people that anybody …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Brooks Misses the Boat
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Madonna strips for Obama, offers profanity-laced endorsement  —  Madonna offered a profanity-laced endorsement of President Obama at her concert Monday night, which involved the singer stripping down to her underwear to reveal the president's name written on her body.
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Kia Makarechi / The Huffington Post:
Madonna: Obama Is ‘A Black Muslim In The White House,’ Deserves Votes (VIDEO) … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Madonna, Video, Madonna MDNA Tour, Political Hollywood, Madonna Barack Obama, Madonna Obama, Madonna Obama Black Muslim, Madonna Obama Endorsement, Madonna Obama Muslim, Madonna Obama Tattoo, Mdna, Mdna Tour, Entertainment News
New York Post:
Anti-Muslim posters spark subway fears  —  The NYPD ramped up security at 10 subway stations yesterday after the MTA was forced to install a controversial ad campaign branding enemies of Israel “savages,” sources told The Post.  —  The 46- by 30-inch ads — which the MTA unsuccessfully tried to block …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
‘Every Person Is Afraid of the Drones’: The Strikes' Effect on Life in Pakistan  —  Interviews with the civilians terrorized daily by American foreign policy  —  Tribesmen sit with Sadaullah Khan, a man from Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, who says he lost both legs and one eye in a 2009 drone strike on his house.
Discussion: Guardian and The Agonist
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Joshua Hersh / The Huffington Post:
Pakistan Drone Study Finds ‘Damaging And Counterproductive’ Consequences From U.S. Policy
Discussion: The Long War Journal
Manu Raju / Politico:
Jim DeMint PAC considers donating to Todd Akin  —  ST. LOUIS — Sen. Jim DeMint's political action committee is torn over whether it should put its big bucks behind a risky bet: Todd Akin's Senate candidacy against Sen. Claire McCaskill.  —  With Akin declaring on Tuesday that he's staying in the race …
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Chris Good / ABCNEWS:   Big PAC May Return to Akin Fold
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Mitt Romney Was Joking About Airplane Windows  —  The internet was tickled silly yesterday when it learned that Mitt Romney lacks an even basic understanding of the airplanes he has flown on probably thousands of times at this point in his 65-year life.  It seemed almost unthinkable that a guy …
Alex Pareene / Salon:
The website where Mitt Romney's winning in a landslide  —  At UnSkewed Polls, “liberal media bias” is removed from every survey that shows Obama ahead.  Guess who wins?  —  I present UnSkewedPolls.com, the best new website on the political Internet.  UnSkewed Polls finally removes the …
David Weigel / Slate:
Defining Wonkishness Down  —  I'm noticing a pattern in coverage of Paul Ryan.  Yesterday's NYT and WaPo gripe-collecters on how conservatives wanted to “unleash” the candidate were a taster.  The next wave of Ryan story is the “the wonk is loosed” piece.  When you see just how the “wonkishness” is being defined, it's fairly amusing.
Tiffany Hsu / Los Angeles Times:
Bacon, pork shortage ‘now unavoidable,’ industry group says  —  LA Times Columnist David Lazarus discusses details of the U.S. bacon shortage  —  Might want to get your fill of ham this year, because “a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable,” according to an industry trade group.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
NEWS FLASH  —  RYAN: PREVENTING GAY PEOPLE FROM MARRYING IS A ‘UNIVERSAL HUMAN’ VALUE |  Paul Ryan reiterated his opposition to marriage equality, during a town hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on Tuesday.  “The things you talk about like traditional marriage and family and entrepreneurship.
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Harry Reid: Mitt Romney is not the face of Mormonism  —  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he agrees with a fellow Mormon who wrote recently that Mitt Romney has “sullied” the LDS faith and that the GOP presidential candidate is “not the face of Mormonism.”
 
 
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Vladimir Putin / Telegraph:
France set to ban the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from official documents
Associated Press:
Romney Says Clinton Can ‘Do a Man a Lot of Good’
Discussion: Politico and Algemeiner.com
Adam C. Smith / The Buzz Florida Politics Feed:
Herald-Tribune runs seriously ugly and false anti-Obama ad
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Obama has strong lead in Pa., Mercyhurst U. poll finds
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP takes aim at ‘skewed’ polls
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