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Oh my: Fiorina now within one point of Boxer in new Reuters poll
Plus: Boxer humiliates herself! What an odd race. Things tightened up in early September, then Boxer bounced out to a six-to-eight point lead, which made this ol’ eeyore’s fragile little heart think...
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Losing it: Hinchey allegedly assaults reporter
"Shut up," he explained ... literally. Bill Kemble of the Kingston Freeman found out that when Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) tells you to shut up, he’s not kidding. Last night, according to YNN’s Capitol...
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It’s come to this: Ted Stevens endorses Lisa Murkowski — from beyond the grave
Oof. Note how Stevens’s daughter takes care to say that Murky was simply too considerate to air this ad during the primary, out of alleged respect for the family. Now, though, when she’s fighting for...
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Dutch prosecutors move to drop charges against Geert Wilders for criticizing...
Victory? Earlier, in Headlines, I wrote that he’d been acquitted on all counts, but that’s not quite true. Presumably all charges will now be dismissed — Radio Netherlands says the case is as good as...
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Healthy-livin’ First Lady treats herself to burger and fries in Milwaukee
Red meat. The bad news? This’ll put a crimp in her next anti-obesity lecture. The good news? Once we finally get that VAT that all the smart kids are talking about, we can tax the hell out of fatty,...
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Report: Romney boosted book sales by asking institutions to buy copies in...
Math. Two ways to look at this. One: Smart businessman makes smart business decision. Two: Mitt’s a phony. I wonder which read most of our commenters will prefer. I’m throwing this fastball right down...
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Video: National embarrassment upset that GOP is calling him a national...
"These blistering, evil negative ads." He is, of course, every inch a national embarrassment — and yet still not the biggest embarrassment to appear in this clip. That would be Schultz, who actually...
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Quotes of the day
Morals. “The presenters did differ on where a secular morality might come from. In his new best-seller, ‘The Moral Landscape,’ Mr. Harris argues that morality is a product of neuroscience. (The good,...
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NARN, the Best Decision Ever Edition!
1-3 pm CT with live video & chat! The Northern Alliance Radio Network will be on the air today, with our eight-hour-long broadcast schedule starting at 9 am CT. If you’re in the Twin Cities, you...
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Crist to Rubio: You offend my Hispanicness
Huh? How do we know Charlie Crist has fully transformed into a Democrat? He set himself up as the authority on Hispanic authenticity in the debate with Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek last night on the...
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Republican up 12 in NM gubernatorial race
Lock. New Mexico’s Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Diane Denish, figured that she could just follow outgoing Democratic Governor Bill Richardson into the top spot without too much trouble, but it hasn’t...
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Adventures in absentee voting!
Uphill towards vote integrity. Normally I enjoy casting my vote at the local polling station. Minnesota gets good voter turnout in general elections, even in midterm cycles, and it’s fun to see people...
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Video: The Tea Party vs the Ruling Class
Elitism: the New Nobility. Bill Whittle released Part II of the “What We Believe” series yesterday, and it’s just as good as Part I. In this installment, Bill explains both the practical and meta...
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Watching the polls in tight races fluctuate over the last few days conjures an image of frightened people racing around the feet of a blind giant. Blind giants are dangerous. They cause massive...
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Venture capital moving to the sidelines?
From Recovery Summer to Growth-Free Fall. Reuters’ economists may have reason to move their already-pessimistic projections further downward. Yesterday afternoon, a study conducted jointly by Thompson...
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Brooks: Hey, Obama told me shovel-ready jobs didn’t exist last year
Scoop! And of course, this wouldn’t have been news all the time while Barack Obama kept claiming that these “shovel ready jobs” had prosperity just around the corner, right? Brooks says that the...
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Newspaper: Hinchey team’s lying about assault on reporter
And that's not all, either. Yesterday, YNN reported that Democratic incumbent Rep. Maurice Hinchey had assaulted a newspaper reporter after a debate with George Phillips in the NY-22 race. YNN’s...
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Quotes of the day
Tsunami. “President Barack Obama on Saturday blamed Americans’ ‘fear and frustration’ for the fierce, negative, anything-goes midterm election cycle that threatens to upend his agenda. “‘Part of the...
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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
Shrinkage. Time to pick the winning ticket in this week’s popularity contest and choose the Obamateurism of the Week! Thanks to our President, the pool of selections never shrinks. Today, I expect...
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NFL Week 6 open thread
Return. This week, Big Ben Roethlisberger returns to active duty for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he couldn’t have engineered a better way to end his suspension. The suspension ended two weeks ago,...
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