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10.08.10 | 4:33 am
Unemployment Rate Unchanged

September jobs numbers just landed: 9.6%, same as August.

10.07.10 | 1:34 pm
Hittin’ All The Hot Buttons

Bill Clinton chases Sarah Palin and Obama smokes in the Oval Office in new conservative anti-spending cartoon flick.

10.07.10 | 1:17 pm
Health Care Law Upheld

A federal judge in Michigan has rejected arguments by the Thomas More Law Center, among others, that the insurance mandate in the new health care law violates the commerce clause.

10.07.10 | 11:53 am
How They Roll

New Sharron Angle TV ad: Harry Reid supports Viagra for sex offenders!

10.07.10 | 11:39 am
Mmm-Mmm, Jihad

Stick a spoon in it. American culture is dead for good. While loyal citizens were worrying about encroaching Sharia law, Campbell’s introduced a line of Halal soups.

All the usual suspects are weighing in on this American apocalypse, including the Tea Party Nation, which tweeted: “Campbell’s now making Muslim approved soups. Mmmmm Mmmmm not good. No more campbells for me.”

Rachel Slajda reports.

10.07.10 | 10:51 am
Curtains For Lieberman?

New polling out of Connecticut shows just how unpopular Joe Lieberman is and what a steep climb he has for reelection in 2012.

10.07.10 | 10:39 am
Just Like The Other Senate Spouses

TPM Reader WB checks in with his take on the McMahons:

I have to agree with your Reader MM, the McMahons shouldn’t be let off the hook for what happens in their industry so easily because the performers are “independent contractors” and/or narcissists.

Here is a sample of Vince McMahon dealing with one of his “independent contractors,” a young man named Darren Drozdov who could vomit at will and McMahon was auditioning to be a featured performer in WWE as “Puke” from the documentary Beyond The Mat:

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10.07.10 | 9:52 am
Coming Up Empty

Still no luck in the search for the missing American allegedly shot by “lake pirates” along the Mexico-Texas border. Possibly complicating the case is that the local sheriff on the U.S. side has a history of disputes with Mexican authorities and is an alarmist when it comes to border security. We’ll have more on that later.

10.07.10 | 7:43 am
Sharpen Your Pencils

The top 5 budget items the House GOP’s “Pledge to America” would cut.