Washington Times: The Justice Department on Wednesday vowed to thwart any efforts to intimidate voters at the polls on Tuesday and to ensure that the ballots of military voters are counted, as activists on both sides of the political aisle reignite their regular election-time tango over the dangers of voter fraud versus voter suppression. Facing [...]
USA Today: The toilet paper roll is about to undergo its biggest change in 100 years:
Los Angeles Times: The driver of a semitruck involved in an eight-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon on the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles has died, authorities said. William Bradfield, 58, of Huntington Beach is believed to have suffered a heart attack while behind the wheel of his big rig. Bradfield was northbound on the 405 [...]
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The Hill: President Obama took to The Daily Show on Wednesday as part of his effort to motivate the young voters who propelled him into the Oval Office in 2008. The president, who faces a possible GOP takeover of the House in less than a week, told a sometimes critical Jon Stewart and frustrated Democrats [...]
Washington Post: On Comedy Central, the joke was on President Obama Wednesday night. The president had come, on the eve of what will almost certainly be the loss of his governing majority, to plead his case before Jon Stewart, gatekeeper of the disillusioned left. But instead of displaying the sizzle that won him an army [...]
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court late Wednesday blocked a lower court’s order and ruled that voters at polling places may see a list of write-in candidates. The ruling was good news for the campaign of incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. She was defeated in the Republican primary by tea party favorite Joe [...]
The Hill: Republicans aren’t in the mood for compromise, especially on repealing healthcare reform, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday. Boehner, the party leader who would likely become Speaker in a GOP-controlled House, distanced himself from a senior senator’s suggestion last week that trying to repeal the new healthcare reform law wasn’t in [...]
Washington Times: Sarah Palin is not the “tea party” movement’s undisputed darling. But nobody else has been able to claim the undisputed leadership mantle for these latter-day insurrectionists, either. Activists in the ardently bottom-up political movement say that the tea partiers say no prominent politican on the national stage completely fits their limited-government, walk-the-walk bill. [...]
