This year will likely go down in the history books as the year of the angry voter. But 2010 will also be an election year notable for another kind of ire: when politicians let their contempt for the news media boil over. Oct 30, 2010 By JEREMY W. PETERS NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/us/politics/31press.html?hp Social Bookmarking

LAGOS, Nigeria — A weapons cache containing artillery rockets seized by Nigerian security agents at the West African nation’s busiest port originally came from Iran, an international shipping company said Saturday. The confirmation by CMA CGM, an international cargo shipper based in France, comes after Israeli officials accused Iran of trying to sneak the shipment [...]

(CNN) — Swedish police arrested two individuals Saturday suspected of preparing terrorist crimes, they said. They were responding to information that a bomb could go off in central Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city, on Saturday, they said. The information was “vague and not confirmed” but police said late Friday they “could not rule out” that it [...]

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert may not want an overtly political rally on Saturday, but the Democratic National Committee is doing everything it can to capitalize on the event. Volunteers and staff members from the headquarters are greeting people as they get off of the buses or arrive in Washington on trains, armed with sign-up [...]

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Former President Bill Clinton’s political bank shot appears to have hit its mark with many black Democrats who were lined up at the polls here Friday. They were not voting for the Democratic congressman and neighbor they had long supported — Representative Kendrick B. Meek — but rather for Gov. Charlie [...]

President Obama, who is having a hard enough time with the Republicans this election season, had to deal with putative supporters today in Connecticut. As Obama launched into his stump speech at an arena in Bridgeport, a group of protesters began heckling him over funding for the global fight against AIDS. “Excuse me … excuse [...]

NPR’s Nina Totenberg said Friday that she’s very afraid of the upcoming elections. Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, her co-panelist on “Inside Washington,” said historians might look upon November 2, 2010 “as kind of a joke…obviously the political system’s a mess” (video follows with transcript and commentary): Oct 30, 2010 By Noel Sheppard Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/10/30/totenbergs-very-afraid-these-elections-thomas-thinks-theyre-jokepolit#ixzz13wBANg5R Social [...]

PHILADELPHIA — The battle for control of Congress rolled into a frenetic final weekend as Democrats fought to preserve the Senate as their power center on Capitol Hill, trying to hold off a Republican surge that could reshape the political order in Washington. With Republicans in a strong position to capture the House, President Barack [...]

By abandoning his own rhetoric of bipartisanship, President Obama divided America and set the course for a heavy Democratic defeat in Tuesday’s midterm elections, argues Toby Harnden. Oct 30, 2010 By Toby Harnden http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8098632/US-midterm-elections-Barack-Obamas-world-turned-upside-down-as-Democrats-face-electoral-disaster.html Social Bookmarking

Obama: GOP needs to put partisan politics aside Social Bookmarking