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Financial firms need 'nutrition labels' (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - "Is my money safe?" That's question No. 1 for many Americans today. And it goes to the moral heart of the global financial crisis: lack of trust. Can the US be pals with the terrorist Taliban? (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - The McCain campaign may want to be careful with its charge that Barack Obama was once "pals" with a 1960s American terrorist. Whoever is the next president faces a difficult choice in the Afghanistan war: Should the US support possible talks with the Taliban, pals of Al Qaeda? When nations kill their own (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - At the height of the bloody suppression by the Burma (Myanmar) regime of protesting monks last year, the heated question was whether the international community should intervene. In response, a well-known Chinese professor told an American newspaper "China has used tanks to kill people on Tiananmen Square. It is Myanmar's sovereign right to kill their own people, too." Historic Day for Marriage Equality (HuffingtonPost.com) HuffingtonPost.com - Today, the Connecticut Supreme Court took an historic step by joining California and Massachusetts in the fight to provide marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. John Lewis: McCain, Palin Are "Sowing Seeds of Hatred" (The Nation) The Nation - The Nation -- After a week of sowing the seeds of hatred and division, Republican presidential candidate John McCain got called on the carpet by Georgia Congressman John Lewis. McCain: "I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments." (The Nation) The Nation - The Nation -- Poor John McCain. Can McCain Come Back? (RealClearPolitics.com) RealClearPolitics.com - Over the last few days, the national tracking polls, for the first time in a month (or since the Lehman Brothers collapse triggered the current stage in the financial crisis), have shown a small movement away from Barack Obama and toward John McCain. McCain's Strategery (RealClearPolitics.com) RealClearPolitics.com - Pennsylvania yesterday. Wisconsin today. Iowa tomorrow. What in the heck are Steve Schmidt & Co. doing? Do they know something the rest of us don't? Or are they simply flailing about, searching for a toe-hold in a Kerry state that they might be possibly be able to flip to offset losses and still make 270? Letters to the Editor (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - Stabilizing Bolivia requires goodwill and cooperationRegarding the Oct. 7 Opinion piece, "Boiling point in Bolivia": Author Seth Kaplan recommends a heavy-handed course of action that would further destabilize the Andean nation. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must go (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - At the time, it was perhaps the biggest bailout in US history. Today, one month later, the federal takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been all but forgotten in the drama of the global credit crunch. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PRESIDENT (David Shribman) David Shribman - It is one of the great American stories, involving three great Americans and perhaps the most valuable piece of real estate in the United States. The principals were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt along with Henry Adams, the fabled historian and intellectual. The setting was Adams' home right across the park from the White House. PLUNGING INTO THE ABYSS THAT OUR 'AFFLUENCE' HATH WROUGHT (Cynthia Tucker) Cynthia Tucker - "The Puritan ethos (save first and enjoy later) was not abandoned. It was merely overwhelmed by the massive power of modern merchandising." -- "The Affluent Society," John Kenneth Galbraith The Obama Witch Project (Michelle Malkin) Michelle Malkin - Republicans don't need to dress up for Halloween this year. They're scaring the pants off Barack Obama's followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear or do provokes instant cries of "RAAAAACISM!" Wink, blink or think critical thoughts about Obama? You're a bigot! Playing the Race Card (Linda Chavez) Linda Chavez - Was John McCain playing the race card when he referred to Barack Obama as "that one" in Tuesday's presidential debate? Obama's campaign and its echo chamber in the media surely want us to think so. Within seconds, the campaign was sending out e-mails to reporters drawing attention to the phrase, and the media were quick to take up the charge. Can McCain Still Win? (Pat Buchanan) Pat Buchanan - Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., John McCain and Sarah Palin were striding forward toward victory. Fox's Lying, Slacker Jesus (Brent Bozell III) Brent Bozell III - Just like Bill Maher, "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is discovering that atheist ridicule of Jesus Christ and Christianity draws nothing but yawns from today's media elite. If you want an angry media mob, you need merely spit out "Barack Hussein Obama" at a McCain rally and watch the Guardians of Social Taste bring out the torches and pitchforks. But mocking Jesus? Ho hum. AYERS A MEANINGLESS DISTRACTION FROM REAL CAMPAIGN ISSUES (Georgie Anne Geyer) Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- The real "man of the hour" at the latest presidential debate was the man who wasn't there. Oh, he was lurking about, hiding behind the stage curtains and troubling people's minds, as we used to say in the Midwest. Sarah Palin, also not seen, was nevertheless devilishly busy researching every moment of the man's checkered past so she could continue to herald his "friendship" with Barack Obama. PULL THE HAIR PLUG ON THIS GUY (Ann Coulter) Ann Coulter - If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?") In Defense of 'The Rich' (Larry Elder) Larry Elder - So, what do "the rich" pay in federal income taxes? Nothing, right? That, at least, is what most people think. And Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wants to raise the top marginal rate for "the rich" — known in some quarters as "job creators." Honor Won and Lost (Joe Conason) Joe Conason - Nothing in the presidential campaign so far has been as instructive as its swift descent into the politics of personal destruction. Although voters have probably heard little lately that they did not already know about Sen. Barack Obama, they have learned something very important about Sen. John McCain.