A 25-year-old intruder was arrested yesterday as he got caught trying to break into the presidential palace of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. A police official said the man was searched after being wrestled to the ground and found to be armed with a knife and a Taser-like weapon that fires high-voltage electric darts. Sarkozy’s security detail is reportedly treating the break-in as an assassination attempt on the president. An official said the intruder is being held in custody and questioned about his intentions. Mr. Sarkozy was in fact inside the palace at the time of the incident.

Last night, the House passed a $14 billion dollar bailout bill for the auto industry, but there’s little celebrating going on in Detroit. Republicans were in full revolt against their party's lame-duck president over the measure, balking at helping Detroit's struggling Big Three without hefty concessions from autoworkers and creditors, and furious about an environmental mandate House Democrats insisted on including in the measure. The situation between House Republicans and the White House actually got so bad that the Administration sent Josh Bolten into closed-door meetings with Republicans to make the case for the bailout. In the end, 32 Republicans crossed the aisle and voted with the Democrats, while 20 Democrats voted against the measure. However, the bill is still facing some tough opponents in the Senate, including Richard Shelby of Alabama and John Kyl of Arizona. These republicans would rather see the big 3 file for bankruptcy and liquidate their assets, rather than saving the jobs of over 3 million Americans who depend on the auto industry for their income. The Senate will begin deliberations today.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Mike Papantonio talk about the Alaskan Independence Party - a shady extremist group that advocates Alaska's secession from the United States, with strong ties to Sarah Palin. For more, check out Bobby's piece "The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel" on Huffington Post.

We've got a very special Halloween edition of the Media Moron of the Week, where Kelvin Lovely recounts one of the scariest tales in modern history...the poor McCain supporter who was mugged an assaulted by a "dark, black man" who carved a "B" on her face...Too bad it wasn't true, and that's why Ashley Todd is our first ever Halloween Moron.

GoLeft TV presents a look back at what the last 8 years of Republican rule have brought to America, courtesy of president George W. Bush. Special thanks to our friend Jim Hightower and his amazing team for providing the research for these statistics.