memeorandum: Mitt Romney wins Michigan straw poll, Rick Perry a distant second (Philip Rucker/Washington Post)

11:40 PM ET, September 25, 2011

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Sarah Maslin Nir / City Room:

Video Appears to Show Wall Street Protesters Being Pepper-Sprayed — The above video, posted by USLaw.com, captures a confrontation on Saturday between the police and several protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement. — In slow motion, and with annotation explaining what is happening …

Discussion: New York Times, Runnin' Scared and The Atlantic Online

ABCNEWS:

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent; Video Shows Police Macing Women — ABC News' Olivia Katrandjian reports: — Video posted by the group Occupy Wall St from the eighth day of protests against corporations show police using Tasers and mace to control the crowd …

Discussion: OccupyWallSt News, Guardian, New York Magazine, Gothamist and Gawker

Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:

Gunning for Wall Street, With Faulty Aim — By late morning on Wednesday, Occupy Wall Street, a noble but fractured and airy movement of rightly frustrated young people, had a default ambassador in a half-naked woman who called herself Zuni Tikka. A blonde with a marked likeness to Joni Mitchell …

Discussion: American Power, Hullabaloo, Prairie Weather, Balloon Juice, Suburban Guerrilla, naked capitalism and City Room

NY Daily News:

Wall Street protesters cuffed, pepper-sprayed during ‘inequality’ march — Scores of protesters were arrested in Manhattan Saturday as a march against social inequality turned violent. — Hundreds of people carrying banners and chanting “shame, shame” walked between Zuccotti Park …

Discussion: Joe. My. God., Prairie Weather, Firedoglake, Guardian and Corrente

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Mitt Romney wins Michigan straw poll, Rick Perry a distant second — MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he isn't competing in any straw polls —not even the one this weekend on the island where he spent summers as a boy and where pictures of his father adorn …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Politics, The Politico, Naked Politics, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Reuters and The Caucus

Ron Fournier / Hotline On Call:

Romney trounces Perry in Michigan straw poll; Rubio the pick for VP — MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. - In a rout, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney trounced Rick Perry and the rest of the GOP field to win the National Journal Hotline/National Association of Home Builders Straw Poll …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Moderate Voice, Business Insider and PoliPundit.com

Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
No Surprise Here, Romney Wins Michigan Straw Poll

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Washington Monthly

Washington Examiner:
York: How Cain won Florida

Discussion: JustOneMinute and Campaign 2012

Reuters:
Cain upsets Perry in Florida Republican straw poll

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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:

Santa Fe Is Not The Future — It sort of seems like falling communication costs should reduce the need for people to crowd together, so I can see why people say things like this: … That's not an insane piece of idle speculation, but like David Frum I don't understand how it survives contact …

Discussion: Eschaton

Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:

Tysons Corner: The building of an American city — Imagine, it's a shivery January morning in 2014 and you are riding one of the first of Metro's Silver Line cars to Tysons Corner. — After you step aboard downtown, the train runs west out of the District and into Arlington County.

Discussion: FrumForum

CBS News:

Owners of teaparty.com: Make us an offer — A screen grab of teaparty.com, the website of the Canadian rock band The Tea Party. They say they have been flooded with offers to buy their domain name. (teaparty.com) — The three members of the Canadian band The Tea Party could be in for a very big pay day.

Discussion: The Political Carnival

Mark S. Smith / Associated Press:

Obama Tells Blacks to ‘Stop Complainin’ and Fight — In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity. — And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Randy's Roundtable, Wake up America, Patterico's Pontifications and Washington Post

BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA LOSES COOL AT BLACK CAUCUS DINNER; ‘STOP COMPLAINING’ AND MARCH

Discussion: Don Surber

Michael Kazin / New York Times:

Whatever Happened to the American Left? — Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown, a co-editor of Dissent and the author of “American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation.” — SOMETIMES, attention should be paid to the absence of news. America's economic miseries continue …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos

Marc Lacey / New York Times:

In Arizona, Complaints That an Accent Can Hinder a Teacher's Career — PHOENIX — When Guadalupe V. Aguayo puts her hand to her heart, faces the American flag in the corner of her classroom and leads her second-graders in the Pledge of Allegiance, she says some of the words — like allegiance …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Gawker and Balloon Juice