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Jeanne Mansfield / Boston Review:
Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests — My boyfriend Frank and I are heading toward Liberty Square to check out what's going on at the Occupy Wall Street protest, when we stumble upon the afternoon march toward Union Square. So we join up and walk along behind.
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Karen McVeigh / Guardian:
Occupy Wall Street: ‘Pepper-spray’ officer named in Bush protest claim — Anthony Bologna, NYPD officer named in pepper-spray incident, is accused of civil rights violations at the time of the 2004 Republican national convention protests — A senior New York police officer accused …
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emptywheel, OccupyWallSt News, Liberty Street, Hullabaloo and Gawker
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Videos Show Police Using Pepper Spray at Protest on the Financial System
Videos Show Police Using Pepper Spray at Protest on the Financial System
Shushannah Walshe / Politics:
Sarah Palin Threatens to Sue ‘Rogue’ Book Publisher — Sarah Palin's family attorney John Tiemessen has written a letter to Maya Mavjee, the publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, that Palin may sue her, the company, and the book's author Joe McGinniss …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Perry still at top but Romney stronger vs. Obama — Washington (CNN) - Despite his performances in the two most recent Republican presidential debates, a new national survey indicates that Texas Gov. Rick Perry remains on top of the field in the race for the GOP nomination.
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
In Praise of Extremism — What good did bipartisanship ever do anybody?
In Praise of Extremism — What good did bipartisanship ever do anybody?
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driftglass, Booman Tribune and US Politics
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How Lucky Is Mitt Romney?
How Lucky Is Mitt Romney?
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New gaffe: Obama confuses Jews with janitors — President Obama spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus awards banquet over the weekend. — Those folks will stick with him in 2012, of course. — But they've been somewhat miffed in recent months that the first post-partisan president …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Waters: Obama got ‘fired up’ and a little ‘carried away’ in Black Caucus speech
Waters: Obama got ‘fired up’ and a little ‘carried away’ in Black Caucus speech
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Weasel Zippers and Scared Monkeys
Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
Audience Member Asks Obama: ‘Would You Please Raise My Taxes?’ — President Obama is currently fielding questions from a town hall audience in Mountain View, California, hosted by LinkedIn. At one point, a man stood and asked Obama, “Would you please raise my taxes?”
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Timothy P. Carney / Campaign 2012:
Meet the Google Dem donor who wants a tax hike — “Would you please raise my taxes?” — Oh, liberals gushed when a rich audience member asked Obama that question today. It seems relevant to point out that this rich liberal is Doug Edwards from the Obama-friendly and regulation-friendly Google.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Health suit might head to SCOTUS — The Obama administration chose not to ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to re-hear a pivotal health reform case Monday, signaling that it's going to ask the Supreme Court to decide whether President Barack Obama's health reform law is constitutional.
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Mike Wereschagin / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Scalia: Duquesne should strive to retain Catholic identity
Scalia: Duquesne should strive to retain Catholic identity
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Law Blog, ThinkProgress, Above the Law and ACS Blog
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Verdict on Kagan's first year on Supreme Court
Verdict on Kagan's first year on Supreme Court
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NewsBusters.org and Law Blog
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate leaders announce bipartisan agreement to avert government shutdown — Senate leaders announced a bipartisan agreement Monday evening that would keep government agencies funded until Nov. 18, potentially ending a contentious dispute over how to pay for disaster funds.
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Senate to vote on FEMA funding as government shutdown looms
Senate to vote on FEMA funding as government shutdown looms
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William Lajeunesse / Fox News:
U.S. Government Used Taxpayer Funds to Buy, Sell Weapons During ‘Fast and Furious,’ Documents Show — Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel — the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons …
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Euan Mearns / The Oil Drum:
A Brief Economic Explanation of Peak Oil — The following is a guest posting by Chris Skrebowski, the ex Editor of Petroleum Review and longtime ASPO and ODAC member. Chris is the founder and Director of Peak Oil Consulting Ltd. The article was published on the ODAC website on 16th September.
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The Moderate Voice
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Barack Obama Does The Impossible — Matt Miller continues to advocate for a third party in America: … Isn't Miller's position on this exactly the position of President Obama? It seems to me that 15 months ago, Miller was touting “the exciting reform energy unleashed across the country …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The bogus ‘third party’ dodge
The bogus ‘third party’ dodge
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Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Dennis Miller endorses Herman Cain, plans to headline a fundraiser — On the heels of presidential candidate Herman Cain's win in the Florida straw poll last weekend, the radio host Dennis Miller announced Monday that he's endorsing Cain for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Facebook to form its own PAC to back political candidates — Facebook confirmed it filed paperwork on Monday to start its own political action committee. — “FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals …
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Unrelenting Downturn Is Redrawing America's Economic Map — When the unemployment rate rose in most states last month, it underscored the extent to which the deep recession, the anemic recovery and the lingering crisis of joblessness are beginning to reshape the nation's economic map.
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Stephen M. Walt / Foreign Policy:
Mearsheimer responds to Goldberg's latest smear — Ever since John Mearsheimer and I began writing about the Israel lobby, some of our critics have leveled various personal charges against us. These attacks rarely addressed the substance of what we wrote — a tacit concession that both facts …
The Nation:
Fatwa for Jihad against America — LAHORE - As many as 50 religious scholars associated with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), a conglomerate of 20 Barelvi school of thought groups, have declared that Jihad against the US would be obligatory for the entire in case of aggression against the country.
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Rick Perry / The Daily Beast:
Roger's Reality Show — First, Ailes dialed back the Tea Party talk. Now he's turning the GOP race into a political X-Factor—and steering the election agenda one more time. — It was part political spectacle, part American Idol, part YouTube extravaganza, a pure Roger Ailes production …
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FIRE:
‘Firefly’ and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus — A professor has been censored twice, reported to the “threat assessment team,” and threatened with criminal charges because of satirical postings on his office door.
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Hit & Run, The TrogloPundit, Instapundit and Althouse
Bret Jacobson / Big Government:
‘Solar Decathlon’ Sign Powered by Gas Generator — Americans are catching on to the absurdity of the far Left's “greening” of our economy. In some cases, like the Solyndra scandal, it amounts to the Taxpayer cash being flushed away on economically unsound alternative technologies that we *hope …
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