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‘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 …
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OccupyWallSt News, Guardian, New York Magazine, Gothamist and Gawker
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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 …
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New York Times, Runnin' Scared and The Atlantic Online
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 …
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Hullabaloo, Prairie Weather, American Power, Balloon Juice, Suburban Guerrilla, naked capitalism and City Room
Brad DeLong / The Huffington Post:
Review: Ron Suskind's Confidence Men — When I first learned in 2009 that Ron Suskind's next book was going to be about the making of a economic policy in the Obama administration, I looked forward to it. Previous books about the making of economic policy had degenerated into unseemly hagiography …
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 …
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Politics, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Politico, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Naked Politics, Reuters and The Caucus
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Ron Fournier / Hotline On Call:
Romney trounces Perry in Michigan straw poll; Rubio the pick for VP
Romney trounces Perry in Michigan straw poll; Rubio the pick for VP
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Associated Press, The Moderate Voice, Business Insider and PoliPundit.com
Washington Examiner:
York: How Cain won Florida
York: How Cain won Florida
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Ricochet Conversation Feed, JustOneMinute and Campaign 2012
Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
No Surprise Here, Romney Wins Michigan Straw Poll
No Surprise Here, Romney Wins Michigan Straw Poll
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The Politico, Outside the Beltway and Washington Monthly
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Companies Get Gay-Rights Heat Over Christian Donations — The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commerce. — A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country's largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft …
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 …
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Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Tysons Corner: The building of an American city
Tysons Corner: The building of an American city
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
DNC Chair: All GOP candidates are “the same” — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz says it makes no difference which Republican presidential candidate scores the nomination for 2012 - because they all share extreme-right views that will not prevail over President Obama.
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BBC:
French left captures Senate in setback for Sarkozy — The French Socialists are savouring their historic victory over the conservatives — French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government has lost its majority in the Senate for the first time in recent French history.
New York Times:
Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks — LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises like “Madagascar” and “Shrek,” said it had completed a deal to pump its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with HBO.
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Deadline.com and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
A Campaign Finance Ruling Turned to Labor's Advantage — WASHINGTON — Labor unions are seizing on last year's landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics, developing ambitious plans to influence nonunion households in the 2012 election …
Telegraph:
Christine Lagarde: IMF may need billions in extra funding — Christine Lagarde has signalled that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have to tap its members - including Britain - for billions of pounds of extra funding to stem the European debt crisis.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
In Arizona, nibbling away at free enterprise — Cindy Vong is a tiny woman with a problem as big as the government that is causing it. She wants to provide a service that will enable customers “to brighten up their days.” Having fish nibble your feet may not be your idea of fun …
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.
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