‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.