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Braden / 100.7 WZLX:
Senator Scott Brown Calls In & Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On — WZLX's Kevin Karlson: “Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?” — Senator Scott Brown (laughs) “Thank God.”
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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown quips about Elizabeth Warren's appearance on Boston radio show — Republican Senator Scott Brown made a crack about Democrat Elizabeth Warren's physical appearance on a radio show this morning. — Brown was responding to a crack Warren made in Tuesday's debate …
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Scott Brown Replies To Warren: ‘Thank God’ She Didn't Take Her Clothes Off (AUDIO) — Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) was interviewed on a local talk radio show Thursday morning. And he had an interesting response to a recent line from Democratic frontrunner Elizabeth Warren.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Scott Brown, on Elizabeth Warren's claim she kept her clothes on during college: “Thank God”
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Nick Baumann / Political Mojo:
Scott Brown Calls Elizabeth Warren Ugly
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Joseph / CANNONFIRE:
OWS: Here's the message you've all been waiting for — Lots of people, including this writer, have criticized the Occupy Wall Street movement for lacking a concrete goal. I have found it. I've come up with a single, clear demand — easily stated and easily realized.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Herman Cain Aims Another Rant at Wall Street Protesters
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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: ‘God bless’ Wall Street protesters
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama on Bank Prosecutions: They Did Nothing Illegal, Only Found Loopholes That We Worked to Close
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Wall Street Corruption, Solyndra, and Fast & Furious: Today's Q's for O - 10/6/2011
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Huntsman Hits Palin for ‘Stringing People Along’ — ABC News' Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) and Sarah Kunin (@sarah_kunin) Report: — In an interview with ABC's “The View,” presidential candidate Jon Huntsman rebuked former Gov. Sarah Palin for “stringing people along” as she decided whether to run for president.
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David Frum / FrumForum:
Palin: Already Almost Forgotten — “I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets...” — From Sarah Palin's statement announcing her decision not to run for president. — Um, probably not. Sarah Palin's political voice had dwindled well before she announced her decision not to run.
Lindsey Boerma / NationalJournal.com:
Cain Says He ‘Would Not Be Comfortable’ As Perry's Running Mate — Businessman Herman Cain, a Republican candidate for president, says he would consider running for vice presidential with anyone other than Texas Gov. Rick Perry. — HOUSTON — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain open to VP offer from any Republican candidate except Perry
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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Laura Ingraham: Would A Herman Cain Presidency Be Historic Because Obama Has White Relatives? (UPDATE)
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Who will be the GOP messiah? — Barack Obama is so doomed politically …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid's ‘nuclear option’ changes rules, ends repeat filibusters — In a shocking development Thursday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered a rarely used procedural option informally called the “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules.
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Lindsey Graham On ‘Intimidation’: 'If You're A Southern White Guy, It Is Part Of Your Life' — GOP presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry (TX) has faced severe backlash this week as the result of stories that he had opposed a campaign to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouses across …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rick Perry hunting camp resolution blocked by House
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First Read / msnbc.com:
House dismisses resolution condemning Perry ranch
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Secret panel can put Americans on “kill list' — (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Execution by secret WH committee — Reuters describes the bureaucratic panel that, with no oversight or transparency, orders citizens killed by the CIA — Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there's a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters:
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Repeating the same mistake, expecting new results — The very first question in this morning's White House press conference was pretty discouraging: … Towards the end of the event, another reporter asked the nearly identical question: … Look, I realize the media loves the idea of compromise.
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Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
GOP Solyndra probe wants Obama's BlackBerry messages
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Washington Post:
Solyndra controversy claims casualty as head of Energy Department loan program steps down — The head of the Energy Department's controversial loan guarantee program has decided to step down, department officials confirmed to The Washington Post on Thursday.
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Darius Dixon / The Politico:
DOE loan program official Jonathan Silver steps down
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New York Post:
‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic — So now the Fast and Furious affair has reached Stage 2 of the classic Washington scandal: House Republicans have called for a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder himself for possible perjury.
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Carol Felsenthal / Pundits Blog:
Eric Holder: Been there, done that
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Robert Bryce / Wall Street Journal:
Five Truths About Climate Change — During the decade that Al Gore dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%. — Over the past two months, environmental activists have held protests at the White House and elsewhere hoping to convince the Obama administration …
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Why So Few Steve Jobses? — I've always been an Apple guy. I had an Apple II GS, rocked System 6 on a Mac IIse, learned HyperCard, helped put together an alt-weekly in college with PageMaker on PowerMac G3s, had a first-generation iPod, bought an iPhone on the weekend of its release, etc.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
The Steve Jobs I Knew
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Rick Santorum savages Mitt Romney over Nevada calendar report — Rick Santorum tore into Mitt Romney Thursday for a report that the former Massachusetts governor's campaign lobbied Nevada Republicans to break GOP rules and hold an early caucus for his own benefit.
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada Republicans set Jan. 14 caucus
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Buck Sexton / TheBlaze.com:
REPORT: IRANIAN WARSHIP ROUTE TO U.S. COAST LEAKED ONLINE — Last week, an Iranian Naval Commander threatened to deploy ships off the U.S. coast as a provocative show of force. — Now it looks like Iran might actually be serious. — A new map that allegedly shows the expected path …
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Frank Cerabino / Palm Beach Post:
Lawmaker wants state to reinstate dwarf tossing — Some news on the job-creation front in Florida. — A state legislator has found yet another example of government regulation getting in the way of job creation. — So Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, filed a bill this week to bring back …
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
BBC Does It Again: “In The Absence Of A Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown In Two To Three Weeks” - IMF Advisor — A week after the BBC exploded Alessio Rastani to the stage, it has just done it all over again. In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro …
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