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Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Can Stay Indefinitely … Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday that he'll allow the Wall Street protesters to stay indefinitely, provided they abide by the law, marking his strongest statement to date on the city's willingness to let demonstrators occupy a park in Lower Manhattan.
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Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters — Conservative activists have created a Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” that's meant to be a counterpunch to the viral “We are the 99 percent” site that's become a prominent symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Grasping Reality … and Suburban Guerrilla


Sex, drugs and hiding from the law at Wall Street protests — The criminals are crashing the party. — Lured by cheap drugs and free food, creepy thugs have infiltrated the crowd of protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park for Occupy Wall Street, The Post has learned. — “I got warrants.


It's a ‘mob’ just for differing with you? — Rep. Eric Cantor called the Occupy Wall Street protesters a ‘mob.’ — Here is a phony named Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, a dull young congressman clearly aspiring to be an even duller presidential candidate someday, calling the Occupy Wall Street people a “mob.”
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Is James O'Keefe a Fugitive? — As we mentioned earlier, right-wing hitman James O'Keefe was spotted lurking at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan's Liberty Plaza today. That might not be good news for O'Keefe, since he's on probation and requires the permission of a federal magistrate judge …
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Daily Kos, Dependable Renegade, Gothamist and New York Magazine

Here's Video of James O'Keefe Scheming at Occupy Wall Street — The rumors were true: Doltish conservative stuntman James O'Keefe was hanging out at Occupy Wall Street today. No doubt he was dreaming up another hilarious sex imprisonment fantasy prank that proves liberals suck. We've got video.

Democratic Party Going All-In on Occupy Wall Street — Robby Mook, the executive director of the DCCC just sent out a fund-raising email titled “@Stake: Occupy Wall Street.” It contains the following:

Help wanted — Reader Greg Farrell writes to point out what he found on Craigslist.
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Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes
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Capitalist Tool — Meet Jesse LaGreca, Disney's Audio-Animatronic revolutionary.
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Poll finds majority of Americans aware of Occupy Wall Street protests
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Panic of the Plutocrats — It remains to be seen whether …
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Poll: Half the country has heard about the Occupy Wall Street protests
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Journalists Funded By ‘Vulture Capitalist’ Paul Singer Campaign To Smear Wall Street Protests
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Roemer Is First Candidate to Embrace “Occupy Wall Street”
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Romney defends Wall Street but vows to fight for middle class
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Obama attacks banks while raking in Wall Street dough
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Don Surber, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Hot Air

Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences — Romney and Cain closely matched near 20%, with Perry at 15% — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' support for Herman Cain has surged to 18%, their support for Rick Perry has sagged to 15%, and their support for Mitt Romney remains relatively stable at 20%.
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As poll numbers drop, Perry pushed to side of debate stage — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been pushed out of center stage by Herman Cain in tomorrow night's New Hampshire Republican presidential debate. — A source on one Republican campaign forwards on the seating chart for tomorrow night's debate …
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Poverty ambassadors blast Herman Cain's views on racism — Washington (CNN) - GOP hopeful Herman Cain drew concern from some black opinion elites Monday after expressing his views on racism and how it affects the upward mobility of African Americans. — “People sometimes hold themselves …
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Gallup: Obama Hits All-Time Low Among Blacks as Cain Surges Among Republicans
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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Santorum targets Romney, Perry and Cain with new ad
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New poll shows Obama losing to ... Herman Cain
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NEW POLL FROM INSTITUTES OF POLITICS AT HARVARD, SAINT ANSELM FINDS ROMNEY LEADING NH PRIMARY FIELD BY 18 POINTS
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New Poll Puts Cain Ahead of Obama
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Obama the loner — The Post's Scott Wilson penned a provocative piece over the weekend that cast President Obama's current political problems through the lens of his loner tendencies. — Is President Obama a loner? REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Wrote Wilson:
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In Washington, Everyone Seems Mad at Teammates
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Aimless Obama walks alone — The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum. — The gist is this …
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Chart of the day, median income edition — Why has no one thought to do this before? Every month, the Current Population Survey goes out to a nationally representative sample of more than 50,000 interviewed households and their members. And in one of the questions, those households …
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'Mr. Cain, Who Is Lawrence O'Donnell to Tell You How to Be a Black Man?' — After Thursday evening's “interview” on MSNBC, Professor William Jacobson and others were outraged by Lawrence O'Donnell's self-righteous and disrespectful hectoring of Herman Cain.
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ThinkProgress, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, nation.foxnews.com, Mediaite and The Lonely Conservative

Warren raises $3.15M; Brown raises $1.55M — Elizabeth Warren raised more than $3 million in a little more than six weeks to fund her Senate bid in Massachusetts — more than twice the figure pulled in by incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.). — The astounding figure anchors the notion …
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iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours — Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet …
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Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki — (Associated Press via SITE Intelligence Group) Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has confirmed the deaths of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, the young American propagandist killed alongside …

The portrait of a health care reformer — Governor Mitt Romney's official portrait in the Massachusetts State House — unveiled in 2009 — pictures him seated with various meaningful objects, including a folder on the desk behind him. — That folder, the AP wrote at the time, is …