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Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
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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CANNONFIRE, The Lonely Conservative, Balloon Juice, Grasping Reality … and Suburban Guerrilla
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
AHEM: Wall Street “Protester” Says He's Getting Paid $22 An Hour (Plus Overtime) To “Protest” — Not sure if the video below is real or not—perhaps it was created to make the Wall Street protesters look bad—but this Chicago “protester” says that he's getting paid $22 an hour plus overtime to complain about corporate greed.
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Fire Andrea Mitchell! and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes — The Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to get in the face of some of New York's richest tycoons on Tuesday. — A “Millionaires March” will visit the homes - or, more realistically …
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Weasel Zippers, Philly.com, The Lonely Conservative and JammieWearingFool
John Cook / Gawker:
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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Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
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.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems aggressively counter Republican attacks on anti-Wall Street protests — Democratic leaders are pushing back aggressively against Republican attacks on the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and Washington. — They say the conservative criticism of the rallies is evidence …
Matthew Vadum / Big Government:
BREAKING: Operation #OccupyWallStreeters-SEIU's Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives — Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. — Stephen Lerner
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Sister Toldjah and The Lonely Conservative
NY Daily News:
Lupica: Pol shows he's phony with protest jab
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Washington Post, Don Surber and Lance Mannion
Pam Martens / CounterPunch:
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
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naked capitalism
New York Post:
Sex, drugs and hiding from the law at Wall Street protests
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Daily Mail, CNN, Pat Dollard, Mediaite, Gawker, JammieWearingFool, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, Moe Lane and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Help wanted — Reader Greg Farrell writes to point out what he found on Craigslist.
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neo-neocon, Runnin' Scared, Hot Air, Moe Lane and Bookworm Room
Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Seek to Own ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
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Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Power Line and CBS News
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
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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CNN, Campaign 2012, Don Surber, Outside the Beltway, Pat Dollard, The Daily Caller, msnbc.com, Liberal Values, Hotline On Call, Donklephant, Business Insider, Taegan Goddard's …, Daily Kos, Truthdig, National Review, The Lonely Conservative, The Other McCain, The Daily Beast and Associated Press
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Gallup: Obama Hits All-Time Low Among Blacks as Cain Surges Among Republicans — (CNSNews.com) - Gallup released new polling data today that showed African American presidential candidate Herman Cain's support was surging among Republicans even as President Barack Obama's job approval hit an all-time low among blacks.
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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Religious bigotry on display — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex., who has a knack for stacking the crowd and the vote, won the Values Voter Summit this weekend with 37 percent of those casting ballots. Herman Cain (who delivered a stemwinder on Friday night) came in second.
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Evangelicals for Mitt, Taylor Marsh, PolitickerNY, Don Surber and The Politico
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
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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Guardian, New York Magazine, The New Republic, CNN, Trail Blazers Blog and The Hill
Journalistdee / CNN:
Poverty ambassadors blast Herman Cain's views on racism
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The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Harry Belafonte To Joy Behar: Herman Cain Is A ‘Totally False’ ‘Bad Apple’ In The Black Community
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We are respectable negroes and The Raw Story
Harvard University Institute of Politics:
NEW POLL FROM INSTITUTES OF POLITICS AT HARVARD, SAINT ANSELM FINDS ROMNEY LEADING NH PRIMARY FIELD BY 18 POINTS
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Washington Post, Hot Air, FiveThirtyEight, The Other McCain, Mediaite, The Raw Story, Taegan Goddard's …, The Politico, Lynn Sweet, National Review, CNN, GOP 12, American Power and The Hill
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Santorum targets Romney, Perry and Cain with new ad
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The Daily Caller, PolitickerNY, CBS News, American Spectator and Hot Air
Eason Jordan / Poll Position:
Cain surging, edging Obama
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americanthinker.com, The Crawdad Hole, LifeNews.com, National Review, Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The legacy of Steve Jobs — Before reading this, you should know the following: I do not own an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod or a Mac. I abandoned my typewriter only recently. In short, I have not enlisted in the digital revolution and have kept my involvement to a desktop computer, e-mail and the Internet.
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Grasping Reality …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
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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Booman Tribune, CNN, The Daily Caller, Blue Mass Group, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
Sign Of The Times — Macro in the park. — It's not centrist when Democrats do it. — Go Princeton! (And NYU) — All hail the new laureates. — Financial Romanticism — Laissez-faire won't work. — October 09 — Was Failure Inevitable? — Maybe, but trying couldn't and can't hurt.
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Weasel Zippers
Jason Ukman / Washington Post:
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 …
A.Killough / CNN:
Axelrod memo tries to rally support for jobs act — (CNN) - As the Senate prepares to vote on President Obama's jobs bill, the Obama campaign released a memo by senior strategist David Axelrod that seems designed to give wavering senators reason to vote for the bill: it makes the case that …
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The Page
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Capitalist Tool — Meet Jesse LaGreca, Disney's Audio-Animatronic revolutionary. — “I'm the only working-class person you're going to see on Sunday news, political news,” declared Jesse LaGreca on “This Week With Christiane Amanpour” yesterday. “Maybe ever.”
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Pajamas Media, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Huffington Post, US Politics and Sense of Events
Herman Cain / KWTX-TV:
God Told Me To Run … GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said Monday he didn't want to run for president, but God called him to join the race. — The Republican candidate told CBN News that's why he believes “God's been in this from the beginning.” — Cain said that when he felt God calling …
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