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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Panic of the Plutocrats — It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America's direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve …
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Firedoglake, NewsBusters.org blogs, ECHIDNE of the snakes and TBogg
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Douglas E. Schoen / The Politico:
The case for a third party candidate — The signs of dissatisfaction, disaffection and just plain discontent are everywhere in America today. — The thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters, who have congregated for more than three weeks in downtown New York's Liberty Square …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Crawdad Hole
Jennifer H. Cunningham / NY Daily News:
Barack Obama supporters stage Harlem Tea Party in support of president's re-election bid — Dozens of people rallied at a “Harlem Tea Party” Sunday in support of President Obama's reelection bid - and called for a more civil tone in the presidential race. — “This is a Harlem tea party,” said Chet Whyte, director of Harlem 4 Obama.
James Oliphant / Los Angeles Times:
Herman Cain steps up attacks on Occupy Wall Street protests
Herman Cain steps up attacks on Occupy Wall Street protests
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CBS Boston, Washington Post, Hot Air and Vox Popoli
Economist:
The inkblot protests — A new generation takes to the barricades.
The inkblot protests — A new generation takes to the barricades.
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Moe Lane and The Mahablog
New York Times:
Protesters Against Wall Street
Protesters Against Wall Street
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DownWithTyranny!, Mediaite, Firedoglake, Hit & Run, Crooks and Liars, The Politico, Washington Monthly, Patterico's Pontifications, ABCNEWS and Daily Kos
Greg / The Belgravia Dispatch:
Occupy Wall Street: An Early Assessment
Occupy Wall Street: An Early Assessment
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Taylor Marsh, Newshoggers.com, Prairie Weather and ThinkProgress
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Cain, Gingrich blast Occupy Wall Street protests
Cain, Gingrich blast Occupy Wall Street protests
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Pat Dollard, Firedoglake and Weasel Zippers
Ralph Benko / Townhall.com:
Harvard Elite Writing New Constitution- with the Tea Party — Last week the unthinkable happened. While you were distracted by the banal and only marginally important presidential primaries, the lion, Harvard Law School, publicly lay down with the lamb, the Tea Party Patriots.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Perry Campaign Works to Smooth Out Flaws — SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas struggled through his first three debates, so his aides have staged practice sessions, complete with a stand-in for Mitt Romney. He has stirred outrage among conservatives on immigration …
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ABCNEWS, GOP 12, Iowa Caucuses, Washington Post, Business Insider, Patterico's Pontifications and The Caucus
Boston Globe:
Whitey in exile — It is a portrait of the gangster as a grumpy old man, hunkered down in a Santa Monica flat with his girlfriend. Neighbors liked them, but no one got close — or, rather, almost no one. And that was their undoing. — At least a twice a day, Carol Gasko would crouch …
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NewsBusters.org, CBS Boston and The Huffington Post
Azam Khan / The Express Tribune:
Dress modestly: Masked men enter girls' school, thrash students — RAWALPINDI: — In a first for the garrison city, sixty masked men carrying iron rods barged into a girls' school in Rawalpindi and thrashed students and female teachers on Friday. — The gang of miscreants also warned …
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The Gateway Pundit, Tim Blair and Jihad Watch
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Free Texting Apps Are Threat to Wireless Carriers — At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.
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Booman Tribune, more at Techmeme »
Jim Michaels / USA Today:
U.S. officials: Libya may have lost anti-aircraft missiles — Portable anti-aircraft missiles may have already been smuggled outside Libya's borders even as the United States races to help account for thousands of the weapons stockpiled by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. officials say.
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The Politico, YID With LID and americanthinker.com
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Huntsman will call to refocus defense in foreign policy speech — Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - In a foreign policy speech Monday, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will call for a nimbler U.S. military that focuses on modern challenges and would allow for the withdrawal of many troops from Afghanistan within a year.
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GOP 12
BREITBART.COM:
Iran actress sentenced to one year in jail: report — Actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic, an Iranian opposition website reported Sunday.
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Weasel Zippers, Jihad Watch and Gawker
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Just finished running Army Ten Miler... by Congressman Allen West on Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 12:02pm and unofficial time was 1 hr 29 mins and change, great seeing many old friends and former bosses. However, what struck me as shameful was Code Pink being out on the run course protesting.
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling — WASHINGTON — In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new research has found.
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Washington Monthly and Prairie Weather
Charlie Grapski / cgrapski's FDL blog:
American Spectator Editor Admits to Being Agent Provocateur at D.C. Museum — The following photograph taken by opednews.com shows a confrontation in the lobby of the National Air and Space Museum between two individuals and an officer shortly before video shows officers …
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Gingrich: Not for us to judge Romney's religion — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich spoke out Sunday against a Dallas pastor and Rick Perry supporter who recently disparaged Mormonism as “a cult” - noting that “We're not running for theologian-in-chief.”
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CBS News, Hit & Run, Washington Post, The Page and The Political Carnival
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Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Values Voter straw poll organizers suggest a fix in Ron Paul's win
Values Voter straw poll organizers suggest a fix in Ron Paul's win
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Datechguy's Blog, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, National Review and Harry's Place