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9:25 AM ET, October 11, 2011

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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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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
AHEM: Wall Street Protester Says He's Getting Paid 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” appears to say that he's getting paid to complain about corporate greed.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Politico
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Wall Street Protests Gain Support From Leading Democrats
Discussion: The Caucus, Prairie Weather and Hot Air
Matthew Vadum / Big Government:
BREAKING: Operation #OccupyWallStreeters-SEIU's Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives
Pam Martens / CounterPunch:
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
Discussion: naked capitalism
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Democratic Party Going All-In on Occupy Wall Street
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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Religious bigotry on display
Journalistdee / CNN:
Poverty ambassadors blast Herman Cain's views on racism
Harry M. Reid / Washington Post:
Trying to restore Senate comity  —  Democrats have one overriding objective this Congress: to create jobs and get our economy back on track.  But our Republican colleagues are so dead set on preventing Democrats from passing job-creating legislation that they have been willing to abuse …
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Democrats scramble to save face on President Obama's jobs bill  —  Democratic leaders in the Senate are scrambling to avoid defections on President Obama's jobs package, which appears headed for defeat on Tuesday.  —  A lack of Democratic unity on the president's bill would be embarrassing …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama campaign memo warns Congress on jobs bill votes  —  President Obama's top campaign adviser said in a memo Monday — the eve of the Senate vote on Obama's jobs bill — that Congress will continue to suffer politically if the bill is defeated.  —  David Axelrod said in a campaign memo …
Discussion: ABCNEWS
A.Killough / CNN:
Axelrod memo tries to rally support for jobs act
Discussion: The Page
David R. Henderson / Wall Street Journal:
A Nobel for Non-Keynesians  —  People's expectations about government policy make it difficult for officials to affect the economy in the ways they intend to.  —  On Monday the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics: Thomas J. Sargent of New York University …
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Steve H. Hanke / Cato @ Liberty:
Sargent's Sharp Pencil  —  Today, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it had awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Prof. Tom Sargent (along with Prof. Chris Sims).  Prof. Sargent is not only a high priest of economic theory — the rational expectations variety …
Discussion: Marginal Revolution
Boston Globe:
Boston police move in on protesters on Greenway, scores arrested  —  Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to leave a large part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway early this morning.  —  At 1:20 a.m., the first riot police officers lined up on Atlantic Avenue.
Hollywoodland / Big Hollywood:
Belafonte on Herman Cain: ‘Totally False’ and ‘A Bad Apple’  —  Aging crooner Harry Belafonte wants us to know Herman Cain is one “bad apple,” someone for whom prayers weren't created.  —  Belafonte, hitting the talk show circuit to promote his new memoir 'Sing Your Song …
Discussion: GOP 12
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Harry Belafonte To Joy Behar: Herman Cain Is A ‘Totally False’ ‘Bad Apple’ In The Black Community
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.
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
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New York Post:
Aimless Obama walks alone
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Chuck Neubauer / Washington Times:
Pelosi's disclosure belated in husband's land deal  —  Partner is father of favored envoy  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's husband, a real estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in California …
Sean Coughlan / BBC:
UK seeing a big rise in poverty, says IFS  —  Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families since the 1970s, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.  —  The IFS forecasts two years “dominated by a large decline” in incomes, pushing 600,000 more children into poverty,
Discussion: Guardian
CNNMoney.com:
Millions to lose unemployment benefits if Congress doesn't act  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Millions of unemployed Americans are waiting for Congress to do something other than trade barbs over their job creation plans.  —  If lawmakers don't act soon, the jobless see their unemployment checks start to disappear come January.
 
 
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Discussion: New York Magazine
Christine Harper / Bloomberg:
Volcker Rule Might Reduce Revenue at Fixed-Income Desks by 25%, Hintz Says
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Fermino / New York Post:
Tower power trip
Discussion: New York Magazine
Sayed Salahuddin / Washington Post:
Afghan detainees tortured in prison, U.N. says
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Effort to recall Wis. Gov. Walker to start Nov. 15
Herman Cain / KWTX-TV:
God Told Me To Run
Paul Krugman:
Sign Of The Times  —  Macro in the park.  —  It's not centrist when Democrats do it.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
 Earlier Items: 
John Sullivan / Colorlines:
Black America Is Moving South—and to the 'Burbs. What's It Mean?
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Why Not Build A City?  —  The Washington Post has various people debate …
Discussion: Washington Post and Eschaton
Washington Post:
Is Iraq the model for the Mideast after all?
Discussion: New York Times
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
'Mr. Cain, Who Is Lawrence O'Donnell to Tell You How to Be a Black Man?'
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Karl Rove vs. the Koch brothers
 

 
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