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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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CNNMoney.com:
Occupy Wall Street... mansions — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Occupy Wall Street is on the move ... uptown. — Why uptown? Because that's where the rich folks live! — Organizers are planning a march on Tuesday that will visit the homes of JP Morgan Chase ( JPM, Fortune 500) CEO Jamie Dimon …
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Don Surber, AM New York, NewsBusters.org blogs, RedState, The Raw Story, The Politico, Poynter and The Daily Dish, more at Mediagazer »
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
Who Really Owns The NYPD? Turns Out It's Not Such A Rhetorical Question — I wrote last week about the multi-million dollar contribution to the NYPD from JPChase, but it turns out the corporate influence goes much deeper than that. Pam Martens, an activist who successfully sued the NYPD …
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Suburban Guerrilla, CounterPunch, naked capitalism and Dependable Renegade
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems aggressively counter Republican attacks on anti-Wall Street protests
Dems aggressively counter Republican attacks on anti-Wall Street protests
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ABCNEWS, CNN, The Politico and Connecting.the.Dots
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Milquetoast Radicals — The U.S. economy is probably …
The Milquetoast Radicals — The U.S. economy is probably …
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Firedoglake, ABCNEWS, Left of the Hudson, The Baseline Scenario, Paul Krugman, Daily Kos, Mediaite and CNN
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes
Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes
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Brent Baker / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Sawyer's Flub: Claims Wall Street Protests Have ‘Spread to More Than a Thousand Countries’
Sawyer's Flub: Claims Wall Street Protests Have ‘Spread to More Than a Thousand Countries’
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Michelle Malkin, Publius Forum and Mediaite
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
AHEM: Wall Street Protester Says He's Getting Paid To Protest
AHEM: Wall Street Protester Says He's Getting Paid To Protest
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CANNONFIRE, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Pawlenty, portrait, both emerge into limelight — Since ending his presidential run, he had kept a low profile. — A reflective Tim Pawlenty Monday unveiled his official gubernatorial portrait as he ponders a future without politics. — The painting, a front-facing view of the governor standing …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences
Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences
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Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Americans in Poll Back Taxing Rich to Reduce Deficit
Americans in Poll Back Taxing Rich to Reduce Deficit
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Do-or-die time for Perry
First Thoughts: Do-or-die time for Perry
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Reuters, The New Republic and americanthinker.com
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Tuesday debate could be make-or-break for Gov. Perry's presidential hopes
Tuesday debate could be make-or-break for Gov. Perry's presidential hopes
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CNN
Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
In hindsight, Pawlenty regrets quick race pullout
In hindsight, Pawlenty regrets quick race pullout
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Outside the Beltway
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Can Herman Cain Keep Up? (The Note)
Can Herman Cain Keep Up? (The Note)
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Roll Call and The Daily Caller
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Five Things to Watch for in the G.O.P. Debate
Five Things to Watch for in the G.O.P. Debate
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New York Times and New York Magazine
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney Suggests Herman Cain May Not Be Ready For The Oval Office
Mitt Romney Suggests Herman Cain May Not Be Ready For The Oval Office
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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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Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, The Politico, The Other McCain, Balloon Juice and Political Mojo
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette and The Lonely Conservative
The Politico:
Obama jobs bill may not get 51 in Senate — President Barack Obama's jobs plan is at risk of getting less than 51 votes Tuesday evening in the Senate as a handful of politically vulnerable moderates hold out on the president's signature economic proposal. — Adding to the uncertainty …
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Firedoglake, The New Republic, Pirate's Cove and Associated Press
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
If moderate Dems vote No on jobs bill, they're only hurting themselves
If moderate Dems vote No on jobs bill, they're only hurting themselves
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Talking Points Memo, Booman Tribune, Big Government and Pat Dollard
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.
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Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect ‘Green Space’ From 99% — In one of the largest mass arrests in recent Boston history, the Boston Police Department cleared a park of over 100 activists with the 99 Percent Movement in the early hours of Tuesday morning …
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BPDNEWS.COM, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake and Towleroad News #gay
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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Cato @ Liberty, EconLog, Marginal Revolution and Betsy's Page
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Behind Bachmann's Slide — On August 13, as dusk settled upon Iowa State University, Michele Bachmann hopped onto a makeshift stepstool beside her bus. Her supporters crowded close, pressing against a flimsy rope. Bachmann, clad in an ivory-colored suit and pearls, raised both arms.
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Ben Smith's Blog, GOP 12, Outside the Beltway and The Political Carnival
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Individualists In The Marine Corps — Erick Erickson and Josh Trevino are, I'm told, the geniuses behind the dimwitted concept of countering the 99 Percent Movement with an effort to divide the country between the 53 percent of the population that has net federal income tax liability …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bill Daley / NBC Chicago:
One-On-One With Rahm's Replacement — He's the White House Chief of Staff — just steps from the Oval Office, brought in as the successful banker and attorney to give the Obama team a different image. — Bill Daley is also best friends with the man who held the pressure cooker White House job before him, Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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The Politico, The Hill and Washington Post
Caitlin McDevitt / The Politico:
Harry Belafonte calls Herman Cain a ‘bad apple’ — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain can rule out a celebrity endorsement from Harry Belafonte. During an interview with CNN's Joy Behar that aired Monday, the legendary singer slammed Cain for saying that racism doesn't hold Americans back “in a big way” anymore.
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ThinkProgress, Mediaite and The Raw Story
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Hollywoodland / Big Hollywood:
Belafonte on Herman Cain: ‘Totally False’ and ‘A Bad Apple’
Belafonte on Herman Cain: ‘Totally False’ and ‘A Bad Apple’
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GOP 12
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The not-so-super committee — In news that should surprise absolutely no one, it appears the Murray/Hensarling super-committee isn't even close to reaching any kind of deal. … Remember all of those predictions that said the super-committee would fail because Republicans would never …
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Washington Post, Eschaton and Balloon Juice
Suzanna Andrews / Vanity Fair:
The Woman Who Knew Too Much — Millions of Americans hoped President Obama would nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the consumer financial watchdog agency she had created. Instead, she was pushed aside. As Warren kicks off her run for Scott Brown's Senate seat in Massachusetts …
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Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Tony Bennett: Obama is America's ‘Greatest Accomplishment,’ Not Sure if Fighting Hitler ‘Justified’ — Appearing as a guest on Monday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, singer Tony Bennett declared that President Obama is the “greatest accomplishment that the United States ever came up with,” …
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