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10:35 PM ET, October 14, 2011

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Jesse / CBS New York:
Violence Breaks Out During ‘Occupy Wall Street’ March Toward New York Stock Exchange  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Shortly after protesters learned they'd be able to stay in Zuccotti Park indefinitely, violence broke out Friday morning as a group marched away from it.  —  Photos: Protesters, Police Clash |
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Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
[UPDATE] HIV Positive Protester Says Cop Who Punched Him Should Get Tested  —  [UPDATE BELOW] During the chaotic Occupy Wall Street march through the financial district this morning, we witnessed a protester on William Street get punched in the face by a police officer, seemingly without provocation.
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Geithner: Action against Wall St. coming  —  U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested Friday that a new round of “dramatic enforcement actions” against Wall Street wrongdoing is coming.  —  “Stay tuned for that,” Geithner said.  —  Asked on CNBC about the Occupy Wall Street …
Denver Post:
Crowds and officers thin as morning turns to afternoon at Occupy Denver protest
City Room:
Cleanup of Zuccotti Park Is Postponed
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Lech Walesa and Al Gore support Wall Street protests; Tea Party leader endorses bailed-out bank abuses
Discussion: CNN
A.Killough / CNN:
Anita Perry blames Obama for son's job loss  —  Pendleton, South Carolina (CNN) - Rick Perry's wife Anita said Friday that she could sympathize with the plight of the unemployed because her son was forced to resign his job to take a more active role on his father's presidential campaign.
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Huntsman campaign nearly broke as GOP campaign heats up  —  (CNN) - Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign is verging on broke after burning through more than $4 million since the former Utah governor entered the race for the Republican nomination in June.  —  The Huntsman campaign …
Kevinliptak / CNN:
TRENDING: McCain to Perry: Get some rest
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Patrick Hynes / New Hampshire Journal:
Poll: Romney rocking, Cain creeping, Gingrich gaining
Justin Sink / The Hill:   Cain to join boycott of Nevada caucus
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
W.H. won't share Solyndra BB emails  —  President Barack Obama won't be sharing his BlackBerry messages with House investigators seeking communications about Solyndra, the White House told Hill Republicans on Friday.  —  White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler told House Energy …
Discussion: CNBC
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Washington Examiner:
Lesson of Perry's candidacy: Think before you run  —  What's wrong with Rick Perry?  How did the successful, well-liked, long-term governor of one of America's largest states enter the Republican presidential primary race with great fanfare, zoom to the top of the polls, and then slide almost as quickly back into the pack?
Discussion: National Review, Rod Dreher and ABCNEWS
Kevinliptak / CNN:
On Solyndra: President's Blackberry Off Limits  —  Washington (CNN) - Congress isn't getting a glimpse of what's on President Barack Obama's Blackberry - or any more internal White House communications related to the bankrupt solar company Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Obama pulls plug on part of health overhaul law … WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president's signature health overhaul law - a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial solvency.
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Brett Norman / The Politico:
Setback for long-term insurance plan
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Long-Term Care Program Cut From Health Law
Discussion: TalkLeft
The White House:
Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate Regarding the Lord's Resistance Army  —  TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
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New York Times:
U.S. Advisers to Aid in Fight Against Lord's Resistance Army  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that he had ordered the deployment of 100 armed military advisers to central Africa to help regional forces combat the Lord's Resistance Army, a notorious renegade group that has terrorized villagers …
Discussion: The Lede, The Agonist and Althouse
New York Times:
U.S. Bishop Is Charged With Failing to Report Abuse  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A bishop in the Roman Catholic Church has been indicted for failure to report suspected child abuse, the first time in the 25-year history of the church's sex abuse scandals that the leader of an American diocese …
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Unprecedented  —  I've covered the sex abuse scandal …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Kansas City Star:
Bishop Finn, diocese indicted
Discussion: The Raw Story and Gothamist
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Plates Shifting  —  I don't want to make too much of this.  But something finally dawned on me when I saw the news today that a group of Republican senators were introducing what they called a “real” American jobs bill.  Then today Speaker Boehner spoke to President Obama and volubly denied …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Economist: Senate GOP jobs plan wouldn't help economy in short term, and could even hurt  —  Yesterday, Senate Republicans released an economic plan called the “Jobs Through Growth Act.”  Senator Rand Paul said it would create five million jobs without specifying a time frame.
John Del Signore / Gothamist:
[UPDATE] Video: NYPD Scooter Runs Over National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer  —  [UPDATES BELOW] Here is disturbing video of a legal observer for the National Lawyers Guild getting run over by an NYPD scooter during this morning's Occupy Wall Street march.  We're still trying to determine …
MyFox Boston:
Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents  —  BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters.  —  The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice …
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Clint Eastwood as VP?  George H.W. Bush Considered It  —  George H.W. Bush, left, and Clint Eastwood are shown in these 1988 file photos.  —  George H.W. Bush, trailing Democrat Michael Dukakis in the heat of the 1988 presidential campaign, briefly but seriously considered Hollywood …
Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Repealing health reform via reconciliation?  Not so fast.  —  Gov. Mitt Romney doubled down on his commitment to make health reform repeal a first order of business during this week's Republican debate.  As previously promised, he would issue all 50 states health reform waivers on Day 1.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Don't Count On Senate Procedure To Save The Affordable Care Act
Discussion: Eschaton
Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
Here Are Occupy Wall Street's Plans For A National Convention That Could Change The Face Of America  —  It's in the works.  A massive Occupy Wall Street gathering with delegates from all over the country.  And if these plans are carried out, Occupy Wall Street will be a major force to be reckoned with on Election Day 2012.
Boston Globe:
Brown dismisses plagiarism flap as ‘silly’  —  WASHINGTON - Senator Scott Brown today dismissed questions about how Elizabeth Dole's words about her childhood ended up being attributed to him on his own website, saying the issue was “getting a little silly.”
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Daily Kos and The Politico
 
 
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Treasury announces 2011 deficit is second highest in history
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Steven Rattner / Steve Rattner:
The Irony of Lake Orion
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Free exchange:
Hitting our limits?  —  ROGER PIELKE, JR. posts a chart …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
CNNMoney.com:
Regulation: Not the job killer GOP says
Corey Kilgannon / City Room:
Opposite Sides of the Protest Come Together, Briefly
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Biden on a Beer Can: Obama Campaign Hawks VP-Themed Koozie
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
One More Note on ‘False Equivalence’ and the Filibuster
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Examiner:
Obama wants a government bank to fund more Solyndras
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Free exchange:
Things could actually get a lot worse
Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Our health-care productivity problem, in one chart
Michel Rose / Reuters:
Students storm Goldman Sachs building in Milan
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George Stephanopoulos / ABCNEWS:
Perry Backs Wife's ‘Brutalized’ Remark
 

 
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