memeorandum: Romney, Perry and Cain Open Wide Financial Lead Over Field (New York Times)

1:45 PM ET, October 16, 2011

Top Items:

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD — The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for a month. And it seems the FBI and NYPD have had help tracking protesters' moves thanks to a conservative computer security expert who gained access …

Discussion: Guardian, Pat Dollard, Firedoglake, The Political Carnival and New York Times

Kurt Schlichter / Washington Examiner:

Sunday Reflection: Protestors should try occupying reality for real change — Right now, idealistic young Americans are gathered together to fight injustice and build a better world. — Sure, they're a little dirty, and maybe some of their language is a bit rough, but they've left behind family …

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Right-Wing Rabble-Rouser Leaks Thousands of Occupy Wall Street Emails

Discussion: AlterNet and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements

Discussion: Biased BBC, Ironic Surrealism, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Pat Dollard, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, Datechguy's Blog and Washington Post

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Times Square Is Now Occupied

Discussion: The Mahablog

Karla Adam / Washington Post:
Occupy Wall Street protests go global

Discussion: Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Raw Story and Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »

ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
American Nazi Party Declares Its Full Support For Occupy Wall Street's “Courage” …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys

Imtiyaz Delawala / ABCNEWS:

Obama Strategist David Axelrod Slams Mitt Romney for Changing Positions — Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod slammed Mitt Romney for changing positions on major issues throughout his political career, questioning the “core principles” of the presumptive front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.

Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Axelrod: Electorate unsure of Romney's ‘core principles’ — President Obama's top campaign strategist David Axelrod said Sunday that Republican voters were unsure of Mitt Romney's “core principles” and had the sense “there is no principle too large for him to throw over.”

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Los Angeles Times:

Financial filings show differences in Perry and Romney efforts — Both campaigns rely on big-dollar donors, but Romney has been spending much more on staffing and direct mail. — Rick Perry, left, and Mitt Romney, right, are raising far more money than their rivals in the Republican presidential campaign.

Discussion: State of the Union and CNN

New York Times:
Romney, Perry and Cain Open Wide Financial Lead Over Field

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune, The Caucus and New York Magazine

Julian Pecquet / Ballot Box:
Top-tier Cain pulls in second-tier cash

Discussion: CNN, Patterico's Pontifications, The Politico, Washington Post, The Spectacle Blog and The Other McCain

Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:

Cain: People Will Demand 999 Even Though It Raises Their Taxes — 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain has risen in the polls recently, and his 999 tax plan was the star of the GOP primary debate last week (with the number nine warranting 85 different mentions).

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

The Caucus:

Cain Says His Deadly Fence Plan Was ‘a Joke’ — Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — At two campaign rallies in Tennessee on Saturday night, the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that part of his immigration policy would be to build …

Discussion: Washington Post, National Review and The Raw Story

Edward Wyatt / The Caucus:
Cain Proposes Electrified Border Fence

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, americanthinker.com, Outside the Beltway, New York Times, The Daily Caller, JustOneMinute, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Rumproast and Michelle Malkin

New York Post:

Con Ed says it will evict Ground Zero mosque unless developer pays $1.7 million in back rent — Pay up or get out. — Con Ed has given the Ground Zero mosque an ultimatum: Pay the $1.7 million you owe in back rent, or we'll terminate your lease and take back our property.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Mahablog and MyFox Boston

Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:

Where Did Global Warming Go? — Elisabeth Rosenthal is a reporter and blogger on environmental issues for The New York Times. — IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, warned about man-made global warming and supported legislation to curb emissions.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Althouse, The Reality-Based Community and Daily Kos

Dawn Rhodes / Chicago Tribune:

175 Chicago protesters arrested after being told to leave Grant Park — Chicago police arrested about 175 Occupy Chicago protestors in Congress Plaza just after 1 a.m. Sunday, about 90 minutes after police issued their first warning that the group was violating municipal code.

Discussion: Washington Post, MyFox Boston and Gawker

Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:

Long Ties to Koch Brothers Key to Cain's Campaign — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Adam Nagourney / New York Times:

In California, Going All Out to Bid Adieu to Foie Gras — LOS ANGELES — A line up of people streamed into an unmarked, dimly lighted storefront on Fairfax Avenue as night fell Friday, on a mash-up Los Angeles block catering to religious Jews and hungry hipsters. Before long, a smattering of protesters arrived.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Agonist

The Huffington Post:

Iraq Withdrawal: U.S. Abandoning Plans To Keep Troops In Country … Iraq War , Iraq , Military , Obama , Obama Administration , U.S. Military , Department Of Defense , Iraq Troops , Pentagon , World News — BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past …

Discussion: Firedoglake