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Douglas Schoen / Wall Street Journal:
Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd — In interviews, protesters show that they are leftists out of step with most American voters. Yet Democrats are embracing them anyway. — President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement …
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New York Post:
Thieves preying on fellow protesters — It's a den of thieves! — Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
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Bucky Turco / ANIMAL:
Jesse Jackson Occupies OWS Medical Tent, Saves it from Being Evicted by NYPD — A little after 11:25PM, there was a big commotion on the south side of Zuccotti Park as someone mic checked that the NYPD was moving into to remove the “medical tent” (tents are a violation of the park's rules.).
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ThinkProgress, Rumproast, Gothamist, Gawker and Associated Press
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Obama campaign ties Romney to Wall Street, corporate greed
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Weasel Zippers
New York Post:
New York's Marxist epicenter
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Pajamas Media, Questions and Observations and The Raw Story
Laura Geller / WWBT-TV:
Thieves steal truck with President's equipment — HENRICO, VA (WWBT) - NBC12 has uncovered one of those stories that makes you think: “How in the world does that happen?!” A truck filled with President Obama's podiums and audio equipment was stolen in Henrico just days before his visit to Chesterfield.
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Report: Obama teleprompter stolen — A truck carrying President Obama's podium, teleprompter and audio equipment was stolen in Richmond, Va., a local news outlet reports. — Sources tell WWBT/NBC12 that around $200,000 of presidential equipment was stolen from a Richmond Marriott hotel location …
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Pajamas Media and americanthinker.com
Bloomberg:
Cain Used Campaign Funds to Buy Autobiography — Republican presidential contender Herman Cain used campaign funds to buy his own books from his motivational speaking company, Federal Election Commission records show. — Although his autobiography was published by a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. …
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ABCNEWS, The Hill, Business Insider, The Politico, NY Daily News and msnbc.com
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James King / Valley Fever:
Herman Cain Was Joking About Electrified Border Fence...Err, He Might Be Serious...Err, He Doesn't Want to Offend Anyone — Presidential candidate Herman Cain met with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio this afternoon, but he was late to the meeting because of an unknown security threat.
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Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, Tucson Citizen and Business Insider
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Herman Cain Spends $100K In Campaign Cash On Herman Cain Inc. — Given any money to Herman Cain lately? There's a decent chance some of it went directly into the coffers of a for-profit company Cain runs. — A review of Cain's last two FEC reports shows the campaign transferring …
New York Times:
Hamas Frees Israeli Soldier as Prisoner Swap Begins — JERUSALEM — In an elaborate prisoner exchange that could roil Middle East politics, an Israeli soldier held for more than five years by the militant Palestinian group Hamas was swapped on Tuesday for hundreds of Palestinians who have spent …
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The Lede, Outside the Beltway, The BLT and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Gilad Shalit reunited with family in Israel; Palestinian prisoners freed
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americanthinker.com
Karl Vick / Time:
Globally Isolated and Economically Crippled: Why Hamas is Losing Gaza
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The Atlantic Online
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
What the CLASS Act says about health-care reform — Back in January, I published an “omnibus” look at the various criticisms conservatives were lobbing at the Congressional Budget Office's score of the health-reform law. Only one, I concluded, had real merit: the case against the CLASS Act.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
New healthcare fight is joined as administration's 2010 law implodes — Congressional Republicans on Monday called for the immediate repeal of a major component of the 2010 healthcare reform law as the issue blew up in the administration's face. — The seemingly unworkable long-term care benefit contained …
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ThinkProgress, ABCNEWS, The Politico and Hot Air
unionleader.com:
Nevada Mitt: Romney and the primary — At 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman filed to run in the 2012 New Hampshire presidential primary. An hour and a half later, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney held a grand opening for his state presidential campaign headquarters — in Las Vegas.
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msnbc.com, Taegan Goddard's …, GOP 12 and The Page
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
United States needs to reevaluate its assistance to Israel — As the country reviews its spending on defense and foreign assistance, it is time to examine the funding the United States provides to Israel. — Let me put it another way: Nine days ago, the Israeli cabinet reacted to months …
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The Huffington Post, Suburban Guerrilla and Sic Semper Tyrannis
A.Killough / CNN:
Rep. Paul: Cain's ‘9-9-9’ plan is ‘dangerous’ — (CNN) - While Ron Paul said attacking other candidates is his “least favorite thing to do,” he didn't pull any punches Tuesday when talking about fellow GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's ‘9-9-9’ tax proposal.
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The Politico
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
“Christopher Columbus Was the First Zionist” — Someone leaked a batch of emails that have been exchanged by leaders of the Occupy Wall Street group. I've only dipped into them briefly, but some are pretty entertaining. This thread reminded me of my days as a leftist …
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Weasel Zippers
Brody Mullins / Washington Wire:
Romney, Perry Campaigns Attract Big-Name Donors — Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones have been adversaries for years as owners of the rival Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys football teams. — So it's interesting that for a brief period over the summer, Messrs.
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GOP 12 and MyFox Boston
Wall Street Journal:
New Mortgage Plan Floated — Underwater Borrowers Current on Payments Would Get Help — State and federal officials are pushing a plan that could help some “underwater” borrowers get refinancing assistance in the latest government bid to break a legal impasse with big banks …
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The Page and Calculated Risk
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Great Restoration — If, in the 1960s, you had tried to judge America by looking at the sit-ins and Woodstock, you would have had a very distorted picture of where the country was heading. You wouldn't have been able to predict that Richard Nixon would win the youth vote in 1972, which he did.
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New Deal 2.0, Balloon Juice and driftglass
Washington Post:
In tight Virginia races, Democrats cutting ties to Obama — ROCKY MOUNT, Va. — Three years ago, Democrats in Virginia couldn't get enough of Barack Obama — a popular, transformational figure running for his first term as president. — But as Obama arrives in Virginia Tuesday for a two-day swing …
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Hotline On Call, Associated Press, Hot Air and National Review
CBS News:
Climate change pushing coffee to extinction? — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — Millions of people enjoy a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, but a group of scientists says that daily ritual could be on its way to extinction. — The driving force behind the new information is coffee giant Starbucks …
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americanthinker.com, Don Surber, NewsBusters.org blogs and Michelle Malkin
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
WI Assemblyman Mark Pocan confronts CEO president Roger Clegg, calling him “some guy” who “came all the way from Virginia” to tell us what “all us flyover country folk don't know.” — I've already blogged a few times about the report of the Center for Equal Opportunity — here, here …
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American Power
And Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Perry Campaign's Payment for Private Jet Raises Questions — In the first two weeks of Rick Perry's presidential campaign, his aides turned to Brian D. Pardo, a Texas businessman under investigation by federal securities regulators, to use his Cessna Citation X business jet to fly to campaign events.
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