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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.
The Politico:
Wall Street to Dems: you can't have it both ways — After the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a recent email urging supporters to sign a petition backing the wave of Occupy Wall Street protests, phones at the party committee started ringing.
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Weasel Zippers
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests — President Obama, who has become a target of the Occupy Wall Street protests sweeping the country, today embraced the economic frustration voiced on the streets and said in an exclusive interview with ABC News that his vision …
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Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, JammieWearingFool and ABCNEWS
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Wall Street lobbyists rage at Dems for supporting Occupy Wall Street — Politico channels the angst of Wall Streeters who are furious with Democrats for daring to whisper a word of support for the Occupy Wall Street protests: … Wow. In embracing Occupy Wall Street …
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Gawker and Balloon Juice
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Celebrated redistributionists discover healthy respect for private property
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The Right Sphere and Pajamas Media
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Great Restoration
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Balloon Juice, New Deal 2.0 and driftglass
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Obama campaign ties Romney to Wall Street, corporate greed
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Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard
Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
AFL-CIO Shells Out Ad Dollars to Support ‘Occupy’ Protests
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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, americanthinker.com and Indecision Forever
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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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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Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Herman Cain acknowledges his electric border fence idea isn't a joke after all — PHOENIX - After first apologizing for suggesting an electric fence along the border, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told reporters here Monday that he still thinks it's a good idea for controlling illegal immigration.
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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 …
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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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans lay groundwork for healthcare repeal
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Political Mojo
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
New healthcare fight is joined as administration's 2010 law implodes
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ThinkProgress, nation.foxnews.com, ABCNEWS and The Politico
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
An architect of Cain's 9-9-9 plan says he should drop sales tax — Superstar WaPo blogger Jen Rubin is not a fan of Herman Cain's tax plan and its VATastic aspect: … A few thoughts here: a) I come down on the side that the Europe has embraced value-added taxes to fund its love of big government …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Architect of Cain's 9-9-9 plan says he should drop the sales tax
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Outside the Beltway
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
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Newest Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Idea? Same As Fannie/Freddie Refi Plan
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Forbes.com and The Volokh Conspiracy
Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Gilad Shalit reunited with family in Israel; Palestinian prisoners freed — TEL NOF AIR FORCE BASE, Israel — Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned to Israel Tuesday morning after five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip, gaunt and frail-looking but apparently healthy.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
It's Not How Many Followers You Have, It's Who Follows You — Felix Salmon adds to the growing legend of the world's least-likely protest sign: … But herein lies one of the secrets of the faux-meritocracy of the internet. Furnas may appear to be a mild-mannered law student with only 325 Twitter followers.
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Felix Salmon, Grasping Reality … and The Atlantic Online
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
On GOP jobs plan, an epic media fail — Look, I know this sounds terribly earnest. And I know I'm repeating myself. But still: Many major news organizations and neutral commentators are simply not engaging on one of the central questions at the heart of our politics right now …
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Washington Monthly, Political Mojo and The New Republic
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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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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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Senate GOP takes Geithner to task on jobs: ‘Rome is burning’ — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to sell the president's $447 billion jobs plan to skeptical lawmakers Tuesday, even as he had to defend underwhelming previous efforts to boost employment.
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The Politico and Washington Monthly
Katya Adler / BBC:
Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie — Manoli Pagador recalls her first-born child being taken away — Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s.
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Newshoggers.com and Balloon Juice
New York Post:
Gal lashes out at spanking by the AG — She'll beat you. She'll bite you. And she can get you locked up for 15 to life. — Former state prosecutor Alisha Smith, a k a the feared dominatrix Alisha Spark, looked ultra-demure in a black pants suit accented by a coquettish pink blouse yesterday …
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Gothamist, Mediaite, New York Magazine and CBS New York
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
New York Times:
Infectious Salmon Anemia Reported in Wild Pacific Fish — A lethal and highly contagious marine virus has been detected for the first time in wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest, researchers in British Columbia said on Monday, stirring concern that it could spread there, as it has in Chile, Scotland and elsewhere.
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