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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.
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 …
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
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Obama nixes parley with ‘Occupy’ activists — President Obama has taken nearly every opportunity lately to express support for the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, but he failed to meet with some of the movement's activists when he had the chance on his Southern bus trip.
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Weasel Zippers
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
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Occupy Wall Street Is Not Anti-Semitic
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Vox Tablet and Mediaite
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Doug Schoen Grossly Misrepresents His Own Poll Results To Smear Occupy Wall Street
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Outside the Beltway and The Heritage Foundation
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Occupy Wall Street, tea party ‘not that different’
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CNN, The Heritage Foundation and Salon.com
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Huntsman called Cooper ahead of debate — Anderson Cooper is in Las Vegas at the moment, getting ready for moderating tonight's CNN and Western Republican Leadership Conference debate. Last night, his publicist managed to pull him away from a pack of screaming fans - it sounded like Beatlemania …
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Big Journalism, TVNewser and NewsBusters.org blogs
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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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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
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Is Herman Cain serious?
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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
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Pajamas Media, americanthinker.com and Indecision Forever
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Five questions with Mitt Romney — Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks with the Review-Journal editorial board. We select five key questions for our readers for Romney to answer. — Terms & Conditions — The following comments are provided by readers and are the sole responsiblity of the authors.
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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, ABCNEWS, Ben Smith's Blog, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and The Page
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unionleader.com:
Nevada Mitt: Romney and the primary
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msnbc.com, The Caucus, WMUR, CNN and The New Republic
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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RedState
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Architect of Cain's 9-9-9 plan wants him to drop national sales tax
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Business Insider and Outside the Beltway
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, Business Insider, The Hill, National Review and Balloon Juice
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Tia Goldenberg / Associated Press:
Israel ‘shocked’ at Egypt TV Schalit interview — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials harshly criticized an Egyptian television interview with soldier Gilad Schalit minutes after Hamas militants freed him in a prisoner swap Tuesday, saying the questioning was inappropriate and insensitive.
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The Jawa Report, New York Magazine and The Politico
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Gilad Shalit reunited with family in Israel; Palestinian prisoners freed
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americanthinker.com
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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Grasping Reality …
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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans lay groundwork for healthcare repeal — Seeing a chance to regain power next year, GOP activists are making sure they're ready to act on a full rollback of President Obama's overhaul. — Reporting from Washington— Republican activists, increasingly optimistic they can win …
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Political Mojo
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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
David Gow / Guardian:
France and Germany ready to agree €2tn euro rescue fund — Leaders of France and Germany aim to calm market fears before G20 — France and Germany have reached agreement to boost the eurozone's rescue fund to €2tn (£1.75tn) as part of a “comprehensive plan” …
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Business Insider and FT Alphaville
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
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
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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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Administration Seeks to Roll Back Hospital Rules — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved Tuesday to roll back a number of rules governing hospitals and other health care providers after concluding that the standards were obsolete or overly burdensome to the industry.
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