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Washington Post-Pew Research Center Poll — This poll was conducted for The Washington Post and the Pew Research Center by telephone October 13 to 16, 2011, among a random national sample of 1,007 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones.
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Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Romney still the best at this, Perry not as bad, and the loser? Anderson Cooper — Well, it was the feistiest debate — Rick Perry even stayed awake for the whole thing, which was a nice change — and we had the welcome (at least for entertainment purposes) return of the Crazy GOP Audience thing …
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Washington Post:
Rick Perry better known, more disliked by GOP conservatives
Rick Perry better known, more disliked by GOP conservatives
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Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Perry to Propose a National Flat Tax
Perry to Propose a National Flat Tax
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Poll: Half of Americans believe Obama doesn't deserve reelection
Poll: Half of Americans believe Obama doesn't deserve reelection
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John Feehery / Pundits Blog:
Bickering — Newt Gingrich had the line of the night toward …
Bickering — Newt Gingrich had the line of the night toward …
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Capital Now Richer Than Silicon Valley — Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation's greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Reid says government jobs must take priority over private-sector jobs — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday said Congress needs to worry about government jobs more than private-sector jobs, and that this is why Senate Democrats are pushing a bill aimed at shoring up teachers and first responders.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
West counters Obama: MLK would not have backed Wall Street protests — Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) rejected President Obama's comparison between Martin Luther King Jr. and what he called the “Occupy Wall Street gangs.” — “Martin Luther King Jr. would not have backed these types of protesters …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Obama still flush with cash from financial sector despite frosty relations
Obama still flush with cash from financial sector despite frosty relations
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Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
President Obama's strategy on jobs is working — even if Americans aren't
President Obama's strategy on jobs is working — even if Americans aren't
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Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:
Occupy D.C.? Most Back Protests, Surtax
Occupy D.C.? Most Back Protests, Surtax
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Pushes Radical Bill To Restrict Discussion Of Abortion Over The Internet — Instead of focusing on job creation, congressional Republicans have spent their time passing socially conservative legislation like the “Let Women Die” bill that would allow hospitals that receive federal funds …
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Thomas / Blog for Choice:
Anti-Choice Senator: No Talking about Abortion on the Internet
Anti-Choice Senator: No Talking about Abortion on the Internet
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ABCNEWS:
Transcript: ABC News' Jake Tapper's Exclusive Interview With President Obama — President Obama sits down with ABC News' senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper for an exclusive interview in Jamestown, N.C. (Courtesy the White House) — The following is a transcript …
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Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
Obama: “All the choices we've made have been the right ones”
Obama: “All the choices we've made have been the right ones”
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Pat Dollard and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP debate crowd cheers idea that jobless are to blame for their plight — This caused a dust up on Twitter last night. But it deserves more attention today. This moment from last night's debate, in which the audience cheered the idea that the unemployed are solely to blame for not having a job …
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Naomi Wolf / Guardian:
how I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street — Arresting a middle-aged writer in an evening gown for peaceable conduct is a far cry from when America was a free republic — • Naomi Wolf condemns ‘Stalinist’ erosion of protest rights — Last night I was arrested in my home town …
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Naomi Wolf arrested while defending Occupy Wall Street protesters
Naomi Wolf arrested while defending Occupy Wall Street protesters
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Sean Captaintoday / Fast Company:
The Demographics Of Occupy Wall Street
The Demographics Of Occupy Wall Street
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New York Times, Gawker, Guardian and The Atlantic Online
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Energy Department Altered Loan-Related Releases — Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found. — The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department …
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Jason Mattera / Human Events:
All Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP — Vice President Joe Biden now says he didn't make a reference to rape, and got testy with HUMAN EVENTS when we asked if he would like to retract his comments that the number of sexual assaults would increase if Republicans don't sign on to Barack Obama's latest “jobs” proposal.
Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
What Percent Are You? — To get the full experience of this page, please upgrade your Flash Plugin — The Occupy Wall Street movement seeks to speak for the bottom 99% of the population by income, which includes pretty much everyone who makes less than $500,000 a year.
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Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Student loan debt hits record levels — Students and workers seeking retraining are borrowing extraordinary amounts of money through federal loan programs, potentially putting a huge burden on the backs of young people looking for jobs and trying to start careers.
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Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
The student debt crisis in one chart
The student debt crisis in one chart
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Paul Krugman:
Getting Nominal — “Market monetarists” like Scott Sumner and David Beckworth are crowing about the new respectability of nominal GDP targeting. And they have a right to be happy. — My beef with market monetarism early on was that its proponents seemed to be saying that the Fed …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: 'It's Not Okay, It's A License To Do Things' — Rick Santorum pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception, during a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart, arguing that birth control devalues the act of procreation.
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Neda Semnani / Roll Call:
Heard on the Hill: Breaking the Code of Ethics — One major commandment of journalism: If thou art a hack, thou mustn't flack. — So imagine our surprise when we realized the spokeswoman for October 2011, the group occupying Freedom Plaza, is Lisa Simeone, host of the radio program …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NPR host is Occupy DC spokeswoman
NPR host is Occupy DC spokeswoman
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Sasha Chavkin / The New York World:
Women ride in back on sex-segregated Brooklyn bus line — On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide berth.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Perry Commits to Flat Tax, Reforming Entitlements — In a brief speech this morning at the Western Republican Conference, Texas governor Rick Perry announced that in six days he would reveal an “economic pro-growth package that will create growth” and encourage investment in America.
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National Review
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Arthur B. Laffer / Wall Street Journal:
Cain's Stimulating ‘9-9-9’ Tax Reform
Cain's Stimulating ‘9-9-9’ Tax Reform
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Man living as an ‘adult baby’ is cleared of Social Security fraud — The California man who lives part of his life as an “adult baby” and collects Social Security disability payments says the federal agency has cleared him of wrongdoing and will continue sending checks.
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Ginger Gibson / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie calls teacher's anti-gay Facebook remarks ‘disturbing’ — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie said he is concerned about statements made by Viki Knox, a high school teacher whose anti-gay Facebook comments set off a debate about free speech and gay rights.