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Read the speech the House Majority Leader had prepared for his Wharton Leadership Lecture — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor canceled his speech at Huntsman Hall today. Printed below are the remarks he had prepared, courtesy of his office. — Thank you for having me this afternoon.
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Protesters storm campus after Cantor cancels visit — Cantor's office was told Thursday that Penn security was welcoming protesters — Protesters gather inside Huntsman Hall after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor canceled his Wharton Leadership Lecture slated for Friday afternoon in Huntsman Hall.
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Cantor Cancels Income Inequality Speech After Learning It Will Be Open To The Public. — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has abruptly canceled a speech planned for this afternoon at the University of Pennsylvania that was meant to lay out the GOP's plans to address income inequality.
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Wall Street protests force Cantor to cancel economic speech
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Cantor fled Wharton demonstrations
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CHART: How Income Inequality Skyrocketed And The 1 Percent Profited From The Decline Of Unions
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Florida banker's wife left family to join Wall Street protesters — A married mother of four from Florida ditched her family to become part of the raggedy mob in Zuccotti Park — keeping the park clean by day and keeping herself warm at night with the help of a young waiter from Brooklyn.
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Wall Street Did It? — Meltdown: If Republicans are to take back the White House and Senate, they need to do a better job tying Democrats and Washington to the subprime crisis. It's not hard, yet even their front-runner struggles to make the case. — On Wednesday night …
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More arrests coming for Wall St. protesters, Bloomberg says
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WaPo's ‘On Faith’: Jesus Would Bless ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
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Occupy Wall Street backed by 37 percent of Americans, poll says
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CAIR JOINS OCCUPY WALL STREET, WILL HOLD FRIDAY PRAYERS IN ZUCCOTTI PARK
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EXCLUSIVE: All Bachmann NH Staffers Quit — All paid New Hampshire staff for Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign have quit over deep frustration with the campaign's lack of commitment to New Hampshire. ...
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Bachmann's New Hampshire campaign staff quit — (Reuters) - Staff members in New Hampshire for presidential candidate Michele Bachmann have resigned en masse, a Republican familiar with the situation said on Friday, in a fresh blow to her 2012 hopes. — All of the staffers, said to number six …
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The Iraq War Ain't Over, No Matter What Obama Says — President Obama announced on Friday that all 41,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq will return home by December 31. “That is how America's military efforts in Iraq will end,” he said. Don't believe him. — Now: it's a big deal that all U.S. troops are coming home.
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All U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011
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Romney: Mission not accomplished
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Obama abandons Iraq
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U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq by Year's End, Obama Says
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Exclusive: Rubio defends himself — The Washington Post on Friday accused me of seeking political advantage by embellishing the story of how my parents arrived in the United States. — That is an outrageous allegation that is not only incorrect, but an insult to the sacrifices my parents …
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Exclusive interview with Senator Marco Rubio on WaPo's story about his family history
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Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit — Physicists are notorious for believing that other scientists are mathematically incompetent. And University of California-Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is notorious for believing that conventional wisdom is often wrong. For example, the conventional wisdom about climate change.
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A skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate data — Back in 2010, Richard Muller, a Berkeley physicist and self-proclaimed climate skeptic, decided to launch the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project to review the temperature data that underpinned global-warming claims.
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Tea Party Nation poll shows 52 percent will vote for Romney if he is GOP nominee — Most self-affiliated members of Tea Party Nation, one of the largest national organizations for the grassroots conservative movement, would vote for Mitt Romney as president if confronted with a choice between …
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2012 sneak preview: New pro-Obama group rolls out class-warfare ad against Romney
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Ex-Governor of South Carolina Joins Fox News — Former Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina may have not have been able to run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination after his 2009 cheating scandal, but he will at least get to talk about the campaign on national television …
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Past Her Freshness Date — Just as interest in Sarah Palin has moved into the day-old discount bin, so has novelty memorabilia about her. But this doesn't mean that she's going to leave a nickel on the table before she is swept kicking and screaming in that awful voice of hers into the dustbin of has beens.


Which States Are Most Enthusiastic About Obama's Reelection? — The Obama reelection campaign is very proud that it has now reached 1 million donors. As it should be! That's a lot of people who still believe strongly in the president despite, you know, How Things Are.
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The Hipster Cop: An Occupy Wall Street Conversation — The Ralph Lauren-obsessed plainclothes police officer spotted at the Occupy Wall Street protests has become an Internet sensation. We tracked him down to talk to the man about his personal style, how the protesters are dressing, and what exactly he's doing down there


To Emulate Bush, Obama Will Have To Become More Popular — Another day, another story about how Team Obama is hoping to replicate George W Bush's successful re-election strategy. — I've written about this before, but the fact of the matter is that this theory is based on a largely mythical recollection of what happened in 2004.
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Can Obama 2012 Replicate Bush 2004?
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Obama Has Written Personal Checks To Struggling Americans … Health Insurance , Obama , President Obama , Recession , Unemployment , 99ers , American Stories , Obama Personal Checks , Obama Writing Checks , Politics News — WASHINGTON — Got problems? Tell Barack Obama. He can help.
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