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.

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. ...

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

All U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011  —  The Obama administration has decided to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year after failing to reach an agreement with the Iraqi government that would have left several thousand troops there for special operations and training.

2012 sneak preview: New pro-Obama group rolls out class-warfare ad against Romney  —  Via Political Wire, what's the most depressing thing about this?  The fact that it grossly distorts support for a lower long-term capital-gains rate generally into some sort of sinister plutocratic carve-out for millionaires specifically?

Cain: It should be illegal for rape victims to have abortion  —  On Fox News this afternoon, Herman Cain spent literally three minutes trying to explain his position on abortion.  —  Here's the key part, though.  —  Martha MacCallum asks him if he believes it should be legal for a rape victim to have an abortion.

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.

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

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.

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 …

TPM2012  —  American Crossroads: Obama's ‘Class Warfare’ Message Is Working  —  American Crossroads, the big money GOP group founded by Karl Rove, is warning Republicans that President Obama's new campaign to raise taxes on millionaires is a political winner.

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.