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Josh Saul / New York Post:
Angry Manhattan residents lambast Zuccotti Park protesters — Infuriated lower Manhattan residents went ballistic on Zuccotti Park protesters at a chaotic Community Board 1 meeting tonight while blasting politicians for allowing the siege to continue without any end in sight.
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Alex Klein / New York Magazine:
The Organizers vs. the Organized in Zuccotti Park — All occupiers are equal — but some occupiers are more equal than others. In wind-whipped Zuccotti Park, new divisions and hierarchies are threatening to upend Occupy Wall Street and its leaderless collective.
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Hit & Run and JammieWearingFool
Tim Mak / The Politico:
New Yorkers rage over ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protestors — Dowtown New Yorkers furious with the continued presence of the Occupy Wall Street protesters vented angrily at a community board meeting Thursday, according to reports. — The desire to complain about the demonstrators was so widespread …
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New York Post, myfoxny.com and NY1.com
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
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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Richard Black / BBC:
Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study
Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study
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InsideClimate News, Guardian, New York Times and Biased BBC
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show — During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) frequently repeated a compelling version of his family's history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the son of exiles, he told audiences …
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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Did the Washington Post embellish Marco Rubio's ‘embellishments’? — The Washington Post just released this interesting story headlined “Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show.” The paper flagged a clear inaccuracy in his official Senate biography that states …
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msnbc.com, National Review, Big Journalism, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, Washington Post and Ben Smith's Blog
Alex Leary / MiamiHerald.com:
Activists known as ‘birthers,’ who still question President …
Activists known as ‘birthers,’ who still question President …
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Political Mojo, Naked Politics, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Post
The Hill:
Senate blocks new Obama jobs bill — For the second time in two weeks, Senate Republicans voted in unison to block “jobs” legislation, which the Obama administration and Senate Democratic leaders have made central to their agenda. — The majority of Democrats then blocked a second “jobs” measure offered by Republicans.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senate blocks money for teachers, firefighters
Senate blocks money for teachers, firefighters
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Political Mojo and Right Wing News
The Huffington Post:
Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency' … In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, “Steve Jobs,” author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign despite …
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New York Post:
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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The Jawa Report, JammieWearingFool and New York Magazine
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Gov. Brewer: Obama ‘lectured me’ — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer skewers President Barack Obama in a new book, saying the president was “patronizing” and “condescending” when she met him at the White House last summer. — “We sat down and started with some chitchat,” she writes in her autobiography, according to the Arizona Republic.
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Ginger Rough / Arizona Republic:
Brewer skewers Obama, critics on immigration in book
Brewer skewers Obama, critics on immigration in book
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Weasel Zippers
ABCNEWS:
Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland — Vice president Joe Biden, left, and Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive announces that the company will produce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at the former General Motors Boxwood Plant, Oct. 27, 2009, in Wilmington, Del. (Rob Carr/AP Photo)
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Jon Stewart On GOP Reaction To Gaddafi's Death: ‘What The F*ck Is Wrong With You?’ — Thursday night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart tackled the big headline of the day: The death of Muammar Gaddafi... Specifically, the right's reaction to the former dictator's passing.
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Progressives, Islamists huddle at Justice Department — Top Justice Department officials convened a meeting Wednesday where invited Islamic advocates lobbied them for cutbacks in anti-terror funding, changes in agents' training manuals, additional curbs on investigators and a legal declaration …
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Weasel Zippers, National Review, Pajamas Media and Jihad Watch
David Remnick / New Yorker:
FOREIGN CAMPAIGNS — In his salad days, Muammar Qaddafi was a professorial friend and vigilant protector of his colleagues in tyranny. At the World Revolutionary Center, in Benghazi, a desert Deerfield for dictators, Qaddafi trained Blaise Compaoré, of Burkina Faso; Idriss Déby, of Chad; and Charles Taylor, of Liberia.
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Pajamas Media and The Moderate Voice
Darla Mercado / InvestmentNews:
Advisers split on Occupy Wall Street — Exclusive poll shows that nearly 40 percent support protests; close to half back taxing the rich — Though most do not support the Occupy Wall Street movement, advisers are largely split when it comes to imposing higher taxes on the wealthy and tougher regulations on big banks.
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Business Insider and ThinkProgress
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Charles Pope / Oregonian:
Federal stimulus money for Oregon jobs hired foreign workers — WASHINGTON — At least $7 million in federal stimulus money intended to provide jobs to unemployed Oregonians instead paid wages to 254 foreign workers, federal investigators have concluded. — The money was for forest clean …
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Campaign 2012, Big Government and Weasel Zippers
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Texas Reduces Weekend Meals for Prisoners — HOUSTON — Texas prison officials last month ended the decades-old practice of serving last meals to inmates about to be executed after one man ordered an elaborate feast of hamburgers, pizza and chicken-fried steaks that he did not eat.
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ThinkProgress, Indecision Forever, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gawker and The Moderate Voice
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Job Approval Average Slides to New Low in 11th Quarter — Prior low was 45% in his seventh quarter — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's 11th quarter in office was the worst of his administration, based on his quarterly average job approval ratings.
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The Hill, Don Surber and The Moderate Voice
Emily Schultheis / Ben Smith's Blog:
In education standards fight, strange bedfellows — The debate over the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind legislation, long under assault from many fronts, has made a pair of very unlikely key allies: Tea party conservatives and labor unions, both of who both back a proposed change …
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American Spectator and Hot Air
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Irate News Corp. Shareholders to Take Murdoch to the Woodshed — The annual News Corporation shareholders meeting has always been a raucous and unpredictable event. — In a 12-minute exchange last year, one disapproving shareholder gave Rupert Murdoch, the company's chairman and chief executive …
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David Sirota / Salon:
W. enters my wife's schoolboard race — Our family gets a close-up look of how big money has taken over politics — even at the local level — Before it happens, it's hard to know how you'll feel when you see a slickly produced, oil-CEO-financed flier implicitly attacking your 11-month-old baby …
John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Has the US Defense Department killed a million Americans since 2001? — I've spent the day at a workshop on benefit-cost analysis where a lot of discussion is on valuing policies that reduce risks to life of various kinds. US policy, for better or worse, is focused on the idea of Value of a Statistical Life.
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Discourse.net and Unqualified Offerings
Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Is Poised for More Easing — Federal Reserve officials are starting to build a case for a new program of buying mortgage-backed securities to boost the ailing economy, though they appear unlikely to move swiftly. — The idea would be to target any new efforts by the central bank …
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