Top Items:


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.
Discussion:
The Other McCain, ThinkProgress, War in Context, Althouse and Gawker
RELATED:

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.
Discussion:
The New Republic, ACS Blog, ThinkProgress and Business Insider

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.
Discussion:
Liberal Values, Wonkette, Political Mojo, Mediaite, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo

Wall Street protests force Cantor to cancel economic speech
Discussion:
Firedoglake

Cantor fled Wharton demonstrations
Discussion:
Philly.com, ThinkProgress and The Mahablog

CHART: How Income Inequality Skyrocketed And The 1 Percent Profited From The Decline Of Unions
Discussion:
thedp.com


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.
Discussion:
Firedoglake, The White House, Political Mojo, Hullabaloo, Wonkette, The Daily Dish and Outside the Beltway
RELATED:


Iraq War Over, US Troops Coming Home, Obama Says — America's long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year's end and all U.S. troops ""will definitely be home for the holidays," President Barack Obama declared Friday. — Stretching more than eight years …


Romney Opposes Troop Withdrawal From Iraq (UPDATED)
Discussion:
Opinion L.A. and Zandar Versus The Stupid

Obama abandons Iraq
Discussion:
Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Online, Maggie's Farm, ThinkProgress and American Spectator

Romney: Mission not accomplished
Discussion:
Washington Post, The Politico and The Hill

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. ...
Discussion:
The Politico, The Caucus, Swampland, Wonkette, Indecision Forever, Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, Pundit Press, GOP 12, Daily Kos, CNN, The Page and The Other McCain
RELATED:


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 …
Discussion:
Hot Air, nation.foxnews.com, msnbc.com, New York Magazine and Gawker


WaPo's ‘On Faith’: Jesus Would Bless ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement — On Washington Post's On Faith blog, Daily Beast contributor Lisa Miller teased a piece about Occupy Wall Street with a worthy question: “What would Jesus think about Occupy Wall Street?” Her answer was simple …
Discussion:
Washington Post, God's Politics Blog, Weasel Zippers and ThinkProgress
RELATED:


More arrests coming for Wall St. protesters, Bloomberg says
Discussion:
Gothamist, National Review, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, The Politico, The Raw Story, Firedoglake, ANIMAL and Wake up America

AP-GfK Poll: 37 percent of public back protests
Discussion:
Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers

CAIR JOINS OCCUPY WALL STREET, WILL HOLD FRIDAY PRAYERS IN ZUCCOTTI PARK
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, Moonbattery, RealClearPolitics Video Log and Pat Dollard


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 …
Discussion:
Opinionator, Washington Post, Salon.com, Weasel Zippers, Joe. My. God., Power Line, Tucson Citizen, The New Republic, Washington Wire, Washington Monthly, U.S. Senator for Florida …, msnbc.com, CNN, Naked Politics, USA Today, ABCNEWS, National Review, Erick's blog, Big Journalism, The Atlantic Online, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Dish and Business Insider
RELATED:

Exclusive interview with Senator Marco Rubio on WaPo's story about his family history
Discussion:
The Politico


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.

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.
Discussion:
Mediaite, Pajamas Media, Right Wing Watch, The Reality-Based Community, Little Green Footballs and ThinkProgress
RELATED:

Cain's latest bizarre abortion comment
Discussion:
Hot Air, LifeNews.com, Gawker, Right Wing Watch, ECHIDNE of the snakes and American Spectator


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.
Discussion:
Political Mojo


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

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?
Discussion:
The Politico and Washington Post
RELATED:

Tea Party Nation poll shows 52 percent will vote for Romney if he is GOP nominee
Discussion:
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Weasel Zippers

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 …

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.
Discussion:
Green, Political Mojo, The Raw Story and Watts Up With That?

Obama's Job Approval Average Hits All-Time Low — President Obama's job approval for the last quarter fell to the lowest of his administration, according to a new Gallup poll. Down four points from his previous all-time low of 45 percent, the president's average job approval slid to just 41 percent in the 11th quarter.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers


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.
Discussion:
Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and Mogulite


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.