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New York Post:
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders — The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they're angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Crony Capitalism Comes Home — Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really are half-naked Communists aiming to bring down the American economic system when they're not doing drugs or having sex in public. — The answer is no. That alarmist view …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Says She Will Minimize Police Presence And That She Supports The Movement — After the first heavy-handed police crackdown on demonstrators in Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan wrote a statement on her Facebook page praising police for closing down the Occupy Oakland protest encampment.
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Gibbs: Obama gets ‘Occupy’ anxiety — Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs argued Thursday that President Barack Obama was the best choice for the middle class distress illustrated by the Occupy Wall Street movement. — “Every one of the Republican candidates wants to roll …
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Aimee Allison / City Brights:
Occupy Oakland: Mayor Quan Issues Contrite Statement after Police Crackdown
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Susan Saulny / New York Times:
As Cain Promotes His Management Skills, Ex-Aides Tell of Campaign in Chaos — If Herman Cain feels his management skills are up to any challenge, some of his former staff members think he should have started with the disorder in his own campaign. — Mr. Cain has hardly shown up in New Hampshire …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Herman Cain, Outlier — Herman Cain, the Georgia businessman who has never held elected office, is tied for the lead in national polls of Republican voters — or perhaps even slightly ahead of Mitt Romney, as he was in Tuesday night's New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
James Carville: Cain aide ‘drunk or stoned’
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The Raw Story, CNN and Nice Deb
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2011 (advance estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011 …
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Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Economists React: ‘Where Are the Recession Calls Now?’ — Economists and others weigh in on the 2.5% growth in GDP at a seasonally adjusted annual rate. —Broad based gains indeed with consumer spending, business investment, structures and residential investment up... Modest growth …
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Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Economic Growth in U.S., Though Still Modest, Speeds Up
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
GDP grows. But how long until full employment?
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
GDP: good expectations for growth
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Daily Kos and americanthinker.com
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats are increasingly calling it a ‘Republican Congress’ — President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. — Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase …
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Alex Leary / St. Petersburg Times:
Adviser: Connie Mack to enter U.S. Senate race — U.S. Rep. Connie Mack unexpectedly signaled late Wednesday that he will enter the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, apparently convinced other candidates cannot defeat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. — “He's getting in the race,” adviser David James said in an e-mail.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes to repeal 3 percent withholding rule, blunting Obama
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Kim Geiger / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Perry may skip some debates — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry argue during a GOP presidential debate. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson / October 18, 2011) — After a series of poor debate performances in the early months of his presidential campaign …
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Firedoglake, Indecision Forever and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Massimo Calabresi / Swampland:
Hillary Clinton and the Limits of Power — Hillary Clinton argues in our cover story this week that America is not so much in decline as adjusting to a world of increasingly diffuse power, where like-minded networked individuals, non-governmental organizations and other non-traditional global actors …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner rejects Dem proposal, says it's time ‘to get serious’ — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday rejected a proposal by the Democratic members of the congressional supercommittee on deficit reduction, declaring its $1.3 trillion in tax increases unacceptable.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Boehner: ‘Great concerns’ Obama is exceeding Constitution
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Washington Monthly
Mark Halperin / Time:
The Big Questions: By Mark Halperin — Is President Obama on the ropes? — If the election were held today, the Obama-Biden ticket would not win the 270 electoral votes required to hold the White House. The coalition that helped elect the President—fired-up liberals, independents …
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Ben Smith's Blog
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Judge rejects Edwards attempt to have charges of illegal payoff dismissed — A North Carolina judge has rejected motions from former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) to have charges stemming from his cover-up of an extramarital affair dismissed, according to multiple media reports.
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Chris Seward / Raleigh News & Observer:
Judge won't dismiss case against former Sen. John Edwards
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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Google Refuses to Remove Police-Brutality Videos — But the company could do more to explain why it chooses to deny certain requests to remove content and yet complies with others — Google's latest Transparency Report contains this tantalizing bit: … Good on Google.
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Lawrence Weschler / The Huffington Post:
A Guy Can Dream, Can't He? — Have you noticed how Hillary is looking increasingly exhausted lately? She's no longer even bothering to shape-shift her hair on a regular basis. Not without good reason, mind you: hers has been one busy tenure over there at State.
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Gay troops to file suit challenging Defense of Marriage Act — Gay and lesbian service members and veterans plan to file suit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of the federal ban on gay marriage and federal policy that define a spouse as a person of the opposite sex.
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Washington Examiner:
Despite ‘ban,’ fat-cat lobbyists bankroll Obama — President Obama doesn't take campaign contributions from lobbyists — unless you count the owners and CEOs of lobbying firms, corporate vice presidents for government relations, or managing directors for public policy.
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
10 Arrested in $1 Billion L.I.R.R. Disability Scheme — Ten people, including a doctor and a former union president, were arrested early Thursday and charged in a major fraud scheme in which hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability pension claims costing a federal agency …
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Gothamist, msnbc.com, Metropolis and New York Magazine
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
7 reasons why Obama is wrong on income inequality — As if ordered up directly by the Obama White House and Occupy Wall Street, the Congressional Budget Office has produced a timely report looking at income inequality. The CBO found that between between 1979 and 2007 …
standupamericanow.org:
Dr. Terry Jones for President — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: — MEDIA CONTACT: 352-371-2487 or 352-871-2680 (Stephanie Sapp) or info@standupamericanow.org — Announcing: Dr. Terry Jones for President — Our campaign promises or agenda: — 1. Stop overspending immediately.
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Lisa Miller / Washington Post:
Justice Scalia speaks for himself on death penalty, not the Catholic Church — That Justice Antonin Scalia believes in execution as a moral form of punishment is a well-known fact. That he is an observant, traditional Roman Catholic is, similarly, well-known.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Paul Ryan Is Living in a Fantasy Land Older Than Ayn Rand — Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you today's worst paragraph in political rhetoric, courtesy of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Dickens), in an appearance at the Heritage Foundation, which must be like seeing The Beatles at The Cavern in Liverpool, back in the day.
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Paul Krugman:
The Truth Has A Well-Known, Well, You Know — Greg Sargent takes us to Paul Ryan's latest speech, in which Ryan expresses outrage over what President Obama is saying: … Just for the record: why is this petty? Why is it anything but a literal description of GOP proposals …
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