Cain Campaign Hits the Brakes  —  After weeks of missteps, Herman Cain's strategists are slowing the pace to give their man a chance to focus.  Howard Kurtz on the downshift—and how Cain is defying political gravity.

Exclusive: Bill Daley, unplugged  —  It is a sunny day at the White House with bright light streaming through the gauzy curtains that cover the patio doors and many windows of Bill Daley's corner office in the West Wing.  And so I try to find some underlying gloom.

Fox 5 News Reporter Assaulted At OWS  —  MYFOXNY.COM - A protester, angered by the presence of a news crew inside Zuccotti Park Friday morning, threatened to stab Fox 5 News reporter John Huddy.  —  What has been an otherwise violence-free period during his six weeks covering …

Romney Flips To Denial: 'We Don't Know What's Causing Climate Change'  —  Speaking at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reversed his earlier stance on climate change pollution and rejected man-made global warming.

Huntsman: Romney's a ‘perfectly lubricated weather vane’  —  (CNN) - Jon Huntsman unleashed new attack lines on two of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination Friday.  —  The former Utah governor called Mitt Romney a “perfectly lubricated weather vane” and Herman Cain …

George Will column on Mitt Romney: ‘Has conservatism come so far ... for THIS?’  —  Playbook has a sneak peek at George F. Will's Sunday column, which fires a shot through the growing GOP establishment consensus that Mitt Romney would be an acceptable, electable nominee:

Democrats Offer Significant Concessions  —  Plan Is to the Right of Bowles-Simpson and Gang of Six  —  The new deficit-reduction plan from a majority of Democrats on the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “supercommittee") marks a dramatic departure …

Boehner Demands $2 Billion for Ohio Plant After Solyndra  —  House Speaker John Boehner attacked the Obama administration for financing failed solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, saying government shouldn't pick winners and losers.  That hasn't stopped him from demanding that the U.S. make a winner …

Occupy Madison Loses Permit Because Protesters were “Publicly Masturbating”  —  Once again, I feel the need to point out that members of the Tea Party never did anything like this.  —  Occupy Madison has temporarily been denied an extension in their protesting permit because members of the movement violated …

Iraq War Veteran Injured at OWS Oakland Founder of IHateTheMarineCorps.com  —  Scott Olsen is the Marine Corps veteran critically injured at Occupy Oakland Tuesday night, during a confrontation between the protesters and the police.  The latest news is good: his condition has been upgraded …

How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job  —  Joining the Occupy Wall Street protests has its dangers.  You could get pepper-sprayed or end up in handcuffs.  Or, as Brooklyn-based journalist Caitlin Curran explains, your boss could see a photo of you holding up a sign at a protest and fire you the next day.

Americans' Migration Patterns Shifting  —  LOS ANGELES — The continuing economic downturn has drastically altered the internal migration habits of Americans, turning the flood of migrants into the Sun Belt and out of states like New York, Massachusetts and California into a relative trickle, an analysis of recent federal data confirms.

IG admits: There were no $16 muffins  —  There will be no more huffin and puffin about that $16 muffin.  —  On Friday, the Department of Justice inspector general apologized for claiming in a recent report that taxpayers had paid $16 per muffin at a recent department conference.

Flier at Occupy Phoenix asks, “When should you shoot a cop?”  —  Hot Air has confirmed with the Arizona Department of Public Safety that fliers have been found at Occupy Phoenix instructing people on when to shoot police officers.  First reported by the Jon Justice show on 104.1 FM in Tucson …

The Night Occupy Los Angeles Tore Itself In Two  —  Around 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, the 300 people who have been occupying the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall for the past three weeks split themselves into two hostile camps.  —  Occupy LA's decision-making body, the General Assembly …

Smelly Hippies Get Ripped Off  —  They march for free.  I mock them for profit.  —  Somebody cleaned out the PayPal account of “Occupy Portland” and it looks like an inside job: … Very encouraging news.  Any project that results in naive lefties getting ripped-off by their “progressive” friends can't be all bad.

Paul Ryan, Defender Of The Safety Net  —  Fundraising letter that went out last night under the signature of Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand acolyte and proponent of pushing domestic discretionary spending to its lowest level ever:  —  What's fascinating about this is that it's not propaganda aimed at the center …