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.

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 …

Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally  —  MANCHESTER - A city woman is accused of pimping a 16-year-old girl she met in Victory Park during the Occupy NH demonstrations.  —  Justina Jensen, 23, of 341 Hanover St., is charged with felony prostitution.

Scott Olsen ‘cannot talk’ after injury at Occupy Oakland protest  —  Iraq war veteran is believed to have sustained damage to speech centre of his brain in injury at Occupy protest on Tuesday  —  Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who was seriously injured by a police projectile during a protest in Oakland …

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 …

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.

Another Obama fundraiser is investor in car company that won federal loan  —  An investment firm whose vice chairman has been an adviser and fundraiser for President Obama saw one of its portfolio companies win approval this year for $50 million in loans from the administration's clean-energy loan program.

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 …

TRENDING: Bachmann accuses Perry camp of ‘stealth’ political attack  —  (CNN) - Michele Bachmann accused Rick Perry's presidential campaign Friday of a “stealth” political attack - a charge the Texas governor's campaign flat out denied.  —  “If Gov. Perry has something to say to me …

Google glitch suggests “Romney can't win”  —  It appears that Google's mysterious search algorithm has been making a suggestion that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney may not appreciate.  —  When a Google user types the phrase “Romney can win” into the search engine …

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 …

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 …

Officers Unleash Anger at Ticket-Fixing Arraignments in the Bronx  —  A three-year investigation into the police's habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers …

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 …

Life Among the 1%  —  Twenty-two years ago this coming Tuesday, I stood with a group of factory workers, students and the unemployed in the middle of the downtown of my birthplace, Flint, Michigan, to announce that the Hollywood studio, Warner Bros., had purchased the world rights to distribute …