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myfoxny.com:
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 …
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
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Guardian:
Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen awake ahead of brain surgery — Iraq veteran seriously injured by police projectile is lucid and responding but brain swelling still a risk, say doctors — Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who suffered serious head injuries after being hit …
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Crooks and Liars, Indybay newswire, Threat Level, The Gateway Pundit, San Francisco Chronicle, Gawker and Boing Boing
Mj Lee / The Politico:
‘Occupy’ to march on N.Y.C. banks — Occupy Wall Street protesters will march to five banks in Manhattan on Friday and deliver thousands of letters to the companies — in the form of a “mass paper airplane throwing.” — According to the plans for the march detailed on the movement's website …
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Guardian, Weasel Zippers, Pirate's Cove and City Room
Morgen / Verum Serum:
Iraq War Veteran Injured at OWS Oakland Founder of IHateTheMarineCorps.com — *** VS EXCLUSIVE *** *** PLEASE LINK *** — Scott Olsen is the Marine Corps veteran critically injured at Occupy Oakland Tuesday night, during a confrontation between the protesters and the police.
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Reuters, The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The Lede and This ain't Hell …
Christina Boyle / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters stripped of their power, literally, by fire department and NYPD — The city has stripped Occupy Wall Street protesters of their power. — Dozens of firefighters and police officers entered Zuccotti Park Friday morning to confiscate generators and gas canisters.
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City Room, Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Rep. Lee blames police for violence at Oakland Occupy Wall St. protest
Rep. Lee blames police for violence at Oakland Occupy Wall St. protest
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Weasel Zippers
Joel B. Pollak / Big Government:
Learning from Hamas: How #Occupy Uses Human Shields-Veterans, Women, the Young, the Old, the Disabled
Learning from Hamas: How #Occupy Uses Human Shields-Veterans, Women, the Young, the Old, the Disabled
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ThinkProgress, The Jawa Report, OccupyWallSt News, MoveOn.Org and Big Hollywood
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Occupy movement could be damaged by violent clashes
Occupy movement could be damaged by violent clashes
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San Francisco Chronicle, ABCNEWS, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Politico
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Robertson: Christians Should Oppose Occupy Wall Street
Robertson: Christians Should Oppose Occupy Wall Street
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Shakesville and Mediaite
Jake Parrillo / Politics & Elections Blog:
What search trends tell us about Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
What search trends tell us about Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
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Mashable!, Mediaite, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress, more at Mediagazer »
Roger Simon / The Politico:
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.
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New York Times, National Review, Hot Air, Online NewsHour, Weasel Zippers, msnbc.com, Business Insider, Althouse and The Hill
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House turns the screws on Congress over 9 percent approval
White House turns the screws on Congress over 9 percent approval
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Washington Monthly, The Politico, Hot Air, Connecting.the.Dots, Weasel Zippers and Booman Tribune
New York Times:
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.
Discussion:
Balloon Juice
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
‘Bundlers’ for Obama Have Active Ties to Lobbying — WASHINGTON — Despite a pledge not to take money from lobbyists, President Obama has relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid.
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Pundits Blog, Ben Smith's Blog, msnbc.com, US Politics, The BLT, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Sky Dancing, Pirate's Cove, Prairie Weather and White House Dossier
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — October 2011 — The October health tracking poll finds a more negative overall public mood about the health reform law, driven largely by changes in support for the law among Democrats. The poll also asked the public's impressions of the Massachusetts health …
Washington Examiner:
Perry's right: Republicans drowning in debates — Everyone knows why Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to skip some of the coming Republican presidential debates. He's a lousy debater, and the biggest single factor in his fall from front-runner to back-in-the-pack has been his poor performance in a number of high-profile debates.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Path Not Taken — Financial markets are cheering the deal that emerged from Brussels early Thursday morning. Indeed, relative to what could have happened — an acrimonious failure to agree on anything — the fact that European leaders agreed on something, however vague the details …
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Prairie Weather, Eschaton and Daily Kos
A.Killough / CNN:
TRENDING: Tea party group to Bachmann: Quit the presidential race — (CNN) - A tea party group has a surprising and harsh urging for long-time tea party favorite Michele Bachmann: Quit the presidential race. — “It's time for Michele Bachmann to go,” reads the first line of a statement from American Majority President Ned Ryun.
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ThinkProgress, The Moderate Voice, Business Insider, Liberal Values, The Other McCain and Wonkette
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Johnson rushes to file New Hampshire paperwork — Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - Heading off an embarrassing blunder, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson will file his paperwork for candidacy in New Hampshire's primary today - the day of the filing deadline.
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The Caucus
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First Read / msnbc.com:
After failing to file by proxy, Johnson flying to N.H. to get on ballot
After failing to file by proxy, Johnson flying to N.H. to get on ballot
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Los Angeles Times, GOP 12, Hotline On Call and Ricochet Conversation Feed
Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News:
Will Mitch McConnell's stiff-arm keep West Virginia out of the Big 12? — The most volatile issue in the Senate right now may not be the super committee's fight over budget cuts or the continued bickering over President Obama's jobs plan. — It's a subject far more personal …
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Balloon Juice, Firedoglake and US Politics
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Mitch McConnell's college football filibuster
Mitch McConnell's college football filibuster
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Daily Kos and Don Surber
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Herman Cain Opposes All Federal Student Aid, Says It Should Be Left To The States — President Obama's announcement earlier this week that he would use executive authority to make some changes to the federal student loan program has elicited quite the negative response from the GOP.
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Media Matters for America, tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com and ABCNEWS
Ruth Madoff / The Daily Beast:
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.
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CNN, The Hill, GOP 12 and Business Insider
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
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 …
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Washington Monthly
Gallup:
Republicans Nationwide Are Similar in Composition to 2008 — Remain more likely to be conservative, married, and religious — PRINCETON, NJ — The Republican Party in 2011 looks similar, demographically and ideologically, to the Republican Party that nominated John McCain in 2008.
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The Politico and National Review
Washington Post:
In Ohio, praise and questions for Herman Cain — At one point, Hart asked the participants to think back to fifth grade and the types of students they had encountered. From a list that included descriptions such as “teacher's pet,” “loner,” “hard worker,” “nerd” and “know it all,” …
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New York Magazine