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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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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
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. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Friday said the Oakland police overreacted to Occupy Wall Street protesters earlier this week and condemned the police tactics. — Lee, who represents Oakland, said she was “terrified” …
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Weasel Zippers
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Occupy movement could be damaged by violent clashes
Occupy movement could be damaged by violent clashes
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ThinkProgress, San Francisco Chronicle, ABCNEWS and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Robertson: Christians Should Oppose Occupy Wall Street
Robertson: Christians Should Oppose Occupy Wall Street
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Politics & Elections Blog and Mediaite
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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The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and This ain't Hell …
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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 …
Peter Henderson / Reuters:
Wounded Iraq vet awake after Oakland protest injury
Wounded Iraq vet awake after Oakland protest injury
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Pat Dollard, The Lede and This ain't Hell …
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, The Hill, Lynn Sweet, msnbc.com, Business Insider and Althouse
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.
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.
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Balloon Juice
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 …
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Jon Huntsman Sr. says voters just need to get to know his son — SALT LAKE CITY — The biggest problem with Jon Huntsman Jr.'s presidential bid is that the public hasn't gotten to know yet just how perfect he'd be for the job. — At least according to his proud father.
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John DiStaso / unionleader.com:
Perry, Romney to be in state today
Perry, Romney to be in state today
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ABCNEWS, GOP 12, Washington Post, The Page and The Caucus
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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Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Gary Johnson scrambles to make New Hampshire ballot
Gary Johnson scrambles to make New Hampshire ballot
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Taegan Goddard's …, GOP 12 and msnbc.com
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.
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, Daily Kos and US Politics
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
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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Connecting.the.Dots, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos and Eschaton
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, Business Insider, The Moderate Voice, Liberal Values, The Other McCain and Wonkette
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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