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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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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 …


Wounded Iraq vet awake after Oakland protest injury
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God's Politics Blog, Pat Dollard, The Lede and This ain't Hell …

Rep. Lee blames police for violence at Oakland Occupy Wall St. protest
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Iraq veteran Scott Olsen now in ‘fair’ condition
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ThinkProgress, San Francisco Chronicle, Truthdig, Guardian and Mercury News

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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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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The Crawdad Hole, Runnin' Scared, City Room and New York Magazine


‘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, Pirate's Cove, Weasel Zippers, Right Wing Watch and City Room

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 …
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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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The New Republic, New York Times, Mediaite, Hot Air, National Review, Online NewsHour, Weasel Zippers, Lynn Sweet, Business Insider, The Hill, msnbc.com and Althouse


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


‘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.


Top Cain aide has checkered past — ATLANTA (AP) — He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral. — “We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen,” he says before taking a puff. “But then America's never seen a candidate like Herman Cain.”
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Firedoglake, Christian Science Monitor, CNN and 2012 Decoded
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Report uncovers DUI arrests, campaign suspension on Cain chief of staff
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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

Huntsman: Romney's a ‘perfectly lubricated weathervane’ — (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 weathervane” and Herman Cain …
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Jon Huntsman Sr. says voters just need to get to know his son
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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, Daily Kos, Connecting.the.Dots and Eschaton

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 Friday - the day of the filing deadline.
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Gary Johnson scrambles to make New Hampshire ballot
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Indecision Forever, Taegan Goddard's …, msnbc.com and GOP 12

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, Daily Kos, The Hill, GOP 12 and Business Insider


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.


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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Gawker, Balloon Juice, Firedoglake and US Politics
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Mitch McConnell's college football filibuster
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Daily Kos and Don Surber


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:
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New York Magazine, GOP 12 and RedState

Herman Cain: Obama's weakness emboldens ‘so-called Palestinian people’ — Herman Cain in an interview with an Israeli newspaper said pushes by the “so-called Palestinian people” for statehood and an Iranian assassination plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States are evidence …
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Weasel Zippers