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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, No More Mister Nice Blog, Say Anything, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Gateway Pundit
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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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The Crawdad Hole, Washington Post, Wake up America, City Room, Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine
Gordon Lafer / The Nation:
Why Occupy Wall Street Has Left Washington Behind
Why Occupy Wall Street Has Left Washington Behind
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Booman Tribune
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
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 …
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GOP 12
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
In shift, Romney says the cause of climate change is unknown — Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney is trying to cement his status as a skeptic of man-made global warming after coming under fire from conservatives this summer for saying that humans contribute to climate change.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
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.
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New Hampshire Primary 2012, The Politico, Mediaite and The Raw Story
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Jon Huntsman Sr. says voters just need to get to know his son
Jon Huntsman Sr. says voters just need to get to know his son
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Guardian, The Hill, GOP 12, New York Magazine and Swampland
Morgen / Verum Serum:
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 …
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The Gateway Pundit, TBogg, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report and This ain't Hell …
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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
Peter Henderson / Reuters:
Wounded Iraq vet awake after Oakland protest injury
Wounded Iraq vet awake after Oakland protest injury
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Big Government, Pat Dollard, God's Politics Blog, Mediaite, The Lede and This ain't Hell …
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 …
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Jim Angle / Fox News:
Obama's Health Care Law Penalizes Marriage, Analysts Say
Obama's Health Care Law Penalizes Marriage, Analysts Say
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American Spectator and BizzyBlog
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Healthcare law's popularity hits new low
Healthcare law's popularity hits new low
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Don Surber and Weasel Zippers
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
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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The PJ Tatler, New York Magazine, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Pundit & Pundette and RedState
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
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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, The New Republic, National Review, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Online NewsHour, GayPatriot, Lynn Sweet, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Althouse and The Hill
Justin Sink / The Hill:
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
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Associated Press:
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, CNN, The Raw Story, Fox News, 2012 Decoded and USA Today
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Report uncovers DUI arrests, campaign suspension on Cain chief of staff
Report uncovers DUI arrests, campaign suspension on Cain chief of staff
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The PJ Tatler
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
cbpp.org:
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 …
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Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, CNN, Hot Air, Gawker, Daily Kos, The Hill, GOP 12 and Business Insider
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.
Allan H. Meltzer / Wall Street Journal:
Four Reasons Keynesians Keep Getting It Wrong — Concern over future tax rates is one of the main reasons for reduced investor confidence. — Those who heaped high praise on Keynesian policies have grown silent as government spending has failed to bring an economic recovery.
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Cato @ Liberty