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 …

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:

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Cain Goes Big  —  Mark Block and Linda Hansen, Herman Cain's senior advisers, tell National Review Online that Cain will soon hold a series of “major town-hall meetings” in early primary states.  —  They predict that packing school auditoriums and conference halls with supporters will enable Cain …

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.

Obama struggling in Wisconsin  —  Barack Obama won a blow out victory in Wisconsin in 2008, but it's looking more and more like it will revert to its swing state status of 2000 and 2004 next year.  —  Obama continues to be unpopular in Wisconsin with only 44% of voters approving of him to 51% who disapprove.

Flier at Occupy Phoenix asks, “When should you shoot a cop?”  —  Hot Air has confirmed with the Arizona Department of Public Safety that fliers have been found at Occupy Phoenix instructing people on when to shoot police officers.  First reported by the Jon Justice show on 104.1 FM in Tucson …