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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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Washington Wire, New Hampshire Primary 2012, The Caucus, National Review, Swampland, The Raw Story, The Politico, Mediaite and Daily Kos
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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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Washington Monthly, GOP 12 and Guardian
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
In shift, Romney says the cause of climate change is unknown
In shift, Romney says the cause of climate change is unknown
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ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly
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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The Hill, New York Magazine and Swampland
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, Don Surber, JammieWearingFool, No More Mister Nice Blog, Say Anything, Pundit Press, 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.
Gordon Lafer / The Nation:
Why Occupy Wall Street Has Left Washington Behind
Why Occupy Wall Street Has Left Washington Behind
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Booman Tribune
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, Slate, Gawker, The Hill, Daily Kos, GOP 12 and Business Insider
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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 and Ed Driscoll
Associated Press:
Top Cain aide has checkered past
Top Cain aide has checkered past
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Firedoglake, The Raw Story, ABCNEWS, Fox News and 2012 Decoded
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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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House stands by chief of staff's remarks
White House stands by chief of staff's remarks
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The Politico and Business Insider
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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CNN, The PJ Tatler, New York Magazine, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RedState, Ricochet Conversation Feed and Pundit & Pundette
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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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
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
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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Daily Kos, ThinkProgress and Grasping Reality …
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
CBPP Destroys Catfood Commission Dems' Plan for Deficit Reduction
CBPP Destroys Catfood Commission Dems' Plan for Deficit Reduction
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Hullabaloo and Off the Charts Blog
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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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 …
Caitlin E. Curran / Gawker:
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.
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ThinkProgress, Business Insider, Gothamist and Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer »
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Perry jokes about debate skills but won't confirm whether he'll skip out — Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry joked Friday a grueling debate schedule could help sharpen his skills, but he would not say whether he planned to skip any upcoming GOP match-ups.
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The Politico
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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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WMUR Political Scoop, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, CNN, GOP 12, Washington Post, 2012 Decoded, ABCNEWS, The Page and The Caucus
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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Via Meadia and Balloon Juice
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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ECHIDNE of the snakes, Sky Dancing, The Confluence, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Connecting.the.Dots and Eschaton
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
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.
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Campaign 2012 and JammieWearingFool
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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