Occupy Denver protesters, law enforcement officers clash; 20 arrested  —  In the most violent Saturday in more than a month of Occupy Denver demonstrations and marches, Denver police fired mace and pepper balls at a crowd of protesters in Civic Center today and arrested 20 people.

Herman Cain, Mitt Romney lead new Iowa Poll  —  DES MOINES, Iowa - Herman Cain and Mitt Romney top The Des Moines Register's new Iowa Poll, with the retired pizza executive edging the former Massachusetts governor 23 percent to 22 percent in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Dear Ben: It's Time for Your Volcker Moment  —  IN October 1979, inflation was running at more than 10 percent a year, and the Federal Reserve's gradual interest rate increases weren't solving the problem.  So Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman, dramatically changed how monetary policy was conducted.

Why the latest eurozone bail-out is destined to fail within weeks  —  I want last week's European bail-out to work.  My sincere hope is that collective and decisive action by the eurozone's large member states will stabilize global markets, at least for a while, so allowing the global economy to catch its breath.

Denial In Depth  —  Columbia Journalism Review has a takedown of a “study” from American Enterprise Institute purporting to show that inequality hasn't increased, after all.  What's striking is the way AEI doesn't even resort to the usual practice of concocting misleading numbers …

Pelosi, in pitch to donors, sees ‘turning point’ for Dems in 2012 House races  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is seeking a surge of Democratic campaign donations before the next Federal Election Commission fundraising deadline, claiming that Democrats can reach a “turning point” in their bid to reclaim the majority.

Cain tells Paul supporters to ‘be respectful’ during speech  —  (CNN) — Herman Cain spoke to a rowdy crowd of supporters in Alabama Saturday - they just weren't all his.  —  Trying to make a point about foreign policy, Cain was loudly interrupted by spectators in the crowd waving Ron Paul signs and yelling, “That is absurd.”

Mitt Romney, the pretzel candidate  —  The Republican presidential dynamic — various candidates rise and recede; Mitt Romney remains at about 25 percent support — is peculiar because conservatives correctly believe that it is important to defeat Barack Obama but unimportant that Romney be president.

Obama uses ‘Occupy Wall Street’ language in weekly address  —  President Barack Obama and Occupy Wall Street are speaking the same language.  —  In his weekly address to the nation, Obama cited an economic report showing that the middle class has lost ground to “the top one percent.”

Message to the 99%: Help Stop the 1% From Using the Super Committee to Rob the American People  —  The 1% is using the super-secret Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (a.k.a. the Super Committee), to reach directly into the pockets of the 99% and steal hundreds of billions of dollars from them.