Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards In Attack on Social Security  —  News outlets generally like to claim a separation between their editorial pages and their news pages.  The Washington Post has long ignored this distinction in pursuing its agenda for cutting Social Security …

The Register's Iowa Poll: Herman Cain, Mitt Romney lead GOP pack; Ron Paul third  —  Former business executives Herman Cain and Mitt Romney lead the Republican field in Iowa in an election cycle in which likely GOP caucusgoers favor business experience over elective experience as a qualification for the presidency.

Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?  —  CITIGROUP is lucky that Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed when he was.  The Libyan leader's death diverted attention from a lethal article involving Citigroup that deserved more attention because it helps to explain why many average Americans …

Zuccotti perv  —  Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park battened down the hatches yesterday as the early October snow turned their tents into igloos, but the close quarters also made easy pickings for one predator.  —  A sex fiend barged into a woman's tent and sexually assaulted her at around 6 a.m. …

Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague  —  It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all - the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.

Obama: Pelosi was ‘one of the best’ Speakers, will be back in 2013  —  President Obama on Saturday said Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was a great House Speaker and that she will get that job back after the 2012 elections.  —  “I am biased, but I think Nancy was one of the best Speakers …

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.

Let Children Vote  —  Via Jonathan Bernstein, Sally Kohn writes about a campaign in Lowell, Massachusetts to let seventeen year-olds vote in local elections.  More power to them, but I say let any American citizen vote in any American election he or she wants to.

More Than Two Million Lose Power as Snow Coats Region  —  October, said the calendar.  Before Halloween.  And the 2.5 million trees occupying New York City's open spaces confirmed it was fall — not winter — with glorious canopies of leaves stretching along their boughs.  —  Yet snow was falling.