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9:05 PM ET, October 30, 2011

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CEPR:
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 …
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
The debt fallout: How Social Security went ‘cash negative’ earlier than expected  —  View Photo Gallery —  Since the entitlement program's inception in 1935, many changes to Social Security have been enacted or attempted.  Here's a look at some memorable moments in Social Security's history.
Paul Krugman:
Social Security Bait And Switch, A Continuing Series  —  Dean Baker is angry at the Washington Post for spreading disinformation about Social Security.  He's right, of course — and it's shocking that a well-known fallacy is the subject of a “news analysis” that purports to inform readers.
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Cain's latest abortion position  —  Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain stiffened his opposition to abortion Sunday, doubling down on past comments that Planned Parenthood is perpetrating genocide against the black community and insisting that he opposes abortion even in cases of rape, incest and life of the mother.
Discussion: Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers
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CBS News:
“Face the Nation” transcript: October 30, 2011  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO … BOB SCHIEFFER: Today on FACE THE NATION, Republican front-runner Herman Cain.  Is he for real?  —  HERMAN CAIN (Republican Presidential Candidate): 9-9-9.  —  BOB SCHIEFFER: Few would have thought it.
Discussion: Althouse and Wonkette
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
The Register's Iowa Poll: Herman Cain, Mitt Romney lead GOP pack; Ron Paul third
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Temptation of Mitt
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses
Jamie Klatell / Ballot Box:
Bachmann touts Iowa straw poll win, downplays importance of Iowa caucuses
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses and The Politico
Mona Simpson / New York Times:
A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs  —  I grew up as an only child, with a single mother.  Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.  I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us.
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rick Perry's Unusual Speech Performance (VIDEO) … Republican Presidential Primary , Elections 2012 , Rick Perry , Video , New Hampshire , Back Surgery , Speech , Politics News  —  WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry raised some eyebrows Friday night …
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Rick Perry flip-flops on debates
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Screw U.  —  It's officially a crisis.  Student loan debt has hit the $1 trillion mark, exceeding Americans' total credit card indebtedness.  Unemployed graduates with huge loan balances are camping out in “Occupy” camps — the Hoovervilles of our age — around the nation.
The Politico:
Exclusive: Two women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior  —  During Herman Cain's tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain …
David Rose / Daily Mail:
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’.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Cain Smears Planned Parenthood: Accuses Group of ‘Genocide,’ Says Its Goal Is To ‘Kill Black Babies’  —  Today on Face The Nation, GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain claimed that Planned Parenthood wants to “kill black babies” and is part of an organized effort to commit “genocide” against the black community:
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Cain: I'm “pro-life from conception, period”
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Gawker and Washington Post
New York Post:
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. …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
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 …
The Independent:
Exclusive: Cover-up at St Paul's  —  Clerics suppress report on bankers' greed to save church embarrassment  —  A highly critical report into the moral standards of bankers has been suppressed by St Paul's Cathedral amid fears that it would inflame tensions over the Occupy London tent protest.
Discussion: Guardian and Truthdig
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Mark Townsend / Guardian:
Occupy London could be protected by Christian ring of prayer
Discussion: US Politics
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Commerce and Parks, Together At Last
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White House adviser: Romney ‘moved all over the place’ on issues, has ‘no core’
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Let Children Vote  —  Via Jonathan Bernstein, Sally Kohn writes …
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Axelrod says new White House economic initiatives will ‘make a difference’
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Health law's poor polling: GOP controls debate, Dems question 2012 impact
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Andrew Gilligan / Telegraph:
Assad: challenge Syria at your peril
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

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