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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Cain details gesture that led to sex accusation — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for the first time has offered a detailed recollection of what led an employee of the National Restaurant Association to lodge a sexual harassment charge against him when he was CEO of the organization.
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New York Times:
Cain Confronts Claim From '90s of Sexual Harassment — Herman Cain, a surprise leader in the Republican race for the presidency, acknowledged on Monday that he had been accused of sexual harassment while chief of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, but he denied wrongdoing …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Why This Could Be the End of Cain — I am willing to give Herman Cain the benefit of the doubt and assume that the sexual-harassment allegation(s) against him was entirely baseless. — Here is what troubles me. Mr. Cain says: “If the Restaurant Association did a settlement …
Rush Limbaugh:
We Should Not be Surprised by the Left's Racist Hit Job on Herman Cain — RUSH: You know, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, folks. After all of these years, none of us should be surprised, but I still am. Look at how quickly what is known as the mainstream media goes for the ugliest racial stereotypes …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
A taste of the medicine
A taste of the medicine
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowans appear ready to give Cain benefit of the doubt on sexual harassment allegations
Iowans appear ready to give Cain benefit of the doubt on sexual harassment allegations
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ABCNEWS, Ballot Box, NY Daily News, The Hill, The Politico and Washington Post
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Cain's conflicting accounts
Cain's conflicting accounts
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Pirate's Cove, News Hounds, Jack Shafer, Hot Air and NO QUARTER
DealBook:
Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money — Updated — Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the brokerage firm, which is run by Jon S. Corzine …
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Wow, Jon Corzine — Way To Fly Your Company Into A Mountain — Well, this one's right up there with the most spectacular CEO disasters ever. — Yesterday, 18 months after Jon Corzine took over the helm of MF Global with the goal of building it into a real investment bank, he flew the company into a mountain.
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New York Post:
Occupy ‘ball’ street — It's the Autumn of Love! — Occupy Wall Street protesters are flocking to nearby health clinics for STD and HIV testing after getting their freak on in '60s-style hookups with crusty strangers, sources told The Post yesterday. — “Last week was free love,” …
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NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters' own security detail sets standards for conduct in Zuccotti Park — Demonstrators set to eject rulebreakers — Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrate Halloween just like everyone else on Monday. — Protesters in Zuccotti Park may be free spirits …
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, JammieWearingFool and Pirate's Cove
A.Killough / CNN:
TRENDING: Activists propose ‘shutting down’ candidate offices during Iowa caucuses
TRENDING: Activists propose ‘shutting down’ candidate offices during Iowa caucuses
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The Politico, Reuters, Iowa Caucuses, City Room and PolitickerNY
Golnaz Esfandiari / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Iran's Basij Launches Website To Cover Occupy Wall Street Movement
Iran's Basij Launches Website To Cover Occupy Wall Street Movement
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Europe Markets Drop on News of Greek Referendum — ATHENS — European markets slid dramatically on Tuesday after Prime Minister George A. Papandreou stunned the continent's leaders with a surprise announcement late Monday that his government would hold a referendum on a new aid package for Greece.
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Sarah Jones / Bloomberg:
European Stocks Drop as Greece's Government Calls Referendum; Banks Tumble
European Stocks Drop as Greece's Government Calls Referendum; Banks Tumble
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Investor's Business Daily:
Smoking-Gun Document Ties Policy To Housing Crisis — President Obama says the Occupy Wall Street protests show a “broad-based frustration” among Americans with the financial sector, which continues to kick against regulatory reforms three years after the financial crisis.
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The Jawa Report
The Hill:
Supercommittee panelists would take hit if they fail to get debt deal — Three weeks out with no deal in sight, the risk of failure is mounting for members of the congressional supercommittee on deficit reduction. — While President Obama, House and Senate leaders and politically vulnerable members …
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Prairie Weather
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Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Va Republican party condemns Loudoun GOP e-mail with an image of Obama shot in the head — The Republican Party of Virginia is strongly condemning an e-mail sent by Loudoun County's GOP committee that shows President Obama as a zombie with part of his skull missing and a bullet through his head.
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Loudoun Insider / Too Conservative:
LCRC Goes WAY Too Far
LCRC Goes WAY Too Far
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ABCNEWS, The Politico, The Raw Story, Washington Post and Business Insider
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Wrong Inequality — We live in a polarizing society, so perhaps it's inevitable that our experience of inequality should be polarized, too. — In the first place, there is what you might call Blue Inequality. This is the kind experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Richard J. Goldstone / New York Times:
Israel and the Apartheid Slander — THE Palestinian Authority's request for full United Nations membership has put hope for any two-state solution under increasing pressure. The need for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians has never been greater.
Kevin Derby / Sunshine State News:
Carrying Water for Obama, Hilda Solis Picks a Fight with the Tea Party — With the team behind President Barack Obama targeting the Sunshine State in their bid for a second term in 2012, the White House sent U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to speak to the Florida Democratic Convention on Saturday.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Physician declares Obama to be ‘tobacco-free’ after annual check-up
Physician declares Obama to be ‘tobacco-free’ after annual check-up
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The Politico, JammieWearingFool and CNN
Mike Rosenberg / Mercury News:
Bullet train project nearly triples in cost — $98.5 billion — from earlier projections — Faster than a speeding bullet train, the cost of the state's massive high-speed rail project has zoomed to nearly $100 billion — triple the estimate given to voters and more than enough to run the entire state government for a year.
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Michelle Malkin and JammieWearingFool
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Charts You Must See, Now, About GOP Tax Plans — On the off chance that you have not yet seen the post by the Atlantic's Derek Thompson about the impact on different income groups of the Rick Perry tax plan, plus Herman Cain's 9-9-9 proposal, please go see it now.
Equality Matters:
Chick-Fil-A Donated Nearly $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2009 — Earlier this year, Chick-fil-A became embroiled in a controversy surrounding its donations to anti-gay groups. Though Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy denied having an “agenda against anyone,” an Equality Matters investigation discovered …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The conservative case for Mitt Romney — It has been Mitt Romney's successful strategy to keep a low profile, emerging periodically for fluent debate performances, while the conservative meteors streak and fade. Every week that an untested rival surges, dominates the news and then stumbles …
Oliver Pickup / Daily Mail:
The moment man was publicly beheaded in a Saudi Arabian car park for being a ‘sorcerer’ — Shocking footage has surfaced of a Sudanese man being publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for being a ‘sorcerer’. — Crouched on his knees and blindfolded, Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki …
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Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Romney to give policy address Friday — (CNN) - Mitt Romney will deliver a policy address Friday at an Americans for Prosperity summit in Washington, according to the group and the Republican presidential candidate's campaign. — The conservative group is partially funded by billionaires Charles …
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Freedom's Lighthouse
Jonathan Cable / Reuters:
Factory sector contracts at fastest pace in 2 years — (Reuters) - The manufacturing sector contracted at its fastest pace in more than two years in October as new orders plummeted, adding to signs that the country is teetering on the brink of recession, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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The Hill:
Second green flop stokes controversy — The White House is facing fresh political headaches over energy loans as a second Energy Department-backed company goes bankrupt and Republicans prepare to subpoena White House internal communications on the failed solar company Solyndra.