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Exclusive: 2 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 …

Discussion: CNN, Ben Smith's Blog, Firedoglake, Washington Wire, Campaign 2012, Washington Post, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, msnbc.com, CBS News, Mediaite, GayPatriot, ThinkProgress, Roger L. Simon, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, Los Angeles Times, American Spectator, Boston Globe, ABCNEWS, The New Republic, Wake up America, GOP 12, Big Government, Politicons, Ballot Box, The Raw Story, nation.foxnews.com, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, NewsBusters.org blogs, Political Mojo, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, A plain blog about politics, 2012 Decoded, OpenSecrets.org, Townhall.com, Business Insider, PolitickerNY, Truth Wins Out, Truthdig, News Hounds, Matt Glassman, US Politics, No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, The Other McCain, Wonkette, White House Dossier, The Crawdad Hole, Iowa Caucuses, Pat Dollard, Washington Monthly, The Political Carnival, Indecision Forever, The Daily Dish, Poynter, The Greenroom, News Desk, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Daily Kos, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Scared Monkeys, The Page, Balloon Juice, Feministing, Gothamist, The Lonely Conservative, Big Journalism, The Enterprise Blog, Ed Driscoll, The Moderate Voice, Betsy's Page, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, Pundit & Pundette, Sky Dancing, The Caucus, The Right Scoop, National Review, Towleroad News #gay, Gawker, Freedom's Lighthouse, Outside the Beltway, Maggie's Notebook, New York Times, Joe. My. God. and pandagon.net

First Read / msnbc.com:

NBC confirms one Cain accuser received cash settlement — By NBC's Chuck Todd, Lisa Myers, and Domenico Montanaro — NBC News has confirmed that one woman received a settlement from the National Restaurant Association after complaining about inappropriate sexual conduct by Herman Cain.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite, Daily Kos and US Politics

Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:

Cain Edges Perry in New UT/TT Poll … Keywords: - Texas Republican Party, - Herman Cain, - Michele Bachmann, - Mitt Romney, - Ron Paul, - Texas Governor Rick Perry, - 2012 Presidential Race, - Perry for President, - Rick Perry Politics, - UT/Texas Tribune Poll

Discussion: Fox News, The Caucus, The Daily Caller, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, Swampland, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, Don Surber, KXAN-TV, Ballot Box, National Review, GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's … and Freedom's Lighthouse

JSOnline:

State firm's cash to Herman Cain may breach federal campaign, tax laws — Herman Cain's two top campaign aides ran a private Wisconsin-based corporation that helped the GOP presidential candidate get his fledgling campaign off the ground by originally footing the bill for tens of thousands …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Little Green Footballs, Washington Post, Hot Air, Wonkette, Outside the Beltway, Public Religion Research …, Political Mojo, Campaign 2012, Daily Kos, Fox News, The Maddow Blog, Guardian, Business Insider, msnbc.com and American Spectator

The Caucus:

Cain Calls Harassment Issue a ‘Witch Hunt’ — Updated Herman Cain called the accusations of sexual harassment against him “a witch hunt” and said he had been falsely accused while the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. — Declaring at the National Press Club that he …

Discussion: Power Line, Associated Press, The Politico, The Impolitic, FishbowlDC, Riptide 2.0, The Daily Caller, Washington Wire, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, ThinkProgress and The Daily Dish

Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs:

Politico's Martin Dodges Question On Cain Details — Herman Cain has been taking heat for his response to questions about Politico's story on alleged sexual harassment. But today on Morning Joe, it was Politico's own Jonathan Martin, lead author of the story, who was being evasive about the details of the allegations against Cain.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Washington Post, American Spectator, Big Journalism, ABCNEWS, The Daily Caller and Freedom's Lighthouse

Business Insider:

AMAZING MUST-WATCH VIDEO: Herman Cain Just Broke Into Song At The National Press Club — Herman Cain may be the only presidential candidate in history to actually benefit from a sex scandal. — Just hours after Politico broke a story about accusations of sexual harassment against Cain …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, The Enterprise Blog and Hit & Run

RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Coulter: Politico's Smear Of Cain Shows Liberal Media “Terrified Of Strong, Conservative, Black Men”

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Daily Dish, Business Insider, National Review and iOwnTheWorld.com

Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Cain Says ‘Herman Is Going to Stay Herman’ as Allegations Swirl

Discussion: Little Green Footballs

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Cain: “I was falsely accused” of sexual harassment at trade group

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Gawker, The Crawdad Hole and Freedom's Lighthouse

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Former Campaign Aide Says Cain's Behavior ‘Never Even Bordered on Inappropriate in the Slightest’

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Daily Pundit, The Politico, National Review, Business Insider, Online NewsHour, The Daily Caller, Maggie's Notebook, Don Surber, Campaign 2012, Nice Deb and RealClearPolitics Video Log

Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain acknowledges harassment accusations

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Daily Kos

Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Oppo Dump on Herman Cain Begins in Earnest

Discussion: Washington Post, The Politico, The Daily Caller, Campaign 2012, NewsBusters.org blogs, PolitickerNY, Patterico's Pontifications and Whiskey Fire

Harry Siegel / NY Daily News:

At Occupy Wall Street central, a rift is growing between east and west sides of the plaza — The Wall Street protesters determined to “Occupy Everything” now find themselves, in a sense, occupied — The Wall Street protesters determined to “Occupy Everything” now find themselves, in a sense, occupied.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, Althouse, The Volokh Conspiracy, Gothamist, The Crawdad Hole and JammieWearingFool

David Frum / CNN:

How tea party could drive GOP to disaster — Editor's note: David Frum, a CNN contributor, was a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002. He is the author of six books, including “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again,” and is the editor of FrumForum.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Agonist, The Mahablog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and iOwnTheWorld.com

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Limits National Media Exposure With Frontrunner Strategy

Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, Big Journalism, GOP 12, msnbc.com and Don Surber, more at Mediagazer »

Seung Min Kim / The Politico:

Boehner: I get OWS ‘frustrations’ — Speaker John Boehner said Monday that he understood the “frustrations” driving the Occupy Wall Street movement - but urged protesters to be peaceful to prevent demonstrations from blowing out of control. — “I understand people's frustrations,” …

Discussion: City Room, THEROOT.COM, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos

Bernie Becker / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Fears about inequality in income grow

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather and The Maddow Blog

The Politico:
Income gap slips into GOP talk

Discussion: American Spectator and ThinkProgress

Reuters:

Beacon Power bankrupt; had U.S. backing like Solyndra — (Reuters) - Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, just a year after the energy storage company received a $43 million loan guarantee from a controversial Department of Energy program. — The bankruptcy comes about two months …

Discussion: Verum Serum, Don Surber, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and Business Insider

Ben Geman / The Hill:
Second Energy Dept.-backed company goes bankrupt

Discussion: CBS News, Michelle Malkin, Bloomberg, Guardian, New York Times, Big Government, The Heritage Foundation, The PJ Tatler, The Lonely Conservative and The Hill

AnnArbor.com News:

Mass exodus? University of Michigan tries to fight domestic partner benefits ban as employees think of looking elsewhere — Andries Coetzee, left, and his partner Gary Woodall stand outside of their home in Ann Arbor on Friday. Woodall may lose his health care coverage if the bill proposing …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Gay Politics, Balloon Juice and Associated Press

Reuters:

MF Global files for bankruptcy after deal unravels — (Reuters) - MF Global Holdings Ltd, the futures broker run by former Goldman Sachs chief Jon Corzine, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a tentative deal with a buyer fell apart. — The firm's meltdown in less than a week following big bets …

Discussion: DealBook, Ben Smith's Blog and www.thetakeaway.org

Reuters:
Insight: Did Corzine's risk taking cripple MF Global?

Discussion: DealBook, JammieWearingFool and New York Magazine

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Bombs, Bridges and Jobs — A few years back Representative Barney Frank coined an apt phrase for many of his colleagues: weaponized Keynesians, defined as those who believe “that the government does not create jobs when it funds the building of bridges or important research or retrains workers …

Discussion: Modeled Behavior, Prairie Weather, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Cafe Hayek and Bark Bark Woof Woof

Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:

Occupy Veterans Movement Growing Across U.S. — Since Occupy Wall Street protests have broken out in cities across the U.S. and abroad, support has come from what might seem like an unlikely corner: war veterans. — But two of the highest-profile protesters — each from opposite ends of the country — had served in wars.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Shakesville

Rasmussen Reports:

Wisconsin: Perry 46%, Obama 42% — Barack Obama carried Wisconsin easily in the 2008 presidential election, but he is slightly behind Texas Governor Rick Perry and runs just ahead of two other top Republican hopefuls in Rasmussen Reports' first Election 2012 look at the Badger State.

Discussion: GOP 12 and HotAirPundit

Carolyn N. Lerner / New York Times:

A Law Misused for Political Ends — THE federal agency I lead, the United States Office of Special Counsel, enforces a law that is broken and needs to be fixed. — The law, the Hatch Act of 1939, was intended to keep improper politics out of the federal workplace.

Discussion: The Politico

Julian Pecquet / The Hill:

Obama moves against drug shortages, puts blame on industry — President Obama took unilateral action Monday to help stem the nation's critical shortage of lifesaving drugs. — Obama signed an executive order that gives federal regulators more power to track shortages …

Discussion: fda.gov and Reuters

Jasmine Coleman / Guardian:

World's ‘seven billionth baby’ is born — Danica May Camacho, a girl born in Philippine capital Manila, is chosen by UN to symbolically mark global population milestone — The world's seven billionth baby has been born in a packed government-run hospital in the Philippines.

Discussion: msnbc.com, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine and News Desk

Vanity Fair:

The December 2011 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll — America's dogs aren't the only ones who would miss the mailman. But we're happy to skip dinner in the dark. — Kindness: that's the leitmotif of this month's poll. The kindness might not be immediately evident in each case …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Wonkette and Weasel Zippers