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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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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain now recalls ‘couple of other’ items in accuser's complaint — Herman Cain once again revised his account of the sexual harassment allegations he battled in the 1990s, saying in a TV interview he recalled there were additional “ridiculous” items in his accuser's complaint, beyond the single incident he detailed Monday.
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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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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Why This Could Be the End of Cain — I am willing to give Herman Cain …
Why This Could Be the End of Cain — I am willing to give Herman Cain …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
A taste of the medicine
A taste of the medicine
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Cain's conflicting accounts
Cain's conflicting accounts
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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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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Rape, Gropes, and Assaults, Oh My: Mayor Bloomberg, Shut Down Zuccotti Park!
Rape, Gropes, and Assaults, Oh My: Mayor Bloomberg, Shut Down Zuccotti Park!
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NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters' own security detail sets standards for conduct in Zuccotti Park
Occupy Wall Street protesters' own security detail sets standards for conduct in Zuccotti Park
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Matt Dinger / Daily Oklahoman:
Occupy OKC participant found dead in tent at Kerr Park
Occupy OKC participant found dead in tent at Kerr Park
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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 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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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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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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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Virginia County GOP Emails Picture Of Obama With Bullet Hole In His Head — Yesterday was Halloween, a day for children to take candy and (apparently) for the Loudon County, Virginia GOP to take a shot at President Obama. As the blog Too Conservative reported, the Loudon Republican committee sent out a …
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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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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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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.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Rage of the Almost-Elite — Kenneth Anderson has written a long blog post on the origins of the Occupy Wall Street. I expect that many people will find a lot to disagree with in it. I expect I may agree with some of those disagreements — I am still processing what I think.
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Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
C-SPAN delivers: Announces full live coverage of Saturday's Herman Cain-Newt Gingrich debate — Last week, you no doubt recall, we wrote here about the Lincoln-Douglas style debate that Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich agreed to have in Texas this coming Saturday evening.
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Philip Caulfield / NY Daily News:
Shorter University in Ga. requires employees to sign pledge saying they are not gay — Employees who don't sign new ‘personal lifestyle pledge’ risk getting fired — Facebook photo of Shorter University. Shorter University is making its employees sign a “lifestyle statement” that pledges that they reject homosexuality.
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme — Mitt Romney and his son Tagg Romney. Tagg is the managing partner to Solamere Capital, a firm that invested in a new company employing brokers accused of taking part in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme.
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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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.
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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Roll Call:
And Congress' Rich Get Richer — Net Worth of Lawmakers Up 25 Percent in Two Years, Analysis Demonstrates — Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members' financial disclosure forms.
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