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1:50 PM ET, November 1, 2011

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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Santorum strategist urges Cain to come clean on harassment allegations
Justin Sink / The Hill:   As more details emerge, some Republicans rise to Cain's defense
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! … It's time for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pull the plug on the dangerous circus in crime zone Zuccotti Park.  —  People have the right to protest, to assemble peaceably, to raise their voices and petition their government.
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 …
Eman El-Shenawi / Alarabiya.net English:
Tunisians poke fun at Obama in assault on his Facebook page
Discussion: The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Satire on Occupy Wall Street Trips Up Rick Perry
Matt Dinger / Daily Oklahoman:
Occupy OKC participant found dead in tent at Kerr Park
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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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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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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Juliet Williams / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Calif. Rail Project To Cost $98B
Discussion: Hit & Run and National Review
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.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Dan Fitzpatrick / Wall Street Journal:
BofA Calls Off Debit-Fee Plan  —  Bank of America Corp. is dropping its plan to charge customers $5 a month for making purchases with their debit cards, a person familiar with the situation said.  —  The move is a dramatic retreat following decisions by several rivals in recent days to drop customer tests of the new fees.
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 …
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Cain Made $250,000 Off Yesterday's ‘Witch Hunt’  —  Mark Block, chief of staff to Herman Cain, says yesterday's media frenzy over sexual harassment claims helped the campaign post one of its best fundraising days ever with $250,000 coming into the coffers.  Block made the comment while on a panel …
Tim Stelloh / New York Times:
Brooklyn Detective Convicted of Planting Drugs on Innocent People  —  The New York Police Department, already saddled with corruption scandals, saw its image further tainted on Tuesday with the conviction of a police detective for planting drugs on a woman and her boyfriend.
Discussion: TalkLeft and New York Magazine
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
‘In God We Trust’ gets a House vote  —  Nobody has proposed changing the national motto, but the House is set Tuesday to vote on a bill that assure that the phrase “In God We Trust” stays put.  —  The measure, which is sponsored by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), would encourage public buildings …
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.
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 …
Offbeat news:
Camping sorry for failed apocalypse predictions  —  In this photo from Sunday, May 22, 2011, Christian radio host Harold Camping speaks outside of his home in Alameda, Calif. (AP Photo/Sprinkle Lab, Brandon Tauszik)  —  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Harold Camping …
Discussion: Gawker and Joe. My. God.
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: americanthinker.com and GOP 12
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Huntsman buys City Creek condo  —  • Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is again a Utah resident after buying a condominium in downtown Salt Lake City.  —  The former Utah governor told The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday that he and his wife, Mary Kaye, purchased the condo …
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Hill
Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
Pelosi: South Carolina Boeing Plant Should Unionize or Shut Down  —  In an interview late last week, House Minority Leaeder Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNBC that Boeing should either unionize its production facilities in South Carolina, or shut them down entirely.
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
The Huffington Post:
Clintons Stay At Dorothy Rodham's Sickbed Late Into The Night … WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent much of Monday night together at George Washington University Hospital, where Sec. Clinton's mother, Dorothy Rodham, is being treated for an undisclosed illness.
Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Caucus and NO QUARTER
 
 
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
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Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Did Tim Pawlenty Blow It?
Stephen Gray / PinkNews.co.uk:
Commonwealth nations react to “ex-colonial” British aid threat
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Joe. My. God.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. revises its strategy for ending the Afghan war
Discussion: Danger Room, Reuters and emptywheel
George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: New signs of Syria-Pakistan nuke tie
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
White House staff lose weight, credit first lady
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Politico
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
A Shocking Chart on Vaccination
Discussion: Felix Salmon and Mediaite
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