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Cain Accuser Got a Year's Salary in Severance Pay — WASHINGTON — The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year's salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Attorney says Cain violated deal, allowing accuser to speak — The lawyer for one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment said his client may get a chance to speak publicly about the allegations because the GOP presidential candidate violated the confidentiality agreement between the two.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Cain Not Able — We have the starchy guy — tall, handsome, intelligent and rich, with a baronial estate — who's hard to warm up to. And we have the spontaneous guy, who's charming and easy to warm up to — until it turns out that he has an unsavory pattern with young women and a suspect relationship with facts.
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Suzanne Garment / The Politico:
Cain reaction: Not by the book — Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain, in handling the sexual harassment allegations recently surfaced by Politico, has already broken every rule in the book on how to deal with a political scandal. — As we have now learned over two days …
Kurt Schlichter / New York Post:
Facts are optional — When you consider that, more than a decade ago, Herman Cain settled some unspecified sexual-harassment claims, you also need to consider that the only things you need to file a lawsuit are the filing fee and a printer. Facts are optional. — Maybe Cain did harass some employees.
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Associated Press:
Bachmann: GOP can't have nominee with ‘surprises’
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The Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter On Herman Cain: ‘Our Blacks Are So Much Better Than Their Blacks’ (VIDEO)
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Iowa yawns at Herman Cain allegations
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Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:
NYC arrest records: Many Occupy Wall Street protesters live in luxury — Many “Occupy Wall Street” protesters arrested in New York City “occupy” more luxurious homes than their “99 percent” rhetoric might suggest, a Daily Caller investigation has found. — For each of the 984 Occupy Wall …
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Rasmussen Reports:
South Carolina: Cain 33% Romney 23% Gingrich 15% — In South Carolina, businessman Herman Cain leads the GOP field with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney ten points behind. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the only other candidate in double digits.
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Steven Shepard / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Gets a Bump in New Quinnipiac Poll
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A.Killough / CNN:
Poll: Cain pulls ahead of Romney
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Cain: ‘Factions’ are out to get me — (CNN) - Herman Cain …
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David Jolly / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo, French Magazine, Firebombed — PARIS — The office of a French satirical magazine here was badly damaged by a firebomb early on Wednesday, the publisher said, after it published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the victory of an Islamist party in Tunisian elections.
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
French satirical newspaper firebombed after prophet Mohammed announcement
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
“Peace Through Strength, And Clarity:” Cain Says He Believes China May Have Nukes One Day In the Future — Update: Wait, Did He Just Misspeak? Did He Mean Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carriers? — I'm sure this is charming, or something. … That's actually cut a bit. The full quote from the PBS transcript:
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New York Times:
Mr. Corzine's Big Bet — Why did Jon S. Corzine make the risky bets that have now plunged MF Global Holdings into bankruptcy court? We don't know, but the likely explanations are disturbing. — Over the past year, most investors have been fleeing the sovereign debt of Spain, Italy and other euro-zone basket cases.
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Ben White / The Politico:
Industry mind meld: What happened to Corzine? …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Case Against David Brooks, Man of the Privileged Few — I don't think it's too strident to demand at this point that David Brooks be hauled up before a jury consisting of everyone else in America and forced to defend himself against several million counts of being an insufferable twat in a public place.
Boston Herald:
Rick Perry's giddy speech raises eyebrows, questions — FORT WORTH, Texas — A spirited and giggling Texas Gov. Rick Perry showed up to deliver a speech in Manchester, N.H., on Friday and the resulting video became a YouTube hit Monday. — His campaign insists Perry was simply “being passionate …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that economic growth strengthened somewhat in the third quarter, reflecting in part a reversal of the temporary factors that had weighed on growth earlier in the year.
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Robert Booth / Guardian:
Julian Assange loses extradition appeal — High court judges rule the WikiLeaks founder should face accusations of rape in Sweden — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has lost his high court appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations.
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BBC:
Wikileaks' Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Gov. Barbour May Vote Against Mississippi's Personhood Abortion Ban: It ‘Concerns Me, I Have To Just Say It’ — On Nov. 8, Mississippi voters will vote on Initiative 26, a personhood constitutional amendment that defines a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.”
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ABCNEWS:
Goldline Execs Charged With Fraud — Goldline, a company that used endorsements from Glenn Beck and other conservative icons to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold to consumers, has been charged with theft and fraud in a 19-count criminal complaint filed Tuesday by local officials in California.
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Phil Mattingly / Bloomberg:
Lawmakers to Propose Transaction Tax for Financial Firms Modeled on Europe — Two U.S. lawmakers will introduce measures to impose a transaction tax on financial firms that resembles a proposal released by the European Union. — Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, and Representative Peter DeFazio …
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Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Dismal Tale of Arrest for Tiniest of Crimes — The arresting officer came by the cell, Samantha Zucker said, to make snide remarks about finding her with a friend in Riverside Park after its 1 a.m. closing. — For instance: — “He was telling me that I needed to get a new boyfriend …
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John DiStaso / unionleader.com:
John DiStaso's Granite Status: It's official: Gardner sets first-in-nation primary for Jan. 10 — WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, UPDATE: NO SURPRISE. The resolution last week of the state's political dispute with Nevada Republicans over the date of their presidential caucus cleared the way for Secretary …
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FBI:
North Georgia Men Arrested, Charged in Plots to Purchase Explosives, Silencer and to Manufacture a Biological Toxin … ATLANTA—Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, Ga.; Dan Roberts, 67, of Toccoa, Ga.; Ray H. Adams, 65, of Toccoa; and Samuel J. Crump, 68, of Toccoa, were arrested today relating …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
House Republicans, keeping the faith — Where are the jobs? — God knows. — After preaching for weeks about the urgency of Washington taking action to create jobs, lawmakers decided to put their mammon where their mouths are. And so on Tuesday evening they descended from the mountaintop …
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama On Bad Economy: “I'm Less Interested In Allocating Blame” — WCCO-TV of Minnesota, one of the several local news stations to interview the president, asked Obama when it is time for him to start blaming himself for economic woes. Relevant transcript below: WCCO-TV correspondent …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
US Marshals turned loose to collect $63,720.80 from Righthaven — Looks like it's time to turn out the lights on Righthaven. The US Marshal for the District of Nevada has just been authorized by a federal court to use “reasonable force” to seize $63,720.80 in cash and/or assets …
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