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Richard Pollock / PJ Media:
BREAKING: PJM Sources Report Details of Alleged Cain Incident … Adding to the ongoing Herman Cain sexual harassment controversy, two sources have now confirmed to PJ Media that a female employee of the National Restaurant Association told associates she had been brought by Mr. Cain to his Crystal City …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Cainaquiddick: Where Source-Based Journalism Goes to Die … - The Three Reasons Republicans Are Fervently Defending Herman Cain - Bank of America Learns It Must Be More Subtle About Screwing Its Customers - Ruth Madoff's Nationwide Sympathy Tour: Does Anyone Feel Bad for Her?
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Bernie Goldberg / Fox News:
Cain Harassment Issue: Who Said What to Whom?
Cain Harassment Issue: Who Said What to Whom?
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The Daily Dish, ThinkProgress, Philly.com and The Reaction
The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren Heckled By Tea Party Supporter … BROCKTON, Mass. — Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate candidate. The man, who said he'd been unemployed …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
More Americans supporting Occupy Wall Street — (CNN) - As Americans learn more about Occupy Wall Street, they are becoming more supportive of the movement's positions, according to a new poll from ORC International. — The survey, taken Oct. 28-31, shows more adult Americans saying …
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Michelle Malkin:
More ugly Occupy Oakland pictures that won't make MSM front pages — Massive damage at downtown Oakland Wells Fargo Bank: — “F**k the bank:” … Chase Bank: — Source: Twitpic — “We are better than this.” Not really. Anarchy speaks louder than whitewash words: — Source: Twitpic
Nate Silver / New York Times:
Is Obama Toast? Handicapping the 2012 Election — Americans are usually forgiving when they vote a man into the White House and he wants a second term. Of the last eight elected presidents, all but two — George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter — got their four more years.
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Pamela Geller: 'I Endorse Herman Cain. What He Doesn't Know, We'll Teach Him' — Is this the kind of help Herman Cain is looking for this week? — Cain has now picked up a top endorsement from the right-wing blogosphere: Pamela Geller, the anti-Islam campaigner and Birther.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Top Iowa supporter for Herman Cain blames Mark Block for fumbled response
Top Iowa supporter for Herman Cain blames Mark Block for fumbled response
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Herman Cain Campaign Is Stuck on Stupid
The Herman Cain Campaign Is Stuck on Stupid
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
As governor, Romney worked to reassure liberals — Mitt Romney was firm and direct with the abortion rights advocates sitting in his office nine years ago, assuring the group that if elected Massachusetts governor, he would protect the state's abortion laws.
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
30 Major Corporations Paid No Income Taxes In The Last Three Years, While Making $160 Billion — One of the driving forces behind the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests is the fact that corporations have not been paying their fair share in taxes. A new report from Citizens for Tax Justice …
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CTJ:
Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010
Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010
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msnbc.com, The Politico and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Biggest Public Firms Paid Little U.S. Tax, Study Says
Biggest Public Firms Paid Little U.S. Tax, Study Says
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Cain accuser got $45,000 — The woman who received the payout is the staffer who Cain has acknowledged formally lodged a complaint.
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David Beckworth / The New Republic:
Tight Budgets, Loose Money: Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Are Wrong About How to Fix the Economy — Both the left and the right have been consistently peddling the wrong prescriptions for our economy. Most liberals are focused on the need for additional fiscal stimulus …
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
The Smartest People In Washington Are 100% Wrong About Stimulating The Economy
The Smartest People In Washington Are 100% Wrong About Stimulating The Economy
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National Review and The New Republic
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Polling the ‘sabotage’ question — To one degree or another, the “sabotage” question has been generating some debate for about a year now. It is, admittedly, a provocative subject: are Republicans trying to hurt the nation's economy on purpose, simply to undermine the Obama presidency?
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Will voters buy the idea that GOP is sabotaging economy?
Will voters buy the idea that GOP is sabotaging economy?
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Business Insider and Saint Petersblog
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Mitt Romney: 'I've been as consistent as human beings can be' — Mitt Romney, under fire from all sides on the strength of his political convictions, said Thursday he has been as consistent as a person can be during his political career. — “I've been as consistent as human beings can be …
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CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Liberal Values and Weasel Zippers
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Christian Student Beaten to Death for Wearing Cross — Arab Spring, Egyptian edition: a 17 year old Christian in a high school in Mallawi was ordered by his teacher to cover up a tattoo of a cross on his wrist. True to his faith, he refused to do so and instead exposed a crucifix that he wore around his neck.
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Rasmussen Reports:
National Poll: Cain 26%, Romney 23%, Gingrich 14% — Georgia businessman Herman Cain, who continues to battle past allegations of sexual harassment, draws the most support nationally for the Republican nomination. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey …
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GOP 12, Don Surber, Saint Petersblog, Freedom's Lighthouse, Washington Wire and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Greek Leader Calls Off Referendum on Bailout Plan — ATHENS — After a tumultuous day of political gamesmanship, Prime Minister George Papandreou called off his plan to hold a referendum on Greece's new loan deal with the European Union, opened talks on a unity government with his conservative opponents …
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Joseph Berger / New York Times:
Suit Against Photographer Seeks Re-creation of Wedding After Divorce — Of all the many things that make up a wedding, few are more important than the photographs. — Long after the last of the cake has grown stale and the tossed bouquet has wilted, the photos endure …
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Shirley Galdino / Flying Teapot:
Interview: Founder of group that ‘heals homosexuals’ out of the closet — Translation: Sérgio Viula — Founder of group that ‘heals homosexuals’ reveals: “Nobody quit being gay, there were relationships even within the group” — Nothing better than an example to rebuke …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Once GOP race settles, Huntsman likes his chances — Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - Despite his ranking in the polls and the first primary just over two months away, bottom-tier GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman believes time is on his side. — On a three-day campaign swing through …
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Rick Perry, in Silicon Valley, defends NH speech — SAN JOSE — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, on a fundraising swing in California, spoke at length for the first time Wednesday about his eyebrow-raising address in New Hampshire last week that has gone viral on the Internet, saying it was …
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Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Michele Bachmann Owes President Obama An Apology — This little gem was dropped last Friday during Michele Bachmann's interview with Wolf Blitzer. I understand that politics involves a war of words, but Bachmann went too far on this. Way too far. — Here's the snippet …
The Politico:
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation — The details put a woman's account even more sharply at odds with Cain's.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The Birth Control Solution — What if there were a solution to many of the global problems that confront us, from climate change to poverty to civil wars? There is, but it is starved of resources. It's called family planning, and it has been a victim of America's religious wars.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Boehner calls anti-tax crusader Norquist ‘some random person’ — Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner downplayed the influence of Washington's most notable anti-tax crusader, calling Grover Norquist “some random person” at his weekly press conference Thursday.
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The Politico and Indecision Forever
New York Post:
Time to throw the bums out — Time's up: The Zuccotti Park vagabonds have had their say - and trashed lower Manhattan - for long enough. — They need to go. — Be it voluntarily - by packing their tents and heading off in an orderly fashion. — Or by having th NYPD step in - and evict them.
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Jose A. Delreal / The Harvard Crimson:
Students Walk Out of Ec 10 in Solidarity with ‘Occupy’ — Harvard students and community members gather in front of John Harvard statue in solidarity with the Occupy Movement and Occupy Oakland. — Nearly 70 Harvard student protesters walked out of Economics 10 on Wednesday afternoon …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Gives Erdogan the ‘Hug Treatment’ — An interesting bit from White House reporter Tangi Quéméner's latest pool report from the G-20 in Cannes, France: … Isn't this whole scene pretty standard for President Obama? The Europeans get a handshake and the Islamist Turkish …
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