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Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Cain camp considering legal action against Politico — A Herman Cain aide said Thursday that the Cain campaign is considering its legal options over the original Politico story, which revealed that the former head of the National Restaurant Association was accused of sexually harassing at least two women during his tenure in the 1990s.
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Richard Pollock / PJ Media:
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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Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller, Ballot Box, FishbowlDC, The Lonely Conservative, RedState, neo-neocon, American Spectator, Gawker, The PJ Tatler, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Iowa Caucuses, National Review, The Other McCain, The Right Scoop, Patterico's Pontifications, CBS News, The Daily Dish, TBogg, New York Magazine, New York Times, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Guardian and The Caucus
The Politico:
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation — Herman Cain flatly denies the most serious allegation facing him - that he made an unwanted sexual advance toward a female employee at a work event - but POLITICO has learned new details making clear there were urgent discussions …
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Hot Air, Washington Post and The Reaction
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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The Caucus, The Daily Caller, New York Times, Freedom's Lighthouse, Mediaite, The Page, American Spectator and Saint Petersblog
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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Weekly Standard, The Spectacle Blog, The PJ Tatler, Freedom's Lighthouse, Don Surber, Washington Wire, Guardian, GOP 12, Saint Petersblog and Hullabaloo
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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Los Angeles Times, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Mediaite, The Caucus, Lawyers, Guns & Money, National Review, RedState, Erick's blog and Taylor Marsh
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Politico Is Tawdry — Rich, I continue to think the real story …
Politico Is Tawdry — Rich, I continue to think the real story …
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TBogg, Pundit & Pundette and Washington Monthly
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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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
‘South Park’ mocks Occupy Wall Street, Michael Moore [VIDEO] — Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of Comedy Central's “South Park,” have a history of taking on politics in their animated series — even when it means mocking liberal causes. On their Wednesday broadcast …
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Hit & Run, OWS Exposed, Whiskey Fire and Weasel Zippers
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Romney Campaign Memo: The Koch Brothers Are The ‘Financial Engine Of The Tea Party’ — Mitt Romney speaking at a Koch summit in previous years; David Koch speaking at his own gala — Tomorrow, billionaire David Koch and presidential candidate Mitt Romney are set to speak …
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Washington Examiner and The Raw Story
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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NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg says White House candidates must believe in evolution, global warming
Mayor Bloomberg says White House candidates must believe in evolution, global warming
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Gawker
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Cain Adviser Walks Back Perry Accusation
Cain Adviser Walks Back Perry Accusation
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New York Times and The Daily Dish
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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The Right Scoop, National Review, ABCNEWS, The Other McCain and Hot Air
Kevinliptak / CNN:
TRENDING: Perry: Our campaign didn't have anything to do with it
TRENDING: Perry: Our campaign didn't have anything to do with it
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Radio Iowa and The Lonely Conservative
Jana Winter / Fox News:
ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests — Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York — operating as New York Communities for Change — have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers …
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Journalism.org, Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative
Nancy Cordes / CBS News:
Boehner: Debt deal will include new tax revenues — House Speaker John Boehner addressed one of the biggest sticking points for the 12 member Congressional “supercommittee” today, acknowledging that any bipartisan agreement will need to include some new tax revenue.
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Los Angeles Times, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, National Review, The Lonely Conservative and ABCNEWS
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Boehner calls anti-tax crusader Norquist ‘some random person’
Boehner calls anti-tax crusader Norquist ‘some random person’
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The Politico and Indecision Forever
Floyd Norris / New York Times:
Why Not Give Greeks Their Say? — The fundamental nature of European governance is about to change. — Either a large part of the Continent will move much closer to a federal government, with common fiscal policies and a substantial loss of sovereignty for many nations, or it will spin apart …
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Balkinization and Rod Dreher
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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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ABCNEWS, CNN, The Politico, Liberal Values, Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
PewResearch.org:
The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election — Angry Silents, Disengaged Millennials — Not since 1972 has generation played such a significant role in voter preferences as it has in recent elections. Younger people have voted substantially more Democratic in each election since 2004 …
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Los Angeles Times and Firedoglake
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
For Perry, Private Jets Have Been Key to Public Job — On a July morning in 2008, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and several aides boarded a plane for Washington to lobby on ethanol use, an issue important to corn growers and livestock owners in his state. — The growers favored federal rules requiring …
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ABCNEWS, The Caucus, Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine
CTJ:
Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010 — NEW REPORT: 280 Most Profitable U.S. Corporations Shelter Half Their Profits from Taxes. — “These 280 corporations received a total of nearly $224 billion in tax subsidies,” said Robert McIntyre, Director at Citizens for Tax Justice and the report's lead author.
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Rebuild the Dream, The Politico, msnbc.com and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Ponders Pay-TV Business — Pilot Project in Kansas City Would Rival Cable, Satellite — Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business.
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Deadline.com and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Accused militia members outside the profile — It was June 9, and Frederick Thomas believed he was meeting with a dealer in black market weapons at a Lavonia restaurant, according to FBI affidavits. — “I ain't worried about dying,” said the 73-year-old Thomas, the accused ringleader …
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ThinkProgress, Georgia Politico and The Huffington Post
John Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Caller Accused of Rep. Cantor-Kill Threat — ABC News' Pierre Thomas and John R. Parkinson report: — A Tennessee man is sitting in jail today for allegedly placing two threatening phone calls to the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor last week — “screaming, profanity-laden messages …