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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Cain accuser cites series of ‘advances’; NRA confirms harassment complaint — Attorney Joel Bennett issued a statement Friday afternoon from one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s, standing by the complaint and confirming that it involved a …
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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Cain rises in Post-ABC poll despite scandal; most Republicans dismiss allegations — Businessman Herman Cain and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney are running nearly even atop the field of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows …
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Cain Accuser Won't Go Public
Cain Accuser Won't Go Public
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The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Herman Cain allegation: Accuser breaks silence
Herman Cain allegation: Accuser breaks silence
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
Attorney: Multiple instances of sexual harassment by Herman Cain
Attorney: Multiple instances of sexual harassment by Herman Cain
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US Politics
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
WH rejects subpoena request for Solyndra docs — President Obama's attorney sent a letter to Congressional investigators on Friday, saying the White House would not cooperate with a subpoena requesting documents related to its doling out a $535 million loan guarantee to now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra.
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Fox News:
White House Fires Back at ‘Overbroad’ Subpoena on Solyndra Documents
White House Fires Back at ‘Overbroad’ Subpoena on Solyndra Documents
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Weasel Zippers, Politicons and The PJ Tatler
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
White House counsel says GOP's subpoena is ‘unprecedented’
White House counsel says GOP's subpoena is ‘unprecedented’
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Daily Kos
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
W.H. to House: Solyndra subpoenas seek too much
W.H. to House: Solyndra subpoenas seek too much
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National Review
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Solyndra subpoena sent to the White House
Solyndra subpoena sent to the White House
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Grist, Washington Monthly, CNN and The Politico
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Deadbeat Rep. Joe Walsh, Who Owes $100k In Child Support, Receives ‘Pro-Family’ Award From Family Research Council — In July, the press learned that Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), a Tea Party freshman in Congress, owed $117,000 in unpaid child support to his ex-wife.
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Crooks and Liars, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Moderate Voice
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Rep. Walsh lauded by group for being pro-family, though accused of owing child support — Republican Rep. Joe Walsh was the only Illinois congressman to be named a “True Blue” member of Congress for “unwavering support of the family” by the Family Research Council Action committee Thursday.
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Daily Kos, Wonkette, The Raw Story and Little Green Footballs
CBS Denver:
Moore Lashes Out At CBS4 Over Wealth Questions — Filmmaker Visits Occupy Denver Protesters — DENVER (CBS4) - Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore joined a growing crowd at the “Occupy” Denver protest Thursday evening, but his encounter with CBS4 left him fuming when he was asked …
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The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs and OWS Exposed
The Atlantic Online:
The Ally From Hell — Pakistan lies. It hosted Osama bin Laden (knowingly or not). Its government is barely functional. It hates the democracy next door. It is home to both radical jihadists and a large and growing nuclear arsenal (which it fears the U.S. will seize).
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Danger Room, Political Mojo and Hot Air
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The Politico:
More on POLITICO — Yaaawwwnnn...give it up, Politico. Your Dan Rather-esque hatchet job is falling apart and you've been exposed as the DNC boot licking liberals you truly are. The American people aren't falling for it. You've devolved into a complete laughing stock.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Cain: ‘I Am The Koch Brothers’ Brother From Another Mother' — Herman Cain may be the billionaire Koch brothers' favorite presidential candidate, with strong ties between his campaign and the wealthy conservative patrons, and Cain hasn't been shy about about showing his love for the pair.
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The New Republic, DeSmogBlog, The Impolitic and New York Times
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Peter Overby / NPR:
Cain Has Long Ties To Koch Brothers-Linked Group
Cain Has Long Ties To Koch Brothers-Linked Group
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CREW, Gawker, Daily Kos, iWatch News and Prairie Weather
Ezra Klein / New York Review of Books:
Obama's Flunking Economy: The Real Cause — Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President — Harper, 515 pp., $29.99 — Ron Suskind's Confidence Men is not a calm first draft of history. It is not an impartial or unbiased look at the Obama administration's first two years.
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Biased BBC and The Atlantic Online
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Barack Obama's Fatal Error: Monetary Policy
Barack Obama's Fatal Error: Monetary Policy
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Political Mojo
Zachary M. Seward / Metropolis:
Occupy Wall Street Pays $8,000 for a Home on the Web — Occupy Wall Street, seeking a more formal Web presence for the coterie of protesters who have set up camp in downtown Manhattan, is acquiring the domain name occupywallstreet.net for $8,000, according to parties on both sides of the transaction.
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The Jawa Report, JammieWearingFool, Gothamist, Althouse and The Huffington Post
Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes — Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. He says police beat him with batons — A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries …
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KGO-TV, The Raw Story, Booman Tribune and US Politics
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Traders From Chicago Board Of Trade Dump McDonald's Applications On Occupy Chicago Protesters — In the middle of an Occupy Chicago teach-in this week, traders at the Chicago Board of Trade dumped several sheets of paper on top of the heads of protesters below.
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Sky Dancing and Wake up America
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Obama's Sarkozy remark offends French — CANNES, France — President Obama came, he saw, he insulted. — “Obama insults Sarkozy,” blared the headline on one French website, taking umbrage at Mr. Obama's wayward remark at the G-20 summit here about the physical appearance of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Cain Lurves the Race Card … DONATE Email Print Send to Instapaper — You want some race card? Well here is some race card: — That's not messing around. Note that this is not from the Cain campaign but from “Americans for Herman Cain,” a group created to support his candidacy.
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The Atlantic Online and Outside the Beltway
Ben Howe / aglanon's blog:
EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Calls Republicans “Jack-Booted Thugs” [UPDATE: Nope, she didn't.] — [UPDATE (Moe Lane): Turns out that E&E/Greenwire completely took the quote out of context: EPA Director Jackson was sarcastically referring to her own employees with the jack-booted thugs comment.
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The Politico, nation.foxnews.com and Weasel Zippers
OccupyWallSt News:
Occupy Wall Street: Improving Quality of Life for the 99% — The participants of Occupy Wall Street are working for a better quality of life for the 99%. We are everyday Americans who want our voices and every voice to count in the political process. We want policy that looks …
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Nation Now, City Room and Gothamist
Matthew Jaffe / ABCNEWS:
U.S. Approaches $15 Trillion Debt Limit — It will be the latest sobering economic milestone that few were hoping to see: The U.S. national debt - any day now - will soar above the $15 trillion mark. — As of this writing, the total debt is $14.97 trillion, so moving beyond the symbolic $15 trillion is a foregone conclusion.
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Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin, The Lonely Conservative and Politicons
Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Obama Admin Opposes Prayer at WWII Memorial — Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are expressing outrage after the Obama administration announced its objection to adding President Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
DealBook:
As Regulators Pressed Changes, Corzine Pushed Back, and Won — Months before MF Global teetered on the brink, federal regulators were seeking to rein in the types of risky trades that contributed to the firm's collapse. But they faced opposition from an influential opponent: Jon S. Corzine …
Pastebin:
OpCartel Proceeds — The Anon who had been kidnapped last month by the Zetas has been released, although it appears that the Zetas concerned did not know that the individual was the Anon whose release had been demanded by those who instigated #OpCartel. As such, no bargain has been fulfilled.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A Democratic convention tests a right-to-work state [UPDATED] — As the Democratic National Convention gets rolling in Charlotte, the tensions between the party's labor allies and North Carolina's fiercely anti-labor political and business leaders remains on the surface.
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Weasel Zippers, aglanon's blog, Daily Kos and The Impolitic
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Threat of the Day — This blog's seen a recent really unpleasant uptick in trolling and now, violent threats. When I started posting some of the things people were saying on Twitter, Fast Company editor Nancy Miller suggested that bloggers start tweeting the harassment they get …
Kieran Nicholson / Denver Post:
Fort Collins man arrested as arson suspect in $10 million downtown fire — A Fort Collins man has been arrested as a suspect in a $10 million fire along Mason Street in downtown Fort Collins. — Benjamin David Gilmore, 29, was taken into custody Thursday night.
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Coloradoan Online and Power Line
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard) — LAST FALL, President Obama threw what was billed as the first White House Science Fair, a photo op in the gilt-mirrored State Dining Room. He tested a steering wheel designed by middle schoolers to detect distracted driving and peeked inside a robot that plays soccer.