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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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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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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
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?
The Politico:
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation — The details put a woman's account even more sharply at odds with Cain's.
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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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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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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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
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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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, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, The Other McCain and The PJ Tatler
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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Joshua Holland / AlterNet:
OWS Oakland Takes Over City, Shutting Down One of the Biggest Ports in the Country...But Nightfall Brings More Chaos and Teargas — Calling the protests a “general strike” resulted in an unbelievable amount of media coverage — a victory for the Occupy Movement.
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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, Weasel Zippers, Liberal Values and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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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
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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The Atlantic Online, National Review and New York Times
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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
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.
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, The Political Carnival and The Raw Story
Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:
New congressional map fails to get enough votes from Dems — House Speaker William G. Batchelder, R-Medina, put his map up for a vote today and warned earlier that, if Democrats did not provide the votes to suspend House rules and pass the map as an emergency measure, or do not work …
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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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Josh Boak / The Politico:
Victim of recession? Bachelor pads — The recession has hit home values, paychecks, stock investments and now - bachelor pads. — Almost one in five men between the ages of 25 to 34 are living with their parents, according to a Census Bureau report released Thursday.
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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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Groupon Prices at $20 a Share; More Than 10x Oversubscribed, So It Adds 5M More Shares — Groupon has priced its public offering at $20 a share, several dollars above the expected price range of $16 to $18. That will garner $700 million for the start-up, which is only several years old …
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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 …