Occupy protest turns violent outside Washington Convention Center  —  Occupy DC protesters tried to force entry into the Washington Convention Center on Friday, where Americans for Prosperity is hosting their “Defending the American Dream Summit.”  The protesters also formed roadblocks …

Andy Rooney dead at 92  —  Andy Rooney, the “60 Minutes” commentator known to generations for his wry, humorous and contentious television essays - a unique genre he is credited with inventing - died Friday night in a hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery.

Zuccotti protesters put up women-only tent to prevent sexual assaults  —  It's a safe house from the sex fiends.  —  Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away.

Ultra-Orthodox spitting attacks on Old City clergymen becoming daily  —  Clergymen in the Armenian Church in Jerusalem say they are victims of harassment, from senior cardinals to priesthood students; when they do complain, the police don't usually find the perpetrators.

WAPO Ombudsman Defends Hit Job on Social Security  —  If there were ever any doubts that “Fox on 15th Street” was a fitting label for the Washington Post, Patrick Pexton, the paper's ombudsman removed them with his defense of the Post's front page piece on Social Security last Sunday.

Hub to Occupy: Shape up or ship out  —  City officials are vowing to keep the heat on derelict protest-crashers at Occupy Boston, while some demonstrators are calling for drug dealers and lawbreakers to hit the road.  —  “We are looking to get our act together,” said Mike Ippolito …

Blue San Francisco Plans To Stiff The Unions  —  Scott Walker move over; San Francisco is the latest front line in the battle against abusive public sector unions.  —  The bluest city in the bluest state in the union has woken up and smelled the latte; generations of extortionate collusion …

To Fix Housing, See the Data  —  In Miami recently, I met up with Laurie Goodman, a senior managing director of Amherst Securities.  I'd been trying to meet her ever since I'd read an article that she had written in March entitled “The Case for Principal Reductions.”  But our schedules never seemed to mesh.

Occupy Boston Occupies Israeli Consulate  —  A contingent from the Occupy Boston “Occupy” protest camp marched late yesterday afternoon to the building that houses the Israeli consulate in Boston and held a brief sit-in in the building's lobby.  Video is here and embedded below.

Assaults raise concerns about crime at Occupy L.A.  —  One woman is charged with setting someone's clothes on fire and another woman is accused of hitting a man with a tent pole, focusing attention on the encampment's future.  —  A man who calls himself “San Diego” warms his hands …

The unnecessary ‘jack-booted thugs’ uproar  —  There was a bit of a stir yesterday on some far-right blogs, which claimed that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called conservatives “jack-booted thugs” in a speech.  —  That's not what happened.  Politico's Patrick Reis has the story: