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11:40 AM ET, November 6, 2011

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Rampaging Occupiers Attack 78-Year-Old Woman  —  We posted video last night in which degenerates from Occupy D.C. stormed the Washington Convention Center where Americans For Prosperity was holding a dinner.  In the course of their riot, the Occupiers attacked a 78-year-old woman …
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New York Post:
‘Occupy DC’ trio run over outside conservative conference
Mike Wise / Washington Post:
If Jerry Sandusky allegations are true, Penn State and Joe Paterno deserve part of the blame  —  After what allegedly happened to “Victim 2,” a boy estimated to be 10 years old, in the same room where Penn State football players shower, it's near impossible to keep reading the grand jury's report.
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Joe Juliano / Philly.com:
Two Penn State officials charged in connection with sex-abuse investigation  —  In a development that strikes very close to Joe Paterno's storied football program, Pennsylvania State University athletic director Tim Curley and another university official were charged Saturday with perjury related …
Fritz Tucker / GlobalResearch.ca:
A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street; “The Leaders of the allegedly Leaderless Movement”  —  On Sunday, October 23, a meeting was held at 60 Wall Street.  Six leaders discussed what to do with the half-million dollars that had been donated to their organization, since, in their estimation …
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Matt Negrin / The Politico:
It's not about serving the rich, Boehner says  —  House Speaker John Boehner disputes the notion that Republicans are “servants of the rich.”  —  “That's very unfair,” Boehner said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”  “Listen, I come from a family of 12.  My dad owned a bar.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
New York Post:
Protester throws fit in McDonald's when he can't get free food  —  This isn't the way to stick it to corporate America.  —  A Zuccotti Park protester threw a violent fit in a McDonald's yesterday after employees refused to give him free food.  —  Fisika Bezabeh, 27, ripped a credit-card reader …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The $8 Trillion Internet: McKinsey's Bold Attempt to Measure the E-conomy  —  The Internet — that 200 billion-person, $8 trillion global economy — accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth in the world's largest economies over the last 5 years, McKinsey found in a report released this week.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Hutchison defends Cain, refuses to backtrack on criticisms of Perry  —  Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) refused to backdown from her attacks on Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) and defended Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain from sexual harassment allegations in an interview on CNN on Sunday.
Discussion: CNN
Matthew Goldstein / Unstructured Finance:
MF Global and the rubber check  —  With the mystery of the missing $600 million in customer funds at MF Global Financial still unresolved, a lot of customers of the failed futures firm are starting to complain about getting bounced checks.  —  It appears that 10 days ago …
Discussion: Business Insider
Dharm Makwana / The Province » B.C.:
Woman confirmed dead at Occupy Vancouver site  —  November 5, 2011.  —  Vancouver Police investigate a death on the grounds of the Vancouver Art Gallery during the Occupy Vancouver protest November 5, 2011.  (Ric Ernst/PNG)  —  UPDATE 12:10 a.m.: A Vancouver police cruiser and Vancouver fire truck …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
It's Not 1980 Anymore … —William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust  —  For every American conservative, not once but whenever he wants it, it's always the evening of November 4, 1980, the instant when we knew Ronald Reagan, the man who gave the speech in the lost cause of 1964 …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Just Another Saturday Night in Afghanistan  —  Medevac medic and Staff Sergeant Erin Gibson (Jake Tapper/ABC News)  —  I wanted to see the war with my own eyes, so I spent the last week in Afghanistan, working on stories for Nightline and World News with producer Ely Brown.
 
 
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