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Candice M. Giove / New York Post:
Post reporter spends an in'tents' night amid anarchy in Zuccotti Park — The cheap walkie-talkie crackles inside a crowded downtown McDonald's, stopping the gathered mass mid-sip from their Kombucha bottles and cups of corporate coffee. — “There's a situation,” a vagabond gumshoe dubbed …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Our Reckless Meritocracy — HERE is a story about the promise of America. A boy grows up in rural Illinois, the grandson of a farmer who lost everything in the Great Depression. He goes to his small-town high school and then attends his state university, where he walks onto the basketball team and graduates Phi Beta Kappa.
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.
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Cain has a last word on harassment case
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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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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Two Ways Of Looking At The Job Market In March 2010 — Here's the way I think the Obama administration saw it: — That's a steep downturn at the end of the Bush administration followed by a sharp recovery. Verdict: Our crisis intervention measures worked, and the conditions for future growth are set.
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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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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Occupy Blue Wall Street? — New Yorkers are getting an uncomfortable look at the ugly realities behind what we like to think of as the country's bluest, most European and most enlightened city. A series of trials now underway in the Bronx reveal the harsh truth of embedded corruption …
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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.
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Scott Farwell / Dallas Morning News:
Rick Perry's parents say their son is strong medicine needed by a sickly nation — Rick Perry has no bigger suppporters than his parents, Amelia and Ray Perry of Paint Creek, Texas. — of — sfarwell@dallasnews.com — PAINT CREEK, Texas — Rick Perry may be the 61-year-old governor of Texas …
Thomas B. Edsall / Campaign Stops:
The Politics of Austerity — The economic collapse of 2008 transformed American politics. In place of shared abundance, battles at every level of government now focus on picking the losers who will bear the costs of deficit reduction and austerity. — Fights in Washington are over inflicting pain …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Sunday Reflection: Occupy Wall Street gets the ink, Tea Party gets the voters — Occupy Wall Street and the movement's brethren in other cities ranging from Chicago, to Baltimore, to Oakland, to London — has been getting all the press lately. — But it's the Tea Party movement …