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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Cain's support dips after sex accusations: poll — (Reuters) - Allegations that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s have begun to damage his bid for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. — The poll showed the percentage of Republicans …
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Leonard Pitts Jr / MiamiHerald.com:
Pious racial indignation over Cain's offenses
Pious racial indignation over Cain's offenses
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Cain has a last word on harassment case
Cain has a last word on harassment case
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and US Politics
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Here Comes the Sun — For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it. Moore's Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months …
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Northern Reflections and Prairie Weather
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability — Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran's government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles …
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Romney just dramatically raised the stakes vs. Obama — The Day of Reckoning is here, or will be in 2013. The next president and Congress will need to make huge decisions about taxes and spending. And those actions will help determine whether America's economic future will be one of a) …
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GOP 12, Swampland, National Review and The Apothecary
Susan Page / USA Today:
Bill Clinton sticks up for Rick Perry on immigration — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has an unexpected defender: Former president Bill Clinton. — In an interview with USA TODAY, Clinton said he didn't think much of the Republican field vying for the nomination against President Obama.
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The Politico, GOP 12 and Weasel Zippers
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
DECLINE AND FALL — Sometime in the future, when a twenty-first-century Gibbon searches for a moment to use as a starting point for a chronicle of American decline, he or she might want to alight on the late-October and early-November days of 2011. Not that there is much to be gained …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings — There's no question that President Obama faces one of the most challenging political environments in modern memory as he prepares to try to win a second term next November. — But with one year …
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Betsy's Page, Ben Smith's Blog and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Study: Record young-old wealth gap — The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has widened to its largest ever, exacerbated by the slow economic recovery that has hit young Americans disproportionately hard, a new study shows. — With high youth unemployment and mounting student debt …
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Pew Research Center / PewResearch.org:
The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Head and Body Lice Outbreak Announced at #Occupy Portland Squatters Camp (Video) — Can we join?... Please, please, please! — A lice outbreak was announced at the #Occupy Portland squatters camp this weekend. — Head AND Body lice. — Hat Tip South Texian
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Scared Monkeys, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Israel Matzav
New York Times:
The Next Fight Over Jobs — The way the job market is going, it will never be robust enough to bring down the unemployment rate, now at 9 percent, or 13.9 million people. Monthly job growth has slowed to an average of just 90,000 new jobs a month over the past six months …
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Jack Kelly / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The big college scam — It's bad enough; the president's loan initiative will make it that much worse — The biggest consumer ripoff in America today — and the next economic bubble to burst — is higher education. — Tuition and fees at colleges and universities rose 439 percent between 1982 and 2007.
Chriss W. Street / Big Government:
The Municipal Bond Market Is Imploding — Moody's Credit Rating Service just announced the ominous trend that credit quality in the municipal bond market is falling at the fastest rate since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Data released showed that 5.3 times as many municipal bonds …
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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Matt DoBias / The Politico:
Ex-Pelosi aide's turnabout work — Even by the revolving-door standards of Washington, this one has heads spinning: The Democratic staffer who was Nancy Pelosi's messaging guru during the health care debate is now working for a group led by the law's most powerful opponents.
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New York Times:
Leaders in Greece Agree to Deal to Form a Unity Government — ATHENS — Prime Minister George Papandreou and his chief rival agreed Sunday night to create a new unity government, under a new prime minister, that will move ahead with the country's debt-relief deal with the European Union and then hold new elections.
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