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Tony Radar / RADAR:
New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred  —  A new woman alleging sexual harassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain will break her silence at a news conference with her powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred Monday afternoon in New York City, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
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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 …
Discussion: Don Surber
Michelle Malkin:
Circus Circus: Gloria Allred jumps on the Cain Train; Cain staff “welcomes” Allred to staff  —  What a way to kick off the week.  At least we had an extra hour from Daylight Savings Time to prepare.  —  Yep: Gloria Allred is back.  And she's scrambling to hop aboard the Cain Train.  —  Gird your loins.
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 …
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Romney is the Hillary Clinton of 2012
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Clyburn: Cain thought he was ‘above’ presidential vetting process
Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Lawyer: 4th Cain accuser will speak publicly Monday
Justin Sink / The Hill:
New Cain accuser to discuss sexual harassment claims
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Independents and moderates agree: GOP deliberately sabotaging Obama's jobs policies  —  Ever since Obama began aggressively calling out the GOP for obstructing his jobs policies, insisting that Republicans are “putting party before country,” pundits have ominously warned that he risks alienating …
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New York Times:
The Next Fight Over Jobs
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The growing acceptance of the ‘sabotage’ question
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
Conservatives Launch ‘Not Mitt Romney’ Campaign, Warn Of Dire Consequences If Romney Is The GOP Nominee  —  A coalition of conservatives have launched a campaign against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney's candidacy to prevent him from becoming the GOP nominee next year.
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Ali A. Akbar / Des Moines Register:
Guest columnist: Conservative Iowans owe it to nation to reject Mitt
Emmarie Huetteman / The Caucus:
An Aloof Romney in a Plane Encounter
Discussion: Hot Air, Business Insider and Mediaite
Susan Page / USA Today:
Bill Clinton's back, with a plan to help the economy  —  A few dozen ideas, in fact, about ways large and small to get unemployed Americans back to work — from granting property tax breaks for investments that create jobs to painting every flat tar roof in U.S. cities white for the energy savings.
Discussion: The Politico and Weasel Zippers
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Bill Clinton sticks up for Rick Perry on immigration
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
SB 5 headed for big defeat  —  Labor is poised for a big victory in Ohio Tuesday.  PPP's final poll on Issue 2 finds 59% of voters plan to reject Senate Bill 5, with only 36% voting for approval.  —  What might be most remarkable about the 23 point margin in this poll is that it's exactly identical …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Down to the wire on Personhood Amendment  —  It looks like the race to watch in Mississippi on Tuesday night will be the state's proposed ‘Personhood Amendment,’ which would make the state's laws regarding abortion and birth control the strictest of any state in the country.
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CBS News:
Mississippi votes: When does life begin?
Discussion: Indecision Forever and Hullabaloo
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann calls some GOP opponents ‘frugal socialists’  —  POLITICO's Reid Epstein notices a new jab in Michele Bachmann's remarks this morning at the Family Research Council in Washington, describing certain unnamed GOP opponents as “frugal socialists”:
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann: ‘If Anyone Will Not Work, Neither Should He Eat’
Discussion: Indecision Forever
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: One year out  —  One year out: NBC's battleground map, which shows the presidential race is shaping up to be VERY competitive... One year out: new NBC/WSJ poll is released at 6:30 pm ET... Previewing tomorrow's 2011 contests in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi …
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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 …
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 …
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
A Hidden Toll as States Shift to Contract Workers  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Like many states and local governments struggling to cut costs, Michigan hopes to replace some government employees with contract workers who will do the same job for less.  —  Ginny Townsend, 41 …
Discussion: The Agonist and Balloon Juice
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) …
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
First Read / msnbc.com:
New Koch problems for Cain?  —  There are more potential legal headaches for Herman Cain's presidential campaign: The Internal Revenue Service is being asked to investigate allegations that the Cain campaign's chief of staff improperly used $40,000 of funds from a tax exempt non-profit to pay …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and TBogg
 
 
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Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
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Occupy until ‘2025’!
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Democrats More Liberal, Less White Than in 2008
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Was ‘cash for clunkers’ a clunker?
Discussion: RedState and Eschaton
Pew Research Center / PewResearch.org:
The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Expands War on Drugs
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