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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Bully: Limbaugh Repeatedly Attacks Cain Accuser's 13-Year-Old Son — Using the power of his top-rated, nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio show, Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday repeatedly turned his AM wrath on a schoolboy and portrayed the 13 year-old as a villain in the Herman Cain sexual harassment saga.
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Herman Cain PAC:
Herman Cain Accuser Karen Kraushaar works for Obama and she's ugly — Ew, gross! Who the hell does this ugly b1tch think she's fooling? — Just to be clear, Karen Kraushaar is the one on the left. — Via The Daily...
David Weigel / Slate:
Mark Block: Schmuck or Liar? … - Manjoo: Google+ Is a Disaster, and It's Doomed — Michael Jackson's Personal Physician Was Convicted in His Death. How Do You Get Your Own Doctor? - White House Scraps “Christmas Tree Tax,” Even Though It Was Growers Who Wanted It
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
UPDATED: Male Persuasion: HOAX Herman Cain Website Calls One of His Accusers an ‘Ugly Bitch’ — UPDATE: It now emerges that this website is a hoax. Shuksan Tahoma at DKos has the details. We apologize to our readers. — Here's Team Herman Cain's defense of their boss …
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Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Attorney: 2 named accusers could hold joint press conference
Attorney: 2 named accusers could hold joint press conference
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Washington Post, CNN, Law Blog, Hot Air and Daily Kos
David French / National Review:
The Fundamental Injustice of Old Allegations
The Fundamental Injustice of Old Allegations
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ABCNEWS, The Other McCain and GOP 12
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Cain placed Google ads alongside scandal-related search results
Cain placed Google ads alongside scandal-related search results
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Debate crowd cheers Cain in face of sexual harassment claims — Onstage at his first presidential debate since sexual harassment allegations against him emerged more than a week ago, Herman Cain dismissed the accusations as a “character assassination” Wednesday — and was enthusiastically backed up by the debate audience.
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Alexander Burns / Reuters:
Rick Perry crashes, Cain cheered at GOP debate
Rick Perry crashes, Cain cheered at GOP debate
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Republicans Believe Romney Most Likely to Win Nomination
Republicans Believe Romney Most Likely to Win Nomination
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Rasmussen Reports:
Florida Primary: Cain 30%, Romney 24%, Gingrich 19%
Florida Primary: Cain 30%, Romney 24%, Gingrich 19%
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Hot Air and Riptide 2.0
Richard Adams / Guardian:
GOP debate in Michigan - live coverage
GOP debate in Michigan - live coverage
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Liberal Values, The PJ Tatler, Maggie's Notebook and Gawker
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Gingrich Rises in Polls But Has Major Obstacles to Nomination
Gingrich Rises in Polls But Has Major Obstacles to Nomination
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New York Magazine, Hot Air, Public Policy Polling and NO QUARTER
Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Why Gingrich Could Win — Herman Cain's prospects were good until …
Why Gingrich Could Win — Herman Cain's prospects were good until …
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Power Line, Swampland, UrbanGrounds, Betsy's Page, Washington Examiner, Ballot Box, Mediaite, Democracy in America, GOP 12, The Right Scoop and Dean's World
ESPN:
Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier out — Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach. — Paterno said in a statement Wednesday he would retire after the season …
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lehighvalleylive.com:
Penn State President Graham Spanier will quit or be fired today in wake of Sandusky charges, source says — Penn State University President Graham Spanier will either resign or be voted out by the end of today, a source close to the board of trustees told The Express-Times.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Personal Foul at Penn State
Personal Foul at Penn State
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Mediaite, Don Surber and Althouse
Paul Krugman:
This Is The Way The Euro Ends — This is the way the euro ends. — This is the way the euro ends. — Not with a bang but with bunga-bunga. — Seriously, with Italian 10-years now well above 7 percent, we're now in territory where all the vicious circles get into gear …
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Brad DeLong, The Atlantic Online, Donklephant, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, New Atlanticist, US Politics and Balloon Juice
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John Quiggin / New York Times:
Euro Crisis's Enabler: The Central Bank
Euro Crisis's Enabler: The Central Bank
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Firedoglake and Washington Post
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Administration to Delay New 15-Cent Christmas Tree ‘Fee’ — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to delay implementation and revisit a proposed new 15 cent fee on fresh-cut Christmas trees, sources tell ABC News. The fee, requested by the National Christmas Tree Association in 2009 …
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Urban Infidel:
Occupy Wall Street: Zucotti Square Day 53 & Counting - The Crazy Has Set In — So much has been said about this movement, it has no discernible point, it smells, it's violent, it has rapes, arson, assault, vandalism, theft and psychotics running the place along with a growing rap sheet, so I wasn't sure what else I could find.
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Zombie:
Fresh anti-Semitic videos coming out of Occupy Wall Street — Urban Infidel, the independent New York blogger who made a splash with her earlier Occupy Wall Street coverage, re-visited Zuccotti Park yesterday and with practically no effort captured on video the kind of conversations …
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Jammie Wearing Fools, Verum Serum, OWS Exposed and Israel Matzav
Conn Carroll / Campaign 2012:
NLRB lawyer: “We screwed up the U.S. economy” — New documents obtained by Judicial Watch show acting National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Lafe Solomon joking that the NLRB's suit against Boeing would kill jobs in South Carolina. Commenting on a Planet Labor article whose headline …
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Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler and The Lonely Conservative
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Senator threatened labor board before Boeing complaint
Senator threatened labor board before Boeing complaint
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Joe Walsh Explains His 'Don't Blame Banks' Rant: I ‘Was Working On An Empty Stomach’ — Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) screams at a constituent — Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported on a testy exchange between Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) and a group of his constituents during a meeting.
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Jim Newell / Gawker:
Insane Congressman Joe Walsh Screams at His Constituents
Insane Congressman Joe Walsh Screams at His Constituents
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Mediaite and Indecision Forever
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Perry struggles to name third government agency he promised to close — Rick Perry promised during Wednesday's GOP debate to close three government agencies when he became president — but he couldn't name all three. — The Texas governor repeatedly failed to name the third agency after multiple attempts …
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The Sean Hannity Show:
BREAKING NEWS: DEMS WALK AWAY FROM SUPER COMMITTEE — Latest update on the lack of progress for Dems and Republicans to reach a tax deal. Yesterday Democrats of the Super Committee rejected Republicans' offer to “raise federal tax collections by nearly $300 billion over the next decade.”
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker would be fine with supercommittee failure, automatic cuts — A Democratic legislator said it would be fine with him if the supercommittee failed to reach agreement and steep, automatic cuts to domestic and defense spending happened. — “I hope that they cannot reach an agreement …
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Capital New York, Hot Air, Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Koch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against Me — Levi Russell, Americans for Prosperity Director of Public Affairs, contributed to a blog post calling Lee a “liar.” Russell, however, erroneously quoted the conversation and has refused to issue a correction.
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The Moderate Voice, The Raw Story and Americans for Prosperity
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Perry implodes; Update: Campaign is over, says top fundraiser — Via Business Insider. A few choice quotes. Larry Sabato: … Rich Lowry: … Mona Charen: … He's down to 4.9 percent now on InTrade; before the debate he was at 9.3 percent.
Reuters:
Exclusive: French, Germans explore idea of core euro zone — (Reuters) - German and French officials have discussed plans for a radical overhaul of the European Union that would involve establishing a more integrated and potentially smaller euro zone, EU sources say.
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Business Insider, Felix Salmon, Money & Company, Don Surber and Los Angeles Times
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Cain Lost in the Labyrinth — Cain's authenticity versus Obama's metrosexual cool — 'Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here," is the placard that Herman Cain must have read last week when he descended into the Sexual Harassment Inferno, from which he has not yet emerged.
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Political Mojo, The Lonely Conservative, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Gawker
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Shrinking the presidency back down to size — (Andrew Harrer - Bloomberg) In his response to my recent New York Review of Books essay, Conor Friedersdorf laments what he sees as a defense of President Obama's record that ignores his intervention in Libya, or his record on civil liberties.
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Rortybomb, A plain blog about politics, Business Insider, The League of Ordinary … and American Times
Clemson University:
Clemson Palmetto Poll finds GOP voters uncommitted in presidential race — CLEMSON — Two months short of the state's Jan. 21, 2012, presidential primary, South Carolina voters are unsure of who is the best GOP candidate to support. — That's the finding of the just-completed Clemson …