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Jerry Sandusky to Bob Costas in exclusive ‘Rock Center’ interview: 'I shouldn't have showered with those kids.' — By Jessica Hopper — UPDATED: Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky admitted to showering and horsing around with young boys, but said he is not a pedophile …
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The Brutal Truth About Penn State — The problem can't be solved by prayer or piety — and it's far more widespread than we think — “But you, when you pray, go into your inner chamber and, locking the door, pray there in hiding to your Father ...” — It was midway through the pregame prayer session that the gorge hit high tide.
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Sandusky lawyer impregnated teenage girl: report
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Republican Candidates in Four-Way Dead Heat — Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are in a dead heat as the top choices for Iowans likely to attend the Jan. 3 Republican presidential caucuses. — A Bloomberg News poll shows Cain at 20 percent, Paul at 19 percent …
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Herman Cain's Brain Fart — I'm not sure how to describe this. I've seen it described on Twitter as Herman Cain out-Rick Perrying Rick Perry, but it goes so much deeper than that. — In this interview, Herman Cain is asked a relatively simple question — at least, to the extent …
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Mediaite and The Moderate Voice

Gingrich takes the lead — Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in PPP's national polling. He's at 28% to 25% for Herman Cain and 18% for Mitt Romney. The rest of the Republican field is increasingly looking like a bunch of also rans: Rick Perry is at 6%, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5% …
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Cain sinks in major realignment of GOP race
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Views on Herman Cain Increasingly Negative
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What's behind Gingrich's jump in the polls
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TPM2012 — New National Polls Show Newt Leading In GOP Race (Yes, Really)
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Police Clear Zuccotti Park of Protesters — Hundreds of New York City police officers cleared Zuccotti Park of the Occupy Wall Street protesters early Tuesday, arresting dozens of people there after warning them that the nearly two-month-old camp would be “cleared and restored” …
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Protesters hope to shut down New York's Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street: police evict protesters - live updates
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Cain stumbles on Libya question — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, in the midst of a Midwestern campaign swing, stumbled Monday when answering a question about whether he agreed or disagreed with President Barack Obama's approach to handling the Libyan crisis.
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Brutal: Cain blanks on Libya, supports collective bargaining for public employee unions — You won't believe me until you click play but this is much worse than Perry's brain lock at the debate last week. Perry lost his train of thought; Cain doesn't have a train at all here …
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Cain Continues Being Very Authentic
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Dems fear Obama will lose the case — Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried that the Supreme Court will rule against President Obama's healthcare reform law. — Over the last couple weeks, congressional Democrats have told The Hill that the law faces danger in the hands of the Supreme Court …
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Obamacare Is Bigger than Roe v. Wade
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Supreme Court: Pre-election health care showdown
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On Capitol Hill, Rand's ‘Atlas’ Can't Be Shrugged Off … Ayn Rand is best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The ideas behind them — her philosophy — have sunk so deeply into our political thought, most people don't even recognize them as her ideas anymore.
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Obama golfs with friend who was arrested in prostitution sting — President Obama golfed on Monday with his long-time friend Robert Titcomb, who in May plead no contest to soliciting a prostitute, according to the White House pool report. — “The president's fourball at the Mamala Bay Golf Course includes …
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Future Recession Risks: An Update … Gathering storms across the Atlantic threaten a U.S. economy not yet recovered from the last recession. The September Economic Outlook from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) indicates that growth prospects have significantly dimmed …
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Real Time Economics, The Daily Caller and Calculated Risk
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Chance of 2012 U.S. recession tops 50 percent: Fed paper
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Students Lose Zeal for Aiding Obama Again — LAS VEGAS — For much of the presidential election of 2008, Barack Obama's campaign was Emma Guerrero's life. She was one of a dozen volunteers who showed up at an Obama campaign office here every night, taking time from her studies at the University of Nevada …
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Players Reject N.B.A. Offer and Opt to Disband Union — Faced with a deal it could not accept, and a negotiating process that had reached a dead end, the National Basketball Players Association elected to disband Monday afternoon, thrusting the N.B.A. into chaos.
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Ex-boyfriend of Cain accuser backs her story — Dr. Victor Zuckerman said today he backs ex-girlfriend Sharon Bialek's allegation that Herman Cain “touched her in an inappropriate manner.” — Zuckerman, a pediatrician, came forward after Cain last week denied knowing Bialek.


Occupy Portland: Parks employees get first look at deserted Chapman and Lownsdale squares — A dozen city employees today plan to finish clearing Chapman and Lownsdale squares of debris and trash so engineers and horticulture experts can survey damage to the parks' structures and trees.
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CNN Reporter Asks Obama: Are GOP Candidates “Uninformed, Out Of Touch, Or Irresponsible?” — “Last night at the Republican debate, some of the hopefuls, they hope to get your job, they defended the practice of waterboarding which is a practice you banned in 2009.
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