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OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They were caught in the middle of madness. — Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming “Occupy Wall Street” protesters just to get to school on Thursday.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Don Surber, Atlas Shrugs and The Jawa Report
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Gingrich contrasts tea party, ‘Occupy’ protesters — (CNN) - As hundreds of “Occupy” demonstrators across the country take to the streets on the movement's so-called “Day of Action,” GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich came out in full support of cities cracking down on the protesters.
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New York Times, The Politico, Hot Air, The Hill and Washington Examiner


Clashes and More Than 240 Arrests Mark Protest's ‘Day of Action’ — Two months after it began in New York, Occupy Wall Street carried out a “Day of Action” on Thursday featuring an attempt to delay the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, demonstrations on the subways …


James O'Keefe's plans derailed by infighting, lack of funding — After pulling off the brazen hidden camera sting credited with bringing down the liberal organizing group ACORN, James O'Keefe dreamt up an even bolder plan: to build a permanent undercover video operation that would expose institutions of the American left.
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The Political Carnival, US Politics and Big Journalism

Santorum: Republicans ‘ignore some realities’ on economy
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Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers and ABCNEWS

Crowd Marches on Brooklyn Bridge After Day of Escalating Violence at ‘Occupy’ Protests in NYC
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OWS Exposed

Protesters Clash With Police
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OccupyWallSt News, Truthdig and americanthinker.com

Herman Cain Cancels Interview After Making Unusual Requests [UPDATE] … 2012 Election , Herman Cain , Newspapers , Video , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Hermain Cain 2012 , The Backstory , Union Leader , Media News — UPDATE: The Cain campaign has now canceled its interview with the Union Leader …
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msnbc.com and The Moderate Voice
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The Herman Cain Meltdown — The hits keep on coming for the businessman and onetime GOP front-runner, who seems determined to go down in flames — The Herman Cain implosion is under way. — Once the Republican front-runner, Cain now seems to be self-destructing before our very eyes.
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unionleader.com and Los Angeles Times

Herman Cain: ‘Who knows every detail of every country on the planet?’
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Mediaite, Hot Air and National Review

Before leaving governor's office in 2006, Mitt Romney's staff eliminated e-mail records — Ex-governor's aides say they did nothing wrong — Just before Mitt Romney left the Massachusetts governor's office and first ran for president, 11 of his top aides purchased their state-issued computer hard drives …
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Iowa: Gingrich 32%, Romney 19%, Cain 13% — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has already picked up steam among Republican primary voters nationwide, and now he jumps to the front of the GOP pack among caucus-goers in Iowa. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey …
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Townhall.com, About.com US Liberal Politics, Hot Air, The Right Scoop, Taylor Marsh, Ricochet Conversations Feed, TalkLeft and GOP 12
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Perry funds dry up after gaffes and dip in polls — 2,994 — WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign fundraising has gone into a tailspin as a result of poor debate performances and plunging poll numbers, jeopardizing his position as the best-funded Republican presidential candidate of 2012.

Obama never secretly killed the public option. It's a myth. — Did Obama secretly kill the public option? — The question is still an important one for many liberals. The claim lives on to this day, and is still seen as perhaps the clearest evidence from Obama's first term …
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Booman Tribune, Campaign Stops, TalkLeft and The Mahablog
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The NYT Should Be Ashamed of Itself (Again) — Drew Westen is the Worst Thing in the New York Times. Hands down. — Yes, I have a running item complaining about Matt Bai, but as I've said he also, at least when he's reporting, has serious value added: he's actually quite good at the reporting side …
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The American Prospect, Washington Monthly and Matt Glassman


Idaho Man Threatened Obama, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — Federal authorities on Thursday charged a 21-year-old Idaho man with attempting to assassinate President Obama — saying he had told one friend that the president was “the Antichrist” and that he “needed to kill him,” according to a complaint filed in federal court.
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Balloon Juice
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Occupy San Diego Has A Moment of Solidarity for the White House Shooter...Wait, What?
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Mediaite, RedState, The PJ Tatler, Sister Toldjah and Datechguy's Blog

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez charged with attempted assassination of Obama
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Associated Press, The Hill, The Daily What and Runnin' Scared

Secret Service confirms Cain protection — Washington (CNN) - Presidential candidate Herman Cain will receive protection from the United States Secret Service, the agency confirms to CNN. — Cain will be the first candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination …
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Associated Press and Business Insider
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Prop. 8 sponsors are legally entitled to defend measure, court rules — The California Supreme Court decided Thursday that the sponsors of Proposition 8 and other ballot measures are entitled to defend them in court when the state refuses to do so, a ruling likely to spur federal courts …
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SCOTUSblog, New York Times, The Politico, GLAAD, Gay Politics, Law Blog, Guardian and Truthdig
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Wonkbook: Democrats and Republicans both want to cut taxes. Deficit hawks don't. — The conventional wisdom on the supercommittee is that Republicans and Democrats are bedeviled by their inability to agree on taxes. Republicans have proposed $300 billion in new revenues.
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New York Magazine, Daily Kos, The New Republic and The Politico
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Baseline Games — Here's the thing you should keep in mind about the long-term deficit.
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Washington Post, Political Mojo, TalkLeft and Brad DeLong

How we can succeed through supercommittee's ‘failure’
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Associated Press, Off the Charts Blog, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars

Bachmann gives students a 101 on issues, then gets lectured — Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - With the air of a college instructor, Michele Bachmann essentially gave college students a Conservative 101 on the economy, national and foreign affairs and other important issues on Thursday in Iowa.

Raise Our Taxes, Please by David Atkins — Raise Our Taxes, Please — The Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength are making headlines lately. Here they are giving testimony to Congress: — They also suggested that Grover Norquist move to Somalia where he belongs:
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The Moderate Voice
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‘Patriotic millionaires’ demand higher taxes, but unwilling to pay up [VIDEO]
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The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, The Right Scoop and The Lonely Conservative

Demand, Demand, Demand — Calculated Risk sends us to two papers by Amir Sufi and Atif Mian using county-level data to investigate the causes of the recession. Their work strongly supports the balance-sheet view: a fall in demand from highly indebted households is the big story …
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TheMoneyIllusion and Calculated Risk

Elizabeth Warren won't sign off on Occupy Harvard — U.S. Senate hopeful and Harvard Law prof Elizabeth Warren, who has claimed she laid the “intellectual foundation” for the Occupy Wall Street movement, is jilting the anti-corporate proteges in her own Ivy League yard, refusing to sign a petition in support of Occupy Harvard.
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative and Verum Serum