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Zuccotti Park protester Nkrumah Tinsley arrested after threatening to burn down city — Urges Molotov coctail strike on Macy's — Nkrumah Tinsley was busted after his rant went viral on YouTube. — A protester was arrested in Zuccotti Park Wednesday after he threatened to fire bomb the city …
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Occupy Wall Street protesters vow to wear suits, blend in and get revenge for the Zuccotti Park raid — ‘Day of action’ includes a sneak attack on the stock market — Protesters will storm Wall Street camouflaged in business suits Thursday morning. — Occupy Wall Street hoped to show …
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CBS News:
Wall Street on guard for Occupy day of action — Mounted New York police officers are seen near the front of the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 17, 2011, in New York. (WCBS-TV) — Occupy Wall Street Protests — NEW YORK - Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy movement …
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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
San Francisco police arrest 100 in Bank of America protest — Officers end four-hour standoff after Occupy movement demonstrators, mostly UC students, take over a bank lobby in San Francisco's financial district. — A bank employee is surrounded by protesters who took over a Bank of America branch in San Francisco.
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Guardian, Nation Now, The Awl, Boing Boing and L.A. NOW
Alec Baldwin / The Huffington Post:
What Occupy Wall Street Has Taught Me
What Occupy Wall Street Has Taught Me
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National Review and The Daily Caller
Eric Kleefeld / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — Poll: Public Opinion Turning Against Occupy Wall Street
TPMDC — Poll: Public Opinion Turning Against Occupy Wall Street
Opinionator:
Lightning Round — David Brooks: Gail, there have been a lot …
Lightning Round — David Brooks: Gail, there have been a lot …
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Balloon Juice
Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo:
Kent State Victims Unpopular by David Atkins
Kent State Victims Unpopular by David Atkins
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Big Government, Slate, Hot Air and Firedoglake
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Associated Press Staff Scolded for Tweeting Too Quickly About OWS Arrests
Associated Press Staff Scolded for Tweeting Too Quickly About OWS Arrests
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Richard S. Dunham / Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …:
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.
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
EXCLUSIVE: Perry challenges Pelosi to debate — Rick Perry sent a letter today to Nancy Pelosi, challenging her to a public debate next week. — Perry, in the letter: — “I am in Washington Monday and would love to engage you in a public debate about my Overhaul Washington plan versus the congressional status quo.
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Ian Swanson / Ballot Box:
Perry challenges Pelosi to debate part-time Congress plan
Perry challenges Pelosi to debate part-time Congress plan
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Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Texas College GOP Leader: Obama Assassination ‘Tempting’ — Hours after Pennsylvania State Police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for allegedly firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House, the top student official for the College Republicans at the University of Texas tweeted that the idea …
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Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
White House shooting suspect arrested in Pa.
White House shooting suspect arrested in Pa.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
An Occupy shooter?
An Occupy shooter?
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Cain: It's Not ‘Practical’ To Attack Iran Because It Has Mountains — Herman Cain has had a bad week when it comes to foreign policy — or rather, a bad entire campaign. But one of Cain's most embarrassing foreign policy moments came this week after the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel asked him if he agreed with President Obama on Libya.
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Thomas Walkom / Toronto Star:
Canada faces grim choice over nuclear showdown in Iran — As the nuclear crisis over Iran heats up, Canada is veering toward a dangerous place. — Israel is again contemplating a military attack on Iran to prevent its developing atomic weapons. This time it's not clear …
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The Moderate Voice and Northern Reflections
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Cain took campaign on wild ride through Wisconsin
Cain took campaign on wild ride through Wisconsin
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
GOP supercommittee members' tax plan gives party an identity crisis — Growing Republican support for raising taxes to help reduce the deficit has prompted a GOP identity crisis, sparking a clash within the party over whether to abandon its bedrock anti-tax doctrine.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Defusing the trigger won't be easy
Defusing the trigger won't be easy
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David Weigel / Slate:
Supercommittee Republicans Get Ready to Fail
Supercommittee Republicans Get Ready to Fail
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
GOP leader bucks party on taxes
GOP leader bucks party on taxes
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James Q. Lynch / KCRG-TV:
ISU/Gazette/KCRG Poll: GOP Caucus Still Anyone's Game — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — With fewer than 50 days until Iowa's first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses, the race appears to be up for grabs based on the results of an Iowa State University/Gazette/KCRG poll of likely caucus-goers.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Fox Poll: GOP Voters Rush to Newt, Trust Him With Nukes
Fox Poll: GOP Voters Rush to Newt, Trust Him With Nukes
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GOP 12 and No More Mister Nice Blog
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Gingrich and Romney Top GOP Nominee Picks
Fox News Poll: Gingrich and Romney Top GOP Nominee Picks
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Re-election Strategy Is Tied to a Shift on Smog — WASHINGTON — The summons from the president came without warning the Thursday before Labor Day. As she was driven the four blocks to the White House, Lisa P. Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, suspected that the news would not be good.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Gingrich says ticket of Gingrich-Cain could happen in 2012 — Newt Gingrich said a Gingrich-Hermain Cain ticket would be “a real possibility” if he won the Republican presidential nomination. — Speaking in an interview with Newsmax magazine, in response to the prospect of a Gingrich-Cain ticket …
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Keith Laing / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers say nation not safer after decade with TSA — Reps. John Mica (R-Fla.) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.) want to give the Transportation Security Administration a series of drastic reforms for its birthday this week. — Days before the 10th anniversary of the TSA's founding …
Reid Pillifant / Capital New York:
Jonathan Gruber, a key intellectual architect of President Obama's overhaul of the American health care system, is a little frustrated. — “I'm frustrated that the future of the American health care system rests in the hands of one or two of these unelected people who might make the decision based …
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Conservative celebs mostly not yet committed for 2012 — Celebrities on the right are largely staying on the sidelines in the 2012 presidential race, while liberals in Hollywood are lining up behind President Obama's reelection bid. — In many ways, the conventional wisdom of the left …
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Prairie Weather
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz accuses GOP of rigging elections with ‘suppression laws’ — Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) on Wednesday night said Republican governors and legislatures are purposefully pressing for the enactment of voter identification laws in order …
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Weasel Zippers
A.Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Americans becoming less optimistic about future — Washington (CNN) - Americans have typically been optimists about the future, but when it comes to how things are going in the country, a new national survey suggests that may no longer be the case.
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Reuters and Taegan Goddard's …