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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 …

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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The Reaction and Associated Press


San Francisco police arrest 100 in Bank of America protest
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Guardian, Nation Now, The Awl, Boing Boing and L.A. NOW

What Occupy Wall Street Has Taught Me
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Don Surber, National Review, The Daily Caller and Public Policy Polling


Not Just Freddie Mac: Newt Gingrich's Long History Of Influence Peddling For His Corporate Clients — Caught flatfooted in the CNBC debate when a moderator asked about his past work for Freddie Mac, Newt Gingrich has since twisted and turned, making up every excuse under the sun to obscure …
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Seattle Times, Denver Post and msnbc.com
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Fox Poll: GOP Voters Rush to Newt, Trust Him With Nukes
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GOP 12, Daily Kos, Fox News, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog and Business Insider

PressPass: Abramoff asks if Gingrich can survive
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Newt Gingrich, on the rise, says, 'Hopefully, I'm going to be more disciplined'
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OpenSecrets.org, ABCNEWS, Los Angeles Times and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Gingrich says ticket of Gingrich-Cain could happen in 2012
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The Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Libertarian Republican, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos, Indecision Forever and Ballot Box

If Not Romney, Who? If Not Now, When
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GOP 12, Capital New York and TIME Ideas


Obama's ‘lazy’ remark catches fire — A video clip of President Barack Obama calling America “a little bit lazy” is quickly becoming a focus of Republican campaigns, and GOP operatives say it will get plenty of play not only on the presidential battlefield but also in down-ballot congressional races.
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DNC fights back: Obama never called Americans ‘lazy’ — The Democratic National Committee pushed back in a new Web ad Thursday, a response to attacks by Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry over President Obama's use of the word “lazy.”
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The Gateway Pundit


No, President Obama Didn't “Call Americans Lazy”
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PolitickerNY, US Politics, Brad DeLong, Washington Monthly and The Politico

President Obama: Congratulations to Everyone Taking Part in Today's Great American Smokeout
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The Politico, Fox News and The 1600 Report


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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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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Taegan Goddard's …, Iowa Caucuses and The Brody File

California Republicans favor Romney, poll finds
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Rick Perry 2012 Campaign … and Taegan Goddard's …


Iranian students form human shield near nuclear site amid fears of Israeli attack — Protesters chant ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America’ in demonstration near Isfahan uranium conversion plant in central Iran. — Hundreds of students on Tuesday formed a human chain around …
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Pat Dollard, Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
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Canada faces grim choice over nuclear showdown in Iran
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Northern Reflections and The Moderate Voice

Cain: It's Not ‘Practical’ To Attack Iran Because It Has Mountains
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NO QUARTER, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Wonkette, JSOnline and Alan Colmes' Liberaland


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 …

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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Perry challenges Pelosi to debate part-time Congress plan
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The Politico, ThinkProgress, Business Insider and Campaign 2012

Romney staffers wiped out records in '06 — 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, and the Romney administration's e-mails …
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Daily Kos, Metro, msnbc.com and National Review

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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ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Reuters, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, The Hill, ABCNEWS and US Politics


As Graduates Move Back Home, Economy Feels the Pain — Like most of her friends, Hollis Romanelli graduated from college last May and promptly moved back in with her parents. — As a result, she didn't pay rent — or a broker's fee or renters' insurance, for that matter.


Feuding Hurts G.O.P.'s Hopes to Win Senate — WASHINGTON — In a chamber of ample egos and matching oratory, Senator Bob Casey, the Pennsylvania Democrat, is understatement defined, his excitement most often registered by some extra eyebrow activity. — His low-radar personality …
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Washington Post, Althouse, The Caucus, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Prairie Weather

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

Just Like the Tea Party: A List of Occupy Mayhem Sorted by Type — Rather than just an unordered list, I was thinking it might be helpful to categorize the mayhem by type. — Arson — Occupy Fort Collins - Member arrested, $10 million in damage — Occupy Portland - Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail
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Biased BBC, RedState, Shot in the Dark, Datechguy's Blog and Don Surber

Cain cancels meeting with Manchester Union Leader ed board — Herman Cain has cancelled an editorial board meeting with the influential Manchester Union Leader in a dispute over scheduling. — Cain's campaign requested that the 10 a.m. meeting be shortened from a scheduled hour to just 20 minutes …
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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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