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Shawn Millerick / New Hampshire Journal:
Poll: Romney, Gingrich in statistical dead heat in N.H. — Two things are true about New Hampshire Republican primary voters. They vote for people they know. And they love an underdog with a comeback story. — Four years ago it was the weathered but feisty veteran John McCain who revived …
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Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
Untouchable: Is the GOP Field Afraid to Criticize Newt Gingrich in Debates? — The former House Speaker is the only candidate yet to be attacked at the seven debates conducted since Rick Perry joined the GOP field — With increased media scrutiny on new GOP presidential co-frontrunner …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Gingrich think tank collected millions from health-care industry — A think tank founded by GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich collected at least $37 million over the past eight years from major health-care companies and industry groups, offering special access to the former House speaker …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Failure Is Good — It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a complete turkey! It's the supercommittee! — By next Wednesday, the so-called supercommittee, a bipartisan group of legislators, is supposed to reach an agreement on how to reduce future deficits.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Supercommittee appears unlikely to reach agreement
Supercommittee appears unlikely to reach agreement
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Reuters:
Why the supercommittee is in trouble — House Speaker John …
Why the supercommittee is in trouble — House Speaker John …
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Ashley Perks / The Hill:
Republicans want Obama to break the supercommittee's logjam
Republicans want Obama to break the supercommittee's logjam
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J J Anisiobi / Daily Mail:
Surely she's in the one per cent? Million dollar babe Anne Hathaway joins Occupy Wall Street protest — She is one of Hollywood's highest paid actresses and lives a very privileged lifestyle that 99 per cent of people can only dream of. — Still, Anne Hathaway acted as an average Joe …
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Insight: The Wall Street disconnect
Insight: The Wall Street disconnect
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street “bat-signal” projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march
Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street “bat-signal” projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march
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CBS New York:
OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street
OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street
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Sarah Palin / Wall Street Journal:
How Congress Occupied Wall Street — Politicians who arrive in Washington as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires. Why? — Mark Twain famously wrote, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Peter Schweizer's new book, “Throw Them All Out …
Roz Plater / myfoxdc WTTG FOX 5:
VIDEO: Alleged White House Shooter Oscar Ortega-Hernandez — WASHINGTON - New video has surfaced that sheds some light into the mind of the suspected White House shooter. — Two months ago Oscar Ortega-Hernandez asked an Idaho University student to videotape a segment pitch to Oprah Winfrey.
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Mj Lee / Reuters:
Alleged W.H. shooter: I am modern-day Jesus
Alleged W.H. shooter: I am modern-day Jesus
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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
House of Representatives rejects balanced budget amendment — The House voted 261-165 on Friday to reject a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution - falling short of the two-thirds majority needed. — The balanced budget amendment that failed to pass the House Friday was similar …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Rules Chairman David Dreier to vote against balanced-budget amendment
Rules Chairman David Dreier to vote against balanced-budget amendment
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New York Post:
Runaway mom dreadlocked up — Here's your mom, kids. Proud? — The hippie Florida mother of four who ditched her children and banker husband to sleep in Zuccotti Park's squalor hit rock bottom yesterday when she was hauled off in handcuffs, her dreadlocks flying wildly in every direction …
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Melinda Henneberger / Washington Post:
‘Princess Nancy’ Pelosi calls Cain ‘clueless’; vows to do more for child care — GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain drew applause and guffaws by referring to Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy” during a debate last week. Her reaction? “Really, it's another one of those clueless statements …
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ESPN:
Syracuse's Bernie Fine placed on leave — Two former Syracuse University ball boys say they were molested by associate head basketball coach Bernie Fine, starting in the late 1970s and continuing into the 1990s. — Police in Syracuse said they have opened an investigation into the allegations.
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Pete Thamel / New York Times:
Syracuse Assistant Is Accused of Sexual Abuse
Syracuse Assistant Is Accused of Sexual Abuse
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Wall Street Journal:
A Caveman Won't Beat a Salesman — Obama is somber but unserious. Glib unseriousness isn't the answer. — There is an arresting moment in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs in which Jobs speaks at length about his philosophy of business. He's at the end of his life and is summing things up.
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Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Obama USDA delays shale drilling, up to 200k jobs — President Obama's United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF), in deference to environmentalist fears, to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing.
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Bachmann: “I haven't had a gaffe” — Michele Bachmann, making the case on Fox News that she's the safest candidate in a rather jaw-dropping statement. … Besides small gaffes like confusing one John Wayne for another, mixing up the date of Elvis' birth with the date of his death …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Flip-flopper in chief? — Beth Reinhard and Ron Fournier write up what seems like the reflexive Romney response to Obama's attacks on him as a flip-flopper: “You are too!” — They write: — Romney's team lists several examples of Obama's contradictions. The president promised to fix the economy, and he didn't.
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“Occupy” Protester Busted For Stealing Neighbor's Furniture For Florida Encampment — Buster — Meet Jeffrey Scott. — The 32-year-old “Occupy Pensacola” protester was arrested yesterday on felony burglary and larceny charges for allegedly robbing a neighbor's home of furniture …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Cain receives Secret Service protection — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain began receiving protection from the U.S. Secret Service Thursday, his campaign said, making the Georgia businessman the first GOP presidential contender to received stepped-up security on the campaign trail.
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Deutsche Bank: If Merkel Doesn't Budge, ‘Our Investment Advice Is To Dig A Hole In The Ground And Hide’ — Line of the day from Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid on Angela Merkel, and German refusal to back ECB bond buying... The problem for the market is whether to take these comments at face value …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann: A Seven-Foot Doctor Told Me Obamacare Requires The IRS To Pre-Approve Medical Treatments — Michele Bachmann prides herself for pressing Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but during an appearance at Webster City, Iowa Wednesday night, the Minnesota congresswoman proved …
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George Zornick / thenation.com/blogs/163255:
Austerity Alternatives — Yesterday we posted a MoveOn.org-produced video of former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explaining how the supercommittee might reduce the deficit without imposing crushing austerity measures, nor damaging the social safety net relied upon by millions of Americans.
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