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10:35 AM ET, November 18, 2011

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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.

Discussion: Wizbang, Campaign 2012, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, No More Mister Nice Blog, Don Surber, ThinkProgress, Gawker, Atlas Shrugs and OWS Exposed, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: The Politico, Don Surber, Connecting.the.Dots, The Crawdad Hole and Daily Kos

Rolling Stone:

Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts — Had a quick piece of news I wanted to call attention to, in light of the recent developments at Zuccotti Park. For all of those who say the protesters have it wrong, and don't really have a cause worth causing public unrest over …

Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Political Mojo

Cara Buckley / New York Times:

Protesters Clash With Police in Lower Manhattan — Nearly a thousand protesters took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on Thursday, clashing with the police and tossing aside metal barricades to converge again on Zuccotti Park after failing in an attempt to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune, Hot Air, PolitickerNY, Metropolis, OWS Exposed and Jammie Wearing Fools

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 …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:

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.

Discussion: The Political Carnival, Poynter, CNN, US Politics, Ballot Box and Weasel Zippers

Sarah B. Boxer / CBS News:
Herman Cain says OWS out to “destroy” America

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Other McCain, Libertarian Republican and Associated Press

Reuters:
Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

Discussion: Shakesville, Daily Kos and blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Los Angeles Times:
Tea party activists remain wary of Romney

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Ballot Box

A.Killough / CNN:
Gingrich contrasts tea party, ‘Occupy’ protesters

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, The Politico, The Hill and Hot Air

Emily Schultheis / Ben Smith's Blog:
Romney vs. DNC FOIA wars, round two

Discussion: CNN

Robinson / nation.foxnews.com:
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Gets Bloody

Discussion: Moonbattery, Center for American Progress, The Confluence, OWS Exposed, The Right Scoop and Capital New York

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
For SEIU, Obama and Occupy

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Wall Street Journal:
Protesters Clash With Police

Discussion: Associated Press, Truthdig, OccupyWallSt News and americanthinker.com

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 …

Discussion: msnbc.com, GOP 12, National Review and A plain blog about politics

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 …

Discussion: Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, National Review, ABCNEWS, The Politico and The Page

Brody Mullins / Wall Street Journal:
Chamber of Commerce Paid Gingrich as a Consultant

Discussion: ABCNEWS and Business Insider

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Gingrich Faces More Scrutiny Over Corporate Clients

Discussion: Hot Air, 2012 Decoded, The Daily Caller, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, ThinkProgress and Washington Examiner

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Northern Reflections and Prairie Weather

Mary Jo Pitzl / Arizona Republic:

Court orders reinstatement of redistricting official — The Arizona Supreme Court Thursday evening reinstated the chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, rebuffing Gov. Jan Brewer⊃1;s unprecedented action earlier this month. — The ruling came less than three hours …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Outside the Beltway, Nation Now, ThinkProgress, Hotline On Call, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
In win for Democrats, Arizona redistricting commissioner reinstated

Discussion: The Politico and CNN

Ashley Perks / The Hill:

Republicans want Obama to break the supercommittee's logjam — Republicans are calling for President Obama to jump into the deficit-reduction talks gripping Washington, reflecting the widespread view that the congressional supercommittee is now headed for a failure.

Discussion: The Hill, msnbc.com, Reuters, Sky Dancing, The Politico and Prairie Weather

George F. Will / Washington Post:
Spending's ascending — with or without a budget sequester

Discussion: Ricochet Conversations Feed, TalkLeft, Hit & Run, National Review, ThinkProgress and Political Mojo

The Politico:

Jack Abramoff pleads with Dems for his domain name — Jack Abramoff wants his name back. But House Democrats own it and they are going to keep it. — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee owns the rights to the Web domain name “jackabramoff.com,” having secured it in 2006.

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …

Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:

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.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers and Verum Serum

Glenn Thrush / The Politico:

W.H. dings Benetton — The White House isn't feeling very kissy toward Benetton, after the publicity-loving clothing company photo-shopped President Obama into an ad smooching Chinese leader Hu Jintao and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. — “The White House has a long-standing policy disapproving …

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay, Fox News and Joe. My. God.

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.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Althouse

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.

Discussion: Jezebel, The Lonely Conservative, Scared Monkeys, Washington Post, Jammie Wearing Fools and Deadspin

Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:

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 …