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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 …
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Don Surber, The Politico, Taylor Marsh, Connecting.the.Dots, The Crawdad Hole and Daily Kos
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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.


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.
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ThinkProgress, TechCrunch, Booman Tribune, Hot Air, Metropolis, PolitickerNY, OWS Exposed and Jammie Wearing Fools


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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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit


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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The Gateway Pundit, The Crawdad Hole, The Jawa Report, Gawker and Jammie Wearing Fools, more at Mediagazer »


James O'Keefe's plans derailed by infighting, lack of funding
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The Confluence, The Political Carnival, Poynter, US Politics, CNN and Weasel Zippers

Herman Cain says OWS out to “destroy” America
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The Moderate Voice, The Other McCain, Libertarian Republican and Associated Press

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street
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Shakesville, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Daily Kos and nation.foxnews.com

Gingrich contrasts tea party, ‘Occupy’ protesters
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Ben Smith's Blog, The Politico, Weasel Zippers, The Hill and Hot Air


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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msnbc.com, GOP 12, National Review and A plain blog about politics
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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 …
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Daily Kos, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, National Review, ABCNEWS, Betsy's Page, The Politico, The Page and Iowa Caucuses

Chamber of Commerce Paid Gingrich as a Consultant
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ABCNEWS and Business Insider

Gingrich Faces More Scrutiny Over Corporate Clients
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Hot Air, 2012 Decoded, The Daily Caller, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, ThinkProgress and Washington Examiner

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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Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Northern Reflections, Prairie Weather and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*

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.
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The Hill, New York Times, msnbc.com, Reuters, Sky Dancing, The Politico and Prairie Weather
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Supercommittee appears unlikely to reach agreement
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News Desk and The New Republic

Spending's ascending — with or without a budget sequester
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Ricochet Conversations Feed, TalkLeft, Hit & Run, National Review and ThinkProgress


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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Outside the Beltway and Althouse

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 …
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In win for Democrats, Arizona redistricting commissioner reinstated
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The Politico and CNN

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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Bachmann gives students a 101 on issues, then gets lectured
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Zandar Versus The Stupid


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.
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Taegan Goddard's …


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 …
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CANNONFIRE and Political Mojo


Why the supercommittee is in trouble — House Speaker John Boehner dropped by a D.C. fundraiser Wednesday appearing downtrodden and pessimistic. After 2½ months of painstaking negotiations, the deficit supercommittee he helped create was nowhere near a deal.
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The Stranger …, Bankrupting America, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Politico and The Hill

Rules Chairman David Dreier to vote against balanced-budget amendment — House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) said he would vote against the balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution later this week, a high-profile Republican defection that will make it one vote harder …
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Washington Monthly, CNN and ThinkProgress

The Technocratic Nightmare — During the first half of the 1990s, I lived in Brussels and wrote about the European Union, among other subjects, for The Wall Street Journal. This was the heyday of European integration. Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand and Jacques Delors were in power …
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Daniel W. Drezner, No More Mister Nice Blog and Ben Smith's Blog

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

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