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Mike Allen / The Politico:
SUPERCOMMITTEE PLANS TO ADMIT FAILURE MONDAY, LIKELY WITH TERSE STATEMENT: ‘This marriage is over’ — ALL 12 MEMBERS HAVEN'T MET IN WEEKS: Hail Mary offers continue today — Biden bday — BACKSTAGE - HOW THE SUPERCOMMITTEE FLUNKED: The supercommittee last met Nov. 1 - three weeks ago!
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Rumproast, Taylor Marsh, Campaign 2012, The New Republic, The Lonely Conservative, Iowa Caucuses and New York Times
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Gingrich brushes off Freddie, leads Republican race: poll — (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has roared into the lead of the Republican nominating race, brushing off concerns about his work for a troubled housing company, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.
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The Moderate Voice and National Review
Detroit Free Press:
Return of the Reagan Democrats? Blue-collar voters in Macomb County bolting for the GOP, Free Press poll finds
Return of the Reagan Democrats? Blue-collar voters in Macomb County bolting for the GOP, Free Press poll finds
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Taegan Goddard's …
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GOP candidates court conservative Christians in Iowa
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Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, The Politico and Iowa Caucuses
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Occupy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel — Hell no, we won't go — unless we get goose down pillows. — A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel …
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Jammie Wearing Fools, Don Surber, Hot Air, The Greenroom, Daily Mail, Pundit Press, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin, RedState and The Lonely Conservative
Stephanie Baer / The Daily Californian:
Man throws aluminum water bottle at UC Berkeley student's face — A man threw an aluminum water bottle at a UC Berkeley student Thursday evening on campus, causing minor injuries to the victim's face. — At about 5:09 p.m., the female student was approached by a man at …
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Scared Monkeys
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Zombie / The PJ Tatler:
Berkeley woman assaulted for NOT joining OWS protest — Looks like the “Join us or else!” mentality is growing violent at Occupy Cal in Berkeley, where an (apparent) OWS protester assaulted a female student when she gave the wrong answer about going to the Occupation protest:
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Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report, The Lonely Conservative and The Gateway Pundit
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Aides: ‘Super Committee’ likely to announce failure to reach debt deal — Washington (CNN) — Members of the “super committee” charged with coming up with $1.2 trillion in budget cuts are focused on how to announce failure to reach a deal, Democratic and Republican aides confirmed to CNN Sunday.
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CBS News, Associated Press, This Just In and The Hill
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Supercommittee likely to admit defeat on debt deal
Supercommittee likely to admit defeat on debt deal
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Washington Monthly, Roll Call, The Politico, Hot Air, CNN, The Moderate Voice, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TalkLeft, Booman Tribune and Calculated Risk
Bloomberg:
Kyl Expresses Doubt Supercommittee Will Reach Deficit Agreement
Kyl Expresses Doubt Supercommittee Will Reach Deficit Agreement
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americanthinker.com
Jamie Klatell / The Hill:
Supercommittee slows to a standstill
Supercommittee slows to a standstill
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Outside the Beltway and The Politico
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After Law School, Associates Learn to Be Lawyers — PHILADELPHIA — The lesson today — the ins and outs of closing a deal — seems lifted from Corporate Lawyering 101. — “How do you get a merger done?” asks Scott B. Connolly, an attorney. — There is silence from three well-dressed people …
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Balkinization, pandagon.net, The Volokh Conspiracy and PrawfsBlawg
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California campus police on leave after pepper-spraying — Are you there? Send photos to Open Story — (CNN) — The University of California at Davis has placed two police officers on administrative leave after video of them pepper-spraying non-violent protesters at point-blank range sparked outrage at school officials.
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occupy california, Balloon Juice and Runnin' Scared
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Breaking Video: UC Davis Chancellor Emerges From Press Conf., Tells Me She Didn't Feel Threatened
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Boing Boing, Sacramento Bee, The Lede, L.A. NOW, US Politics, FOX40 News Headlines, ThinkProgress, Gawker, The BRAD BLOG and Runnin' Scared
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:
New York Times Total Fail Department — Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? — Ross Douthat: … (1) The democratically-elected representatives of the Greek and the Italian people voted to change the prime minister. They can do that. That is part of their democratic process.
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Eschaton
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Conspiracies, Coups and Currencies
Conspiracies, Coups and Currencies
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Political Mojo, Connecting.the.Dots and Eschaton
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BINNED: Anti-litter poster that was an ‘insult to Muslims’ — A Labour council was at the centre of a race row last night after printing a leaflet targeted at Muslims that invoked the name of Allah in urging them to stop littering the streets. — Bradford City Council was accused …
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Ron Paul: ‘Flawed’ US policies led to 9/11 — Ron Paul said that American policymakers were at least partially at fault for the country being attacked on 9/11 during a discussion of foreign policy on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday. — Paul argued that the American military presence in Saudi Arabia …
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Weasel Zippers and CNN
Reuters:
Center-right wins Spain election — (Reuters) - The opposition People's Party (PP) won a crushing victory in Spain's election on Sunday as voters vented their rage on the ruling Socialists for the worst economic crisis in generations. — The Socialists conceded a humiliating defeat …
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americanthinker.com
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Occupy protester busted with handgun and ammo, in more arrests at Zuccotti — The Occupy Wall Street protest could have been one bad temper away from turning lethal. — Cops busted a man from Youngstown, Ohio this weekend for driving around the OWS protest and Lower Manhattan with an unregistered gun.
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The Gateway Pundit and Verum Serum
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Super Committee Members on Debt Deal Prospects — Special Guests: Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Rep. Xavier Becerra, Mark Zandi … CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace. — It's three days and counting for the congressional super committee. — Can they make a deal or will the old political obstacles derail …
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Crooks and Liars and Campaign 2012