memeorandum: BBC's Mr Climate Change accepted £15,000 in grants from university rocked by global warning scandal (David Rose/Daily Mail)

11:10 AM ET, November 20, 2011

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Jamie Klatell / Ballot Box:

Social issues take center stage for GOP candidates in Iowa — The Republican presidential field was in Des Moines, Iowa, for the Thanksgiving Family Forum on Saturday night — all except for Mitt Romney, that is. — This event, sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Leader …

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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

Romney Shifts in Iowa, Playing to Win Quickly — DES MOINES — The answer to one of the great lingering questions about the Republican presidential race has suddenly turned up here along Ingersoll Avenue, where Mitt Romney's Iowa campaign headquarters is opening for business.

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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:

Too Much Violence and Pepper Spray at the OWS Protests — The dousing of seated, non-violent students with a chemical agent at U.C. Davis should provoke a call for restraint — Police dressed in riot gear at U.C. Davis on Friday afternoon used pepper spray to clear seated protesters …

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Peter Moskos / Washington Monthly:

Dumb-ass Training and the U.C. Davis Pepper Spray Incident: Thoughts From a Fromer Cop — Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious — This UC Davis pepper-spray incident from yesterday, in which campus police sprayed a group of protesting “Occupy” students who were sitting on the ground, was just brought to my attention.

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Brian Stelter / The Lede:

U.C. Davis Calls for Investigation After Pepper Spraying — Police use of pepper spray on a dozen protesters at University of California, Davis, on Friday sparked calls for the resignation of the university's chancellor and the start of an investigation into the incident.

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David Rose / Daily Mail:

BBC's Mr Climate Change accepted £15,000 in grants from university rocked by global warning scandal — A senior BBC journalist accepted £15,000 in grants from the university at the heart of the ‘Climategate’ scandal - and later went on to cover the story without declaring an interest to viewers.

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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:

Supercommittee likely to admit defeat on debt deal — The congressional committee tasked with reducing the federal deficit is poised to admit defeat as soon as Monday, and its unfinished business will set up a year-end battle over emergency jobless benefits and an expiring payroll tax holiday.

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Candice M. Giove / New York Post:

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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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Slandering the Red States, Part VI: Laura Sullivan Responds — NPR's Laura Sullivan did a three-part series on Indian children in South Dakota, and the role of that state's Department of Social Services in providing foster care for such children. The essence of NPR's sensationalized account …

Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:

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Jamie Klatell / The Hill:

Supercommittee slows to a standstill — A Saturday with minimal activity offered little hope that the congressional deficit supercommittee would be able to stave off an embarrassing failure to accomplish its assigned task. — The 12-member panel has just five days to approve at least $1.2 trillion …

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Linda P.B. Katehi / chancellor.ucdavis.edu:

Chancellor addresses Friday's removal of tents from the Quad — To UC Davis Campus Community: — I am writing to tell you about events that occurred Friday afternoon at UC Davis relating to a group of protestors who chose to set up an encampment on the quad Thursday as part of a week …