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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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Michelle Malkin, Daily Mail, Jammie Wearing Fools, Weasel Zippers and RedState
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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Lhfang / The Second Alarm:
Breaking Video: UC Davis Chancellor Emerges From Press Conf, Tells Me She Didn't Feel Threatened — Pepper sprayed UC Davis student addresses 1,000 other students, talks about his meeting with Kotehi to end the standstill. — **UPDATE** Switched out low-quality video for better version.
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ThinkProgress, CNN, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, The BRAD BLOG, Hullabaloo and Boing Boing
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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The New Republic
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ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel — CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: And Mayor Rahm Emanuel joins us now from Des Moines, Iowa. Mayor, thank you for being with us. — RAHM EMANUEL, CHICAGO MAYOR: Thank you for having me. — AMANPOUR: So you gave this speech and the beginning …
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CNN and Lynn Sweet
Jamie Klatell / Ballot Box:
Social issues take center stage for GOP candidates in Iowa
Social issues take center stage for GOP candidates in Iowa
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CNN
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Romney Shifts in Iowa, Playing to Win Quickly
Romney Shifts in Iowa, Playing to Win Quickly
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The Caucus, National Review, Washington Post, Iowa Caucuses and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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The Jawa Report and The Gateway Pundit
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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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The Politico, Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, The Moderate Voice, Roll Call, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, CNN, Calculated Risk and Booman Tribune
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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Telegraph, Biased BBC, NewsBusters.org and americanthinker.com
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
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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National Review
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Warren Buffett Tells Congress To Raise Taxes On Wealthy — Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., speaks during an interview with Bloomberg Television on the sidelines of the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 8, 2011.
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Michelle Malkin, Scared Monkeys, Ace of Spades HQ and American Thinker
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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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Conspiracies, Coups and Currencies — The murmurs about Barack Obama being forced out began in Berlin and Beijing. After his party lost the midterm vote, there were hints that a government of technocrats would be imposed on America, to save the country from a debt crisis and the world from a depression.
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Brad DeLong and Eschaton