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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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Jammie Wearing Fools, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, The Greenroom, Daily Mail, Pundit Press, Weasel Zippers, RedState and The Lonely Conservative
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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Campaign 2012, The New Republic, The Lonely Conservative, Iowa Caucuses and New York Times
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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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The Moderate Voice and National Review
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
GOP candidates court conservative Christians in Iowa
GOP candidates court conservative Christians in Iowa
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, The Politico and Iowa Caucuses
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
David Segal / New York Times:
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, The Volokh Conspiracy, PrawfsBlawg and pandagon.net
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CNN:
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 and The Hill
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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
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
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
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, Hot Air, Roll Call, CNN, The Moderate Voice, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TalkLeft, Calculated Risk and Booman Tribune
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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CNN, Boing Boing, The Lede, Sacramento Bee, US Politics, ThinkProgress, L.A. NOW, Gawker, The BRAD BLOG and Runnin' Scared
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Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
Was George Will influenced by his wife's work for the GOP? — The Post's prickly, Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative columnist George F. Will is one-half of a Washington political power couple. His wife, Mari Maseng Will, is a longtime Republican operative who was President Reagan's final …
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Ben Smith's Blog and Daily Kos
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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NewsBusters.org, Biased BBC, Telegraph and americanthinker.com