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9:10 AM ET, November 26, 2011

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Why African Americans aren't embracing Occupy Wall Street — Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would speak to black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009 …

Discussion: Pirate's Cove, Daily Kos and Ricochet Conversations Feed

Doc / DocPop.org:

Occupy News Bin — Though I often disagree with the sentiments I hear by folks at Occupy Wall Street encampments, I strongly support their rights to say them peacefully. So when I see so much footage of police using heavy handed tactics on non-violent protestors it not only makes me more sympathetic to OWS... it makes me feel sick.

Discussion: Mediaite

William Nottingham / L.A. NOW:

Villaraigosa, Beck start countdown to Occupy L.A. closure — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ordered the shutdown of the Occupy L.A. encampment on City Hall grounds at 12:01 a.m. Monday, saying officials can no longer “maintain the public safety of a long-term encampment,” according to a statement issued Friday.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Verum Serum and Jammie Wearing Fools

Ian Lovett / New York Times:
Occupy Los Angeles to Be Evicted From City Hall Park

Discussion: Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
LAPD gives Occupy L.A. protesters Thanksgiving turkeys

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Ynetnews:

Cairo rally: One day we'll kill all Jews — Muslim Brotherhood holds venomous anti-Israel rally in Cairo mosque Friday; Islamic activists chant: Tel Aviv, judgment day has come — Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo's most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest …

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egypt Military and Protesters Dig In for a Long Standoff

Discussion: Associated Press, Global Spin and Outside the Beltway

Gail Collins / New York Times:

O.K., Now Ron Paul — Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman from Texas, now seems to have an outside chance of winning the Iowa caucus vote. Not the presidential nomination. It seems highly unlikely that the Republicans are going to give the nod to a guy who disapproves of the Patriot Act and marriage licenses.

Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog and Prairie Weather

Ian Lazaran / Conservatives4Palin:

We Now Have The Resources To Run The Palin Reconsider Television Ad In The Sioux City, Iowa Market Next Week — Your contributions have made it possible for us to run the Palin reconsider television ad next week in the Sioux City, Iowa market. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make it possible.

Discussion: Iowa Caucuses, Don Surber, The Daily Caller and The Other McCain

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

GQ thinks Ed Schultz is one of ‘The Least Influential People Alive’ — Wow. Is it that time of year all ready? — Well, yes it is. When publishers come up with end of the year lists. Here's one from the December GQ: the magazine's list of “The 25 least Influential People Alive” MSNBC's Ed Schultz comes in at #3.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, Weasel Zippers, nation.foxnews.com, Campaign 2012 and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Shams Momand / Reuters:

Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28 — (Reuters) - NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations, already deeply frayed, further into crisis.

Discussion: CNN and Balloon Juice

Gary Martin / MySanAntonio.com:

Rep. Gonzalez will not run again — Decision opens doors for Castro, Rodriguez. — WASHINGTON — Rep. Charlie Gonzalez said Friday he won't seek re-election, a decision that will end the congressional tenure of a Democratic family whose name has been synonymous with the city of San Antonio for more than half a century.

Discussion: Off the Kuff, Hotline On Call and The Page

Naomi Wolf / Guardian:

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf — The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality — US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images …

Discussion: Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice

Heather King / WITN:

NEW INFO: YouTube Video Shows Pepper Spray At Kinston Walmart … Chaos erupted at Walmart in Kinston on Black Friday. An off-duty police officer ended up using pepper spray on a crowd and a former Kinston police officer was arrested. — A video of the incident has been posted on YouTube.

Discussion: msnbc.com, NBC Connecticut, NBC Philadelphia, L.A. NOW, Mediaite, Crooks and Liars and Gawker

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:

Tom Wicker, Times Journalist, Dies at 85 — Tom Wicker, one of postwar America's most distinguished journalists, who wrote 20 books, covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for The New York Times and became the paper's Washington bureau chief and an iconoclastic political columnist …