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Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Employment Situation Summary — Transmission of material in this release is embargoed USDL-11-1691 until 8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, December 2, 2011 — Technical information: — Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobless Rate Unexpectedly Declines to 8.6% — Payroll gains in the U.S. picked up last month and the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest level since March 2009, a decline augmented by the departure of Americans from the labor force. — Payrolls climbed 120,000 …
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Signs of Hope in Jobs Report; Unemployment Drops to 8.6% — The American unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to its lowest level in two and a half years in November, despite the many global crises batting against the economy. — The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent …
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Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Why Did the Unemployment Rate Drop?
Why Did the Unemployment Rate Drop?
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Washington Monthly, MarketBeat, Wonkette and Political Mojo
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
8.6% Unemployment: The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious in the Jobs Report
Josh Boak / The Politico:
Unemployment rate drops to 8.6 percent
Unemployment rate drops to 8.6 percent
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CNN and The Political Carnival
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Jobs picture improves, unemployment drops
Jobs picture improves, unemployment drops
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The Maddow Blog and We Party Patriots
Alan B. Krueger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in November
The Employment Situation in November
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The Enterprise Blog
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Economy Creates 120,000 Jobs, Rate Tumbles to 8.6%
Economy Creates 120,000 Jobs, Rate Tumbles to 8.6%
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Romney's the One — Even though nobody has yet cast a vote in the primaries, Republicans are increasingly resigned to Gov. Mitt Romney's winning the party's presidential nomination. Every week he gets a few more endorsements from Republican officeholders.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Mitt vs. Newt — It's Iowa minus 32 days, and barring yet another resurrection (or event of similar improbability), it's Mitt Romney vs. Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here's the scorecard: — Romney has managed to weather the debates unscathed. However, the brittleness he showed …
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Gingrich presidential run inspires fear and loathing in top GOP circles — Sure, Newt Gingrich is surging in the polls. But the blunt truth about Newt is that the people who know him best and have worked with him in Washington want him nowhere near the White House or the top of the GOP ticket …
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Fundamentally: Newt Gingrich's Favorite Word — By now, we've all become familiar with Newt Gingrich's habit of using a few choice adverbs to make the things he says sound just a bit more intelligent to his listeners. … But none of them are as vital to the Gingrich lexicon as fundamentally …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Santorum on Gingrich: ‘Humility is an important thing’ — Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - Newt Gingrich's confidence in his staying power among GOP faithful may be premature, suggested long-time underdog Rick Santorum Friday. — Santorum was responding to a series of triumphant statements by Gingrich …
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Nixon's the one! — I take myself to be the average Republican primary voter.
Nixon's the one! — I take myself to be the average Republican primary voter.
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Business Insider, The Daily Dish and National Review
David Weigel / Slate:
Absolution for Newt — How evangelicals are finding a way to support Gingrich.
Absolution for Newt — How evangelicals are finding a way to support Gingrich.
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Iowa Caucuses and The Politico
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Newt Gingrich expands on his support for child labor
Newt Gingrich expands on his support for child labor
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The Iowa Republican
Allison Samuels / The Daily Beast:
Herman Cain's Marriage Shaken by Infidelity Charges — As the one-time GOP frontrunner meets up with his wife to discuss his political future, friends say fresh charges of infidelity reopened old wounds in his marriage. — In October, Herman Cain was having the time of his life, according to those who know him well.
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The Mystery of Herman Cain
The Mystery of Herman Cain
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Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:
Trump to Moderate Republican Debate — It's officially a reality television Republican primary now. — Donald Trump is pairing up with Newsmax, the conservative magazine and news Web site, to moderate a presidential debate in Des Moines on Dec. 27. — “Our readers and the grass roots …
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Daily Mail:
Saudis fear there will be ‘no more virgins’ and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted — Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in ‘no more virgins’, the country's religious council has warned. — A ‘scientific’ report claims relaxing the ban …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowa Poll: Herman Cain support in Iowa takes nose dive — Herman Cain (David Purdy/Des Moines Register file photo) — Herman Cain's once-surging popularity in Iowa has plummeted in the wake of an allegation of a 13-year extramarital affair, leaving him at single-digit support with the Iowa caucuses just over a month away.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Killing the Euro — Can the euro be saved? Not long ago we were told that the worst possible outcome was a Greek default. Now a much wider disaster seems all too likely. — True, market pressure lifted a bit on Wednesday after central banks made a splashy announcement about expanded credit lines …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Conservatives craft bill to prevent IMF bailout of crumbling eurozone
Conservatives craft bill to prevent IMF bailout of crumbling eurozone
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Washington Post:
Payroll tax break: Extension proposals from both parties fail in Senate — The Senate late Thursday rejected competing partisan visions for extending a temporary tax break that benefits virtually every American worker, clearing the way for more serious negotiations over how to cover the cost of the tax cut.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner hopes to avoid GOP Senate fate on payroll taxes
Boehner hopes to avoid GOP Senate fate on payroll taxes
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The Politico
WJXT-TV:
Teen stopped at airport for design on purse — 17-year-old missed flight to Jacksonville after agents inspected gun replica — A teenage girl's sense of style got her in trouble at the airport. — Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped …
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Hit & Run, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and LewRockwell.com Blog
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Meathead Vote — For liberal baby boomers, it's always 1972. — In hilarious fashion, National Journal's Reid Wilson picks up on this week's predominant theme, Democrats and demographics. He paints a sunny picture of President Obama's re-election prospects based on Ruy Teixeira …
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Josh Peterson / The Daily Caller:
Under assault for liberal bias, Politico's traffic dives — Internet traffic and Web search measurement tools from several sources indicate that despite massive promotion efforts on MSNBC and in other venues, Politico.com is rapidly losing readers, especially outside of Washington, D.C.
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Metro:
First-grader accused of sexual harassment — A Boston elementary school is investigating a 7-year-old first-grader for sexual harassment after he struck another boy his age in the groin. But the mother of the accused said her son was fending off the other child, who had choked him in an altercation on a school bus on Nov. 22.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Spirit of Enterprise — Why are nations like Germany and the U.S. rich? It's not primarily because they possess natural resources — many nations have those. It's primarily because of habits, values and social capital. — It's because many people in these countries …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Magazine, Rod Dreher and Ben Smith's Blog