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9:20 AM ET, October 10, 2011

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Panic of the Plutocrats  —  It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America's direction.  Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve …
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Douglas E. Schoen / The Politico:
The case for a third party candidate  —  The signs of dissatisfaction, disaffection and just plain discontent are everywhere in America today.  —  The thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters, who have congregated for more than three weeks in downtown New York's Liberty Square …
Jennifer H. Cunningham / NY Daily News:   Barack Obama supporters stage Harlem Tea Party in support of president's re-election bid
Economist:
The inkblot protests  —  A new generation takes to the barricades.
Discussion: Moe Lane and The Mahablog
CNN:
Lines drawn between Democrats and Republicans over ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Discussion: Firedoglake
Greg / The Belgravia Dispatch:
Occupy Wall Street: An Early Assessment
Ralph Benko / Townhall.com:
Harvard Elite Writing New Constitution- with the Tea Party  —  Last week the unthinkable happened.  While you were distracted by the banal and only marginally important presidential primaries, the lion, Harvard Law School, publicly lay down with the lamb, the Tea Party Patriots.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Perry Campaign Works to Smooth Out Flaws  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas struggled through his first three debates, so his aides have staged practice sessions, complete with a stand-in for Mitt Romney.  He has stirred outrage among conservatives on immigration …
Boston Globe:
Whitey in exile  —  It is a portrait of the gangster as a grumpy old man, hunkered down in a Santa Monica flat with his girlfriend.  Neighbors liked them, but no one got close — or, rather, almost no one.  And that was their undoing.  —  At least a twice a day, Carol Gasko would crouch …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Qwikster Is Gonester: Netflix Kills Its DVD-Only Business Before Launch  —  Qwikster, we never knew ya: Netflix has killed its plans to turn its DVD service into a separate business.  —  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings the news via a blog post this morning, reversing a decision he announced via a blog post three weeks ago.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Free Texting Apps Are Threat to Wireless Carriers  —  At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.
Azam Khan / The Express Tribune:
Dress modestly: Masked men enter girls' school, thrash students  —  RAWALPINDI:  —  In a first for the garrison city, sixty masked men carrying iron rods barged into a girls' school in Rawalpindi and thrashed students and female teachers on Friday.  —  The gang of miscreants also warned …
Jim Michaels / USA Today:
U.S. officials: Libya may have lost anti-aircraft missiles  —  Portable anti-aircraft missiles may have already been smuggled outside Libya's borders even as the United States races to help account for thousands of the weapons stockpiled by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. officials say.
Washington Post:
From Elizabeth Warren, the proper case for liberalism  —  It's not often that a sound bite from a Democratic candidate gets so under the skin of my distinguished colleague George F. Will that he feels moved to quote it in full and then devote an entire column to refuting it.  This is instructive.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Huntsman will call to refocus defense in foreign policy speech  —  Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - In a foreign policy speech Monday, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will call for a nimbler U.S. military that focuses on modern challenges and would allow for the withdrawal of many troops from Afghanistan within a year.
Discussion: GOP 12
BREITBART.COM:
Iran actress sentenced to one year in jail: report  —  Actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic, an Iranian opposition website reported Sunday.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Jihad Watch and Gawker
Charlie Grapski / cgrapski's FDL blog:
American Spectator Editor Admits to Being Agent Provocateur at D.C. Museum  —  The following photograph taken by opednews.com shows a confrontation in the lobby of the National Air and Space Museum between two individuals and an officer shortly before video shows officers …
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Yahoo! News:
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Discussion: msnbc.com and Pajamas Media
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Jihad,Va.  —  The 9/11 imam Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
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