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3:45 PM ET, October 27, 2011

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New York Post:
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders  —  The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they're angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Crony Capitalism Comes Home  —  Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really are half-naked Communists aiming to bring down the American economic system when they're not doing drugs or having sex in public.  —  The answer is no. That alarmist view …
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Says She Will Minimize Police Presence And That She Supports The Movement  —  After the first heavy-handed police crackdown on demonstrators in Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan wrote a statement on her Facebook page praising police for closing down the Occupy Oakland protest encampment.
Discussion: US Politics
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Gibbs: Obama gets ‘Occupy’ anxiety
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street: “Walmart Doesn't Hold a Gun to Your Head!”
Discussion: Hot Air
Aimee Allison / City Brights:
Occupy Oakland: Mayor Quan Issues Contrite Statement after Police Crackdown
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
As Cain Promotes His Management Skills, Ex-Aides Tell of Campaign in Chaos  —  If Herman Cain feels his management skills are up to any challenge, some of his former staff members think he should have started with the disorder in his own campaign.  —  Mr. Cain has hardly shown up in New Hampshire …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Herman Cain, Outlier  —  Herman Cain, the Georgia businessman who has never held elected office, is tied for the lead in national polls of Republican voters — or perhaps even slightly ahead of Mitt Romney, as he was in Tuesday night's New York Times/CBS News poll.
Mj Lee / The Politico:
James Carville: Cain aide ‘drunk or stoned’
Discussion: The Raw Story, CNN and Nice Deb
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats are increasingly calling it a ‘Republican Congress’  —  President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution.  —  Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase …
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Alex Leary / St. Petersburg Times:
Adviser: Connie Mack to enter U.S. Senate race
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Boehner: ‘Great concerns’ Obama is exceeding Constitution
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes to repeal 3 percent withholding rule, blunting Obama
Discussion: CNN
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Cantor: ‘Boom of activity’ in House
Discussion: Daily Kos
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2011 (advance estimate)  —  Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011 …
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Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Economists React: ‘Where Are the Recession Calls Now?’  —  Economists and others weigh in on the 2.5% growth in GDP at a seasonally adjusted annual rate.  —Broad based gains indeed with consumer spending, business investment, structures and residential investment up... Modest growth …
Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
GDP grows. But how long until full employment?
Discussion: The Confluence and Eschaton
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Economic Growth in U.S., Though Still Modest, Speeds Up
Kim Geiger / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Perry may skip some debates  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry argue during a GOP presidential debate.  (AP Photo/Chris Carlson / October 18, 2011)  —  After a series of poor debate performances in the early months of his presidential campaign …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Rep. Steve King may stay on sidelines in Iowa race
Discussion: The Politico
Massimo Calabresi / Swampland:
Hillary Clinton and the Limits of Power  —  Hillary Clinton argues in our cover story this week that America is not so much in decline as adjusting to a world of increasingly diffuse power, where like-minded networked individuals, non-governmental organizations and other non-traditional global actors …
Mark Halperin / Time:
The Big Questions: By Mark Halperin  —  Is President Obama on the ropes?  —  If the election were held today, the Obama-Biden ticket would not win the 270 electoral votes required to hold the White House.  The coalition that helped elect the President—fired-up liberals, independents …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Google Refuses to Remove Police-Brutality Videos  —  But the company could do more to explain why it chooses to deny certain requests to remove content and yet complies with others  —  Google's latest Transparency Report contains this tantalizing bit: … Good on Google.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Judge rejects Edwards attempt to have charges of illegal payoff dismissed  —  A North Carolina judge has rejected motions from former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) to have charges stemming from his cover-up of an extramarital affair dismissed, according to multiple media reports.
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
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Chris Seward / Raleigh News & Observer:
Judge won't dismiss case against former Sen. John Edwards
Lawrence Weschler / The Huffington Post:
A Guy Can Dream, Can't He?  —  Have you noticed how Hillary is looking increasingly exhausted lately?  She's no longer even bothering to shape-shift her hair on a regular basis.  Not without good reason, mind you: hers has been one busy tenure over there at State.
JSOnline:
Wisconsin Capitol to allow guns  —  Walker policy would allow weapons on Assembly floor  —  By Patrick Marley and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison - The public will be able to carry guns into most parts of the state Capitol, under a policy being developed by Gov. Scott Walker.
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Gay troops to file suit challenging Defense of Marriage Act  —  Gay and lesbian service members and veterans plan to file suit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of the federal ban on gay marriage and federal policy that define a spouse as a person of the opposite sex.
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
11 Charged in $1 Billion L.I.R.R. Disability Scheme  —  Eleven people, including two doctors and a former union president, were charged on Thursday in a “massive fraud scheme” in which hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability pension claims that could have cost …
Discussion: msnbc.com, Gothamist and Metropolis
Washington Examiner:
Despite ‘ban,’ fat-cat lobbyists bankroll Obama  —  President Obama doesn't take campaign contributions from lobbyists — unless you count the owners and CEOs of lobbying firms, corporate vice presidents for government relations, or managing directors for public policy.
standupamericanow.org:
Dr. Terry Jones for President  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  —  MEDIA CONTACT: 352-371-2487 or 352-871-2680 (Stephanie Sapp) or info@standupamericanow.org  —  Announcing: Dr. Terry Jones for President  —  Our campaign promises or agenda:  —  1. Stop overspending immediately.
The Republic:
Richmond tea party: Charge Occupy protesters or refund $10,000 we spent to rally in Virginia  —  Richmond, Va. — The Richmond tea party is demanding a refund of about $10,000 from the city, claiming it unfairly charged them for rallies while allowing the Occupy protesters to use the same space for several weeks for free.
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
7 reasons why Obama is wrong on income inequality  —  As if ordered up directly by the Obama White House and Occupy Wall Street, the Congressional Budget Office has produced a timely report looking at income inequality.  The CBO found that between between 1979 and 2007 …
Lisa Miller / Washington Post:
Justice Scalia speaks for himself on death penalty, not the Catholic Church  —  That Justice Antonin Scalia believes in execution as a moral form of punishment is a well-known fact.  That he is an observant, traditional Roman Catholic is, similarly, well-known.
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio on national ticket could be risky bet for Republican Party  —  Republicans who are eager to repair the party's battered image among Hispanic voters and unseat President Obama next year have long promoted a single-barrel solution to their two-pronged problem: putting Sen. Marco Rubio on the national ticket.
 
 
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UN Internet agenda tied to George Soros
Russell Berman / The Hill:
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Los Angeles Times:
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Paul Krugman:
The Truth Has A Well-Known, Well, You Know  —  Greg Sargent …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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