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1:05 PM ET, October 28, 2011

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Morgen / Verum Serum:
Iraq War Veteran Injured at OWS Oakland Founder of IHateTheMarineCorps.com  —  *** VS EXCLUSIVE *** *** PLEASE LINK ***  —  Scott Olsen is the Marine Corps veteran critically injured at Occupy Oakland Tuesday night, during a confrontation between the protesters and the police.
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Guardian:
Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen awake ahead of brain surgery  —  Iraq veteran seriously injured by police projectile is lucid and responding but brain swelling still a risk, say doctors  —  Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who suffered serious head injuries after being hit …
Peter Henderson / Reuters:
Wounded Iraq vet awake after Oakland protest injury  —  (Reuters) - An Iraq war veteran badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police on the streets of Oakland was awake and lucid, hospital officials and family members said on Thursday.  —  Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old former U.S. Marine struck …
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Rep. Lee blames police for violence at Oakland Occupy Wall St. protest
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Barbara Lee: Obama ‘really understands’ Occupy
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Occupy movement could be damaged by violent clashes
myfoxny.com:
Fox 5 News Reporter Assaulted At OWS  —  MYFOXNY.COM - A protester, angered by the presence of a news crew inside Zuccotti Park Friday morning, threatened to stab Fox 5 News reporter John Huddy.  —  What has been an otherwise violence-free period during his six weeks covering …
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Christina Boyle / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters stripped of their power, literally, by fire department and NYPD  —  The city has stripped Occupy Wall Street protesters of their power.  —  Dozens of firefighters and police officers entered Zuccotti Park Friday morning to confiscate generators and gas canisters.
Mj Lee / The Politico:
‘Occupy’ to march on N.Y.C. banks  —  Occupy Wall Street protesters will march to five banks in Manhattan on Friday and deliver thousands of letters to the companies — in the form of a “mass paper airplane throwing.”  —  According to the plans for the march detailed on the movement's website …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Exclusive: Bill Daley, unplugged  —  It is a sunny day at the White House with bright light streaming through the gauzy curtains that cover the patio doors and many windows of Bill Daley's corner office in the West Wing.  And so I try to find some underlying gloom.
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
‘Bundlers’ for Obama Have Active Ties to Lobbying  —  WASHINGTON — Despite a pledge not to take money from lobbyists, President Obama has relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid.
New York Times:
Americans' Migration Patterns Shifting  —  LOS ANGELES — The continuing economic downturn has drastically altered the internal migration habits of Americans, turning the flood of migrants into the Sun Belt and out of states like New York, Massachusetts and California into a relative trickle, an analysis of recent federal data confirms.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — October 2011  —  The October health tracking poll finds a more negative overall public mood about the health reform law, driven largely by changes in support for the law among Democrats.  The poll also asked the public's impressions of the Massachusetts health …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan, Defender Of The Safety Net  —  Fundraising letter that went out last night under the signature of Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand acolyte and proponent of pushing domestic discretionary spending to its lowest level ever:  —  What's fascinating about this is that it's not propaganda aimed at the center …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Johnson rushes to file New Hampshire paperwork  —  Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - Heading off an embarrassing blunder, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson will file his paperwork for candidacy in New Hampshire's primary Friday - the day of the filing deadline.
Discussion: The Caucus
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Washington Examiner:
Perry's right: Republicans drowning in debates  —  Everyone knows why Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to skip some of the coming Republican presidential debates.  He's a lousy debater, and the biggest single factor in his fall from front-runner to back-in-the-pack has been his poor performance in a number of high-profile debates.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Path Not Taken  —  Financial markets are cheering the deal that emerged from Brussels early Thursday morning.  Indeed, relative to what could have happened — an acrimonious failure to agree on anything — the fact that European leaders agreed on something, however vague the details …
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Jon Huntsman Sr. says voters just need to get to know his son  —  SALT LAKE CITY — The biggest problem with Jon Huntsman Jr.'s presidential bid is that the public hasn't gotten to know yet just how perfect he'd be for the job.  —  At least according to his proud father.
Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News:
Will Mitch McConnell's stiff-arm keep West Virginia out of the Big 12?  —  The most volatile issue in the Senate right now may not be the super committee's fight over budget cuts or the continued bickering over President Obama's jobs plan.  —  It's a subject far more personal …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Mitch McConnell's college football filibuster
Discussion: Daily Kos and Don Surber
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Boehner rejects Democrats' $3 trillion deficit reduction proposal to ‘supercommittee’  —  Amid a flurry of counter-proposals from the deficit-reduction committee, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday rejected a Democratic offer to slash $3 trillion from future debts because it contained significant tax increases.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
In Small Burst of Bipartisanship, House Passes Two Pieces of Jobs Bill
Discussion: The Hill and Firedoglake
Associated Press:
Top Cain aide has checkered past  —  ATLANTA (AP) — He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.  —  “We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen,” he says before taking a puff.  “But then America's never seen a candidate like Herman Cain.”
Discussion: The Hill, CNN, ABCNEWS and 2012 Decoded
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A.Killough / CNN:
Cain campaign reports more than $3 million raised in October
Discussion: Washington Wire
Ruth Madoff / The Daily Beast:
Cain Campaign Hits the Brakes  —  After weeks of missteps, Herman Cain's strategists are slowing the pace to give their man a chance to focus.  Howard Kurtz on the downshift—and how Cain is defying political gravity.
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, GOP 12 and Business Insider
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain: Push by ‘so-called Palestinian people’ for statehood result of Obama weakness  —  Herman Cain said pushes by the “so-called Palestinian people” for statehood and an Iranian assassination plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States were evidence that President Obama was perceived …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
Romney Flips To Denial: 'We Don't Know What's Causing Climate Change'  —  Speaking at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reversed his earlier stance on climate change pollution and rejected man-made global warming.
 
 
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BBC:
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Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
Economy in U.S. Surpasses Pre-Recession Level
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Washington Post:
In Ohio, praise and questions for Herman Cain
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Gallup:
Republicans Nationwide Are Similar in Composition to 2008
Discussion: The Politico and National Review
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Perry, Romney to be in state today
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Peter Spiegel / Financial Times:
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