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11:05 AM ET, October 30, 2011

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New York Post:
Zuccotti perv  —  Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park battened down the hatches yesterday as the early October snow turned their tents into igloos, but the close quarters also made easy pickings for one predator.  —  A sex fiend barged into a woman's tent and sexually assaulted her at around 6 a.m. …
Des Moines / Iowa Caucuses:
Herman Cain, Mitt Romney lead new Iowa Poll  —  DES MOINES, Iowa - Herman Cain and Mitt Romney top The Des Moines Register's new Iowa Poll, with the retired pizza executive edging the former Massachusetts governor 23 percent to 22 percent in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
David Rose / Daily Mail:
Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague  —  It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all - the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
Jamie Klatell / The Hill:
Obama: Pelosi was ‘one of the best’ Speakers, will be back in 2013  —  President Obama on Saturday said Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was a great House Speaker and that she will get that job back after the 2012 elections.  —  “I am biased, but I think Nancy was one of the best Speakers …
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Christina D. Romer / New York Times:
Dear Ben: It's Time for Your Volcker Moment  —  IN October 1979, inflation was running at more than 10 percent a year, and the Federal Reserve's gradual interest rate increases weren't solving the problem.  So Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman, dramatically changed how monetary policy was conducted.
New York Times:
Nearly Two Million Lose Power as Snow Coats Region  —  October, said the calendar.  Before Halloween.  And the 2.5 million trees occupying New York City's open spaces confirmed it was fall — not winter — with glorious canopies of leaves stretching along their boughs.  —  Yet snow was falling.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Liam Halligan / Telegraph:
Why the latest eurozone bail-out is destined to fail within weeks  —  I want last week's European bail-out to work.  My sincere hope is that collective and decisive action by the eurozone's large member states will stabilize global markets, at least for a while, so allowing the global economy to catch its breath.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
The debt fallout: How Social Security went ‘cash negative’ earlier than expected  —  View Photo Gallery —  Since the entitlement program's inception in 1935, many changes to Social Security have been enacted or attempted.  Here's a look at some memorable moments in Social Security's history.
Andrew Gilligan / Telegraph:
Assad: challenge Syria at your peril  —  Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has warned that Western action against his country would cause an “earthquake” that would “burn the whole region”.  —  President Assad admitted that ‘many mistakes’ had been made by his forces in the early part of the uprising …
Discussion: Guardian and Israel Matzav
Julian Pecquet / Ballot Box:
Health law's poor polling: GOP controls debate, Dems question 2012 impact  —  Defenders of the Democrats' health law quickly dismissed Friday's dismal poll numbers as a statistical fluke that will have little impact to no impact on the 2012 election.  —  The monthly poll from the Kaiser …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Mark Steyn / National Review:
Adult Babies  —  Last Thursday was officially “Diaper Need Awareness Day” in the State of Connecticut.  Were you aware of it?  There are so many awareness-raising days, it's hard to keep track.  Maybe we could have an Awareness-Raising Day Awareness Day.  At any rate, the first annual …
Discussion: Samizdata.net and Ed Driscoll
San Francisco Chronicle:
Occupy Oakland: inspiration, frustration at return  —  OAKLAND — Dozens of new tents sprang up outside Oakland City Hall on Friday, a sight that encouraged some Occupy Wall Street supporters but infuriated others, who expressed frustration at the city's about-face on the encampment.
 
 
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Obama uses ‘Occupy Wall Street’ language in weekly address
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Pelosi, in pitch to donors, sees ‘turning point’ for Dems in 2012 House races
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Kasie Hunt / Associated Press:
Perry to attend at least 5 more debates
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