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3:05 PM ET, November 1, 2011

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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain now recalls ‘couple of other’ items in accuser's complaint  —  Herman Cain once again revised his account of the sexual harassment allegations he battled in the 1990s, saying in a TV interview he recalled there were additional “ridiculous” items in his accuser's complaint, beyond the single incident he detailed Monday.
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
C-SPAN delivers: Announces full live coverage of Saturday's Herman Cain-Newt Gingrich debate
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowans appear ready to give Cain benefit of the doubt on sexual harassment allegations
Fox News:
Herman Cain Explains His Side of Past Sexual Harassment Allegations to ‘On the Record’
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Gloria Cain to give ‘exclusive’ interview, Herman Cain says
Justin Sink / The Hill:   As more details emerge, some Republicans rise to Cain's defense
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Rape, Gropes, and Assaults, Oh My: Mayor Bloomberg, Shut Down Zuccotti Park! … It's time for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pull the plug on the dangerous circus in crime zone Zuccotti Park.  —  People have the right to protest, to assemble peaceably, to raise their voices and petition their government.
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Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:
Bloomberg: ‘Plain and simple,’ Congress caused the mortgage crisis, not the banks  —  Photo via British Prime Minister's Office flickr stream.  — Owners of the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protests are losing patience, but what can they do?  —  11:03 am Nov. 1, 20111Add a comment
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Satire on Occupy Wall Street Trips Up Rick Perry  —  Satire may not be Texas Gov. Rick Perry's thing.  —  Last Friday, at the swanky Barley House tavern in Concord, N.H., Mr. Perry took a little jab at the Occupy Wall Street crowd, referencing an amusing quote his son had sent him from a protester occupying Toronto.
Eman El-Shenawi / Alarabiya.net English:
Tunisians poke fun at Obama in assault on his Facebook page
Discussion: The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Wow, Jon Corzine — Way To Fly Your Company Into A Mountain  —  Well, this one's right up there with the most spectacular CEO disasters ever.  —  Yesterday, 18 months after Jon Corzine took over the helm of MF Global with the goal of building it into a real investment bank, he flew the company into a mountain.
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DealBook:
Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money
New York Times:
Europe Markets Drop on News of Greek Referendum  —  ATHENS — European markets slid dramatically on Tuesday after Prime Minister George A. Papandreou stunned the continent's leaders with a surprise announcement late Monday that his government would hold a referendum on a new aid package for Greece.
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New York Post:
Occupy ‘ball’ street  —  It's the Autumn of Love!  —  Occupy Wall Street protesters are flocking to nearby health clinics for STD and HIV testing after getting their freak on in '60s-style hookups with crusty strangers, sources told The Post yesterday.  —  “Last week was free love,” …
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Mike Rosenberg / Mercury News:
Bullet train project nearly triples in cost — $98.5 billion — from earlier projections  —  Faster than a speeding bullet train, the cost of the state's massive high-speed rail project has zoomed to nearly $100 billion — triple the estimate given to voters and more than enough to run the entire state government for a year.
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Equality Matters:
Chick-Fil-A Donated Nearly $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2009  —  Earlier this year, Chick-fil-A became embroiled in a controversy surrounding its donations to anti-gay groups.  Though Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy denied having an “agenda against anyone,” an Equality Matters investigation discovered …
Investor's Business Daily:
Smoking-Gun Document Ties Policy To Housing Crisis  —  President Obama says the Occupy Wall Street protests show a “broad-based frustration” among Americans with the financial sector, which continues to kick against regulatory reforms three years after the financial crisis.
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Cain Made $250,000 Off Yesterday's ‘Witch Hunt’  —  Mark Block, chief of staff to Herman Cain, says yesterday's media frenzy over sexual harassment claims helped the campaign post one of its best fundraising days ever with $250,000 coming into the coffers.  Block made the comment while on a panel …
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Richard J. Goldstone / New York Times:
Israel and the Apartheid Slander  —  THE Palestinian Authority's request for full United Nations membership has put hope for any two-state solution under increasing pressure.  The need for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians has never been greater.
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme  —  Mitt Romney and his son Tagg Romney.  Tagg is the managing partner to Solamere Capital, a firm that invested in a new company employing brokers accused of taking part in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme.
Dan Fitzpatrick / Wall Street Journal:
BofA Calls Off Debit-Fee Plan  —  Bank of America Corp. is dropping its plan to charge customers $5 a month for making purchases with their debit cards, a person familiar with the situation said.  —  The move is a dramatic retreat following decisions by several rivals in recent days to drop customer tests of the new fees.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Wrong Inequality  —  We live in a polarizing society, so perhaps it's inevitable that our experience of inequality should be polarized, too.  —  In the first place, there is what you might call Blue Inequality.  This is the kind experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston …
Roll Call:
And Congress' Rich Get Richer  —  Net Worth of Lawmakers Up 25 Percent in Two Years, Analysis Demonstrates  —  Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members' financial disclosure forms.
Tim Stelloh / New York Times:
Brooklyn Detective Convicted of Planting Drugs on Innocent People  —  The New York Police Department, already saddled with corruption scandals, saw its image further tainted on Tuesday with the conviction of a police detective for planting drugs on a woman and her boyfriend.
Discussion: TalkLeft and New York Magazine
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Did Tim Pawlenty Blow It?  —  November has begun.  The first voting in Iowa starts in almost exactly two months.  Mitt Romney is the front-runner, but he can't crack 25% in the polls.  (It's hard to remember a front-runner with any comparable ceiling).  Rick Perry has a lot of money …
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Domenici, Rivlin to push supercommittee on Medicare, taxes  —  Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin will tell the supercommittee Tuesday that it must tackle both Medicare and tax code reform in order to put a credible dent in the national debt.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Offbeat news:
Camping sorry for failed apocalypse predictions  —  In this photo from Sunday, May 22, 2011, Christian radio host Harold Camping speaks outside of his home in Alameda, Calif. (AP Photo/Sprinkle Lab, Brandon Tauszik)  —  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Harold Camping …
Discussion: Gawker and Joe. My. God.
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
‘In God We Trust’ gets a House vote  —  Nobody has proposed changing the national motto, but the House is set Tuesday to vote on a bill that assure that the phrase “In God We Trust” stays put.  —  The measure, which is sponsored by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), would encourage public buildings …
Philip Caulfield / NY Daily News:
Shorter University in Ga. requires employees to sign pledge saying they are not gay  —  Employees who don't sign new ‘personal lifestyle pledge’ risk getting fired  —  Facebook photo of Shorter University.  Shorter University is making its employees sign a “lifestyle statement” that pledges that they reject homosexuality.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The conservative case for Mitt Romney  —  It has been Mitt Romney's successful strategy to keep a low profile, emerging periodically for fluent debate performances, while the conservative meteors streak and fade.  Every week that an untested rival surges, dominates the news and then stumbles …
 
 
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
DOJ official knew of ATF “gunwalking” in April 2010
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Cooper Union Looks at Charging Tuition
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Romney To Give ‘Major Spending Policy Speech’ At Koch-Funded Americans For Prosperity Summit Friday
Discussion: msnbc.com
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The ‘perfectly lubricated weathervane’ keeps spinning
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Huntsman buys City Creek condo
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Hill
The Huffington Post:
Clintons Stay At Dorothy Rodham's Sickbed Late Into The Night
Discussion: The Caucus, ABCNEWS and NO QUARTER
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
White House staff lose weight, credit first lady
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Politico
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Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
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Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Charts You Must See, Now, About GOP Tax Plans
Matt Dinger / Daily Oklahoman:
Occupy OKC participant found dead in tent at Kerr Park