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11:55 AM ET, November 1, 2011

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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Cain details gesture that led to sex accusation  —  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for the first time has offered a detailed recollection of what led an employee of the National Restaurant Association to lodge a sexual harassment charge against him when he was CEO of the organization.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowans appear ready to give Cain benefit of the doubt on sexual harassment allegations  —  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain wipes his forehead before answering questions at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday.  He denied he has ever sexually harassed anyone.
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Why This Could Be the End of Cain  —  I am willing to give Herman Cain the benefit of the doubt and assume that the sexual-harassment allegation(s) against him was entirely baseless.  —  Here is what troubles me.  Mr. Cain says: “If the Restaurant Association did a settlement …
Rush Limbaugh:
We Should Not be Surprised by the Left's Racist Hit Job on Herman Cain
New York Times:
Cain Confronts Claim From '90s of Sexual Harassment
Justin Sink / The Hill:   As more details emerge, some Republicans rise to Cain's defense
Fox News:   Herman Cain Explains His Side of Past Sexual Harassment Allegations to ‘On the Record’
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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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Rape, Gropes, and Assaults, Oh My: Mayor Bloomberg, Shut Down Zuccotti Park!
Matt Dinger / Daily Oklahoman:
Occupy OKC participant found dead in tent at Kerr Park
Golnaz Esfandiari / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Iran's Basij Launches Website To Cover Occupy Wall Street Movement
DealBook:
Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money  —  Updated  —  Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the brokerage firm, which is run by Jon S. Corzine …
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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.
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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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.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Virginia County GOP Emails Picture Of Obama With Bullet Hole In His Head  —  Yesterday was Halloween, a day for children to take candy and (apparently) for the Loudon County, Virginia GOP to take a shot at President Obama.  As the blog Too Conservative reported, the Loudon Republican committee sent out a …
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Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Va Republican party condemns Loudoun GOP e-mail with an image of Obama shot in the head
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 …
The Hill:
Supercommittee panelists would take hit if they fail to get debt deal  —  Three weeks out with no deal in sight, the risk of failure is mounting for members of the congressional supercommittee on deficit reduction.  —  While President Obama, House and Senate leaders and politically vulnerable members …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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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.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Rage of the Almost-Elite  —  Kenneth Anderson has written a long blog post on the origins of the Occupy Wall Street.  I expect that many people will find a lot to disagree with in it.  I expect I may agree with some of those disagreements — I am still processing what I think.
Discussion: Via Meadia and Wall Street Journal
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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.
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Charts You Must See, Now, About GOP Tax Plans  —  On the off chance that you have not yet seen the post by the Atlantic's Derek Thompson about the impact on different income groups of the Rick Perry tax plan, plus Herman Cain's 9-9-9 proposal, please go see it now.
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.
Kevin Derby / Sunshine State News:
Carrying Water for Obama, Hilda Solis Picks a Fight with the Tea Party  —  With the team behind President Barack Obama targeting the Sunshine State in their bid for a second term in 2012, the White House sent U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to speak to the Florida Democratic Convention on Saturday.
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and GOP 12
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
 
 
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American Enterprise Institute:
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