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Jerry Bohnen / www.ktok.com:
Oklahoma Consultant Claims He Witnessed Cain Harassment  —  Predicts end of Cain Presidential campaign if woman is allowed to talk publicly.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Attorney says Cain violated deal, allowing accuser to speak  —  The lawyer for one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment said his client may get a chance to speak publicly about the allegations because the GOP presidential candidate violated the confidentiality agreement between the two.
New York Times:
Cain Accuser Got a Year's Salary in Severance Pay  —  WASHINGTON — The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year's salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there …
Suzanne Garment / The Politico:
Cain reaction: Not by the book  —  Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain, in handling the sexual harassment allegations recently surfaced by Politico, has already broken every rule in the book on how to deal with a political scandal.  —  As we have now learned over two days …
Discussion: Althouse and CNN
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Cain Not Able  —  We have the starchy guy — tall, handsome, intelligent and rich, with a baronial estate — who's hard to warm up to.  And we have the spontaneous guy, who's charming and easy to warm up to — until it turns out that he has an unsavory pattern with young women and a suspect relationship with facts.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Cain gets testy with reporters
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Regarding Herman Cain: It's Not Racism. It's Opposition Research.
Discussion: The Right Scoop
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Drip, drip, drip
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain brushes off harassment questions
Discussion: Mediaite
Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:
NYC arrest records: Many Occupy Wall Street protesters live in luxury  —  Many “Occupy Wall Street” protesters arrested in New York City “occupy” more luxurious homes than their “99 percent” rhetoric might suggest, a Daily Caller investigation has found.  —  For each of the 984 Occupy Wall …
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Jonathan Lemire / NY Daily News:
Bloomberg strikes tougher tone on Occupy Wall Street  —  City may take “action” against protesters disrupting quality of life  —  NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg strikes his toughest tone yet against the Occupy Wall Street protesters.  —  Mayor Bloomberg struck a tougher tone …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Russell Berman / The Hill:
‘Are you kidding me?’  Boehner says US not better off under Obama  —  It's safe to say Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) does not agree with President Obama's suggestion on Tuesday that Americans are better off now than they were when he took office.  —  “Are you kidding me?!”
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama On Bad Economy: “I'm Less Interested In Allocating Blame”
Adam Serwer / Political Mojo:
Four Senior Citizens Plotted Killing Spree At A Waffle House  —  Four senior citizens walk into a Waffle House planning to go on a killing spree in order to “save the Constitution.”  —  That's not the beginning of a joke, it's the scenario outlined by the FBI in a criminal complaint filed …
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Rasmussen Reports:
South Carolina: Cain 33% Romney 23% Gingrich 15%  —  In South Carolina, businessman Herman Cain leads the GOP field with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney ten points behind.  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the only other candidate in double digits.
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Steven Shepard / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Gets a Bump in New Quinnipiac Poll
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Herman Cain: I Can't Prove It, But These Allegations Are Racist (VIDEO)  —  Herman Cain is pretty sure that the attacks on him coming this week are racist.  But he can't prove it.  —  It's just a sense he has.  And it's a growing theme from his friends.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Daily Kos
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Cain's noxious racial politics  —  Herman Cain risks losing his charm.  His initial appeal was as an optimistic, business-oriented outsider.  He ridiculed those African Americans who were herded into the Democratic Party by naked racial politics.  But now he sounds like Barack Obama's …
Mercury News:
Crowd swells at peaceful Occupy Oakland general strike rally  —  OAKLAND — About 1,000 demonstrators blocked the intersection of 12th Street and Broadway late Wednesday morning, as the Occupy Oakland general strike marched in a loop around downtown Oakland following a peaceful rally …
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Associated Press:
“Occupy Oakland” strike gains big labor support
Boston Herald:
Rick Perry's giddy speech raises eyebrows, questions  —  FORT WORTH, Texas — A spirited and giggling Texas Gov. Rick Perry showed up to deliver a speech in Manchester, N.H., on Friday and the resulting video became a YouTube hit Monday.  —  His campaign insists Perry was simply “being passionate …
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Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Perry blames editing for viral ‘drunk’ video, said it was a ‘good speech’
Kevin Drum / Political Mojo:
A Conversation About Greece  —  Here's a cleaned-up version of a conversation I just had about Greece's sudden U-turn on the rescue deal negotiated just last week.  Enjoy.  —  Are the Greeks crazy?  —  No, they're just at the end of their tether.  Europe is asking them to adopt more austerity than they're willing to bear.
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Joel Herrick / Shanghaiist:
GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain unaware China has nukes  —  In an interview on PBS's Newshour with Judy Woodruff, GOP Presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain was asked whether he views China as a potential military threat to the United States.
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New York Times:
Mr. Corzine's Big Bet  —  Why did Jon S. Corzine make the risky bets that have now plunged MF Global Holdings into bankruptcy court?  We don't know, but the likely explanations are disturbing.  —  Over the past year, most investors have been fleeing the sovereign debt of Spain, Italy and other euro-zone basket cases.
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David Jolly / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo, French Magazine, Firebombed  —  PARIS — The office of a French satirical magazine here was badly damaged by a firebomb early on Wednesday, the publisher said, after it published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the victory of an Islamist party in Tunisian elections.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that economic growth strengthened somewhat in the third quarter, reflecting in part a reversal of the temporary factors that had weighed on growth earlier in the year.
Robert Booth / Guardian:
Julian Assange loses extradition appeal  —  High court judges rule the WikiLeaks founder should face accusations of rape in Sweden  —  The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has lost his high court appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations.
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Max Read / Gawker:
Texas Judge Beats Disabled Daughter on Video  —  Here's a video, recently uploaded to YouTube, showing a man whip his disabled daughter with a belt, apparently for downloading games and music.  The man is a Texas court-at-law judge named William Adams.  His daughter's name is Hillary.
Discussion: Mediaite, Above the Law and Feministe
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Case Against David Brooks, Man of the Privileged Few  —  I don't think it's too strident to demand at this point that David Brooks be hauled up before a jury consisting of everyone else in America and forced to defend himself against several million counts of being an insufferable twat in a public place.
Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Super Committee Pressed To Raise Medicare Eligibility Age  —  The Democratic co-chair of President Obama's fiscal commission now says Democrats should entertain an increase in the Medicare eligibility age — thanks in part to Obama's own health care law.
 
 
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Lawmaker says ‘1 percent’ responsible for deadly West Virginia mine disaster
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Chairwoman of Arizona Redistricting Commission Ousted
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Announces Major Policy Roll-out As He Hits 99-County Milestone In Iowa
Discussion: GOP 12 and TBogg
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Pushing back against the GOP's ‘war on voting’
Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog:
What a Jobs Plan Looks Like
Discussion: Swampland and Business Insider
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Gov. Barbour May Vote Against Mississippi's Personhood Abortion Ban: It ‘Concerns Me, I Have To Just Say It’
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ABCNEWS:
Goldline Execs Charged With Fraud
Discussion: Political Mojo, Mediaite and Daily Kos
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
House Republicans, keeping the faith
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Nelson still pondering re-election decision
Discussion: Hotline On Call and Ballot Box
Phil Mattingly / Bloomberg:
Lawmakers to Propose Transaction Tax for Financial Firms Modeled on Europe
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Dismal Tale of Arrest for Tiniest of Crimes
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