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3:50 PM ET, November 5, 2011

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CBS News:
Andy Rooney dead at 92  —  Andy Rooney, the “60 Minutes” commentator known to generations for his wry, humorous and contentious television essays - a unique genre he is credited with inventing - died Friday night in a hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery.
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New York Times:
Andy Rooney, Mainstay on ‘60 Minutes’, Dead at 92  —  Andy Rooney, whose prickly wit was long a mainstay of CBS News and whose homespun commentary on “60 Minutes,” delivered every week from 1978 until 2011, made him a household name, died Friday in New York City.
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Andy Rooney dead at 92
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CEPR:
WAPO Ombudsman Defends Hit Job on Social Security  —  If there were ever any doubts that “Fox on 15th Street” was a fitting label for the Washington Post, Patrick Pexton, the paper's ombudsman removed them with his defense of the Post's front page piece on Social Security last Sunday.
Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Under Herman Cain, NRA launched sex harassment fight  —  When sexual harassment complaints against Herman Cain unfolded at the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s, the issue was an all too familiar one for the trade association.  —  In the wake of the televised 1991 Clarence …
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Cain Lurves the Race Card
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The unnecessary ‘jack-booted thugs’ uproar  —  There was a bit of a stir yesterday on some far-right blogs, which claimed that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called conservatives “jack-booted thugs” in a speech.  —  That's not what happened.  Politico's Patrick Reis has the story:
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Blue San Francisco Plans To Stiff The Unions  —  Scott Walker move over; San Francisco is the latest front line in the battle against abusive public sector unions.  —  The bluest city in the bluest state in the union has woken up and smelled the latte; generations of extortionate collusion …
TheDenverChannel.com:
Occupy Protester Arrested In $10M Arson Fire  —  Fire Burned Two Buildings In Fort Collins  —  FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Police have arrested an Occupy Fort Collins protester in connection with a $10 million arson fire that damaged dozens of condominiums and businesses in Fort Collins.
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Kieran Nicholson / Denver Post:
Fort Collins man arrested as arson suspect in $10 million downtown fire
Ira Stoll / The Future of Capitalism:
Occupy Boston Occupies Israeli Consulate  —  A contingent from the Occupy Boston “Occupy” protest camp marched late yesterday afternoon to the building that houses the Israeli consulate in Boston and held a brief sit-in in the building's lobby.  Video is here and embedded below.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Power Line
Thomas Walkom / Toronto Star:
Europe falls victim to a classic Greek tragedy … Like all Greek tragedies, the euro crisis is a story of noble intention poisoned by overweening arrogance.  And like all Greek tragedies, it promises to end badly.  —  Friday's combination of parliamentary drama and farce in Athens has served …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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New York Post:
Zuccotti protesters put up women-only tent to prevent sexual assaults  —  It's a safe house from the sex fiends.  —  Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away.
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Demand Denialism  —  I got to thinking about Frédéric Bastiat again yesterday since I saw an edition of some of his books in a bookshop window.  So I went back and read his “What Is Seen And What Is Not Seen,” which I've seen a lot of people cite as the foundation for their opposition to stimulus policies.
Discussion: Brad DeLong
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
To Fix Housing, See the Data  —  In Miami recently, I met up with Laurie Goodman, a senior managing director of Amherst Securities.  I'd been trying to meet her ever since I'd read an article that she had written in March entitled “The Case for Principal Reductions.”  But our schedules never seemed to mesh.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Reity O'Brien / Philly.com:
Occupy Philly protests fund-raiser for Romney  —  Members of Occupy Philadelphia and other groups protested late Friday afternoon outside a fund-raiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  —  More than 100 people marched from the Occupy Philly tent city at Dilworth Plaza …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Raw Story
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Solyndra Subpoena Rejected By Obama Administration … Solyndra , Video , Obama Solyndra , Republicans Solyndra , Solyndra Obama , Gop Solyndra , Obama Solyndra Subpoena , Solyndra Investigation , Solyndra Subpoena , Solyndra Subpoena Gop , Solyndra Subpoena Rejected , Politics News
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Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
WH rejects subpoena request for Solyndra docs
 
 
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