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5:15 PM ET, November 5, 2011

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myfoxdc WTTG FOX 5:
Car Plows into Crowd of Occupy D.C. Protesters in Northwest  —  WASHINGTON - At least three Occupy D.C. protesters have been hit by a car at 7th and K Streets in northwest around 9:50 on Friday night.  —  Police say the car hit the first group, then kept driving, and hit a third person before it was stopped.
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Tina Dupuy / Crooks and Liars:
Exclusive Video: #OccupyDC Protesters Hit by Driver...Who Police Let Go  —  On Friday night I was covering the protest of the Americans for Prosperity conference at the Washington DC Convention Center.  It started off with a march from McPherson Square, the location of the Occupation, down K Street to the convention center.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
Occupy D.C. protesters block streets near convention center
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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CBS News:
Andy Rooney dead at 92
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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.
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.
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
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 …
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
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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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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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: The Raw Story
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.
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
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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