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11:00 AM ET, November 6, 2011

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Rampaging Occupiers Attack 78-Year-Old Woman  —  We posted video last night in which degenerates from Occupy D.C. stormed the Washington Convention Center where Americans For Prosperity was holding a dinner.  In the course of their riot, the Occupiers attacked a 78-year-old woman …
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‘Occupy DC’ trio run over outside conservative conference
Fritz Tucker / GlobalResearch.ca:
A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street; “The Leaders of the allegedly Leaderless Movement”  —  On Sunday, October 23, a meeting was held at 60 Wall Street.  Six leaders discussed what to do with the half-million dollars that had been donated to their organization, since, in their estimation …
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Mike Wise / Washington Post:
If Jerry Sandusky allegations are true, Penn State and Joe Paterno deserve part of the blame  —  After what allegedly happened to “Victim 2,” a boy estimated to be 10 years old, in the same room where Penn State football players shower, it's near impossible to keep reading the grand jury's report.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
It's Not 1980 Anymore … —William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust  —  For every American conservative, not once but whenever he wants it, it's always the evening of November 4, 1980, the instant when we knew Ronald Reagan, the man who gave the speech in the lost cause of 1964 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP leader dons flak jacket after friendly fire on spending bills  —  The debate over spending among Republicans in Congress has become so intense that one Senate Republican leader has started wearing a flak jacket to meetings.  —  Public attention has focused on the deficit-reduction …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The $8 Trillion Internet: McKinsey's Bold Attempt to Measure the E-conomy  —  The Internet — that 200 billion-person, $8 trillion global economy — accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth in the world's largest economies over the last 5 years, McKinsey found in a report released this week.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Matt Negrin / The Politico:
It's not about serving the rich, Boehner says  —  House Speaker John Boehner disputes the notion that Republicans are “servants of the rich.”  —  “That's very unfair,” Boehner said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”  “Listen, I come from a family of 12.  My dad owned a bar.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Christopher Quinn / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Occupy Atlanta |  Police halt midnight march  —  Police arrested about 20 demonstrators on the streets around Woodruff Park late Saturday as the Occupy Atlanta protest took an unexpected turn onto Peachtree Street.  —  Before midnight, waves of police were moving south down Peachtree, forcing the marchers back.
New York Post:
Protester throws fit in McDonald's when he can't get free food  —  This isn't the way to stick it to corporate America.  —  A Zuccotti Park protester threw a violent fit in a McDonald's yesterday after employees refused to give him free food.  —  Fisika Bezabeh, 27, ripped a credit-card reader …
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Cain, Gingrich Debate Lincoln-Douglas Style  —  WASHINGTON, DC  —  GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich engage in a 90 minute debate hosted by the Texas Patriots PAC.  There is no moderator and the two candidates discuss and respond to each other's positions on domestic policy in The Woodlands, TX.
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
President Obama marks the Hajj and Eid al-Adha  —  President Obama and the First Lady mark the Hajj and Eid al-Adha  —  Michelle and I extend our greetings for a happy Eid al-Adha to Muslims worldwide and congratulate those performing Hajj.  —  Thousands of Muslim Americans are among …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Eric Holder has a gun problem  —  Eric Holder has a gun problem.  —  As the chief law enforcement officer Attorney General Eric Holder came out swinging in the first months of the Obama administration as he pushed to reinstate the assault weapons ban, pointing to the rising levels of violence …
Discussion: Hot Air and Instapundit
Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
Did a Social Security story go too far?  —  If I ever had doubts that Social Security is the proverbial third rail of American politics, they were dispelled this week by readers who criticized a front-page story last Sunday on the subject by Post economic policy reporter Lori Montgomery.
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Matthew Goldstein / Unstructured Finance:
MF Global and the rubber check
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Dharm Makwana / The Province » B.C.:
Woman confirmed dead at Occupy Vancouver site
Boston Herald:
Hub to Occupy: Shape up or ship out
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