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12:55 AM ET, November 29, 2011

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Dale Russell / MyFox Atlanta:
Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain  —  Ginger White's exclusive interview with the I-Team  —  ATLANTA, Ga. - An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Herman Cain Breaks News Of His Own New Accusation Live On CNN  —  Viewers of CNN's The Situation Room this afternoon may have noticed that something sort of strange happened at the end of the first of two segments in which Wolf Blitzer interviewed former GOP frontrunner Herman Cain.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Ginger White accuses Herman Cain of a 13-year affair  —  A Georgia woman says that she and Herman Cain engaged in a 13-year affair, but the GOP presidential candidate issued a preemptive denial on Monday.  —  In an interview with the local Fox affiliate in Atlanta, Ginger White said she met Cain …
Scogginsj / CNN:   Herman Cain on new claim of a long-term extramarital affair, “I have done nothing wrong.”
CBS News:
Woman claims 13-year affair with Herman Cain
Discussion: Truthdig, Booman Tribune and Angry Bear
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Herman Cain Scoops His Latest Accuser
Discussion: Gawker
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Cain Accused of Affair by Ginger White
Discussion: Wonkette and The Caucus
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Woman says she and Cain had 13-year affair; Cain denies accusation
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Kevin Drum / Political Mojo:
How 2008 Should Have Radicalized Us All  —  Now that Bloomberg has peeled another layer off the Federal Reserve onion, we know a bit more about just how much money they spent rescuing the banking system in 2008.  Matt Yglesias sums up his reaction, and I think he gets it exactly right:
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Paul Krugman:
Mission Not Accomplished  —  Matt Yglesias and Kevin Drum say the right thing about revelations that big banks got very easy terms during the financial crisis: the real scandal isn't so much that those banks got rescued as that the rest of the population didn't.
Discussion: Eschaton
Yossi Melman / Reuters:
Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility  —  Semi-official Fars news agency says blast heard distinctly in several parts of the western Iran city; a uranium conversion plant near Isfahan went online in 2004.  —  An explosion rocked the western Iranian city …
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported
Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
BREAKING: Huge Explosion In IRAN's Nuke City
Discussion: Ynetnews, Telegraph and Elder of Ziyon
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Gingrich nabs high-profile endorsement in South Carolina  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich picked up the endorsement of former South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer on Monday, giving him his most prominent surrogate to date in a state that Gingrich's campaign has billed as its “southern firewall.”
Discussion: The Politico and Moe Lane
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Frank: Gingrich against Obama ‘best thing’ for Dems since Goldwater
Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich Campaign Struggles With Organization, Power Outsiders Poll Shows
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Telemarketer Abuse Statute Confounds Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — “This is the strangest statute I have ever seen,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said near the end of a Supreme Court argument on Monday.  —  The justices had spent most of the previous hour trying to puzzle out the meaning …
Colleen Owens / Big Government:
Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor  —  Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party.
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BBC:
Arrest over video of ‘racist rant’ on Croydon to Wimbledon tram  —  The clip shows a woman swearing at passengers on the tram  —  A woman has been arrested after an online video apparently showed a woman abusing ethnic minority passengers on a packed south London tram.
Discussion: Gay Blog, Gawker and The Raw Story
Michelle Malkin:
Did you miss the Thanksgiving White House visitor log document dump?  —  Just like clockwork, the Obama administration never misses an opportunity to unload thousands of records it hopes no one will ever bother sifting through during the holidays.  —  On Black Friday, the White House released …
Thomas B. Edsall / Campaign Stops:
The Future of the Obama Coalition  —  For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters.  But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
Kos / Daily Kos:
Congress is close to destroying the internet (no hyperbole)  —  Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web, including Daily Kos.  —  This is no hyperbole.  Watch the video above.
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Voting Rights Advocate Held At Gunpoint By SWAT Team With No Warrant  —  Last Monday, attorney Barbara Arnwine was rudely awakened by the sounds of a police raid on her home.  Arnwine is not really the type you'd expect SWAT teams to be targeting.  She's the Executive Director …
Discussion: Crew of 42 and The Agitator
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Washington Post Blogger Asks for Dirt About Newt Gingrich on Twitter  —  Still in the camp that doesn't believe the media are liberally biased?  —  Check out what the Washington Post's Aaron Blake tweeted moments ago on Twitter:  —  For those unfamiliar, Blake writes for the Post's The Fix political blog …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Race-IQ ‘Blackout’  —  Andrew asserts that “pc egalitarianism” is strangling research into IQ.  To buttress this observation he points to a piece in Alternet that basically asserts the same.  The piece contains no numbers to back up the claim, and quotes only one scientist to evidence this scourge of manners.
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Radiation Covers 8% of Japan, Fukushima Crisis “Stunting Children's Growth” … Fukushima, like most international stories, has a very short half life in the U.S. media — a lot shorter than that of radioactive cesium.  As the NY Times noted back in March, “Over the long term …
Bshaw / Orlando Sentinel:
Senate congressional map has big - and not-so-big- changes  —  The Florida Senate's Reapportionment Committee released its long-awaited maps drawing new districts for the state Senate and adding two congressional seats to Florida's existing 25.  Eyeballing the congressional maps (available here) …
Jim Lacey / National Review:
Scientists Behaving Badly  —  Global-warming skeptics spend much of their time knocking down the fatuous warmist claim that the science is settled.  According to the warmists, this singular piece of settled science is attested to by hundreds or thousands of highly credentialed scientists.
Discussion: JunkScience.com and Campaign 2012
Roger Pielke, Jr / Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog:
A New US Hurricane Record  —  On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005.  That number of days will break the existing record of days between major US hurricane landfalls, which previously …
Discussion: Via Meadia
Mike Allen / The Politico:
DNC to Romney: There you go again - Steve Schwarzman backs Mitt - POLITICO behind-the-scenes eBook on 2012 debuts Wed.: The old Newsweek project, IN REAL TIME — NYT debunks dumb law  —  Good Monday morning.  BRUTAL VIDEO: The DNC, working to define Mitt Romney even before Republicans have a nominee …
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Obama administration, GAO appear to have ignored group's ACORN affiliation to award $700K  —  A newly released internal audit appears to indicate that the Government Accountability Office and President Barack Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development incorrectly argued that a specific organization wasn't ACORN-affiliated.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Lana Peters, Stalin's Daughter, Dies at 85  —  Her three successive names were signposts on a twisted, bewildering road that took her from Stalin's Kremlin, where she was the “little princess,” to the West in a celebrated defection, then back to the Soviet Union in a puzzling homecoming …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Gawker
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
More On Climategate II  —  The Science & Environmental Policy Project comments on the Climategate II emails: … SEPP offers a series of links to commentators who have analyzed the Climategate II emails:  —  You can search the Climategate I and II emails here: http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php
 
 
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Discussion: MyFox Atlanta
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
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