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Tonight, CBS and National Journal team up for another debate of the GOP candidates for President. The debate is reportedly focused on national security and foreign policy. It is safe to say this could be Rick Perry’s make or break

With a much-anticipated “60 Minutes” report on congressional insider trading set to air this Sunday night, Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office has launched a preemptive strike against Stanford University Hoover Fellow and Breitbart News editor Peter Schweizer, the author of the

Things will get interesting over the next few days. Stay tuned and buckle up.

From the Salt Lake Tribune: As a result of a man dying overnight at Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Park, Police Chief Chris Burbank on Friday ordered Occupy Salt Lake protesters to vacate their camps at both the west-side park and

From CNBC: As many as a dozen members of Congress and their aides took part in insider trading based on foreknowledge of market moving information on Capitol Hill, disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff told CNBC in an interview. Abramoff, who

From the San Francisco Examiner: Ferry Building merchants and managers are fed up with the mayhem that has come with the nearby Occupy SF encampment. A spike in shoplifting, break-ins and reports of abandoned human waste — and a reported

Today, in 1918, World War One ended.

UPDATE 4 (5:35 am PST): Oakland mayor Jean Quan has announced that the Occupy Oakland protest will be removed once again, as the city council plans a no-confidence vote in response to her failure to uphold law and order. UPDATE

UPDATE (10:14 pm PST): The victim is dead, according to the San Francisco Chronicle and KTVU. *** A shooting has been reported near the site of Occupy Oakland–the second shooting today at an Occupy demonstration, after an incident at Occupy

[youtube OrDLtkOud7w] Just hours after a concert by “gypsy punk” band Gogol Bordello at Occupy Vermont in Burlington, tragedy appears to have struck the encampment. From the Burlington Free Press: Police say a 35-year-old man in in grave condition after

From KGW News: Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis delivered an invoice to Occupy Portland for $1,546.52 on Wednesday morning. That’s the estimated amount of damage done to two Gresham police cars parked near the Occupy Portland encampment in downtown Portland on

It occurs to me this isn’t the first time the word orgasm has come up when discussing a Democrat administration. But Joe Biden? Emails among George Kaiser, head of the George Kaiser Family Foundation; Ken Levit, the executive director of

This email from TeamPerry hit our inbox this morning: We’ve all had human moments. President Obama is still trying to find all 57 states. Ronald Reagan got lost somewhere on the Pacific Highway in an answer to a debate question.

Actions have consequences. Winning games matters little if you lose your moral compass. For 9 years, Joe Paterno has gone to bed knowing a child rapist was on the loose and, yet, did nothing. Perhaps Hell has a football team.

The fun starts at 8pm EST on CNBC. The business news network has titled the event, “Your Money, Your Vote,” focusing questions on the economy. We’ll see how that works out. For several candidates, this could be the final elimination

From Sean Hannity’s show: Latest update on the lack of progress for Dems and Republicans to reach a tax deal. Yesterday Democrats of the Super Committee rejected Republicans’ offer to “raise federal tax collections by nearly $300 billion over the

From The Hill: House Republicans released emails Wednesday that show a major fundraiser for President Obama discussed the $535 million loan guarantee for the solar company Solyndra during a meeting with White House officials. George Kaiser, a “bundler” for Obama’s

The kids at #OccupyWallSt have had another really rad idea: The Outreach Group of the NYC General Assembly has an idea inspired by this story of unity between strangers using the original social media: chalk. It’s a creative, anonymous and

From The Daily Mail (UK): Attempts to set up a protest camp in Trafalgar Square failed today as police quickly swooped on tents and demonstrators. The camp had been set up by protesters who had broken away from a student

From Asheville’s Citizen-Times: City police have put a department employee under investigation following accusations she called Occupy Asheville protesters “nasty” in a Facebook post and complained they left “stinky belongings” on a sidewalk. Police acknowledgment of the investigation Monday continued

From The San Francisco Examiner: Last week, one or more Occupy Oakland protesters smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo branch. This week, the group’s general assembly agreed — in a near-unanimous vote Monday — to temporarily place $20,000 of

St. Louis City Mayor Francis Slay is receiving more complaints about the Occupiers in the city’s downtown Keiner Plaza area–not just from city boosters concerned about the city’s image, but tea party groups upset over the preferential treatment the city

Today, in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell.

Former Gov. Ted Strickland (D) struggles to explain why the same Ohio voters who rejected public sector labor reforms also rejected ObamaCare’s individual mandate: Could it be that ObamaCare is unpopular even among voters who support public sector unions? Or

The Herman Cain campaign has scheduled a press conference today at 5pm EST. Will he be able to address the increasing number of questions about his past behavior. If he can answer the allegations, his campaign will continue to gather

From Reuters: [youtube xKAEp4T4vPs nolink] Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday expressed regret over a botched operation meant to track guns smuggled to Mexican drug cartels and said his department misinformed Congress about it. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley slammed Holder

From #OccupyWallSt: On November 23rd, the Congressional Deficit Reduction Super-Committee will meet to decide on whether or not to keep Obama’s extension to the Bush tax-cuts – which only benefit the richest 1% of Americans in any kind of significant

WASHINGTON (AP) – A conservative-leaning panel of federal appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law as constitutional, helping set up a Supreme Court fight. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of

The world lost a great champion last night, Smokin’ Joe Frazier is sparring with the angels, now. Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in

From The Chicago Tribune: The emerging portrait of Herman Cain’s most recent accuser shows a suburban homemaker with a history of financial and legal troubles, but one who supporters say has the guts to do the right thing. Sharon Bialek,

From FoxNews: House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is calling for an investigation into allegations that ACORN-related group New York Communities for Change “engaged in fraud through its participation in the Occupy Wall Street protests.” In a letter dated Monday,

Today, in 1960, JFK defeated Richard Nixon for the Presidency.

Video streaming by Ustream NEW YORK (AP) – Speaking in a halting voice, a Chicago-area woman accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain on Monday of making an unwanted sexual advance against her more than a decade ago, saying she wanted

From The Village Voice: Insert “the revolution will not be televised” joke here. This Occupy Wall Street ad, which first surfaced a few weeks ago and is the work of David Sauvage, has appeared widely this weekend on ESPN, CBS,

From The Guardian (UK): The revolution could be trademarked in the US as more entrepreneurs seek to profit from the Occupy demonstrations. T-shirts began to appear days after the first protest on 17 September, a march through lower Manhattan. Now

Got Nuke? Latest reports may not claim Iran actually has one; however, they do suggest it has perfected the process required to produce one. That and Obama’s peace prize should make for a wonderful set of bookends as we approach