PEACEFUL OCCUPY PROTESTS DEGENERATE INTO CHAOS A day of demonstrations in Oakland that began as a significant step toward expanding the political and economic influence of the Occupy Wall Street movement, ended with police in riot gear arresting dozens of protesters who had marched through downtown to break into a vacant building, shattering windows, spraying graffiti and setting fires along the way.
"We go from having a peaceful movement to now just chaos," said protester Monique Agnew, 40.
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MERCEDES HITS 2 OCCUPY OAKLAND PROTESTERSA car struck two Occupy Oakland protesters tonight as they marched with a crowd along Broadway, and an angry mob surrounded the car as emergency workers tended to the injured.
The driver, who was not identified, sat in his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan after the 7:30 p.m. incident while hundreds of people screamed at him through his closed windows.
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MN OFFICIALS TAKE TOILETS Hennepin County administrators have released a new set of rules for the Occupy MN participants who've been sleeping and demonstrating in Government Plaza since October 7. Included in a notice alerting protesters to winterization procedures that take place in the plaza every year are new restrictions on the occupiers' possessions, signs, and -- ultimately -- on their ability to sleep in the plaza.
"It is just the evolution as we get ready for winter," says District 5 Commissioner Richard Johnson.
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OBAMA: GOD BACKS JOBS PLANPresident Barack Obama Wednesday said even God wanted to put Americans back to work, invoking divine blessing for his joust with Republicans over measures designed to slice into high unemployment.
Obama also taunted his foes with historic arguments in favor of repairing vital infrastructure once made by conservative icon Ronald Reagan, as he stumped for a $60 billion infrastructure bill being taken up by the Senate.
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HOMELAND SECURITY RUNS ADS IN HOTELS ASKING PEOPLE TO SPYThe Department of Homeland Security is recruiting hotel guests to join the fight against terrorism.
Starting today, the welcome screens on 1.2 million hotel television sets in Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Holiday Inn and other hotels in the USA will show a short public service announcement from DHS. The 15-second spot encourages viewers to be vigilant and call law enforcement if they witness something suspicious during their travels.
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WARNING: OBAMA ED AIMS AT U.S. TAKEOVERA proposal by a Florida state lawmaker to allow "inspirational" messages, including prayer, on a voluntary basis at some school events is drawing the opposition of several major lobby groups on legislative issues, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League.
The proposal from Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, would allow districts to adopt resolutions that allow prayer of invocation or benediction at secondary school events if they are at the discretion of the student government, given by student volunteers and do not involve school personnel.
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MEN'S WEARHOUSE STANDS WITH OCCUPY WALL STREETYou're gonna like the way you look protesting income disparity in Oakland; this Men's Wearhouse store guarantees it.
Occupy Oakland has called for a city-wide strike and rally on Wednesday to protest income inequality, and several businesses, including Men's Wearhouse and the Grand Lake movie theater, have closed their doors in support. Oakland Tribune reporter Matt O'Brien tweeted the above photo of the shuttered men's clothing store.
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JOSEPH FARAH: WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATIONWith illegal immigration re-emerging as a major issue of the Republican presidential candidates, I thought it would be a good time for a review of the moral dimensions underlying this problem -using the wisdom and inspiration of the Bible as our guide.
I'm often surprised by how many Christians and Jews are confused about what the Bible tells us about national borders, foreigners, citizenship and the law.
Some clerics are adding to the confusion by denouncing efforts to protect our borders, safeguard our citizens and enforce our duly enacted and just laws as some kind of hateful, non-compassionate, anti-Christian or anti-biblical agenda.
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NEW YORK TIMES: CAIN ACCUSER WILL NOT GO PUBLICThe woman who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the late 1990s will not go public with her allegations, The New York Times reported Wednesday night.
Joel P. Bennett, the lawyer for one of the women who has made accusations against Cain, told the Times that his client had decided not to go public or to make a public statement herself in an effort to shield herself from the media frenzy swirling around the situation.
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TILLER CRONY ADMITS UNREPORTED CHILD RAPEThe Lawrence Journal World thought it was doing Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus, a long time associate of the late abortionist George Tiller, a favor.
This past week, the paper ran a positive article on Neuhaus, whose reputation recently took a battering at a hearing held by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts (KBHA).
Unfortunately for Neuhaus, she let slip in this exclusive interview an odd admission that may have repercussions for herself and for others accused, rightly or wrongly, of failure to report child abuse.
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MEDIA AWOL ON JESSE JACKSON'S SEXCAPADESCharles Krauthammer of Fox News: "Do you think that race, being a strong black conservative, has anything to do with the fact you've been so charged (with sexual harassment)? And if so, do you have any evidence to support that?"
Herman Cain: "I believe the answer is yes, but we do not have any evidence to support it."
Playing the race card is vulgar, whether done by Al Sharpton or President Barack Obama - as he did to contain the Rev. Wright scandal. Especially when, as here, the complainant admits he lacks evidence. If Cain were not a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination - a shock probably even to him - the media wouldn't bother. But when the quest goes from curiosity to conceivable, the scrutiny increases exponentially. And who knows how the media got the information, possibly from one of Cain's presumably non-racist GOP rivals?
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HERIFF JOE: 'SHOW ME THE MICROFILM!' OF OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATESheriff Joe Arpaio came up with the idea to demand the original microfilm of Obama's birth certificate after he saw evidence from his Cold Case Posse in Maricopa County, Ariz., that the White House apparently released to the public three different versions of the long-form birth certificate.
"Show me the microfilm, not the copies the White House released," Arpaio has insisted.
What the White House released on April 27 were not original documents but purportedly scans of original birth documents that remain in the Hawaii Department of Health vault.
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11/11/11 PROTEST: VETERANS CHALLENGING OBAMA ON LEGITIMACY, CONSTITUTIONALITYDeclaring that the "time for talking has passed," organizers of a peaceful rally scheduled for Veteran's Day in Washington are demanding the resignation of Barack Obama along with other members of his administration.
The rally is being assembled around the issues contained in a Declaration to Restore the Constitutional Republic, which sets out the goals of the organizing groups, which include the Veteran Defenders of America and its parent organization, The United States Patriots Union.
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OCCUPY WALL STREET ART: CIRQUE D'SILLYYou may have never heard the names Noah Fischer, Paddy Johnson or Kalle Lasn, but they are very occupied with Wall Street just now. As the spectacle known as "Occupy Wall Street," or OWS, grows in number and venue, many are questioning its purpose and origins, which these three know better than most.
Various groups proudly take ownership for the OWS phenomena and seek to officially speak for them. But one that has remained on the shadowy fringes of public perception may have helped to catapult the entire phenomena in the first place - a group of left-wing artists who have been planning this for months.
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PAT BUCHANAN WARNS OCCUPY WALL STEET WILL END 'VERY, VERY BADLY' Longtime conservative pundit Pat Buchanan offered an ominous assessment of the Occupy Wall Street movement this weekend.
Speaking at a round-table discussion on The McLaughlin Group on Sunday morning, host John McLaughlin asked him to predict the future of the movement.
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CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SUE FLORIDA OVER STATE'S COLLEGE TUITION POLICY Children of illegal immigrants living in Florida are suing the state for charging them out-of-state tuition.
Wendy Ruiz, a sophomore at Miami Dade College, is one of those behind the lawsuit.
She is paying $5,000 more than she technically has to, because her college insisted upon charging her out-of-state tuition when her parents were unable to produce legal immigration documents.
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ADVOCACY GROUPS SAY JAILED EX-BORDER PATROL AGENT TARGETEDEl Paso native Jesus "Chito" E. Diaz Jr. lost his career with the U.S. Border Patrol and ended up with a felony conviction after an encounter three years ago with a Mexican teenage drug smuggler on the South Texas border.
On Oct. 20, U.S. District Judge Alia Moses Ludham sentenced Diaz to 24 months in prison for depriving a 15-year-old Mexican citizen of his constitutional rights under color of law.
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SON TAKEN FROM PARENTS TO BE SHIPPED OVERSEASSocial workers who had police troopers storm a jetliner on which a family was attempting to emigrate to India, to take custody of a young boy over his homeschooling, now have discussed sending him to a family in Thailand, the boy's father has told WND.
WND reported only weeks ago that the social workers responsible for removing Domenic Johannson from his parents had called for a court hearing to consider moving custody permanently away from the family and to the government.
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BLOOMBERG STRIKES TOUGHER TONE ON OCCUPY WALL STREET Mayor Bloomberg turned up the tough talk on the Occupy Wall Street protesters: Treat the neighborhood with respect or a crackdown is coming.
"No one should think that we won't take actions that we think are appropriate when we think they are appropriate," Bloomberg told reporters Wednesday.
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SOME 15% OF U.S. USES FOOD STAMPSNearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in August, as the number of recipients hit 45.8 million.
Food stamp rolls have risen 8.1% in the past year, the Department of Agriculture reported, though the pace of growth has slowed from the depths of the recession.
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CITY CUTS POWER TO OCCUPY BALTIMORE SITEBaltimore City officials are taking a stand to get Occupy Baltimore protesters to leave McKeldin Square. Wednesday night, they turned off the electricity in the area.
Andrea Fujii has more on how that's affecting the demonstrations.
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