From NEWSMAX: President Barack Obama is shredding the U.S. Constitution faster than any of the 42 men who preceded him in office, according to Fox News judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano, author of the brand new “It is Dangerous to be Right when the Government is Wrong.”

From ITS OUR ECONOMY: Anyone who wants to understand the enduring nature of Occupy Wall Street and similar protests across the country need only look at the first official data on 2010 paychecks, which the U.S. government posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

From the HUFF NEWS: …From France to Belgium to Germany, major banks that never built up adequate stocks of capital following the synchronized shocks of 2008 appear increasingly vulnerable to running out of money.

HUFF POST: President Barack Obama announced on Friday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.

“As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end,” Obama said in an announcement from the White House. “So today I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.”

From MONEY NEWS: The number of Americans who bought previously occupied homes fell in September. Home sales are on pace to match last year’s dismal figures — the worst in 13 years. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that home sales dropped 3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.91 million homes.

From USA TODAY: …From 1984 to 2008, the number of offenders serving life terms quadrupled, from 34,000 to roughly 140,000, according to the most recent count by The Sentencing Project, which advocates alternatives to incarceration…

From NEWSMAX: The GOP could face a revolt from within its tea party grassroots base if it nominates an establishment candidate without true conservative, anti-big government values, one of America’s leading conservative pundits tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

From the DAILY BEAST: After this weekend, it is impossible to deny that something is going on out there – something that spans different cultures, countries and polities. From the “Indignants” of Madrid to the pierced peons of Times Square to the thousands in Berlin and Frankfurt and London: this is a chord being struck. The question, to my mind, is: which chord exactly?…

From NEWSMAX :…The deal approved by the British ABC boosted the Journal’s circulation in ways that aren’t allowed in the U.S. Under the agreement, ELP bought 12,000 copies of the Wall Street Journal Europe at 1 euro cent (1.4 cents) each, compared with the 3 euro newsstand price, and the papers counted as paid circulation.

From the SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: Political responses to flooding are like the weather itself – nobody actually does anything about it. A group of lawmakers from Northeast Pennsylvania plan to introduce a series of bills that would provide “bridge” funding to help fund repairs from flood damage, while calling on Washington to expedite full funding.

From GALLUP: A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use should remain illegal. When Gallup first asked about legalizing marijuana, in 1969, 12% of Americans favored it, while 84% were opposed…

From the FINANCIAL TIMES: India and Pakistan are preparing for the biggest liberalisation in bilateral trade since partition more than six decades ago, reviving commercial ties that have been strangled ever since the end of British rule in 1947.

From the LOS ANGELES TIMES: The state’s largest doctor group is calling for legalization of marijuana, even as it pronounces cannabis to be of questionable medical value. Trustees of the California Medical Assn., which represents more than 35,000 physicians statewide, adopted the position at their annual meeting in Anaheim late Friday.

From POLITICO: Sarah Palin put an end to her possible presidential candidacy this month with a familiar parting critique: President Barack Obama has an unfair advantage as a candidate because he’s got “about 90 percent of the media still there in his back pocket.”