A man who brought a Rep. Ron Paul sign to a Newt Gingrich rally is now suing the former House Speaker and his security team for, among other things, assault. Eddie Dillard, it was reported last week, arrived at a Gingrich event in Florida and was deemed to be too close to the stage where Gingrich was speaking, sporting a “Ron Paul” sign. He told reporter campaign security staff told the crowd to step on his toes.

Thursday night, Bill O’Reilly offered his reaction to being followed last night in DC by a man who repeatedly asked him whether he had attended a fundraiser for GOP presidential hopeful and former Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich that night.

On Wednesday night’s The Factor, Bill O’Reilly took a look at allegations of rape, assault and theft at various “Occupy” protests across cities, including New York City, Baltimore, Oakland, and Dallas.

Former NYPD detective and current Fox News contributor Bo Dietl said that, from what he’s heard, the “word at Rikers Island” is that the protest sites are a “party” with free food and access to drugs, adding that the protests have been steadily attracting a “criminal element” and a “homeless element.” Furthermore, he said, there’s a “code of conduct” among protesters, barring them from reporting instances of theft or sexual harassment to law enforcement.

It was a quiet night in Philadelphia. The crickets were chirping, the lights were dimming, and police were raiding a local residency housing several dead dogs, a live alligator, and a comatose partridge in a pear tree. (Okay, maybe not that last one.)

On Anderson Cooper 360 tonight, CNN host Anderson Cooper confronted Nir Rosen over the controversial Tweets he made about CBS correspondent Lara Logan‘s recent attack and sexual assault in Egypt. Rosen, you may recall, recently resigned from his post as a NYU fellow after his Tweets about Logan’s attack drew heavy criticism.

Just a few days after asserting that his past troubles with domestic violence, steroid use, alimony, and the IRS were “not an embarrassment” to the Democratic Party, Illinois Lt. Governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen took to a local bar to announce his exit from the race. Cohen’s departure was to be expected after a shocking [...]