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Meredith Woerner / io9:
George W. Bush's decapitated head appeared on Game of Thrones — There's one hell of a dragon egg hidden in Game of Thrones season one. Turns out one of the many heads on a spike decorating King's Landing belonged to ex-president George Bush. — If you keep your eyes peeled …
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Bush decapitated in ‘Game of Thrones’ — In the “Game of Thrones,” you win or you die, and George W. Bush did the latter in the HBO series — by decapitation. — That is, a prop head of the former president appears in the TV show, according to series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss …
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TPMDC — Senators Fawn Over JPMorgan CEO After Massive Trading Debacle — The long-shot big hope for Wall Street reformers Wednesday was that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon would trip up before the Senate Banking Committee and expose the need for tighter rules governing big banks.
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TPMDC — Jeff Merkley Scolds JPMorgan CEO: ‘This Is Not Your Hearing’ (VIDEO)
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Daily Kos, Esquire, The Moderate Voice and OpenSecrets.org
John Schwartz / New York Times:
John Edwards Charges Dismissed — The Department of Justice said on Wednesday that it would not retry John Edwards, the former United States senator whose six-week trial on corruption charges ended earlier this month with an acquittal on one count and a mistrial on five others.
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New York Magazine
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Federal prosecutors drop campaign corruption case against John Edwards following mistrial
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The Moderate Voice and JOSHUAPUNDIT
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Justice Department Is Dropping Case Against Edwards
Justice Department Is Dropping Case Against Edwards
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Business Insider
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AFL-CIO Pulling Funds From Obama Campaign — The AFL-CIO has told Washington Whispers it will redeploy funds away from political candidates smack dab in the middle of election season, the latest sign that the largest federation of unions in the country could be becoming increasingly disillusioned with President Obama.
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Conservative Hideout 2.0, “The Lid”, Weasel Zippers and Race 4 2012
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Perjury charge against Shellie Zimmerman raises more questions of prosecutorial overreaching (Update: Prosecution misleadingly edited transcript) — Florida prosecutor Angela Corey has come under withering criticism from Alan Dershowitz for overcharging and leaving out important details …
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EBL and PoliPundit.com
Alicia Mundy / Washington Wire:
Adelson Gives $10 Million to Pro-Romney Super PAC — Billionaire conservative casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who helped keep Newt Gingrich's failed presidential campaign alive during the Republican primaries, is giving $10 million to the super PAC supporting the presumptive GOP nominee …
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The Moderate Voice, Mother Jones, Booman Tribune, Hullabaloo, Politico, ABCNEWS, The New Republic, WBUR, Guardian, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Taylor Marsh and Mondoweiss
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A blue man ‘dupe’: Parent panic at 32G ‘progressive’ school — The Blue School is one big play date in desperate need of adult supervision. — Parents are yanking their kids out of the “progressive,” $32,000 per-year private school founded by the Blue Man Group — which has no books and no tests …
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House GOP Blocking Abortion Access for Raped Soldiers — Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) wants to expand access to abortion for servicewomen who are raped. Only a few Republicans are willing to help. — Republican Senators John McCain, Scott Brown, and Susan Collins all support an effort …
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Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, Indecision Forever, ThinkProgress and The Reality-Based Community
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Study: Liberal Anti-Mormonism On The Rise — The left have turned against the faith since 2008, according to a new study, spurred by Romney and same-sex marriage. — Americans' aversion to voting for Mormons has spiked since Mitt Romney's first presidential bid in 2007 …
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Ross Douthat, Hot Air, The Daily Dish, Mediaite, JOSHUAPUNDIT, GOP 12, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and The Spectacle Blog
Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises … REACT: — FOLLOW: — 2012, Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Mitt Romney, Economy, Careers, Barack Obama , Politics, Video, November Election, November Elections, Trans-Pacific Partnership …
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Why Smart People Are Stupid — Here's a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? — The vast majority of people respond quickly and confidently, insisting the ball costs ten cents.
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Boing Boing and Vox Popoli
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CNN Is Ending John King's Political Show — The ailing cable news channel CNN on Wednesday abruptly ended “John King, USA,” its 6 p.m. political news program. — The program will be replaced at the end of the month by “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” which will expand from two hours long to three hours.
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Auto Bailout or UAW Bailout? Taxpayer Losses Came from Subsidizing Union Compensation — Abstract: The U.S. government will lose about $23 billion on the 2008-2009 bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. President Obama emphatically defends his decision to subsidize the automakers …
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Doug Ross, The Heritage Foundation, Race 4 2012, The Daily Caller and Cafe Hayek
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama up 6 in Nevada — Barack Obama continues to be favored to win Nevada again in 2012, but his position there is a good deal weaker than it was in 2008. Obama leads Romney 48-42. That's down a touch from our last poll in late March when he was ahead 51-43.
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Ballot Box
Luke Funk / myfoxny.com:
Health panel talks about wider food ban — MYFOXNY.COM - — The board hand-picked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that must approve his ban of selling large sugar-filled drinks at restaurants might be looking at other targets. — The New York City Board of Health showed support for limiting sizes …
Rasmussen Reports:
Wisconsin: Romney 47%, Obama 44% — Mitt Romney now leads President Obama for the first time in Wisconsin where the president's support has fallen to its lowest level to date. — The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Romney with 47% of the vote to Obama's 44%.
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Krauthammer and Reagan — A break from the road trip for one small quibble with Charles Krauthammer: he has now completely abandoned any intellectual integrity he may have had and joined the cult of Reagan mythmaking. Reagan did some fine things as president, like challenging and then negotiating with the “Evil Empire.”
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RedState, Conservatives4Palin, The Daily Caller and RealClearPolitics Video Log
ICANN New gTLDs:
You are here — Enter the terms you wish to search for. — ICANN developed the New generic Top-Level Domain Program to increase competition and choice by introducing new gTLDs into the Internet's addressing system. What is a gTLD? It is an Internet domain name extension such as the familiar .com, .net, or .org.
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Paul Krugman:
Guess Who's Emerging From the Crisis? — FT Alphaville: … From Statistics Iceland: — GDP is still below previous peak, but I think one could argue, much more so than in say America, that a significant part of that peak involved a Ponzi financial sector that isn't coming back.
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FT Alphaville, DownWithTyranny! and Mother Jones
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Romney Touts Presidential Salary Plan That Was Literally A Saturday Night Live Skit — Apparent Romney policy adviser Dana Carvey in 1992 — In an interview with conservative radio host Neal Boortz, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney floated an unusual profit-making opportunity …
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Sky Dancing, Mediaite, Wonkette, CNNMoney.com and Indecision Forever
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Romney Writes Off His Home States — The Republican with roots in three blue states gives up on all of them, writes John Avlon. — There are a lot of things different about this presidential campaign: an African-American incumbent running against a Mormon, most obviously.
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Indecision Forever
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Jeb vs. Grover: Battle for GOP's soul — Editor's note: John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is co-editor of the book “Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns.” He is a regular contributor to “Erin Burnett OutFront” …
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The Daily Beast and ABCNEWS
Nicole Ebat / KPTM-TV:
Cafe Owner After Hosting Romney Event: “I felt like it was a mocking” … © Bauer says she asked Romney staffers not to touch the memorial to her father and son — COUNCIL BLUFFS(KPTM)— Dianne Bauer opened up her cafe to Mitt Romney and his campaign for a small round table discussion Friday morning …
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The Political Carnival, Sky Dancing and The National Memo
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Yup: Romney's plan would indeed cut billions from cops, firefighters and teachers — Yesterday Mitt Romney claimed that it was “ completely absurd” of the Obama campaign to argue that he favors cutbacks in cops, firefighters and teachers. “The federal government doesn't pay for teachers …
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The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
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What might cause another 9/11? — It is supporters of Obama's aggression, not its opponents, who are likely to provoke another Terrorist attack — Today's defense of President Obama from Andrew Sullivan is devoted to refuting Conor Friedersdorf's criticism of Obama's drone program. Says Sullivan:
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The Daily Caller, The PCTC Blog, The Daily Dish, Hullabaloo and Balloon Juice
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
NBC reports demand for Holder resignation ... but not why — Hey, NBC finally reported on Operation Fast & Furious! Of course, it took a high-profile call for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder to get them to do so, but at least they mentioned the scandal …
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NewsBusters.org blogs, The Conservatory, BREITBART.COM and Ed Driscoll
Betsy Woodruff / National Review:
The FDA Chomps Down on Cigars — By proposing a ban on large sodas in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg made himself a competitive candidate for Chairman of the Anti-Fun Committee. But the FDA just might have him beat: They've moved to regulate cigars as they already do cigarettes.
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Maggie's Farm and Jammie Wearing Fools