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2:00 PM ET, June 14, 2012

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Steven Bertoni / Money Talks:
Exclusive: Adelson's Pro-Romney Donations Will Be ‘Limitless,’ Could Top $100M  —  Sheldon Adelson (Jared McMillen for Forbes)  —  Forbes has confirmed that billionaire Sheldon Adelson, along with his wife Miriam, has donated $10 million to the leading Super PAC supporting presumptive …
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Campaign Aid Is Now Surging Into 8 Figures  —  Even in a political season marked by unprecedented levels of political spending, Sheldon Adelson stands alone.  —  In recent days, Mr. Adelson, a billionaire casino owner, and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, gave $10 million to Restore Our Future …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Secret money fuels the 2012 elections
First Read / msnbc.com:
Obama looks to change the narrative
Discussion: CNN
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
In New Documentary, A Usually Reticent George H.W. Bush Has Harsh Words For Ross Perot  —  Although former president George H.W. Bush has remained relatively quiet and out of the spotlight since his time in office, he's agreed to open up about his thoughts and experiences in 41, a new documentary airing this weekend on HBO.
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Meredith Woerner / io9:
George W. Bush's decapitated head appeared on Game of Thrones [Updated]
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Game of Thrones’ Showrunners, HBO Apologize for Bush's Head on Spike
Discussion: Daily Mail and Indecision Forever
Bruna Nessif / E! Online:
Game of Thrones Shocker: George W. Bush's Head Shown Decapitated on a Stake
Discussion: The Raw Story
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
HBO Apologizes For George W. Bush's Severed Head In ‘Game Of Thrones’
BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Bus Taunts Obama Supporters Honks its horn as hundreds of Obama supporters wait to enter event in Ohio.  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Republican nominee Mitt Romney's guerrilla tactics continued Thursday, as the campaign bus circled the venue where President Barack Obama will be speaking this afternoon.
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Obama heads to Ohio for reboot  —  President Obama has picked the key swing state of Ohio to deliver a speech Thursday he hopes will serve as a reset button for a campaign that has begun to struggle.  —  Obama and his presumptive Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, will converge on the state …
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Bill Clinton's words could haunt Obama today
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Speech Seeks to Assert Stark Choice for Voters
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Still Blame Bush More Than Obama for Bad Economy  —  About half of Republicans blame Bush  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans continue to place more blame for the nation's economic problems on George W. Bush than on Barack Obama, even though Bush left office more than three years ago.
Joshua Green / Business Week:
Obama's CEO: Jim Messina Has a President to Sell  —  The day after Jim Messina quit his job as White House deputy chief of staff last January, he caught a plane to Los Angeles, paid a brief visit to his girlfriend, and then commenced what may be the highest-wattage crash course in executive management ever undertaken.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Sally Quinn Forced to Dine With Non-Fake Friends  —  After pretty much the entire journalistic world has made fun of Sally Quinn's weekend Washington Post essay declaring the End of Power, further abuse may seem unnecessarily cruel.  And yet even the fulsome stream of disparagement directed …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
New Political Showdown in Egypt as Court Invalidates Parliament  —  CAIRO — Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that the Islamist-led Parliament must be immediately dissolved, while also blessing the right of Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister to run for president …
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Bloomberg:
Inequality: It's Even Worse Than We Thought  —  The current debate about rich and poor — the 1 percent versus the 99 percent — is a bit misleading because the evidence usually is data about income, not wealth.  Looking at wealth would make the comparison even starker.
Kaiser Health News:
Romney Outlines How He Would ‘Replace Obamacare’  —  Mitt Romney, who is expected to be the Republican nominee for president, doesn't usually talk about health care in his campaign stump speeches.  Tuesday, at Con-Air Industries in Orlando, Florida, he blasted the 2010 federal health law …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Heated Juan Williams/Michelle Malkin Shoutfest Gets Personal With Eyerolls, ‘Snotty’ Accusations  —  Juan Williams' patience expired fairly openly on Hannity tonight after an attack of “elitism” from Michelle Malkin that stemmed from a debate about Attorney General Eric Holder …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama snubbed me, says McCain  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said this week that President Obama never made a sincere effort to reach out to him after the 2008 election.  —  McCain was once seen as a potential ally of Obama.  But far from becoming a partner — as the left hoped for and the right feared …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Weasel Zippers
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Words Conservatives Hate  —  It's not just about promoting catchwords like the “death tax” — Republicans have also been fighting to suppress words deemed overly liberal.  —  Bisexual sustainable development activists working to prevent climate change-related sea-level rise better watch out …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
BuzzFeed:
GOP Group's Ad: Bomb Iran  —  “Now it's time to act.”  Wait for the launch the end.  —  Source: youtube.com  —  The Emergency Committee for Israel, the hawkishly pro-Israel conservative group, has released a new ad targeting the Obama administration's Iran policies …
James B. Stewart / New York Times:
How Broccoli Became a Symbol in the Health Care Debate  —  What does broccoli have to do with health insurance?  —  Until recently, nothing.  But now, perhaps a lot.  —  Broccoli, of all things, came up in the Supreme Court during arguments over the constitutionality of the Obama administration's health care legislation.
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
The Democrats' Demographic Dreams  —  If Democrats agree on anything, it's that they will eventually be on the winning side.  The white Americans who tend to vote Republican are shrinking as a percentage of the population while the number of those who lean Democratic—African Americans and other minorities—is rapidly growing.
 
 
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Politico:
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Sex Abuse Statutes of Limitation Stir Battle
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Fortune:
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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Justice Official Questioned About ‘Fast and Furious’ Is Leaving His Job
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Sandra Fluke / CNN:
Why this election is so personal
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Wall Street Journal:
Sherk and Zywicki: Obama's United Auto Workers Bailout
Foreign Policy:
12 Signs of the Europocalypse  —  From the Chinese buying spree …
Discussion: Power Line and Business Insider
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The Republican family feud
Washington Examiner:
Hatch's Solyndra: Government picks another loser
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Bloomberg:
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