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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 …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Anger Management — Today is the day of the dueling mega-speeches …
CNN:
Romney campaign uses Obama's line against him in attack ad
Romney campaign uses Obama's line against him in attack ad
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Guardian, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Jammie Wearing Fools
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The Republican family feud
The Republican family feud
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Wall Street Journal and No More Mister Nice Blog
David Catanese / Politico:
Gov. Scott Walker: Mitt Romney should tweak message
Gov. Scott Walker: Mitt Romney should tweak message
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Washington Post
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
Campaign Aid Is Now Surging Into 8 Figures
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Secret money fuels the 2012 elections
Secret money fuels the 2012 elections
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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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Ethan Sacks / NY Daily News:
HBO apologizes after ‘Game of Thrones’ scene featured severed head resembling former President George W. Bush
HBO apologizes after ‘Game of Thrones’ scene featured severed head resembling former President George W. Bush
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Game of Thrones’ Showrunners, HBO Apologize for Bush's Head on Spike
‘Game of Thrones’ Showrunners, HBO Apologize for Bush's Head on Spike
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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 …
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Washington Monthly, Esquire and Taylor Marsh
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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CNN:
Some cry ‘coup’ as Egypt's highest court annuls parliament, military extends power
Some cry ‘coup’ as Egypt's highest court annuls parliament, military extends power
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Marc Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Egypt's So-Called Transition Canceled
Egypt's So-Called Transition Canceled
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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.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Disguising “Repeal and Reverse” — In a speech in Florida today, Mitt Romney repeated his frequent claim that in a post-ObamaCare world, he would fight to prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions. — That's not just a lie, but a pretty big, pretty important lie.
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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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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.
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 …
ThinkProgress:
Female Fox Anchor Walks Off Set After Co-Host's Sexist Joke — On Fox & Friends Thursday morning, Steve Doocy interviewed members of the U.S. Navy Band about the band's recent inclusion of women. Reacting to the segment, Brian Kilmeade remarked, “Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now.
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Little Green Footballs, Media Matters for America, Gawker, Wonkette and The New Civil Rights Movement
Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
White House Forgets to Pay Father's Day Lunch Tab — Amid the bustle of President Obama's surprise stop for barbecue Wednesday the White House apparently overlooked one key detail: the bill. — Celebrating Father's Day early, the president had lunch with two service members and two local barbers at Kenny's BBQ on Capitol Hill.
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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 …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Apple Adds Gay and Lesbian Couple Icons to iOS 6 — The new version of Apple's iPhone operating system comes with new emojis, the popular emoticons that are often used in texting and email, especially by young kids and nerdy adults like me. Two of these new pictograms represent gay and lesbian couples for the first time.
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TechCrunch, Good As You, Towleroad News #gay and The New Civil Rights Movement
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 …
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Wonkette, Daily Kos and Weasel Zippers
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.
Jose Antonio Vargas / TIME Ideas:
Inside the World of the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant — Since revealing my status as an undocumented immigrant, hundreds of others have come forward to share their own stories. What they have to say will surprise you — Clockwise from top left: Julieta Garibay, from Mexico; Jong Min, from Korea …
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Velvet Revolution:
Brett Kimberlin and the Justice of Google — On November 19, 1989, the people of Prague, in the former state of Czechoslovakia, gathered to commemorate a massacre of Czech students by Nazi Germany fifty years earlier. By the end of the day, the gathering turned into a demonstration …
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protein wisdom, The Jawa Report, PJ Media and Michelle Malkin