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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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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Anger Management — Today is the day of the dueling mega-speeches on the presidential campaign trail. And reporters waiting around the venue of President Obama's event were greeted by a Romney campaign bus circling the venue and volubly honking its horn, something you'd expect …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Says Election Will Shape the Economy for Years
Obama Says Election Will Shape the Economy for Years
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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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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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Elizabeth Flock / US News:
RNC Latino Site Features Stock Photo of Asian Children — Mitt Romney has been increasingly keen to court the Latino vote, which is believed to heavily favor President Obama over the former Massachusetts governor for president. In the latest Latino Decisions poll, Obama held a 43-point lead over Romney.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Features Stock Photo Of Asian Children On Latino Outreach Site
GOP Features Stock Photo Of Asian Children On Latino Outreach Site
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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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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 …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Boss Emeritus rips Juan Williams for blogger remark — Via Fox News, Jammie Wearing Fool, Mediate, Instapundit, and darned near every sentient being in the dextrosphere (including Allahpundit in the QOTD), our friend and Boss Emeritus Michelle Malkin took Fox News' Juan Williams …
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
As Punishment For Opposing Anti-Abortion Bill, Male Michigan House Leader Bans Two Female Reps From Speaking — A male Republican House leader in Michigan silenced two female Democratic state legislators on Thursday after the pair tried to advance a measure that would have reduced access to vasectomies.
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Chad Livengood / detroitnews.com:
Lawmaker barred from speaking over ‘vagina’ comment
Lawmaker barred from speaking over ‘vagina’ comment
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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.
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Michael Barbaro / The Caucus:
Romney Assails Obama for Favoring Words Over Action — CINCINNATI — Mitt Romney, seeking to overshadow an appearance by the president in Ohio on Thursday, mocked President Obama as a candidate of words, not deeds, whose eloquent speechmaking abilities have not been matched by the effectiveness of his economic policies.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Disguising “Repeal and Reverse”
Disguising “Repeal and Reverse”
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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.
Washington Post:
Full transcript of Obama's speech on the economy in Cleveland, Ohio — Full transcript of President Obama's June 14 speech on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio: — OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you so much.
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CBS Chicago:
Surveillance Pictures Released In Mob Attack On CTA Red Line — CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police hope surveillance pictures help lead them to one of three weekend mob attacks on people downtown. — As WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, around 10:30 p.m. Saturday …
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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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Luigi Zingales / New York Times:
The College Graduate as Collateral — ACADEMIC economists like to make fun of businesspeople: they want competition when they enter a new market but are quick to lobby for subsidies and barriers to competitors once they get in. Yet scholars like me are no better.
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David Catanese / Politico:
Gov. Scott Walker: Mitt Romney should tweak message — Gov. Scott Walker urged Mitt Romney to develop a more cogent economic message Thursday in order to win over the fickle swing voters needed to carry Wisconsin and win the presidency. — The Republican governor's advice was more a critique …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The Republican family feud
The Republican family feud
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Ned Martel / Washington Post:
Geithner proposed Hillary Clinton for Treasury secretary; White House scuttled idea — In the spring of 2011, Timothy Geithner wanted to leave his job. The Treasury secretary's family was moving to New York for his son's senior year in high school, and the commute to see them each weekend was sure to be arduous.
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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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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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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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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.
Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Parents Furious After School Teaches Graphic Sex Class — Parents in a small Washington State community are infuriated after their 11-year-old children were given graphic descriptions of oral and anal sex during a sex education class led by an elementary school principal.
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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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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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