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Dylan Byers / Politico:
POLITICO reporter suspended for remarks — POLITICO reporter Joe Williams has been suspended pending review of recent controversial comments he made on television and Twitter, POLITICO editors informed staff late Thursday night. — On MSNBC today, Williams made a remark suggesting Mitt Romney …
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
POLITICO REPORTER TWEETS ANN ROMNEY PENIS JOKE — Politico, the unofficial web-branch of MSNBC, and whose staff spends more time on MSNBC than Chris Matthews, has a so-called reporter named Joseph Williams who all but called Mitt Romney a racist on Martin Bashir's show today.
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Romney's Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas — Mitt Romney's financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney campaign: ‘outsourcing’ does not equal ‘offshoring’ — Mitt Romney's campaign is disputing a Washington Post report on Bain Capital's record of investing in companies that outsourced jobs, calling it a “fundamentally flawed” story that elides the difference between outsourcing and shipping jobs overseas.
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David Blankenhorn / New York Times:
How My View on Gay Marriage Changed — IN my 2007 book, “The Future of Marriage,” and in my 2010 court testimony concerning Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, I took a stand against gay marriage.
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
Obama Asks People Getting Married To Forgo Gifts, Ask Their Guests To Donate To His Campaign Instead... You can even register your wedding on his campaign website. Could he be any more pompous?
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
The Only Nine Things You Need To Know From The Huffington Post Politico Profile That You Can't Read Online — We just downloaded The Huffington Post's profile by Michael Calderone of how Politico is supposedly in disarray. You can't read it online because it's only on the iPad.
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Eric Randall / The Atlantic Wire:
Huffington Magazine: Politico's Newsroom Is ‘The Hunger Games’
Huffington Magazine: Politico's Newsroom Is ‘The Hunger Games’
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JIMROMENESKO.COM and Poynter
Paul Geitner / New York Times:
On Vacation and Sick? A Court Says Take Another — BRUSSELS — For most Europeans, almost nothing is more prized than their four to six weeks of guaranteed annual vacation leave. But it was not clear just how sacrosanct that time off was until Thursday, when Europe's highest court ruled …
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BuzzFeed:
Immigration Divides Romney And His Church — Hispanic Mormons are torn. “Romney should listen to his church,” says Salt Lake City's Yapias. — Romney speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. — Image by Gerardo Mora / Getty Images
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rubio blasts both Republicans and Democrats for politicizing immigration
Rubio blasts both Republicans and Democrats for politicizing immigration
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Latino Decisions:
New Poll: Obama leads Romney among Latinos in key 2012 battleground states — New polling released June 22, 2012 by Latino Decisions and America's Voice finds President Obama maintaining a wide lead over Republican Mitt Romney among Latino registered voters in five key battleground states.
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Mary Cheney marries longtime partner Heather Poe — Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has married her long-time partner Heather Poe, The Daily Caller has learned. — Cheney spokeswoman Kara Ahern confirmed to TheDC that the couple married Friday morning in Washington, D.C.
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Wall Street Journal:
Why Dodd-Frank Is Unconstitutional — The financial regulations signed into law in 2010 do not honor checks and balances. They eliminate them. — When President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law nearly two years ago, he stated that …
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Power Line, PointOfLaw Forum and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Texas bank challenging Dodd-Frank, consumer bureau in court
Texas bank challenging Dodd-Frank, consumer bureau in court
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, americanthinker.com and Power Line
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's White Support Is Too Low to Win — President Obama does not currently have enough white support to win re-election even if he retains his minority base from 2008. At the same time, electoral data indicates Mitt Romney has not yet attracted enough of these white voters to capitalize on Obama's weakness.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Activists Take Out Frustration on ... Ronald Reagan — Victor Fiorillo reports for Phillymag.com:
Tim Mak / Politico:
Brian Terry's parents: W.H. ‘lying’ — The parents of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry accused the Obama administration of “lying” and “hiding something” about the Fast and Furious gunwalking operation, which was linked to the 2010 killing of their son. — “I think they are hiding something.
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Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Gas prices could hit $3 by autumn — The darkening clouds of the slowing economy could provide a bright spot for consumers: gasoline at $3 a gallon — or less — by autumn. — Nationally, regular gasoline averages $3.47 a gallon, down 47 cents from this year's high in April and well below …
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Washington Monthly, Politico, Outside the Beltway and The Political Carnival
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Calls Pelosi ‘Mind-Numbingly Stupid’ And Suggests She May Be Mentally Ill — Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) yesterday called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi “mind-numbingly stupid” and said that there is something medically wrong with her brain because she believes Republicans …
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The Raw Story
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Chief Justice Offers Hint at New Timing for Health Care Ruling — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday indicated that it is likely to go into overtime next week, as the nation awaits its decisions in challenges to President Obama's health care law and a tough Arizona immigration law.
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Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Axelrod's ObamaCare Dollars — Emails suggest the White House pushed business to the presidential adviser's former firm to sell the health-care law. — Rewind to 2009. The fight over ObamaCare is raging, and a few news outlets report that something looks ethically rotten in the White House.
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Guardian:
Saudi Arabia to fund Syria rebel army — Exclusive: Command centre in Turkey organising weapon supply to opposition — Saudi officials are preparing to pay the salaries of the Free Syria Army as a means of encouraging mass defections from the military and increasing pressure on the Assad regime, the Guardian has learned.
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Ian Simpson / Reuters:
(Note: explicit sexual content) — (Reuters) - Jurors in the child sex abuse trial of Jerry Sandusky resumed deliberations on Friday, sequestered and shielded from a shocking new accusation from Sandusky's adopted son that he, too, was abused by the former Penn State assistant football coach.
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Rick Scott Goes Off Message: Florida Economy Is Doing ‘Extremely Well’ — If Rick Scott got an order from Mitt Romney to temper his cheery talk about the Florida economy, it clearly didn't take. The Republican governor proudly boasted that his state was booming in a speech …
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The Political Carnival, Talking Points Memo and Suburban Guerrilla
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
ABA Picks Sides on Judicial Nominations — A decade ago, the Bush Administration caused some controversy when it excluded the ABA from having a formal role in evaluating judicial nominees. To the Bush Administration, the ABA was just a liberal advocacy group pretending to represent the legal profession as a whole.
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Balloon Juice and PointOfLaw Forum
David Hogberg / Capital Hill:
Kimberlin Vs. Walker: Walker Fights Back — Back on May 29th, Brett Kimberlin won a peace order hearing in Maryland District Court against Aaron Walker, claiming that Walker's blogging and tweeting of Kimberlin's violent past and his previous interactions with Kimberlin in court constituted harassment.
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Michelle Malkin