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Laura Wilson / Barack Obama:
The Obama event registry — Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up? — Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It's a great way to support the President on your big day.
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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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The Gateway Pundit, Ed Driscoll, protein wisdom, The Lonely Conservative and Pirate's Cove
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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Crooks and Liars, The Jawa Report, The Caucus, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, FishbowlDC, Wonkette, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mashable!, Poynter, NewsBusters.org, The Daily Caller, The Lonely Conservative, americanthinker.com, Independent Journal Review, The Raw Story, Examiner, First Draft, Media Decoder and Taylor Marsh
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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Washington Wire, CNN, The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, BuzzFeed, National Review, The Caucus, The New Republic, ThinkProgress, The Hill, Business Insider, The Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, TBogg, American Prospect, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, Fortune, The Reaction, Indecision Forever, msnbc.com, Eclectablog, ABCNEWS, Ballot Box, Prairie Weather, SEIU.org, Balloon Juice, Washington Examiner, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, US Politics and Taylor Marsh
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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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AEIdeas, BuzzFeed, Jay Bookman, CNN, Capital Hill, ABCNEWS, Guardian, Eclectablog and Daily Kos
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Activists Take Out Frustration on ... Ronald Reagan — Victor Fiorillo reports for Phillymag.com:
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Victor Fiorillo / blogs.phillymag.com:
What Happens When You Let Gay Philly Activists Into the White House
What Happens When You Let Gay Philly Activists Into the White House
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www.philadelphiaweekly …, Independent Journal Review, Wonkette, Riehl World View and UrbanGrounds
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's White Support Is Too Low to Win
Obama's White Support Is Too Low to Win
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The New Republic, Guardian, Vodkapundit, Rush Limbaugh, Hot Air, The Hill, Firedoglake, Planet Washington and Politico
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.
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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The Daily What, The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com, CARPE DIEM, Business Insider and PointOfLaw Forum
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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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Poliglot, Advocate, Mediaite, GayPatriot and FishbowlDC
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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The Daily Caller, Mediaite and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
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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
BuzzFeed:
Anti-Obama Artist Strikes Again — Jon McNaughton, the artist who depicted Obama burning the Constitution, has a new painting . He's aiming to sell it to the highest bidder, between $50,000 and $100,000. — McNaughton's new piece of art, “The Empowered Man”
Ignazio Messina / Toledo Blade:
Wurzelbacher: Story of ad unfairly spun — House candidate says he 'wasn't talking about the Holocaust' in video — Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss — Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is not backing down from an anti-gun-control video released by his campaign this week …
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Little Green Footballs, 2012 Decoded, Outside the Beltway and NY Daily News
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
Joe The Plumber Defends Campaign Ad Tying Holocaust To Gun Control
Joe The Plumber Defends Campaign Ad Tying Holocaust To Gun Control
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Little Green Footballs
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: The saddest hack — It's time to take the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez seriously, as depressing as that is … Kathryn Jean Lopez is, as best I can tell, a Heritage Foundation intern who was awarded the job of “National Review Online Editor” …
Robert Costa / National Review:
Ryan Being Vetted for VP — I'm reliably informed that Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Budget Committee chairman, has submitted paperwork to the Romney campaign. Sources confirm that he is being vetted for the vice-presidential nomination.
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama blames GOP for playing ‘politics’ on immigration — LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — President Barack Obama on Friday bashed Republicans for blocking immigration reform and took a victory lap here before a national conference of Hispanic politicians. — One week after announcing …
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Weasel Zippers
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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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The Lonely Conservative, Michelle Malkin, The Other McCain and Riehl World View
BBC:
Turkish jet ‘shot down’ off Syria — The Turkish military said it lost radio contact with the F-4 while it was flying over Hatay — Turkey has said it believes that one of its fighter jets has been shot down by Syrian security forces. — The F-4 Phantom disappeared over the Mediterranean …
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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.
New York Times:
Philadelphia's Msgr. William J. Lynn Is Convicted of Allowing Abuse — PHILADELPHIA — Msgr. William J. Lynn, a former archbishop's aide, was found guilty Friday of one count of endangering children, becoming the first senior official of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States …
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The New Civil Rights Movement and Associated Press
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Many Americans Can't Name Obama's Religion — Majority guess he is Christian, 11% say Muslim — PRINCETON, NJ — Just 34% of Americans correctly say U.S. President Barack Obama is a Christian, while 44% say they don't know Obama's religion and 11% say he is a Muslim.
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Mediaite
John Harwood / New York Times:
With Elections Awash in Cash, There's Blame to Go Around — WASHINGTON — David Axelrod, President Obama's political strategist, recently invoked a common perception about the 2012 campaign by blaming the Supreme Court for empowering 21st-century “robber barons trying to take over the government.”
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Hullabaloo
Bloomberg:
Republicans' Voter Suppression Project Grinds On — Mitt Romney was in Michigan this week trying to make it competitive in the presidential election. It's a steep climb for the native Michigander because President Barack Obama's auto bailout, which Romney opposed, has helped bring …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bad news: Jon Stewart not exactly buying the executive-privilege claim — Via Katie Pavlich, that's not the only bad news here for Eric Holder and Barack Obama. Not only does Jon Stewart tell an audience inclined towards supporting Obama in November exactly why Operation Fast and Furious …
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Oregon Study Reveals Benefits, and Costs, of Insuring the Uninsured — PORTLAND, Ore. — When Wendy Parris shattered her ankle, the emergency room put in an air cast and sent her on her way. Because she had no insurance, doctors did not operate to fix it.
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American Prospect and The Reality-Based Community
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