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2:20 PM ET, July 5, 2012

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Wall Street Journal:
Romney's Tax Confusion  —  The candidate's response on the ObamaCare mandate reveals larger campaign problems.  —  If Mitt Romney loses his run for the White House, a turning point will have been his decision Monday to absolve President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Dukakis, Kerry ... Romney?  —  Remember Michael Dukakis (1988) and John Kerry (2004)?  It's possible to lose a winnable presidential election to a vulnerable incumbent in the White House (or in the case of 1988, a sitting vice president).  So, speaking of losing candidates from Massachusetts …
First Read / msnbc.com:
Romney's changes on health care law irk conservatives  —  Penalty-vs.-tax episode exposes Romney's fatal flaw: Conservatives simply don't trust him... Romney's verbal gymnastics... Will tomorrow finally allow Romney to change the subject to the economy after three weeks when it hasn't been the dominant issue? …
Tom Troy / Toledo Blade:
China to face accusation of unfair trade
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Politico, ABCNEWS and aflcio.org
Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Ann Romney: Obama's whole campaign strategy is “let's kill this guy”  —  (CBS News) On a mission to shatter the image of her husband as rigid and unrelatable, Ann Romney told CBS News she worries that President Obama's entire campaign strategy is “kill Romney.”
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Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Romney: Roberts' health care ruling “not accurate”  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  (CBS News) WOLFEBORO, N.H — Mitt Romney says Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts erred in his conclusions in upholding the individual mandate in President Obama's signature health care reform law.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Ann Romney says woman could be VP
Discussion: Daily Kos
Tim Mak / Politico:
Ann Romney: Barack Obama wants to ‘destroy’ Mitt Romney
Discussion: Daily Kos
Rong-Gong Lin II / L.A. NOW:
San Diego fireworks show exploded in 15 seconds, ruining show [Video]  —  One of the largest Fourth of July fireworks shows in the nation was ruined in San Diego Wednesday after a glitch caused all the pyrotechnics to ignite all at once.  —  About five minutes before the Port …
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UTSanDiego.com:
San Diego fireworks suffer “premature ignition”
Bloomberg:
The Other Big Case the Supreme Court Got Right  —  “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices,” wrote U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, making pretty clear what he thinks about Obamacare even as he supplied the crucial fifth vote to uphold it.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Romney criticizes Chief Justice Roberts on healthcare decision
Discussion: CNN
Rose Gordon Sala / msnbc.com:
It's a penalty, it's a tax ... it's more Romney flip-flopping on health care
Discussion: The Agonist and theGrio
Rene Stutzman / Orlando Sentinel:
Judge: George Zimmerman's new bond $1 million  —  A Sanford judge today ordered George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, released on $1 million bail.  —  It was not immediately clear how long it would take the 28-year-old Zimmerman to arrange his release.
Mary Slosson / Reuters:
In California, immigration bill designed as the “anti-Arizona”  —  (Reuters) - While America's debate over immigration has been dominated recently by crackdowns in states like Arizona and Alabama, California legislators are trying to turn that tide with a bill to protect illegal immigrants that they dub the “anti-Arizona.”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Kryptonite  —  I'll just say it: I don't think the political pundit class understands just how toxic the Swiss/Caymans/Bermuda accounts issue is for Romney.  Not that they don't know it's a liability at all.  But I don't think they realize the extent of it.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
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Mike Lillis / Ballot Box:
Obama launches bus tour in key swing states Ohio, Pennsylvania
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Scared Monkeys
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
John Stossel Panhandles To Prove 'You Really Shouldn't Give To These Street People'  —  Fox Business Network host John Stossel appeared on Fox & Friends on Thursday to promote an upcoming segment on his program where he dresses like a homeless man and panhandles on the streets of New York.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Alabama Pastor Holds ‘Whites Only’ Conference  —  All loving Christians are invited to celebrate the word of God at Rev. William Collier's annual conference — that is, as long and they are white.  —  Collier's Alabama town is outraged over the flyer for his pastors' conference, which specifies “All White Christians Invited.”
New York Post:
Corzine is having no fun in the shun  —  How the mighty have fallen.  —  It seems like only yesterday that Jon Corzine was the life of the party, holding court on the Hamptons political circuit, raising money for Barack Obama.  —  Now, Corzine — just months removed from a humiliating financial scandal …
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools and DealBook
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Marine Corps band plays Romney song on White House lawn  —  A subset of the Marine Corps band struck up one of Mitt Romney's walkout songs while President Obama was greeting visitors at the White House Independence Day celebration.  —  A White House pool report said the band struck up Rodney Atkins's …
Marisa Schultz / detroitnews.com:
TV pilot an outlet for Rep. McCotter  —  Lowbrow project was a way to deal with his failed presidential bid  —  As U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter's short-lived presidential run fizzled last year, the Livonia Republican turned to another aspiration: writing a TV show.
Kurt Andersen / New York Times:
The Downside of Liberty  —  THIS spring I was on a panel at the Woodstock Writers Festival.  An audience member asked a question: Why had the revolution dreamed up in the late 1960s mostly been won on the social and cultural fronts — women's rights, gay rights, black president, ecology …
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Timothy Dalrymple / Philosophical Fragments:   Against the Hippies: Or, In Defense of American Individualism
BuzzFeed:
The Pauls' New Crusade: “Internet Freedom”  —  Defending the Internet — and the corporations that invest in it — from government regulation is the new “End the Fed,” Paul advisors tell BuzzFeed exclusively.  A new Paul manifesto: “This is our revolution.”
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Hopeful signs emerge for struggling jobs market  —  (Reuters) - U.S. private employers stepped up hiring in June and the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits last week fell by the most in two months, hopeful signs for the struggling labor market.
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Palestinians disappointed with Obama  —  President Obama has failed to deliver on the high expectations for Middle East peace that his election engendered three and a half years ago, according to the Palestinians' top envoy to the United States.  —  Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat …
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Curbing the cost of health care
Discussion: Daily Kos
Financial Times:
France: Ready to jump ship
Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air and National Review
Stuart Jeffries / Guardian:
Why Marxism is on the rise again
Discussion: World
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Cities Consider Seizing Mortgages
James Rosen / Fox News:
Obama's ‘American story’ faces fresh scrutiny
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David Crary / Associated Press:
Air Force chaplains adjust to gays serving openly
Casey Michel / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Emails Reveal Louisiana Voucher Backpedaling
Austan Goolsbee / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Rules, Markets Yawn
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Verizon: net neutrality violates our free speech rights
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Hullabaloo
David Rogers / Politico:
GOP fights over major food stamp crackdown
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
Why Health-Spending Trend Matters
Elizabeth Mendes / Gallup:
Adults Aged 26 to 64 Lose Employer Healthcare; Young Gain It
Discussion: Reuters and ThinkProgress
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HBO Now Targeting Fox News' Roger Ailes With TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals
 

 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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