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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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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Romney's fatal flaw — 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? …
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American Prospect, Washington Post and ABCNEWS
Rose Gordon Sala / msnbc.com:
It's a penalty, it's a tax ... it's more Romney flip-flopping on health care — Just two days after Mitt Romney's top spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, said the former governor agrees with President Obama that the health insurance mandate does not represent a tax, the candidate reversed that positioning.
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Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Romney clarifies health care mandate position
Romney clarifies health care mandate position
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Swampland, Washington Examiner, Scared Monkeys, New York Magazine and Crooks and Liars
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Romney Shifts Tone, Saying Health Care Mandate Is a Tax
Romney Shifts Tone, Saying Health Care Mandate Is a Tax
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Washington Post, The Maddow Blog, The Caucus, Prairie Weather and Firedoglake
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Romney: Individual mandate “is a tax”
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”
Romney: Roberts' health care ruling “not accurate”
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Business Insider
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and Booman Tribune
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Timothy Dalrymple / Philosophical Fragments:
Against the Hippies: Or, In Defense of American Individualism — Kurt Andersen's piece in the New York Times today is in some respects a terrific column. But if you can spot the vast logical leap. — Andersen recalls a time when he was confronted with the question …
Lauren Steussy / KNSD-TV:
Fireworks Shot Off Early in Bay — Big Bay Boom fireworks display delayed after sudden burst — Thousands of people who camped out to watch the Big Bay Boom in San Diego's Glorietta Bay Wednesday night got more of a Big Bay Bust. — Port District authorities said a “technical difficulty” …
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Rong-Gong Lin II / L.A. NOW:
San Diego fireworks show exploded in 15 seconds, ruining show [Video]
San Diego fireworks show exploded in 15 seconds, ruining show [Video]
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Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story
Elizabeth Mendes / Gallup:
Adults Aged 26 to 64 Lose Employer Healthcare; Young Gain It — Government-based insurance up among both age groups — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fewer U.S. adults aged 26 to 64 are getting health insurance from an employer in 2012, continuing a downward trend that began in 2008.
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Reuters and ThinkProgress
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.
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Taegan Goddard's …, TheBlaze.com and Hotline On Call
Jim Angle / Fox News:
Efforts to implement ObamaCare law raise concerns of massive government expansion — With the Supreme Court giving President Obama's new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages …
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Weasel Zippers, Questions and Observations and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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Weasel Zippers and iOwnTheWorld.com
Reuters:
“It's a boson:” Higgs quest bears new particle — (Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.
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Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to the Universe
Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to the Universe
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The Atlantic Online, americanthinker.com, The Reaction, Boing Boing, The Confluence, Outside the Beltway and BBC
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
America-Hating Patriots and Other Mysteries of the 4th — I'm always at a bit of a loss as to what to say on this big patriotic occasion. I'm as “American” in background, outlook, and life-experiences as anyone you'd meet. I belong to a distinctly American religious community, born on the Kentucky frontier long after Independence.
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alicublog and The Reality-Based Community
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Bill Frezza / Political Capital:
Lamenting The Lost Legacy Of Independence Day
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 …
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DealBook
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama uses July 4th to defend DREAM decree, push immigration reform — Popular in Politics — President Obama marked the Independence Day holiday with a naturalization ceremony for immigrants who are serving in the United States military. “This is one of my favorite things to do,” …
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Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Presides Over Naturalization Ceremony
Obama Presides Over Naturalization Ceremony
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Pirate's Cove