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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 …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Romney's fatal flaw
First Thoughts: Romney's fatal flaw
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Tom Troy / Toledo Blade:
China to face accusation of unfair trade
China to face accusation of unfair trade
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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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Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Romney, Family in Tow, Steals the Show at the Wolfeboro Parade
Romney, Family in Tow, Steals the Show at the Wolfeboro Parade
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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.
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Campaign Co-Chair in Ohio Slams Romney's Off-Shore Accounts
Obama Campaign Co-Chair in Ohio Slams Romney's Off-Shore Accounts
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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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San Diego fireworks suffer “premature ignition”
San Diego fireworks suffer “premature ignition”
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Lauren Steussy / KNSD-TV:
Fireworks Shot Off Early in Bay
Fireworks Shot Off Early in Bay
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Curbing the cost of health care — Many liberals believe that the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — is unpopular only because most Americans don't understand it. There is some truth to this: Studies show that the core provisions of the bill are more popular than the bill itself.
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Bloomberg:
Mandate Not the Only Health Tax Republicans Backed — Is the Affordable Care Act really “the largest tax increase in the history of the world,” as Rush Limbaugh so grandiloquently put it? No. It's not even the largest tax increase in the history of this country. — Or of the past 50 years.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans See More Economic Harm Than Good in Health Law — Independents help tilt the balance to the negative — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are more likely to say the 2010 healthcare law upheld by the Supreme Court last week will hurt the national economy (46%) rather than help it (37%) …
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Little Green Footballs
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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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.”
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Financial Times:
France: Ready to jump ship — Growing anxiety at moves to raise taxes on the rich reflects divisions over the Socialists' response to the crisis — Roger, a senior expatriate executive working for an international company in Paris, is thinking seriously of taking a walk down David Cameron's “red carpet”.
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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.”
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New York Times:
The Most Sensible Tax of All — ON Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $25 to $30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.
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.
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Robert Wright / The Atlantic Online:
What This Higgs Boson Thing Really Means — As you may have heard, there is now strong evidence that a particle called the Higgs boson, whose existence has long been predicted on theoretical grounds, actually exists. — Let me explain to you what the Higgs boson is. — Just kidding!
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Chicago Tribune:
Office says Rep. Jackson being treated for ‘physical and emotional ailments’ … Staff report — A week after U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. announced he was taking a leave of absence, his office released a statement today saying his condition is “more serious than initially believed” and he is being treated in an “in-patient facility.”
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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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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.
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