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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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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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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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Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Romney: Individual mandate “is a tax”
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney shifts, says mandate's a tax
Romney shifts, says mandate's a tax
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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 — 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] — 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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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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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Presides Over Naturalization Ceremony
Obama Presides Over Naturalization Ceremony
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama uses July 4th to defend DREAM decree, push immigration reform
Obama uses July 4th to defend DREAM decree, push immigration reform
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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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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
Tom Troy / Toledo Blade:
China to face accusation of unfair trade — Complaint to world body affects Toledo-made SUVs — Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss — Demonstrating a tough line on trade with China, the Obama Administration will file an unfair trade complaint today against China's …
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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Bill Frezza / Political Capital:
Lamenting The Lost Legacy Of Independence Day
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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Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo:
Founding fathers quotes you probably haven't heard, by @DavidOAtkins — Founding fathers quotes you probably haven't heard — On July 4th, enjoy some of the less famous quotes from the founders of our country. — Thomas Paine: … James Madison: … Benjamin Franklin: … Benjamin Franklin again:
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A Tiny Revolution
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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Chuck Neubauer / Washington Times:
Lights go dim on another energy project — Geothermal losses pile up — A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in Nevada - which received hearty endorsements from Energy Secretary Steven Chu …
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