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1:30 PM ET, July 12, 2012

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The Boston Globe:
Mitt Romney stayed at Bain 3 years longer than he stated  —  Firm's 2002 filings identify him as CEO, though he said he left in 1999  —  Nine SEC filings submitted by four different business entities after February 1999 describe Romney as Bain boss.  —  Government documents filed …
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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
EXCLUSIVE: Romney Invested Millions in Chinese Firm That Profited on US Outsourcing  —  The GOP candidate decries China poaching US jobs.  But at Bain he held a large stake in a Chinese company that did just that.  —  Last month, Mitt Romney's campaign got into a dustup with the Washington Post …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
New Romney Ad Calls Obama Liar, Dishonest  —  A new television advertisement from the campaign of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacks President Barack Obama's campaign for spreading lies and dishonest attacks.  Watch the ad, titled “No Evidence,” here:
Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Romney Accuses Obama of Lying in New Outsourcing Ad  —  JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. - In a new television ad released today, Mitt Romney accuses President Obama of lying and asks how voters can trust him to lead if he “doesn't tell the truth.”  —  The ad, titled “No Evidence,” is the campaigns clearest …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Mitt Romney's Wealth Costs Him With One in Five Voters  —  One in five independents say it makes them less likely to vote for him  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Three-quarters of registered voters say the fact that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is worth more than $200 million makes …
Mitt Romney for President of the United States …:
THE TRUTH HURTS  —  “For weeks, President Obama has been spreading falsehoods and distortions about Governor Romney's record of job creation - and now we know why.  President Obama's policies have encouraged American jobs to move overseas and he's sent taxpayer dollars to foreign-owned companies.
CNN:
Romney team disputes report he misled on Bain departure date
Dylan Byers / Politico:
FactCheck.org: Romney ‘would be guilty of a federal felony’ by claiming 1999 departure
John Aravosis / US Politics:
Romney may have committed felony lying about role with Bain
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Romney On NAACP Booing: If They Want More Free Stuff From The Government Vote Obama  —  There has been a lot of speculation today about Mitt Romney's motivation for giving a speech to the annual NAACP Convention, and trashing Obamacare in the process.  Romney himself said he “expected” …
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney the Race Baiter at the NAACP  —  With his incendiary speech to the NAACP, Mitt crossed an ugly line.  No longer simply spineless and disingenuous, he's now become a race-mongering pyromaniac.  Plus Mansfield Frazier on Romney's diversity problem.
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Unfazed By Boos, Attacks Obama For “Crushing People” With Taxes
Seung Min Kim / Politico:   Pelosi: Romney wanted to be booed by NAACP
Quinnipiac University:
American Voters Say Health Care Law Is A Tax Hike, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Most Want Arizona-Type Immigration Law In Their State  —  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a tax hike, American voters say 55 - 36 percent, but in a mixed message, voters agree 48 …
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Obama Isn't Working:
The Obama Campaign's Top Ten Lies & Exaggerations  —  “We knew when President Obama was elected he had no experience, but at least we thought he'd tell us the truth.  President Obama's campaign has spent millions of dollars on television spreading distortions and falsehoods about Governor Romney's record.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:   Barack Obama, Liar
BuzzFeed:
Meet The Republican Party's 23-Year Old James Cameron  —  Lucas Baiano is back in action “The thing about Lucas's videos: they make people march.”  What is this, this Les Mis ??  —  Source: ia.media-imdb.com  —  Source: youtube.com  —  Lucas Baiano, the video maker who drew attention …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Associated Press:
Qualities that doomed Pawlenty's presidential bid could make him an attractive running mate
Discussion: ABCNEWS and BuzzFeed
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Shrinking Majority  —  He won 9.5 million more votes than McCain.  That won't happen again.  —  Elections are about numbers, and right now the president's are bad.  To understand why, consider 2008 as a reference point.  That year, Barack Obama received 69,456,897 votes to John McCain's 59,934,814.
Discussion: Wake up America
Caroline Winter / Business Week:
How the Mormons Make Money  —  (Updated with magazine version.  Removes an earlier reference to a Twitter account that is not Thomas S. Monson's official account.)  —  Late last March the Mormon Church completed an ambitious project: a megamall.  Built for roughly $2 billion …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Raymond Ibrahim / Gatestone Institute:
Sodomy “For the Sake of Islam” … Not only did the original “underwear bomber” Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef—they met in 2009 after the 22-year-old holy warrior “feigned repentance for his jihadi views” …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
David Catanese / Politico:
Poll: Cruz up on Dewhurst in Texas  —  The Republican pollster that signaled Dick Lugar's demise and Deb Fischer's late surge is now flagging an upset in the making in the Texas Senate race.  —  Tea party favorite Ted Cruz is leading Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst 47 percent to 38 percent in the GOP runoff …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
New urgency for Team Obama  —  A new urgency has swept into President Obama's campaign as disappointing fundraising numbers have emerged alongside the shaky economy as a major threat to his prospects for reelection.  —  While the president's aides originally maintained they wouldn't be moving from …
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Elie Mystal / Above the Law:
Accountant Claims Wrongful Termination Essentially Because Her Job Was Too Hard  —  This has been one hell of a day for ridiculous lawsuits.  We've already dealt with Octomoms turned strippers and thick girls who want to go to law school.  Now we've got an office worker who claims …
 
 
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ThinkProgress:
Bachmann On Medicaid Expansion: ‘A Great Number Of Those People Already Have Health Insurance’
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
NBC, Microsoft Getting Online Divorce
ABCNEWS:
Team USA To Be Decked Out in Uniforms Made in China
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Mystery of John Roberts
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Manufactured quotes  —  News organizations fail to disclose …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Mayor Vincent C. Gray knew of campaign finance violations in January, sources say
Discussion: msnbc.com, DCist and Hotline On Call
Annie Linskey / Baltimore Sun:
Same-sex marriage petition certified
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay and Advocate
Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Fasten Your Seat Belts: Polarization, Weak Economy Forecast Very Close Election
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Scott Walker / Washington Post:
Obamacare is an unhealthy prescription
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Heather Kelly / CNN:
Facebook fuses emotion into its tagging, cyberbullying updates
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post:
Paul Krugman Slams New York Times Colleague, CNBC: ‘One Zombie Idea After Another’
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Mediaite
Aaronmcquade / GLAAD:
NOM to Kirk Cameron: You're Hired!
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The SUV Did It!  —  Scott wrote here about the appalling case …
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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