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David Frum / CNN:
Mitt Romney's painfully bad week — Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including a new novel, “Patriots.” — (CNN) — By any measure, the Mitt Romney for president campaign has had a painfully bad week.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Romney's Account of His Departure From Bain Undercut By...Romney Testimony — In a previously unreported remark, Romney indicated he went through a “transition” at Bain after heading to Utah in February 1999. — Mitt Romney, his campaign, and Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded …
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CNN:
Facts don't support Obama's charges against Romney — Editor's note: David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and has been an adviser to four presidents. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is a professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership …
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Hit & Run, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, New York Times, The Caucus, Wake up America, The Daily Dish and Balloon Juice
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas — “Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas.” — Is that statement true or false? — It passed mostly unnoticed, but on Friday, a well-respected fact-checking organization — one cited by the Romney campaign itself on occasion …
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Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Revive Attack That Romney Misstated Role at Bain — Democrats reupped their main point of attack against Mitt Romney today, suggesting once again that the Republican candidate might have committed a felony as the GOP camp refused to play ball. — Last week, Romney demanded …
Peter J. Boyer / The Daily Beast:
Romney's Palin Problem: Where's Her Convention Invite?
Romney's Palin Problem: Where's Her Convention Invite?
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Bain Quatrain
The Bain Quatrain
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Mitt Romney rips Obama camp's ‘dishonesty’
Mitt Romney rips Obama camp's ‘dishonesty’
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CNN, Crooks and Liars, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Examiner
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Probe cites officials for soliciting prostitutes, accepting gifts, FOIA docs reveal — Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking conflict-of-interest rules and accepting gifts from corporate executives, according to the findings of official government investigations.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Pawlenty Looked at as Romney Running Mate — EAGAN, Minn. — It was four years ago this summer, when Tim Pawlenty ranked high on the list of John McCain's potential running mates, and Mr. Pawlenty and his wife, Mary, were plowing through a voluminous questionnaire probing deep into their finances …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
John Thune rising: GOP senator on Romney's veepstakes and his future
John Thune rising: GOP senator on Romney's veepstakes and his future
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Washington Post, Guardian, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Business Insider and Influence Alley
Orlando Sentinel:
‘Witness 9’ tells prosecutors Zimmerman molested her for years — A woman told authorities that while they were children, murder suspect George Zimmerman sexually molested her for a decade, according to prosecution records released today. — The woman, identified only as “witness 9,” …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court — Democrats now positive about both — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, with the most recent reading coming soon …
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Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Against Growth! — In today's Impromptus, I have some comments …
Against Growth! — In today's Impromptus, I have some comments …
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New York Post:
Obama wedding registry fund-raising strategy not a hit with brides — President Obama's bizarre marriage-theme fund-raising scheme — where he asks couples to request campaign donations from their guests in lieu of wedding gifts — has been a total flop. — The desperate initiative …
Bloomberg:
Romney's Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses — By Anthony Luzzatto Gardner 2012-07-15T22:30:01Z — Mitt Romney touts his business acumen and job-creation record as a key qualification for being the next U.S. president. — What's clear from a review of the public record during …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Bain not going away—Kucinich launching PAC—Bush 43 unveiling book tomorrow—Gillespie says Mitt retired retroactively—Dems hit Mourdock for opposing auto bailout — ROMNEY TO HIT OBAMA ON CRONYISM: Boston desperately wants to find a way to put the president on the defensive …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Campaign Cites Economic Research from Donor
Obama Campaign Cites Economic Research from Donor
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ABCNEWS, Red Alert Politics, Washington Free Beacon, The Lonely Conservative and Politico
Tammie Fields / Tampa Bay Fl News:
Lt. Governor speaks out about sex scandal accusations — Lt. Governor Carroll made the comments Saturday in Orange Park, at the opening of a campaign office for Mitt Romney. — Carletha Cole claims she walked in on a sexual encounter between Carroll and Carroll's travel aide, Beatriz Ramos.
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
JPMorgan just gave a calamitous economic forecast for Obama — Just out from JPMorgan: … Basically, this is a forecast for stagnation for the rest of this year and through 2013. Also note that the forecast sees monthly job growth at just 100,000 a month in the third quarter, with the unemployment rate averaging 8.2%.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back — The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative. — They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under …
Wall Street Journal:
It's True: Corporations Are People — What else could they be? Buildings don't hire people. Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer. — Here's a new party trick. Want to be accused of being a member of a satanic cult?
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Democrats threaten to go over ‘fiscal cliff’ if GOP fails to raise taxes — Democrats are making increasingly explicit threats about their willingness to let nearly $600 billion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts take effect in January unless Republicans drop their opposition to higher taxes for the nation's wealthiest households.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama misses new budget deadline — The Obama administration has missed another annual budget deadline, failing to send Congress a mid-session budget review before July 16. — The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) confirmed Monday that the deadline for the review, due every year on that date, was not met this year.
WESH-TV:
Deputies shoot, kill man after knocking on wrong door — FDLE looking into deputy-involved shooting — Lake County Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed a man they assumed was an attempted murder suspect on Sunday, but they now know they shot the wrong man.
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BuzzFeed:
Senate Dems Plan ‘Midnight Vigil’ For Campaign Finance Bill — Democrats hope to paint GOP as beholden to wealthy interests — WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: Sen. Charkes Schumer (D-NY)(2nd-L), is flanked by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)(R), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)(2nd-R) …
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BBC:
US Navy ship fires on boat in Gulf — The crew of the USNS Rappahannock fired a machine gun at the smaller boat, the US Navy says — A US ship has fired on a boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), US officials say. — The USNS Rappahannock fired on a vessel …
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Employees of NY Times, HuffPo, other news outlets dish out money to re-elect Obama — Employees of news outlets including the New York Times and the Huffington Post have donated money to President Obama's re-election campaign, according to records reviewed by The Daily Caller.
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Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle:
Gas drilling a boom for drug traffickers, too — New roads help them bypass border stops — Energy companies boring into the depths of South Texas in the multibillion-dollar hunt for natural gas and oil are opening a growing fissure in U.S.-Mexico border security as they build hundreds …
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