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10:00 PM ET, July 16, 2012

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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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Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:   Democrats Revive Attack That Romney Misstated Role at Bain
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Bain Quatrain
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Hillary Clinton: Romney ads featuring her a ‘waste of money’  —  (CNN) - She's been featured in two negative television ads from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the spots would have little effect on voters who already know the story of the 2008 Democratic primaries.
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Mitt Romney for President of the United States …:
Memorandum  —  Location  —  To: Interested Parties  —  From: Neil Newhouse - Romney Campaign Pollster  —  Re: The State Of The Race: Ballot Narrowing Despite Obama Attack Ads  —  Four years ago today, candidate Barack Obama led John …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Cites Campaign Donor as ‘Non-Partisan Economist’
Rob Portman / CNN:
Portman slams president for ‘personal’ attacks
Discussion: Politico and The New Republic
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Ad Taken Down Over Copyright Claim
Discussion: Mediaite and Taegan Goddard's …
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Dick Cheney to talk sequester with House GOP  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney is flying to Washington from Wyoming to talk to top House Republicans about automatic cuts to defense spending, according to senior GOP sources.  —  Cheney will speak to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's (Calif.) …
Discussion: CNN
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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 …
Humberto Sanchez / Roll Call:
Democrats Want Leverage From Sequester
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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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh: Obama ‘hates this country’  —  President Barack Obama “hates this country,” and his philosophy appeals to “people with miserable, meaningless lives” and “people who don't count,” Rush Limbaugh said Monday.  —  “I think it can now be said, without equivocation …
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Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:
Jonah Falcon, Man With World's Largest Penis, Frisked By TSA At California Airport … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Anatomical Wonders, TSA, Video, 13.5 Inches, Jonah Falcon, San Francisco International Airport, Stop And Frisk, X-Ray Body Scanners, Airport Screening, Largest Penis …
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,” …
DealBook:
A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google  —  Updated  —  Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.  —  The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for Yahoo …
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 …
Bloomberg:
Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S.  —  On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if pleasant, piece of news: For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American.  —  According to data from Environics Analytics WealthScapes published …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and AEIdeas
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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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.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Suggests Releasing Additional Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging  —  Mitt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to respond to the growing number of conservatives who are calling on the former Massachusetts governor to release more of his tax returns.
Alex Carp / News Desk:
Writing With Antonin Scalia, Grammar Nerd  —  The first time Bryan A. Garner, a lawyer and writer, met Antonin Scalia—over breakfast at the Washington, D.C., Four Seasons, in 2006—the Justice spent the early part of their conversation praising a magazine essay he had recently read on English grammar and usage.
Discussion: Althouse
Xinhua News Agency:
3 cops killed, 3 injured in police station attack in NW Pakistan  —  At least three policemen were killed and another three wounded in an attack launched by two militants at a police station in Pakistan's northwest city of Bannu on Monday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel Samaa.
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.
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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Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
REPORT: Biggest Donor To Romney And GOP Did Business With Chinese Mob
Discussion: PBS and Hullabaloo
BuzzFeed:
Senate Dems Plan ‘Midnight Vigil’ For Campaign Finance Bill
Discussion: Influence Alley
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama misses new budget deadline
Discussion: Hot Air
BBC:
US Navy ship fires on boat in Gulf
Discussion: The Agonist
ThinkProgress:
STUDY: Child Abuse and Hospitalization Rates Rise With Increased Foreclosures
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Shakesville
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Wall Street Journal:
It's True: Corporations Are People
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Employees of NY Times, HuffPo, other news outlets dish out money to re-elect Obama
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