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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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This Just In, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, No More Mister Nice Blog, Michelle Malkin, Marbury, American Power and david-frum
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Romney's Account of His Departure From Bain Undercut By...Romney Testimony
Romney's Account of His Departure From Bain Undercut By...Romney Testimony
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PERRspectives, The Daily Dish, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and TBogg
CNN:
Facts don't support Obama's charges against Romney
Facts don't support Obama's charges against Romney
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Daily Kos, Hit & Run, Fortune, American Power, Guardian, Crooks and Liars, Wake up America, The Caucus, The Daily Dish, Red Alert Politics, Balloon Juice and National Review
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas
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The New Republic and The Daily Dish
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Bain Quatrain
The Bain Quatrain
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Red Alert Politics, Washington Post, The Maddow Blog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Bloomberg:
Romney's Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses
Romney's Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses
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Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice, Rumproast, The Impolitic, Daily Kos, Gawker, The Mahablog, Firedoglake and Mediaite
Susan Page / USA Today:
Analysis: Obama, Romney and a turn in the debate on jobs
Analysis: Obama, Romney and a turn in the debate on jobs
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New York Magazine
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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Politico and The Hinterland Gazette
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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 …
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The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, American Power, Weekly Standard and National Review
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Cites Campaign Donor as ‘Non-Partisan Economist’
Obama Cites Campaign Donor as ‘Non-Partisan Economist’
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Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative
Rob Portman / CNN:
Portman slams president for ‘personal’ attacks
Portman slams president for ‘personal’ attacks
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Politico and The New Republic
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Mitt Romney rips Obama camp's ‘dishonesty’
Mitt Romney rips Obama camp's ‘dishonesty’
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Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Examiner
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.) …
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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
Democrats Want Leverage From Sequester
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Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla
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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Politico, The Hill, Weasel Zippers and Business Insider
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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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Gawker, Wonkette, Angry Black Lady Chronicles and Little Green Footballs
Lila Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Edie Windsor vs. DOMA: 83-Year-Old Lesbian Petitions U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case
Edie Windsor vs. DOMA: 83-Year-Old Lesbian Petitions U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case
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BuzzFeed, Firedoglake, Towleroad News #gay and ThinkProgress
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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ThinkProgress, Weasel Zippers, Rush Limbaugh and The Maddow Blog
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Rush Limbaugh:
Barack Obama Hates This Country — RUSH: Roanoke, Virginia. This is Friday night. This did not get a lot of coverage at the time. It did not get a lot of coverage over the weekend. The Drive-Bys did not focus on this much. Fox News, at some point, did bring it to people's attention.
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 …
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Mediaite, Gawker, Riehl World View and The Raw Story
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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CBS News, New York Times, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Daily Kos, theGrio, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, msnbc.com, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
DealBook:
Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo's Chief — Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next C.E.O. of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America. — The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google …
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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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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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The Daily Beast and Tampa Bay Times
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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, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Red Alert Politics, Washington Free Beacon and Politico
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 …
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CANNONFIRE and AEIdeas
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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ThinkProgress, Advocate, Jezebel, The Other McCain, Wonkette, The Raw Story, theGrio and Towleroad News #gay
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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Washington's Blog, RedState, The Raw Story, ABCNEWS and ThinkProgress
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.
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Crooks and Liars, Wonkette, The Hinterland Gazette, ABCNEWS, The Maddow Blog and FreakOutNation
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.
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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.
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Weasel Zippers and The Long War Journal