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National Review:
Release the Returns — Mitt Romney is steadfastly resisting calls to release additional years of his personal tax returns, arguing — not without good reason — that this demand is part of a fishing expedition by the Obama campaign, which hopes to exploit Romney's personal wealth …
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Washington Wire, Townhall.com, Jay Bookman, The Daily Dish, Riehl World View, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
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Manu Raju / Politico:
McCain: Palin was ‘better candidate’ than Romney — Mitt Romney's tax returns had nothing to do with Sen. John McCain's decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, according to the Arizona Republican, saying he chose the former Alaska governor because she was a “better candidate.”
Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney on Tax Returns: 'I'm Simply Not Enthusiastic about Giving Them Hundreds or Thousands of More Pages to Pick Through, Distort, and Lie About' — Earlier today, Mitt Romney spoke with National Review Online about life on the trail, his meeting with Dick Cheney,and his upcoming trip to Europe.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Did Mitt Romney pay any federal taxes at all in 2009?
Did Mitt Romney pay any federal taxes at all in 2009?
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Business Insider, Fox News, Hot Air, The Reaction, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politico, Prairie Weather and The Daily Dish
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now
15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now
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National Review, Washington Post, Salon, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Associated Press, Mediaite and Bark Bark Woof Woof
Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — John McCain: I Didn't Pick Romney Because 'Sarah Palin …
TPM2012 — John McCain: I Didn't Pick Romney Because 'Sarah Palin …
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Politico, The Impolitic, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post and The Hinterland Gazette
Joshua Green / Business Week:
What's Romney Hiding in His Tax Returns?
What's Romney Hiding in His Tax Returns?
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Daily Kos, The Daily Dish, Firedoglake, ABCNEWS, Business Insider, DownWithTyranny!, New York Magazine, Livewire, FiveThirtyEight and National Review
NY Daily News:
Top Romney surrogate John Sununu, the fomer N.H. Gov., apologizes after charging that Obama needs ‘to learn how to be an American’ — Sununu also said the President doesn't understand the economy because he spent his youth ‘smoking something’ — Former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu …
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The Huffington Post, Philly.com, Weekly Standard and ABCNEWS
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BuzzFeed:
How The Romney Campaign Decided To Take The Gloves Off — Surrogates will bring up cocaine, Fast and Furious, and ties to Blagojevich, one aide says. What Romneyland is thinking. — Romney's top aides in Florida in January. — Image by Joe Raedle / Getty Images — IRWIN, Penn.
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Los Angeles Times and ABCNEWS
Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Adelson to DCCC: Retract your “Chinese prostitution money” comments or I'll sue — In a scathing letter to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Sheldon Adelson's lawyer accused the organization of “maliciously branding Mr. Adelson as a pimp” and demanded the DCCC either retract and apologize or be sued.
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Investor's Business Daily, DownWithTyranny!, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Washington Free Beacon
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney donor Adelson threatens to sue DCCC for libel
Romney donor Adelson threatens to sue DCCC for libel
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Prairie Weather and americanthinker.com
Rob Bluey / Hot Air:
Schumer calls for “limits on First Amendment rights” during Senate debate — The Senate has gone 1,175 days without passing a budget. Taxmageddon and sequestration are threatening the economic livelihood of millions of Americans. And yet the top order of business for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Right Scoop and BuzzFeed
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid: Cheney motivated to stop defense cuts because of Halliburton ties
Reid: Cheney motivated to stop defense cuts because of Halliburton ties
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Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Mike Elk / Working In These Times:
Laid Off Steelworker in Anti-Romney Ad Says He Is Not Voting for Obama — “We didn't know who the hell Mitt Romney was when all that stuff started,” says former GS Technologies steelworker Donnie Box of Kansas City, Missouri. “It wasn't until later we found out who Romney was.
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Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, theGrio and The Hill
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Star of Pro-Obama Super PAC Ad Unleashed: ‘Obama Is a Jerk, a Pantywaist, a Lightweight, a Blowhard’ — The star of a pro-Obama super PAC ad is speaking out against ... President Barack Obama. — “I could really care less about Obama,” Donnie Box says of President Obama, according to In These Times.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama jobs panel lays low — President Barack Obama's Jobs Council hasn't met publicly for six months, even as the issue of job creation dominates the 2012 election. — At this point, the hiatus — which reached the half-year mark Tuesday — might be less awkward than an official meeting …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obama has investments in companies that ship jobs overseas
Obama has investments in companies that ship jobs overseas
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Scared Monkeys and Washington Free Beacon
Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Wasserman Schultz Has Unreported Second Home in NH, Lives Large on the High Seas — DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign team have been waging a coordinated effort against Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney by repeatedly casting aspersion …
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Examiner, Right Wing News, Doug Ross and The Lonely Conservative
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Bill Lawrence / BLOG.BILLLAWRENCEONLINE.COM:
DNC Head Gets Heckled At Synagogue Rally
DNC Head Gets Heckled At Synagogue Rally
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Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israel Says Syria Pulls Troops from Golan to Suppress Revolt Elsewhere — JERUSALEM — Israel's military intelligence chief said on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria had moved forces to Damascus from along the Golan Heights region, bordering on Israeli-controlled territory …
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Algemeiner.com and Israel Matzav
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Rush Limbaugh:
The Batman Campaign? — RUSH: Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That's right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in The Dark Knight Rises is named Bane, B-a-n-e.
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Politico, Mediaite, Indecision Forever, Gawker, New York Magazine, ABCNEWS, Business Insider and Washington Examiner
Josh Margolin / New York Post:
Christie keynote tip — The word is going out quietly to Republican activists across New Jersey: If you're going to the GOP convention in Tampa next month, be sure to be there by Tuesday night, Aug. 28, because Gov. Chris Christie is going to be giving the keynote speech that night.
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Politico, Outside the Beltway and GOP 12
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Romney Knocks It Out of the Park — By all accounts, Mitt Romney was sensational today in Pennsylvania. His theme was Barack Obama's revelatory “you didn't build that” speech. Over the lunch hour (here in the Midwest), Twitter was burning up with commentary from those who were watching Romney's speech live.
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Scared Monkeys, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Ethics Committee launches probe of Dem Rep. Robert Andrews — The House Ethics Committee announced on Tuesday it was probing allegations that Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) violated House ethics rules. — The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) referred the case to the secretive ethics panel …
WMUR:
Poll shows race tightening for president — Presidential approval rating slips in NH — Despite more Granite Staters disapproving of the job he has done, President Barack Obama still holds a slim lead over Republican Mitt Romney in a new poll. — The WMUR Granite State Poll shows …
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GOP 12 and Ballot Box
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Reuters:
Bernanke offers few hints on further Fed easing — (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday offered few new clues on whether the U.S. central bank was moving closer to a fresh round of monetary stimulus, repeating the Fed's pledge to act if needed.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Bernanke Hints More Stimulus Is Unlikely Now
Bernanke Hints More Stimulus Is Unlikely Now
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Financial Times, Calculated Risk, ThinkProgress, Reuters, Washington Examiner and BBC