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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. — Image by Win McNamee / Getty Images — IRWIN, Penn. — Standing before hundreds of roaring partisans …
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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 …
Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Medal-winner in Mitt Romney veep stakes won't be known until after Olympic Games — Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and ex-Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty head list of likely running mates — WASHINGTON — Kicking the vice presidential sweepstakes into overdrive, Mitt Romney Tuesday announced …
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ABCNEWS, Outside the Beltway and GOP 12
Alexander Burnsand Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Conservative elites club Mitt Romney — In case you hadn't noticed, there are some on the right who are less than wild about Mitt Romney. — The former Massachusetts governor has at times been the subject of withering criticism from conservatives since he started his presidential campaign.
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CNN and Taylor Marsh
CNN:
Americans view Romney's campaign more unfavorably than Obama's
Americans view Romney's campaign more unfavorably than Obama's
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Politico and Politicker
Mike Elk / Working In These Times:
Laid Off Steelworker in Anti-Romney Ad Says He Is Not Voting for Obama
Laid Off Steelworker in Anti-Romney Ad Says He Is Not Voting for Obama
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Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, theGrio and The Hill
Peggy Fikac / Texas Politics:
Perry: Candidates should be ‘transparent’ about tax returns, transcripts
Perry: Candidates should be ‘transparent’ about tax returns, transcripts
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New York Times:
Inside Romney's Search for a Vice President
Inside Romney's Search for a Vice President
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ABCNEWS, The Caucus, CNN, GOP 12, Politicker and Reuters
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Star of Pro-Obama Super PAC Ad Unleashed: ‘Obama Is a Jerk, a Pantywaist, a Lightweight, a Blowhard’
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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Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney on Tax Returns: 'I'm Simply Not Enthusiastic about Giving Them Hundreds or Thousands …
Romney on Tax Returns: 'I'm Simply Not Enthusiastic about Giving Them Hundreds or Thousands …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
McCain: Palin was ‘better candidate’ than Romney
McCain: Palin was ‘better candidate’ than Romney
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Memo to Dem press secretary: Probably best not to imply GOP billionaire is a pimp — When Jesse Ferguson showed up for work yesterday as a Democrat press secretary on Capitol Hill, he found a three-page FedEx letter waiting. — It was from someone named Lewis R. Clayton.
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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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JOSHUAPUNDIT, DownWithTyranny! and Washington Free Beacon
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
New York Times:
Attack Kills Syrian Defense Minister in Damascus — BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law and Syria's defense minister were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a crisis group of senior ministers and security chiefs meeting in central Damascus, according to state television and activists.
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Reuters:
Bomb kills Syrian ministers at heart of Assad rule
Bomb kills Syrian ministers at heart of Assad rule
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World, The Heritage Foundation and US Politics
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israel Says Syria Pulls Troops from Golan to Suppress Revolt Elsewhere
Israel Says Syria Pulls Troops from Golan to Suppress Revolt Elsewhere
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Algemeiner.com and Israel Matzav
Christopher Kolk / People.com:
Anthony Weiner Shares a Family Photo — What's next for former New York congressman Anthony Weiner? Baby's first birthday, of course. — “I'm very happy in my present life,” Weiner, 47, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview. “The only next dramatic steps I'm planning on are Jordan's first …
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Politicker, Politico, CNN, Taegan Goddard's … and New York Magazine
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
Tim Mak / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: Democrats should skip the convention — House minority leader Nancy Pelosi says that Democratic members should stay home and campaign in their districts rather than go to the party's national convention in North Carolina. — “I'm not encouraging anyone to go to the convention …
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Weekly Standard and Jammie Wearing Fools
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, Hotline On Call and GOP 12
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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Israel Matzav and Weasel Zippers
Gene Healy / Reason:
Obama Descends into Self-Parody — It's time for the president to give his hope-and-change act a rest. — After much soul searching, Barack Obama has figured out where his presidency has gone wrong—and he shared it with CBS's Charlie Rose and viewers across the fruited plain Sunday morning.
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Angry Black Lady Chronicles and Ed Driscoll
Associated Press:
Arpaio: Obama birth record ‘definitely fraudulent’ — PHOENIX (AP) — Investigators for an Arizona sheriff's volunteer posse have declared that President Barack Obama's birth certificate is definitely fraudulent. — Members of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posse said in March …
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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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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, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Prairie Weather
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Propose Letting All Tax Cuts Expire — WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats — holding firm against extending tax cuts for the rich — are proposing a novel way to circumvent the Republican pledge not to vote for any tax increase: Allow all the tax cuts to expire Jan. 1 …
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David Boroff / NY Daily News:
Possible serial foot-licker in custody after police bust 49-year-old Anthony Parri for inappropriately touching two young girls in upstate NY library — ‘I am being set up by the President Barack Obama and the city and the federal government,’ Parri said outside court.
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