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Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Taxes For 2010 Not Fully Disclosed … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Politics, Taxes , Video, Mitt Romney Tax Returns, Mitt Romney Taxes, Election 2012, Fbar, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Taxes 2010, Politics News
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Abby Huntsman / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Never Thought He'd Have To Release Tax Returns: Bain Sources … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Mitt Romney Bain Capital, Mitt Romney Tax Returns, Mitt Romney Taxes, Bain Capital, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Quit, Politics News
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CNN:
Why won't Romney release more tax returns? — Editor's note: Edward D. Kleinbard is a professor at Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California. He is the former chief of staff of Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. Peter C. Canellos, a lawyer, is former chair of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section.
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Tarini Partiand Scott Wong / Politico:
Dems look to keep heat on Romney over tax returns
Dems look to keep heat on Romney over tax returns
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CNN, Riehl World View and ABCNEWS
Sahil Kapur / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Top Dems Push Bill Requiring Candidates To Disclose Offshore Tax Havens
TPM2012 — Top Dems Push Bill Requiring Candidates To Disclose Offshore Tax Havens
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Examiner and ThinkProgress
Edward Rollins / Fox News:
Bachmann's former campaign chief — shame on you, Michele — I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. I have to say that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's outrageous and false charges against a top aide …
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Politico and ThinkProgress
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann Points To Huma Abedin As Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrator
Michele Bachmann Points To Huma Abedin As Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrator
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Mediaite, Politico, ABCNEWS, Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, New York Magazine and ThinkProgress
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
John McCain defends Huma Abedin against accusations she's part of conspiracy
John McCain defends Huma Abedin against accusations she's part of conspiracy
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Front Page Magazine, Jihad Watch, CBS New York, Taylor Marsh, Politicker and CBS News
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Bachmann: Letter on Clinton aide was ‘distorted’
Bachmann: Letter on Clinton aide was ‘distorted’
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JOSHUAPUNDIT, Politico and Wonkette
New York Times:
Economic Fears Hurting Obama, Poll Indicates — Declining confidence in the nation's economic prospects appears to be the most powerful force influencing voters as the presidential election gears up, undercutting key areas of support for President Obama and helping give his Republican challenger …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Caucus, Prairie Weather, American Power, Weekly Standard and The Daily Dish
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama lead in New Mexico declining
Obama lead in New Mexico declining
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Firedoglake, Politico and Business Insider
New York Times:
Suicide Bomber Kills 6 Israelis on Tourist Bus in Bulgaria — BURGAS, Bulgaria — The attack on a tour bus carrying Israeli vacationers outside the airport here was carried out by a suicide bomber carrying a fake American identification, officials said on Thursday.
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Jammie Wearing Fools
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BuzzFeed:
Olympics Documents, Intro Described Romney As Bain CEO — Mitt Romney has spent much of the last week arguing that, despite some public records, he was effectively gone from Bain Capital in February 1999. But in February 2000, Romney was introduced as the “founder and CEO of Capital” …
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Washington Post, Guardian and Balloon Juice
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Mack says Smith not a real journalist — The war between Rep. Connie Mack and Tampa Bay Times political editor Adam Smith continued today when the Republican representative told Smith to his face that he wasn't a real journalist. — As my colleage Charlie Mahtesian has reported …
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Tampa Bay Times and Naked Politics
Hubble Smith / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Amonix closes North Las Vegas solar plant after 14 months, heavy federal subsidies — The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, heavily financed under an Obama administration energy initiative, has closed its 214,000-square-foot facility 14 months after it opened.
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Hannity Gets First Interview with George Zimmerman — Sean Hannity has secured the first interview with George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The hour-long exclusive will air on Hannity's Fox News Channel program tonight at 9pmET.
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Kit Chellel / Bloomberg:
Apple Must Publish Notice That Samsung Didn'T Copy IPad In U.K. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs for the iPad.
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TechCrunch, Guardian, Techdirt, Mashable! and BBC
Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Campaign Detectives Hunt For Foreclosed Florida Voters — By day, Lynnette Acosta, a 34-year- old mother of two, is an information-technology manager in Orlando, Florida. By night, she's a sleuth for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, scouring for potential voters.
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Firedoglake and Political Capital
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Schumer urges Justice Department to drop Apple e-books suit — In a Wall Street Journal op-ed posted Tuesday, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) urges the Justice Department to drop its antitrust lawsuit against Apple and a group of e-book publishers. — Schumer argues that the lawsuit will pave …
Russ Burlingame / ComicBook.com:
Rush Limbaugh: Bane's Creator Weighs In — Not long after Rush Limbaugh was quoted by The Hollywood Reporter this afternoon as asserting that the use of longtime DC Comics villain Bane in the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight Rises was in fact a subtle jab at Bain Capital co-founder Mitt Romney …
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Weasel Zippers, The New Republic, The Hill, Rush Limbaugh, Washington Examiner, The Hinterland Gazette, Guardian and Gawker
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
DNC Regrets Offending Ann Romney, No More Horse Videos — It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now the Democratic National Committee is offering an apology of sorts to Ann Romney. — At issue is a DNC video featuring footage of Ann Romney's dancing show horse.
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Jammie Wearing Fools and ABCNEWS
Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Second judge rejects state voter ID law — Requirement will not be in place for fall elections — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison - A second judge has declared Wisconsin's voter ID law unconstitutional, further guaranteeing that the ID requirement will not be in place for elections this fall.
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Mike Rosenberg / Mercury News:
Governor Brown signs California high-speed rail bill, calls critics ‘NIMBYs,’ ‘fearful men’ — SAN FRANCISCO — With his most public cheerleading yet for California's bullet train, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed the $8 billion bill to kick off high-speed rail construction and showed …
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