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5:40 AM ET, July 19, 2012

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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
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.
Tarini Partiand Scott Wong / Politico:
Dems look to keep heat on Romney over tax returns
Discussion: CNN and Riehl World View
Sahil Kapur / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Top Dems Push Bill Requiring Candidates To Disclose Offshore Tax Havens
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Politico and ThinkProgress
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Bachmann: Letter on Clinton aide was ‘distorted’
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT, Wonkette and Politico
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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama lead in New Mexico declining
Latino Decisions:
New poll: After SB1070 decision Obama widens lead over Romney among Latinos
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” …
Discussion: Guardian and Balloon Juice
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New York Times:
Explosion on Bulgaria Tour Bus Kills at Least Five Israelis  —  Correction Appended  —  BERLIN — A tour bus carrying beachbound Israeli vacationers exploded in a fireball on Wednesday outside an airport in the Bulgarian city of Burgas, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more in what Bulgaria …
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Haaretz:
7 reported killed in terror attack against Israelis in Bulgaria
Associated Press:
6 die in Bulgaria as bus carrying Israelis bombed
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 …
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times and Naked Politics
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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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.
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.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Political Capital
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 …
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.
Discussion: Guardian, Techdirt, Mashable! and BBC
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
“Vetting” Genie Out of the Bottle  —  I don't want to over-react to John Sunnunu's bizarre outburst yesterday, or put too much weight on McKay Coppins' report today that it represented a Romney campaign decision to “take the gloves off” and go nuclear on the president.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney camp: ‘Not true’ he paid $0 in taxes  —  With Mitt Romney declining to release additional years of personal tax returns, the Obama campaign and an array of commentators have floated the possibility that Romney may not have paid any taxes at all in one year or another.
Jessica Mason / YouTube Blog:
Face blurring: when footage requires anonymity  —  As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them.  According to the international human rights organization WITNESS …
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 …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Hunter Walker / Politicker:
Former Navy SEAL Launches PAC To Fight Obama  —  Ryan Zinke in his Navy days.  (Photo: IraqVetsForCongress.com)  —  Today, Ryan Zinke, an ex-Navy SEAL and Montana State Senator, announced the launch of Special Operations for America, a political action committee dedicated to “the election of Mitt Romney and like-minded candidates.”
Discussion: Hot Air and Atlas Shrugs
 
 
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Bernanke to Economy: Drop Dead
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
White House: Obama's plate too full for Jobs Council
Meg Handley / US News:
For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than Americans
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
The chart that shows just how much reelection trouble Obama is in
Discussion: Washington Post