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Jon Swaine / Telegraph:
Mitt Romney would restore ‘Anglo-Saxon’ relations between Britain and America — Mitt Romney would restore “Anglo-Saxon” understanding to the special relationship between the US and Britain, and return Sir Winston Churchill's bust to the White House, according to advisers.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Romney Adviser Says Obama Doesn't ‘Fully Appreciate’ Our ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ — An adviser to Mitt Romney told a London paper that Obama has not been an effective partner for Britain because he doesn't “fully appreciate” America's “Anglo-Saxon heritage.”
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Negative campaign takes toll on candidates; Obama up six points — According to a new NBC-WSJ poll the negative campaigning has taken its toll on both candidates but more people said they didn't like Romney personally. President Obama was viewed negatively by 43 percent …
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CNN:
Super PAC uses Olympic ‘opening ceremony’ to hit Romney in ad — (CNN) - The super PAC backing President Barack Obama uses the Olympic “parade of nations” to mock Mitt Romney's reported overseas investment accounts in a television ad released Wednesday. — The minute-long ad from Priorities USA …
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Politico, Mediaite and The Hinterland Gazette
Tim Mak / Politico:
Scott Walker knocks Mitt Romney campaign — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker criticized Mitt Romney's campaign Wednesday for being too cautious and for assuming the election could just be a referendum on the president. — “I think there's a lot of caution. I think the mistake that they've …
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Obama to run ads pushing back on 'you didn't build that' (Updated)
Obama to run ads pushing back on 'you didn't build that' (Updated)
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Medicaid Expansion Ruling Blunts Health Law's Effect — WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Supreme Court decision on President Obama's health care overhaul would probably lead to an increase in the number of uninsured and a modest reduction in the cost …
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CBO's Publications:
Estimates for the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act Updated for the Recent Supreme Court Decision
Estimates for the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act Updated for the Recent Supreme Court Decision
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Midwest Democracy, White House.gov Blog, Politico, Hit & Run, Firedoglake and Booman Tribune
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
One More Time: CBO Thinks Obamacare *Reduces* Deficit
One More Time: CBO Thinks Obamacare *Reduces* Deficit
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The Maddow Blog and Washington Monthly
Daniel Horowitz / dhorowitz3's blog:
Republican Supporters of a Democrat Senate — In recent years, GOP establishment figures have accused the Tea Party of thwarting a Republican majority in the Senate by nominating conservatives whom they believe are unelectable. One would expect them do elicit a commensurate degree of outrage …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Democrats catch major typo in Republicans' deregulation bill — House Democrats on Tuesday caught an error in a GOP deregulation bill that is aimed at only allowing new regulations to be issued once the unemployment rate falls to 6 percent, but unwittingly refers to the employment rate.
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Kris Kitto / The Hill:
The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful People — Forget the Loaded Potato Skins. Max Engling was surely the best thing to come out of an Indianapolis TGI Friday's, where he was waiting tables when a diner with ties to the modeling industry discovered him. — That's right — Engling …
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Hotline On Call and Mediaite
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Obama gets personal on Planned Parenthood — PORTLAND, Ore. — President Barack Obama got personal with his stump speech Tuesday. — “Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood. I think that's a bad idea,” Obama said to about 950 donors at the Oregon Convention Center …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
'We're Not Going to Protect You' — New York's mayor calls for a police insurrection. — Last night New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg made an extraordinarily dangerous and radical pronouncement. He was appearing on CNN's “Piers Morgan Tonight” when the host asked him …
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Weekly Standard, Clayton Cramer's Blog and ABCNEWS
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Mayor Bloomberg Flirts With Violating the Taylor Law
Mayor Bloomberg Flirts With Violating the Taylor Law
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Keeps Lead as Voter Anxiety Rises — American voters are growing more polarized and locked in their views as they witness a presidential campaign that is boosting negative feelings about both candidates, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Tuesday shows.
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Sweetness & Light, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos and Ballot Box
Jason Seher / The Page:
The Romney Prepared Text — Here are his remarks at the VFW national convention in Reno. Thank you. Commander Richard DeNoyer, I appreciate the introduction, and I'm proud to see a combat veteran from Massachusetts serving as National Commander of the VFW.
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Romney Adviser Bolton Backs Bachmann's Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt — Today on Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney's radio show, Mitt Romney foreign policy adviser John Bolton defended Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) call for the U.S. government to investigate suggestions …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Congressman Calls McCain ‘Numb Nuts’ For Criticizing Bachmann's Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt
Tea Party Congressman Calls McCain ‘Numb Nuts’ For Criticizing Bachmann's Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt
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Crooks and Liars and Wonkette
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Nanny Mike's next target a real boozy — The next city health-care crackdown: alcohol abuse. — Having attacked smoking, trans fats and sugary drinks, the Bloomberg administration is ramping up its campaign against alcohol abuse, The Post has learned. — The city Health Department …
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Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine and Jammie Wearing Fools
Katie Glueck / Reuters:
Veep sheet: Gov. Bob McDonnell's name drop — Welcome to mid-week, and welcome back to the veep sheet. Today, Mitt Romney is heading out for a foreign trip that includes stops in London for the Olympics, Israel and Poland. But an interesting tidbit from closer to home emerged Tuesday …
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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Greenland's ‘Extreme Melt Event’ — During a five-day period earlier this month, 97 percent of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet thawed. — When NASA scientist Son Nghiem was analyzing data from the Oceansat-2 satellite last week, he noticed that an unusual amount of Greenland's surface …
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Guardian, Newsy and World News
Jacob Aron / New Scientist:
Iran nuclear facilities ‘Thunderstruck’ by AC/DC malware — In 2010, Iran's nuclear facilities were infiltrated by Stuxnet, the centrifuge-wrecking malware allegedly cooked up by the US government. Now they seem to have been hit again by a bizarre attack forcing nuclear plant workstations …
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Mark Bittman / Opinionator:
More on Milk — Not surprisingly, experiences like mine with dairy, outlined in my column of two weeks ago, are more common than unusual, at least according to the roughly 1,300 comments and e-mails we received since then. In them, people outlined their experiences with dairy and health problems …
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Prairie Weather
Forrest Wilder / The Texas Observer:
Washington Post Reporter Allows College Officials to Alter Story on Controversial Test — Reporter breaks journalistic convention by sharing entire drafts with ‘customers’ in University of Texas press office. — In February, Daniel de Vise, a reporter for the Washington Post …
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BBC:
Oprah Winfrey attacked for ‘ignorant’ India special — Winfrey visited the Taj Majal during her week-long visit to India, her first trip to the country — Oprah Winfrey has been criticised after the broadcast of a two-part TV special about her trip to India in January.