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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Feinstein: Someone at White House is behind recent intel leaks — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Monday that someone at the White House was responsible for the recent leaks of classified information. — “I think the White House …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
White House warns of $1,600 tax hike on 114M middle-class families — The White House has launched a new offensive in its fight with congressional Republicans over taxes, arguing 114 million middle-class families will see their taxes rise without action by Congress.
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CNN, ABCNEWS and Questions and Observations
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Blasts Obama For Talking ‘Incessantly’ About The Middle Class
GOP Senator Blasts Obama For Talking ‘Incessantly’ About The Middle Class
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Indecision Forever and Addicting Info
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Feinstein backtracks on statement that White House leaked secrets
Feinstein backtracks on statement that White House leaked secrets
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Ballot Box, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, JustOneMinute and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Divine Miss M — What I find most fascinating about Michele Bachmann — and there are many, many more where she came from — is that she presents herself as a godly woman, humbly devoted to her Christian faith. I'd like to meet that god, and I'd like to understand that Christianity.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Newt defends Bachmann on Huma Abedin allegations — Newt Gingrich, appearing with Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen on POLITICO Live's Driving the Day this morning, defended Rep. Michele Bachmann for asking questions about the Muslim Brotherhood - and declined to hit his former presidential rival …
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Washington Post, Mediaite, The Raw Story and ThinkProgress
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Congressman Calls McCain ‘Numb Nuts’ For Criticizing Bachmann's Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt — Tea Party Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) lashed out at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for criticizing him and his fellow conservative members for suggesting that a senior aide to Secretary …
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Wonkette and The Raw Story
Amy Walter / ABCNEWS:
Obama Fights Back Against 'You Didn't Build That' Attacks — Ten days after Mitt Romney turned President Obama's remarks about public investment in infrastructure into an attack on the president's support for American free enterprise system, Team Obama is finally pushing back.
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Politico, Daily Kos, Business Insider, Firedoglake, “The Lid”, The PJ Tatler, Liberal Values, Shakesville and NewsBusters.org blogs
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Most Say They Already Know Enough about the Candidates — Democrats Want to Hear More about Romney's Tax Returns — OVERVIEW — With more than three months to go before Election Day, most voters already feel that there's little left to learn about the presidential candidates.
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Firedoglake, Connecting.the.Dots and CNN
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Romney Leads on the Economy, Trails Elsewhere
WSJ/NBC Poll: Romney Leads on the Economy, Trails Elsewhere
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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Romney slams Obama on security leaks
Gabriel Debenedetti / Reuters:
Obama attacks on taxes and Bain hit Romney ratings
Obama attacks on taxes and Bain hit Romney ratings
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New York Post:
Bloomberg's gun-control idea: Cops go on strike — By GERRY SHIELDS in DC and BETH DEFALCO in NY — Mayor Bloomberg ramped up his gun-control rhetoric to a whole new level last night, saying he's surprised cops don't walk off their jobs until the public forces lawmakers to get guns off the streets.
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Human Events, Michelle Malkin, Business Insider, Piers Morgan, City Room, Hot Air, Jammie Wearing Fools and Moonbattery
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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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The Daily Caller, Gothamist and Pirate's Cove
CBO's Publications:
Letter to the Honorable John Boehner providing an estimate for H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act — CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have estimated the direct spending and revenue effects of H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act, as passed by the House of Representatives on July 11, 2012.
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Jeff Oravitz / CBS DC:
James Holmes Received $26K Grant From Bethesda-Based National Institutes of Health — WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) - James Holmes, the alleged gunman in the recent theater shooting that left 12 dead in Aurora, Colo., was previously awarded a $26,000 federal grant. — PHOTOS: James Holmes First Court Appearance
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Christian Smith / Chronicle of Higher Education:
An Academic Auto-da-Fé — A sociologist whose data find fault with same-sex relationships is savaged by the progressive orthodoxy — Whoever said inquisitions and witch hunts were things of the past? A big one is going on now. The sociologist Mark Regnerus …
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ProfessorBainbridge.com and NOM Blog
Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker — Ahead Of Voter ID Trial, Pennsylvania Admits There's No In-Person Voter Fraud — As the Justice Department investigates Pennsylvania's voter ID law on the federal level, a coalition of civil rights groups is gearing up for a state trial starting Wednesday examining whether …
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Justice Department investigating Pa. voter ID law
Justice Department investigating Pa. voter ID law
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Crime and Consequences Blog and The Raw Story
Joe Trippi / Fox News:
Why Gary Johnson could cost Obama or Romney a win in 2012 — Back in May, when Americans Elect, the group formed to put a bipartisan third party ticket on the 2012 presidential ballot, closed shop, everyone stopped talking about whether a third party candidate would enter the race in 2012 …
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American Prospect and Althouse
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Victim's Brother To MSNBC: The Families Won't “Politicize This” For Your Gun Restriction Agenda … Note how Michael Eric “Where's My (Black) Thesaurus” Dyson sets up the gun control question with a question about the “inspiring” appearance by The Doer Of All Good Things. — Sign-Up to receive Updates from TH
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Wells Tower / GQ:
Desperately Seeking Mitt — They say Mitt Romney is a robot. They say he is an unusually handsome cyborg. They say if you opened up his chest, you'd see a pile of crackling circuitry or maybe a bale of old straw. And as we prepare (finally!) to crown him the Republican nominee in Tampa …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
ABC President: Ross report hurts coverage — ABC News president Ben Sherwood told staff today that last Friday's incorrect report by Brian Ross detracts from the network's otherwise excellent coverage of the Colarado theater shooting, network sources tell POLITICO.
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, ABCNEWS and Weasel Zippers
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
New Obama Ad Was Filmed In the West Wing — President Obama's newest campaign commercial was filmed inside the West Wing of the White House, an act that campaign finance experts and good government groups generally agreed was legal if not particularly commendable.
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ABCNEWS, The Caucus, Weekly Standard and Hot Air
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The Myth of the Libertarian Internet … - Yglesias: The Flaw in Obama's Idea To Tax the Rich To “Invest in Manufacturing” — Sally Ride Was Amazing, but She Should Not Have Been the First U.S. Woman in Space — Has the Sex Industry Finally Learned To Cater to Women? — What's That Thing?
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Paul Krugman and Eschaton
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Republicans blast Pentagon for allowing military uniforms in gay pride parade — Republican lawmakers are blasting the Pentagon's decision to allow troops to march in uniform at a San Diego gay pride parade last week. — Two senior Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services committees …
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ThinkProgress and TBogg
Bloomberg:
The U.S. Economic Policy Debate Is a Sham — Watching Democrats and Republicans hash out their differences in the public arena, it's easy to get the impression that there's a deep disagreement among reasonable people about how to manage the U.S. economy. — Nothing could be further from the truth.
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