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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
BuzzFeed:
Romney Advisor Who Hit Obama On Leaks Was Involved In Scooter Libby Scandal — Special advisor Eric Edelman sent out a statement today attacking the White House over national security leaks. Not the ideal point man: Edelman was the first to suggest leaking info about Joe Wilson's CIA-sponsored trip …
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Daily Kos and Mitt Romney for President …
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Romney Goes After Obama on Defense Cuts and Information Leaks
Romney Goes After Obama on Defense Cuts and Information Leaks
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CNN, New York Times and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Romney slams Obama on security leaks
CBO's Publications:
Estimates for the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act Updated for the Recent Supreme Court Decision — On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court issued a decision that essentially made the expansion of the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) a state option.
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Firedoglake, Hit & Run, Booman Tribune and Americans for Tax Reform …
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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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ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and USA Today
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Deloitte: One in 10 U.S. Employers to Drop Health Coverage
Deloitte: One in 10 U.S. Employers to Drop Health Coverage
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Rush Limbaugh, The PJ Tatler and CNSNews
Washington Post:
How super PACs are saving Mitt Romney — Republican-aligned super PACs and other outside conservative groups have spent more than $144 million on general election ads in swing presidential states, a huge outlay of cash that has allowed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to not only combat …
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Amy Walter / ABCNEWS:
Obama Fights Back Against 'You Didn't Build That' Attacks
Obama Fights Back Against 'You Didn't Build That' Attacks
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Daily Kos, Business Insider, Firedoglake, “The Lid”, Liberal Values, The Gateway Pundit, Shakesville and NewsBusters.org blogs
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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Taylor Marsh, The New Republic and The Daily Dish
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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Taylor Marsh, Mario Piperni dot Com, Towleroad News #gay and Daily Kos
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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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Wonkette and The Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Newt defends Bachmann on Huma Abedin allegations
Newt defends Bachmann on Huma Abedin allegations
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Washington Post, Mediaite, The Raw Story and ThinkProgress
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, City Room, Hot Air, Piers Morgan, 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
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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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
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
John Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Republicans Endorse Democrats in Senate Races — With majority control of the Senate within reach for Republicans this November, one might presume that conservative party elders are doing everything within their power to elect GOP senators this fall. You'd be wrong.
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Mediaite and Hotline On Call
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
GOP Rep. Don Young endorses Democrat in Hawaii Senate race
GOP Rep. Don Young endorses Democrat in Hawaii Senate race
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Politico
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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Dennis Romero / The Informer:
Marijuana Dispensaries Banned in L.A. Per City Council Vote — The L.A. City Council today voted to put an end to the city's infamous and numerous marijuana dispensaries, citing neighborhood concerns and court rulings that have questioned a city's right to regulate the retailers.
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The Snitch, Hit & Run and Hullabaloo
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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Business Insider
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
If the first six months don't count... Mitt Romney sat down with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, and made a curious observation. He said voters who want a strong economy should vote for him, but Americans “ought to give, whichever president is going to be elected, at least six months or a year to get those policies in place.”
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, Weasel Zippers and ABCNEWS
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 …
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
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
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Blasts Obama For Talking ‘Incessantly’ About The Middle Class — President Obama's plan to allow the Bush tax cuts for incomes above $250,000 to expire at the end of the year has revived the Republican talking point that he is waging “class warfare” against the wealthy …
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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