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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Obama has no patience for 'you didn't build that' attacks — SEATTLE - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he's losing his patience over the Republican attacks aimed at his “you didn't build that” comment. — “I have to tell you, I generally have patience with what the other side says about me …
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Democrats Plan To Go Nuclear On Romney “You Didn't Build This” Attack — In a memo, DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse outlines aggressive response to “BS” Romney claim. — Image by JAMES GLOVER / Reuters — DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse outlined an all-out response …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Chicago, DNC plan coordinated national pushback on 'You didn't build that'
Chicago, DNC plan coordinated national pushback on 'You didn't build that'
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CNN:
TRENDING: Super PAC uses Olympic ‘opening ceremony’ to hit Romney in ad
TRENDING: Super PAC uses Olympic ‘opening ceremony’ to hit Romney in ad
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Obama gets personal on Planned Parenthood
Obama gets personal on Planned Parenthood
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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’
Romney Adviser Says Obama Doesn't ‘Fully Appreciate’ Our ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. state senator blames racism for Romney gains
Va. state senator blames racism for Romney gains
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Movie massacre suspect sent chilling notebook to psychiatrist before attack — Three days after he allegedly shot up a Colorado movie theater, killing 12 and injuring scores, suspect James Holmes appeared in court, where he seemed disheveled and disoriented.
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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Kris Kitto / The Hill:
The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful People — In terms of style, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has come a long way. For a 2008 story on congressional wardrobes, she told The Hill, “I'm a bottom-feeder when it comes to clothes shopping,” and described her strategy as going for “markdown, markdown …
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Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
Latino support for President Obama holds steady — President Barack Obama remains broadly popular with Hispanics, a key voting bloc in this fall's election, according to new data from the NBC-Wall Street Journal-Telemundo poll. — The president leads presumptive Republican presidential …
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Francis X. Donnelly / detroitnews.com:
Polls: Romney gaining in Michigan
Polls: Romney gaining in Michigan
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Hal Dardick / Chicago Tribune:
Alderman to Chick-fil-A: No deal — Moreno tries to block restaurant that opposes gay marriage from opening in his Northwest Side ward … A Chicago alderman wants to kill Chick-fil-A's plans to build a restaurant in his increasingly trendy Northwest Side ward because the fast-food chain's top executive vocally opposes gay marriage.
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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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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Who's up for a new NBC/WSJ poll based on a bad sample? — Last month's sample was questionable. This month's sample is terrible: — The 2008 national exit poll sample, taken when Hopenchange fever was at its zenith, was 39D/32R/29I, or D+7. This one, after three years of Obamanomics dreck …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Mogul's Latest Foray Courts Jews for the G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — A Republican group backed by the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is starting a new effort in battleground states to win over Jewish voters who could be persuaded to turn away from President Obama and support Mitt Romney.
msnbc.com:
Shop windows smashed, fires reported as Anaheim protest turns violent — Protests in Anaheim, Calif., turned violent in the wake of two controversial shootings involving local police. And as KNBC's Angie Crouch reports, at least several arrests were made.
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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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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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CNBC:
Wall Street Legend Sandy Weill: Break Up the Big Banks — Former Citigroup Chairman & CEO Sanford I. Weill, the man who invented the financial supermarket, called for the breakup of big banks in an interview on CNBC Wednesday. — “What we should probably do is go and split up investment banking …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Did President Reagan Neglect National Security? — The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Mitt Romney is recounting a Jim Baker anecdote in which President Reagan ordered Baker, as White House chief of staff, to hold no national security meetings over a hundred day period early …
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Associated Press:
Greece expels Olympic athlete over racist tweets — ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Triple jumper Voula Papachristou was expelled from Greece's Olympic team Wednesday for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party.
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Washington Blade:
Who signed the Md. anti-gay marriage petition? — Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon — Send via Email — Send this page to Print Friendly — The names of some 110,000 Maryland residents who signed a petition to force the state's new marriage equality law onto …
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Justice Scalia Disputes Accuracy Of ‘Leak’ … Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke with NPR on Tuesday at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, influential conservative and pugilistic dissenter, is challenging everything from a recent leak …
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Crystal Wiltshire / Ecorazzi:
WATCH: David Letterman 'We're Screwed' Due To Fracking — David Letterman held nothing back last week when he voiced his concerns over fracking, calling the oil companies greedy, he plainly explained to America, “we're screwed.” — The Late Show host went on to point out the issues …
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Ed Carson / Investor's Business Daily:
Government Motors: GM Stock Hits New Low, Taxpayer Loss Hits $35 Billion — General Motors (GM) shares closed down 1.5% to 19.02 on Monday, hitting 18.85 intraday. That's the lowest since the U.S. auto giant came public again in November 2010 at 33 a share. Update: GM shares early Tuesday fell 1.4% to 18.76, hitting a new low.)
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Syria Is Iraq — Lord knows I am rooting for the opposition forces in Syria to quickly prevail on their own and turn out to be as democratically inclined as we hope. But the chances of this best-of-all-possible outcomes is low. That's because Syria is a lot like Iraq.
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Lewis Hay III / Wall Street Journal:
Lewis Hay: The Tax Cliff Endangers Seniors — Now is not the time to raise tax rates on investment income. — Most people know that the U.S. government is rapidly approaching the edge of a fiscal cliff that will raise taxes for millions of Americans—at every income level and age.
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