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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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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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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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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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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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CBO's Publications:
Letter to the Honorable John Boehner providing an estimate for H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act
Letter to the Honorable John Boehner providing an estimate for H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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Taylor Marsh, Althouse and American Prospect
Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Moves Closer to Action — Central Bank Prepares Steps to Spur the Economy Unless the Recovery Picks Up — Federal Reserve officials, impatient with the economy's sluggish growth and high unemployment, are moving closer to taking new steps to spur activity and hiring.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Obama Puts Democrats Back in Welfare Reform Trap — Political controversy over welfare is back after a 16-year hiatus. — As with the fight that started earlier this year over whether Catholic organizations should be forced to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees …
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