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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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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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The New Republic, Taylor Marsh, The Daily Dish, Liberal Values and ABCNEWS
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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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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Washington Post, The Hill, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air and protein wisdom
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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CNN, Conservatives4Palin and Politico
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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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BBC:
Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland — The Scottish government decision came after a consultation on gay marriage — Scotland could become the first part of the UK to introduce gay marriage after the SNP government announced plans to make the change.
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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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Martha Woodall / Philly.com:
Feds charge Philly charter school mogul in massive fraud — A charter school mogul was charged today in a multimillion-dollar fraud case by the U.S. Attorney's Office. — Dorothy June Hairston Brown, who received accolades for students' test scores and gained notoriety for collecting large salaries …
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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