Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Hot Air, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weasel Zippers, Jammie Wearing Fools, protein wisdom and Pirate's Cove
RELATED:
BuzzFeed:
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'
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
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
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Caucus, Politico, Newsy and The Hinterland Gazette
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Obama gets personal on Planned Parenthood
Obama gets personal on Planned Parenthood
Discussion:
The Spectacle Blog, Weasel Zippers and National Review
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.
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, CBS News, Politico, ABCNEWS, Washington Monthly, BuzzFeed, Los Angeles Times, Crooks and Liars, The Hill, The Other McCain, Guardian, Daily Kos, Addicting Info, Mercury News, NewsBusters.org, democracyarsenal.org, “The Lid”, Wonkette, New York Times, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Business Insider, Firedoglake, Indecision Forever, No More Mister Nice Blog, Taylor Marsh, CBS DC, Informed Comment, First Draft, alicublog, Towleroad News #gay, msnbc.com, Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Mahablog, The Raw Story and The Reality-Based Community
RELATED:
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’
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, ABCNEWS, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, The Raw Story, US Politics, Mediaite, Prairie Weather and Gawker
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. state senator blames racism for Romney gains
Va. state senator blames racism for Romney gains
Discussion:
Red Alert Politics, protein wisdom, msnbc.com and ABCNEWS
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 …
Discussion:
Influence Alley, Riehl World View, Hotline On Call and Mediaite
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Hot Dish Politics, The Blotter, Influence Alley, CBS Minnesota and Business Insider
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 …
RELATED:
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
To Move Polls, Romney Needs to Go Positive
To Move Polls, Romney Needs to Go Positive
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Betsy's Page and Guardian
Francis X. Donnelly / detroitnews.com:
Polls: Romney gaining in Michigan
Polls: Romney gaining in Michigan
Discussion:
New York Magazine, Public Policy Polling, Outside the Beltway, GOP 12 and Rasmussen Reports
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.
Discussion:
The Volokh Conspiracy, protein wisdom and Joe. My. God.
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Michelle Malkin, The Daily Caller, Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Joe. My. God. and Jammie Wearing Fools
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Koreans Learn They Have First Lady — SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's state-run news media ended weeks of speculation about the identity of the poised young woman seen with the young leader Kim Jong-un at various recent public events, announcing Wednesday that she is his wife.
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
NewsBusters.org, Wake up America, Weekly Standard, The Moderate Voice and Datechguy's Blog
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Associated Press and nbclosangeles.com
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Weekly Standard, Balloon Juice and Salon
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.
Discussion:
Politico, The Maddow Blog, Mediaite and Indecision Forever
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Politico and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion:
Deal Journal, Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
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 …
Discussion:
Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Via Meadia
e2.ma:
NEW POLL OF NRA MEMBERS BY FRANK LUNTZ SHOWS STRONG SUPPORT FOR COMMON-SENSE GUN LAWS, EXPOSING SIGNIFICANT DIVIDE BETWEEN RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERS AND NRA LEADERSHIP — Gun Owners Believe Protecting Second Amendment Goes Hand-in-Hand with Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of Criminals
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla
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.
Discussion:
Vox Popoli
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Wire
Quinnipiac University:
New Yorkers Like Cuomo As Gov, Clinton As President, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Obama, Gillibrand Bury GOP Challengers — New York State voters push Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval rating to a new high 73 - 16 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.