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Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Obama: Hey Romney, Europe and I go way back — Dear Britain: The White House wants you know that even if Mitt Romney may harbor doubts about your ability to pull off the Olympics, President Barack Obama “has the utmost confidence” in you. In fact, the Obama administration would also like Israel and Poland …
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Politico, NewsBusters.org and Conservatives4Palin
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
WH's Carney Refuses To Name The Capital Of Israel — White House press secretary Jay Carney is asked by a reporter what is the capital of Israel. — Reporter: What city does this Administration consider to be the capital of Israel? Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?
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Scared Monkeys, Weekly Standard, Michael J. Totten's blog, Power Line and JOSHUAPUNDIT
Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Oh, Mitt: those Romney gaffes in full — Boobs, blunders, clangers - whatever you call them, Romney likes to drop them. And he's really outdone himself in London — From criticising the biggest sporting event Britain has held in over 40 years, to “looking out of the backside of 10 Downing Street” …
Guardian:
Mitt Romney's Olympics blunder stuns No 10 and hands gift to Obama — Republican candidate backtracks on warning of ‘disconcerting’ signs for Games after rebukes by British PM and London mayor — Mitt Romney handed Barack Obama a potential gift for the US presidential election campaign …
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Romney in Shambles as Britain Proclaims Him Worse than Sarah Palin … The British reaction to Mitt Romney has gone from openness, to skepticism, to mocking, to concluding that Mitt Romney is worse than Sarah Palin. — Daily Mail Political Editor James Chapman has been providing the world …
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CBS News and The Moderate Voice
Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
Romney book: Britain is a tiny island that makes stuff nobody wants
Romney book: Britain is a tiny island that makes stuff nobody wants
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Althouse, The Mahablog, New York Magazine, Prairie Weather, The Political Carnival, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, msnbc.com, BuzzFeed, Rumproast, Wonkette, Taylor Marsh, Taegan Goddard's …, The Hinterland Gazette, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice, Telegraph, Talking Points Memo, Guardian and The Daily Dish
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney tries to steer around Olympics controversy in London meetings
Mitt Romney tries to steer around Olympics controversy in London meetings
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americanthinker.com, Unfogged, Bark Bark Woof Woof, The Hill, The BLT and The New Republic
Sara Murray / Washington Wire:
Romney's Not-So-Secret Meeting With MI6
Romney's Not-So-Secret Meeting With MI6
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CBS News, The Hinterland Gazette, The Raw Story and The Impolitic
Rob Williams / The Independent:
Mr Leader? Did Mitt Romney forget Ed Miliband's name?
Mr Leader? Did Mitt Romney forget Ed Miliband's name?
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Mediaite, Political Watch, Hot Air, Ballot Box, The Hill, USA Today, Guardian, Business Insider, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Newsy, News Desk, Sky News and Telegraph
Glen Johnson / The Boston Globe:
Romney faces backlash over Olympics comments
Romney faces backlash over Olympics comments
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CNN and The PJ Tatler
BBC:
Boris Johnson hails ‘Olympomania’ for torch at Hyde Park
Boris Johnson hails ‘Olympomania’ for torch at Hyde Park
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Washington Post, Marbury, Mediaite, US Politics, The Political Carnival, Daily Mail, Politico, ThinkProgress, Business Insider and Little Green Footballs
Rosa Prince / Telegraph:
Olympics: Mitt Romney seeks to play down London 2012 comments
Olympics: Mitt Romney seeks to play down London 2012 comments
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Wonkette, Univision News Tumblr, News Desk and Business Insider
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts — Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2012 (advance estimate); — Revised Estimates: 2009 through First Quarter 2012 — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States …
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
In Defense of Chick-Fil-A — Dan Cathy, the president of the fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A, doesn't like same-sex marriage. He believes that “we're inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.”
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Chicago Alderman: I Will Deny Business Permit Because “There Are Consequences for [Its Owner's] …
Chicago Alderman: I Will Deny Business Permit Because “There Are Consequences for [Its Owner's] …
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Chicago Tribune and Instapundit
Greg Turner / Boston Herald:
Menino says he can't actively block Chick-fil-A
Menino says he can't actively block Chick-fil-A
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Gawker, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Hot Air, CBS Philly and Joe. My. God.
Joshua Rhett Miller / Fox News:
Legal eagles cry fowl over politicians' plans to block Chick-fil-A
Legal eagles cry fowl over politicians' plans to block Chick-fil-A
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Newsy, Riehl World View, Chicago Tribune and Swampland
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Amazon's Founder Pledges $2.5 Million in Support of Same-Sex Marriage — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have agreed to donate $2.5 million to help pass a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington State, instantly becoming among the largest financial backers …
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Washington Wire, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Towleroad News #gay, PinkNews.co.uk, Mashable!, Joe. My. God. and Good As You
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Money for Nothing — For years, allegedly serious people have been issuing dire warnings about the consequences of large budget deficits — deficits that are overwhelmingly the result of our ongoing economic crisis. In May 2009, Niall Ferguson of Harvard declared that the “tidal wave of debt issuance” …
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Jared Bernstein
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: The Dark Night Rises — Everybody knows the culture is poisonous, and nobody expects that to change. — At a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” the other day on Manhattan's East 86th Street, three cops were posted outside, two in a cruiser and one on a motorcycle.
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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Michael Hogan / The Huffington Post:
Harvey Weinstein On Obama, Gun Control, ‘The Master’ And The Record-Breaking ‘The Intouchables’
Harvey Weinstein On Obama, Gun Control, ‘The Master’ And The Record-Breaking ‘The Intouchables’
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Politico
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Say, how come the DOJ isn't prosecuting top Obama crony Jon Corzine? — Via Breitbart, three possibilities here, all of them plausible and by no means mutually exclusive. One: The DOJ just isn't in the business of prosecuting bankers anymore. If they didn't go after anyone for the subprime crisis …
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JOSHUAPUNDIT, iOwnTheWorld.com and Washington Free Beacon
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Wynton Hall / BREITBART.COM:
REVEALED: CORZINE'S MF GLOBAL WAS CLIENT OF ERIC HOLDER'S LAW FIRM
REVEALED: CORZINE'S MF GLOBAL WAS CLIENT OF ERIC HOLDER'S LAW FIRM
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Maggie's Notebook, Doug Ross, The Lonely Conservative and Washington Times
Judson Berger / Fox News:
ICE, Border Patrol unions claim illegal immigrants exploiting ‘dreamer’ policy — Union heads representing thousands of America's immigration agents slammed the Obama administration Thursday over a policy they claim is forcing officials to ignore the law and allowing illegal immigrants to exploit the system.
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Washington Examiner, Maggie's Notebook, Questions and Observations, New York Times and Doug Ross
Democratic Underground:
Anti-Gay Kirk Cameron rejects Youth Caucus invite, Congressman Frank Pallone responds. — Cameron, through his manager, stunningly tells the youth to watch his interviews online, where Cameron says being LGBT is “unnatural,” “detrimental” and “destructive to our civilization”
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ThinkProgress, Holy Bullies … and Joe. My. God.
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Elizabeth Warren criticized by liberal supporter for almost all-white campaign HQ photo — Obama came under criticism and mockery from the left and right when a photo of his Chicago campaign operation staff had barely a non-white face among them. All the talk about diversity was not practiced at his HQ.
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Datechguy's Blog
Bloomberg:
How to Break NRA's Grip on Politics: Michael R. Bloomberg — By Michael R. Bloomberg 2012-07-26T22:40:00Z — It has been a week since the massacre in Aurora, Colorado. The two major U.S. presidential candidates spent the past week avoiding the subject of whether anything should be done to prevent such shootings from recurring.
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Wall Street Journal, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN, Politico, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and New York Times
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
John Boehner ‘partial to’ Rob Portman for veep — House Speaker John Boehner wants to see another Buckeye in the White House. — Boehner, during an appearance on Fox News' “On The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” said he hoped Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would choose Ohio Sen. Rob Portman as his running mate.
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CNN
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Once a Rebel, McCain Now Walks the Party Line — WASHINGTON — As Election Day edges close and most members of Congress yearn to flee Washington, Senator John McCain of Arizona is more present than ever. — Only there is a new iteration of the Republican lawmaker and defeated presidential candidate …
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Influence Alley and The Caucus