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Fact Check: The Bust of Winston Churchill — Lately, there's been a rumor swirling around about the current location of the bust of Winston Churchill. Some have claimed that President Obama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and sent it back to the British Embassy.
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Is the Churchill Bust Controversy a Total Bust? — Official White House Photo by Pete Souza — There's been much consternation today at the White House about a bust of Winston Churchill. A quote from conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer has ignited a fiery blog post …
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Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and Washington Examiner

Busted: Two statues amount to one Churchill bust of a controversy — (CNN) - A bronze bust of Winston Churchill is becoming hotly contested in Washington. Well, actually, make that two of them. — A bust of the former British Prime Minister was lent by the British government to the White House …
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Mediaite, The Political Carnival and Weasel Zippers

Why he's going where he's going — A generation ago, it was the three I's.
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Politico, BuzzFeed, The PJ Tatler, USA Today, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, americanthinker.com and American Prospect

Romney ‘Looking Forward’ To Returning Churchill Bust to White House
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Atlanta Black Star and ABCNEWS


COLUMBUS, Ga. — News 3 has learned that Donald A. Perry, the Vice President of Corporate Public Relations has passed away. — Ross Cathy, the owner of the Midland, GA Chick-fil-A and family member of company CEO, Dan Cathy, tells News 3, Perry passed away this morning from a heart attack.
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Rahm Clarifies Chick-fil-A Stance
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Politico, Weasel Zippers, Ed Driscoll and Hot Air

Mayor Bloomberg: Chick-fil-A Ban ‘Not Going to Happen’ in NYC
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Advocate, Joe. My. God., The Huffington Post, Towleroad News #gay, Gothamist and Hot Air

Radical imam OK but not Chick-fil-A
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Datechguy's Blog, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Wizbang, Clayton Cramer's Blog, National Review and Sister Toldjah


The Real Reason 'You Didn't Build That' Works — Mitt Romney's plan of blatantly lying about President Obama's “you didn't build that” speech is clearly drawing blood. But what makes the attack work so well is not so much the lie itself but the broader subtext of it.
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Four Little Words
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New York Magazine, Hot Air, GayPatriot, American Power and American Spectator


Hosts accept coach's demand, and separate the teams with makeshift barrier — Two of Israel's judokas, Arik Zeevi (right) and Alice Schlesinger at the entrance to the Israeli building at the Olympic village, July 26 (photo credit: courtesy of the Israeli Olympic Committee)
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The Moderate Voice, The PJ Tatler, Algemeiner.com and Weasel Zippers
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Lebanese Olympic Team Demands Barrier Separation From Israel Squad — Aerial shot of Olympic Park in London. Photo: wiki commons. — The Lebanese judo team forced International Olympic Committee officials to erect a barrier between themselves and the Israeli judo squad, Friday afternoon in London …
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Atlas Shrugs, The Jawa Report, JOSHUAPUNDIT and American Power


Santorum Defends Penn State, Blasts Freeh Report — Former Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum (PA) has long positioned himself as a champion of family values, so one might think he would be the strongest advocate for children who had been sexually assaulted by trusted adults.
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Mediaite and The Raw Story
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Freeh Group Member Criticizes NCAA's Use of Investigative Report
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ThinkProgress, CollegeFootballTalk, SI Tracking Blog and CNN

Netanyahu: Romney Lying About Their Friendship … But, to hear the pathological liar, Mitt Romney, tell it the two were as thick as thieves (no pun intended) while they both worked at Bain Consulting Group in the 1970s (not to be confused with Bain Capital.) — Romney to the New York Times:
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New York Times, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Wonkette, Brad DeLong and Firedoglake


Team Romney Readies For “Saturday Obama Surprise” — What's the surprise? BuzzFeed doesn't know yet or even know if it exists. But Boston is sure one is coming tomorrow. — After a disastrous 48-hour news cycle in London, the Romney campaign “wants the world to know” that they are prepared for a …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland


TPM2012 — Karl Rove: Romney Blew It In London (VIDEO) — Karl Rove said Mitt Romney's London Olympics gaffe is not “a big deal” in the grand scheme of things, but the veteran Republican strategist is nonetheless one more political observer scratching his head at Romney's mistake.
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ABCNEWS
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Romneyshambles: 'Some Americans just shouldn't leave the country', says Carl Lewis
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Politico, Guardian, News Desk, ABCNEWS, The Moderate Voice, The Reaction, The Hinterland Gazette, Liberal Values, Mediaite, Shakesville, Lean Forward, American Power and PoliticusUSA


Blind archer sets first London record — • South Korea's Im Dong-hyun sets team and individual best — • Two world records tumble in men's archery at Lord's — South Korea claimed the first world records of London 2012 on Friday morning with a stunning display in the men's archery ranking round at Lord's.
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The Hinterland Gazette and Telegraph
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FEC Statement on Van Hollen v. FEC — WASHINGTON - On March 30, 2012, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in Van Hollen v. FEC, Civ. No. 11-0766 (D.D.C. Mar. 30, 2012), found that the Commission regulation at 11 CFR 104.20(c)(9) is invalid.
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, OpenSecrets.org, Daily Kos and Influence Alley

Maryland police may have thwarted shooting — Authorities have taken a man into custody who referred to himself as “a joker” and threatened to shoot people at his former workplace in Prince George's County, investigators said Friday. — The investigators said that the man …
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ABCNEWS, ThinkProgress and Newsy
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Have Republicans Ever Hated a President More Than Barack Obama? — The widespread belief on the right that Barack Obama is a Muslim is one of the stranger features of this period in history. There are some of them who know that Obama says he's a Christian but are sure that's all an act designed …
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Pew Forum on Religion …, Univision News Tumblr, Joe. My. God. and The Raw Story


Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal — If you look at only one story about the Afghan War this year, make it this one. An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details this week about a U.S. funded military hospital …
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Hit & Run


Catholic business owners score win against ObamaCare mandate — The owners of Hercules Industries — from left to right, James Newland, Paul Newland, William Newland, Andrew Newland — won an injunction to stop the Obama administration's health care mandate that requires employers provide coverage …
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LifeNews.com, The Gateway Pundit, The Anchoress and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion


White House on the economy: at least it's still growing — The White House chose to focus on the positive when it comes to GDP estimates released Friday. — The estimates found economic growth slowed to 1.5 percent last quarter - down from 2 percent the previous quarter and 4.1 percent …
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Power Line and Weasel Zippers
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National Income and Product Accounts
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Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter — Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter. — While Apple has been hugely successful …