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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney 'Didn't Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years' … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Harry Reid , Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Mitt Romney Taxes, Harry Reid Mitt Romney, Harry Reid Romney Taxes, Mitt Romney 2012, Reid Romney …
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Datechguy / Datechguy's Blog:
Can we stop calling the Washington Post a “newspaper” now? — ...and officially declare it a propaganda organ? … Mind you the Washington post isn't citing an unnamed source that has talked to them, they are reporting that someone else (Harry Reid) claims that an unnamed source said something.
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neo-neocon and The Lonely Conservative
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Harry Reid: This might not be true, but some Bain investor who I won't name told me Romney …
Harry Reid: This might not be true, but some Bain investor who I won't name told me Romney …
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Manu Raju / Politico:
Government funding deal reached
Government funding deal reached
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Firedoglake, The Caucus and The PJ Tatler
Mitt Romney / National Review:
Culture Does Matter — During my recent trip to Israel, I had suggested that the choices a society makes about its culture play a role in creating prosperity, and that the significant disparity between Israeli and Palestinian living standards was powerfully influenced by it.
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New York Post:
Inconvenient truth — While in Israel, Mitt Romney …
Inconvenient truth — While in Israel, Mitt Romney …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney says press focusing on overseas stumbles to aid Obama
Romney says press focusing on overseas stumbles to aid Obama
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz wins Republican runoff for Texas Senate seat — (Pat Sullivan - AP) Former state solicitor general Ted Cruz, a tea party-aligned conservative once regarded as a long-shot candidate, has won the Republican runoff in Texas, where he will be the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in the November election.
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Tea Party favorite wins Texas Senate runoff — Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz (R) has won the state's Senate primary runoff election, all but guaranteeing him a spot in the upper chamber and giving the Tea Party one of its biggest victories of the election cycle.
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Cruz Defeats Dewhurst for G.O.P. Nomination in Texas Senate Race
Cruz Defeats Dewhurst for G.O.P. Nomination in Texas Senate Race
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Campaign Brings Up ‘Felons’ in Latest Ad — The latest web ad from Barack Obama's campaign goes after Mitt Romney for not releasing more tax returns than he already has. The ad, titled “Mitt Romney's Tax Returns: When Will He Come Clean?,” at one point flashes two words onscreen, “FELONS” and “TAX RECORDS.”
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CNN:
First on CNN: Romney preps swing state blitz, stirring V.P. speculation — Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is quietly laying the groundwork for a high-profile blitz of several key battleground states in the run-up to the Republican National Convention in Tampa …
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Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog:
The Churchill Bust & Charles Krauthammer — Yesterday following his column, I sent the following email to Charles Krauthammer. Charles asked that I make the email public and I have agreed.
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Romney Photo Spurs Domestic Abuse Incident — Suspect mistook Republican pol for live-in girlfriend's sidepiece — Suspicious that his live-in girlfriend was planning an affair, a Tennessee man confronted the woman after spotting a photo of an unknown guy on her Facebook page, according to a police report.
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John Celock / The Huffington Post:
Kelly Keisling, Tennessee Legislator, Mass Emailed Obama ‘Staged Assassination’ Rumor … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Video, Department Of Homeland Security, Canada Free Press, Doug Hammon, Email, Frankie Anderson, Holt Whitt, Joe Aglione, Kelly Keisling, Obama Conspiracy Theories, Tennessee Politics, Politics News
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep. Steve King Defends Dog Fighting — Left: Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Right: Dogfighting victim. — If you believe that the United States should legalize dogfighting because we allow humans to fight, fear not. You've got an ally in the United States Congress.
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Daily Kos, The Raw Story, Wonkette and The Agonist
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Daily Lays Off a Third of Its Staff — The Daily, News Corp.'s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. — The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people familiar with The Daily's plans.
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BuzzFeed:
Federal Trial Court In Connecticut Strikes Down DOMA's Marriage Definition — On DOMA's definition of “marriage,” court finds “that no conceivable rational basis exists for the provision.” — Janet Geller & Joanne Marquis, two of the plaintiffs in the Connecticut case.
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
House to consider eliminating Senate confirmation for presidential appointees — The House of Representatives is set to consider legislation Tuesday that would exempt certain presidential appointees from having to be confirmed by the Senate. — But a number of conservative groups are arguing that the …
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Politico, New York Magazine, AEIdeas, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and protein wisdom
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren calls her Wall Street claim ‘silly’ — Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is copping out of her claim that Wall Street executives are supporting her because she'll “save capitalism,” saying she made a “silly” gaffe. — “I passed along a comment that was over the top …
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative and Weekly Standard
Paul Krugman:
Fire Ed DeMarco — Do it now. — Who? you ask. DeMarco heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie. And he has just rejected a request from the Treasury Department that he offer debt relief to troubled homeowners — a request backed by an offer by Treasury …
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fannie, Freddie Won't Cut Loan Balances
Fannie, Freddie Won't Cut Loan Balances
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
House GOP Tax Plan Raises Taxes On 10 Times As Many People As Democratic Proposal — Senate Republicans last week proposed a plan that would raise taxes on more than 20 million Americans, while maintaining the high-end Bush tax cuts. Letting those tax cuts on income in excess of $250,000 expire …
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Center for American Progress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Booman Tribune
Chad Brady / The Daily Caller:
The Daily Caller Gun Giveaway Week 11: Find Our Hacker — The Daily Caller will be giving away one gun per week until Election Day: November 6, 2012. — The FMK 9C1 is an American-made high capacity 9mm designed by Jim Pontillo and manufactured in California. Each gun is engraved with the Bill of Rights.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Retiring Rep. Steve LaTourette: You have to ‘hand over your wallet and your voting card’ to extremes — Rep. Steve LaTourette, a key ally of House Speaker John A. Boehner and one of a dwindling number of congressional GOP moderates, issued a broadside against an increasingly polarized House on Tuesday …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
Exiting LaTourette Sees ‘Progressively Worse’ Partisanship
Exiting LaTourette Sees ‘Progressively Worse’ Partisanship
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Wall Street Journal and Lean Forward
Tim Croft / The Star:
Port St. Joe man shot in what authorities label ‘hate’ crime — A Port St. Joe man was shot in the head late Monday night in what Gulf County Sheriff Joe Nugent is labeling a hate crime. — Walton Henry Butler, a 59-year-old white male, was arrested after he admitted shooting Everett Gant with a .22 rifle.
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Ed Fischer / CBS Philly:
Pa. Top Election Official Disputes Negative Impact of New Voter ID Law — HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) — Pennsylvania's Secretary of the Commonwealth was on the witness stand today, during day five of the court hearing on Pennsylvania's new voter ID law. — And her testimony just added …
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Twitter Blog:
Our approach to Trust & Safety and private information — We want to take a moment to explain some of our general Trust and Safety policies and procedures, and address the specific case at hand that has unfolded over the past 48-hours (we normally don't address matters pertaining …
David Chalian / Associated Press:
Is Antonio Villaraigosa poised to be America's first Latino president? — (J. Scott ... LOS ANGELES — When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gavels the 2012 Democratic National Convention into session in Charlotte this September, his role as prominent cheerleader for President Obama will be clear.