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Steve Tetreault / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Reid doubles down on Romney tax charge … WASHINGTON - Sen. Harry Reid caused a stir this week when he told an interviewer that Mitt Romney hasn't released more of his tax returns because “he didn't pay taxes for 10 years.” On Wednesday, Reid doubled down on the charge.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Reid doubles down on tax claims — We noted yesterday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Huffington Post that what he claimed was a Bain Capital investor had called him to say Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes for ten years - without saying who told him this, or what basis there was for the claim.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Rick Warren: Chick-fil-A's owner told me they set a new world record in sales today — And the day's not over yet. — Somewhere, a Burger King ad man's toying with the idea of having “The King” declare himself “100% pro-life.” … Not a word about today's activities has been whispered …
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Karl Warden / Twitchy:
Libs support Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day ... because ‘Bible thumpers’ might choke on their food
Libs support Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day ... because ‘Bible thumpers’ might choke on their food
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The Gateway Pundit, Instapundit, Michelle Malkin and American Power
CNN:
Chick-fil-A restaurants become rallying points for supporters
Chick-fil-A restaurants become rallying points for supporters
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Thousands Celebrate Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day
Thousands Celebrate Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day
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BuzzFeed, Guardian, videocafe.crooksandliars.com, Business Insider, PoliticusUSA and The Raw Story
Jackie Wellfonder / Twitchy:
Boycott fail redux: Citizens, Santa unite for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day; Photos show huge success
Boycott fail redux: Citizens, Santa unite for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day; Photos show huge success
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Chicago Sun Times, Hot Air, BREITBART.COM, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Instapundit, National Review, Nice Deb, Datechguy's Blog, GayPatriot, US News, No More Mister Nice Blog, Michelle Malkin, Sense of Events, The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Sister Toldjah, American Power and The Daily Caller
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Political Memo: Tea Party Influence Could Reshape Senate Republicans — WASHINGTON — The Tea Party is very much alive in the drive for Republican control of the Senate, portending a potential shake-up in the mind-set of the chamber. The easy Republican primary victory in Texas on Tuesday of Ted Cruz …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau and Frank Bruni
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Thompson locked in a three-way fight for Wisconsin's GOP Senate nomination
Thompson locked in a three-way fight for Wisconsin's GOP Senate nomination
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USA Today, Power Line, Prairie Weather and No More Mister Nice Blog
James Rosen / Fox News:
With Cruz victory in Texas, is the Tea Party the new ‘Establishment?’
With Cruz victory in Texas, is the Tea Party the new ‘Establishment?’
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protein wisdom, CNN, Hot Air, Politico and BuzzFeed
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney Better Move to Right, Says Emboldened Tea Party
Mitt Romney Better Move to Right, Says Emboldened Tea Party
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msnbc.com, The Brody File and ABCNEWS
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said.
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Politico, CNN, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs, USA Today, Pirate's Cove, National Review and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Syrian Fighting Intensifies in Battle for Control of Aleppo
Syrian Fighting Intensifies in Battle for Control of Aleppo
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americanthinker.com
CNN:
TRENDING: Horserace turns (almost) literal in London — (CNN) - The political horserace turned into an actual horserace Thursday in London. Or at least a horse ballet. — Rafalca, the mare co-owned by Ann Romney, made her Olympics debut at Greenwich Park, competing in the individual …
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Politico
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David W. Chen / New York Times:
Goldman to Invest in City Jail Program, Profiting if Recidivism Falls Sharply — New York City, embracing an experimental mechanism for financing social services that has excited and worried government reformers around the world, will allow Goldman Sachs to invest nearly $10 million in a jail program …
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New York Magazine, The Agonist, Via Meadia, ABCNEWS and Marginal Revolution
Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Missile Defense Staff Warned To Stop Surfing Porn Sites — The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency warned its employees and contractors last week to stop using their government computers to surf the Internet for pornographic sites, according to the agency's executive director.
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Reuters, Indecision Forever, The Raw Story, Business Insider, The Verge, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
GOP Hits Obama on Lobbyist Meetings at ‘Caribou’ — In an election-year effort to cast President Obama as a “typical politician,” Republicans are highlighting the administration's alleged hypocrisy on transparency in holding meetings with lobbyists off White House grounds in order to keep them secret.
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ABCNEWS and Washington Free Beacon
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Obama Campaign: Like Demagoguery, Only Dumber
The Obama Campaign: Like Demagoguery, Only Dumber
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Washington Free Beacon and The Lonely Conservative
bfi.org.uk:
The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time — 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors have voted - and the 50-year reign of Kane is over. Our critics' poll has a new number one. — Image courtesy Kobal Collection — Introduction — Ian Christie rings in the changes in our biggest-ever poll.
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Guardian, Outside the Beltway, Deadline.com, newsfeed.time.com, Hit & Run and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Nine takeaways on Romney's tax plan — 1) The Tax Policy Center bent over backwards to make Romney's promises add up. They assumed a Romney administration wouldn't cut a dollar of tax preferences for anyone making less than $200,000 until they had cut every dollar of tax preferences for everyone making over $200,000.
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Daily Kos, Politicker, AEIdeas and The Lonely Conservative
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Romney Aide: ‘Biased’ Tax Study Ignores The Coming Romney Boom
TPM2012 — Romney Aide: ‘Biased’ Tax Study Ignores The Coming Romney Boom
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New York Magazine, Livewire, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and Paul Krugman
Wall Street Journal:
Jobless Claims Increase — The number of U.S. workers filing applications for jobless benefits rose last week, continuing an uneven pattern that suggests job creation was likely modest in July. — Initial jobless claims, an indication of layoffs, increased by 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 365,000 …
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The Hinterland Gazette
Jared Diamond / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: Mitt Romney's Search for Simple Answers — MITT ROMNEY'S latest controversial remark, about the role of culture in explaining why some countries are rich and powerful while others are poor and weak, has attracted much comment. I was especially interested in his remark …
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ThinkProgress, Daniel W. Drezner, Indecision Forever, Why Nations Fail, The Mahablog, The Reaction and The Atlantic Online
Ace / minx.cc:
CBS MarketWatch Writer: It's a Depression, Not a Recession — And therefore — he doesn't say this; this is the implication of it, as I read it — Barack Obama didn't “save” us from any damn thing. … And then he lists the grim tidings that are easily seen by anyone with the eyes brave enough to look.
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MarketWatch, Questions and Observations, Vox Popoli, Hot Air, CNBC and protein wisdom
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Adviser Draws Attention to Romney Mideast Policy — WASHINGTON — Moments after making remarks in Jerusalem about Middle East culture that enraged Palestinians and undermined the public relations value of his trip to Israel, Mitt Romney looked around the room for Dan Senor, one of his campaign's top foreign policy advisers.
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Washington Wire, No More Mister Nice Blog, Swampland, Weekly Standard and Washington Free Beacon
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Romney, in his own words — The art of spin, I suppose, involves making the best of what you've got and managing to deliver it with a straight face, no matter how preposterous. But the argument that Mitt Romney's flubs on his overseas trip reflected the candidate's compulsive penchant …
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Islamophobe Primary — Tennessee holds its primary elections today, and the marquee race involves a challenge to a very conservative member of the very conservative 2010 GOP Freshman Class in the House on grounds that she's insufficiently focused on the dire threat of Shariah Law. No kidding.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ThinkProgress and Tennessean.com