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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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Jon Stewart: ‘You, Harry Reid, Are Really, Really Terrible’ — Jon Stewart very thoroughly ripped into Senator Harry Reid for not just claiming that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes for ten years without caring about whether it is true or not, but for his unbelievable statement that Romney's father would be …
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Reid: Romney is guilty of my evidence-free accusations until he proves himself innocent; Update …
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Reid stands by Bain Capital investor story
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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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MoveOn speaks for ‘pampered’ Romney horse Rafalca in TV ad
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Ann Romney slammed for $990 Shirt, Michelle Obama praised for $6,800 jacket
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White House analyst warned saving Solyndra could cost more than letting it fail — As the Obama administration moved last year to bail out Solyndra, the embattled flagship of the president's initiative to promote alternative energy, a White House budget analyst calculated that millions …
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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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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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Why Marco Rubio Is Wrong on Olympic Winnings — He and Mitt Romney want to exempt medalists from taxes. But such loopholes are exactly what makes the tax code a complicated mess. — Reuters — Senator Marco Rubio has long made tax simplification one of his talking points.
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The Olympic Medal Tax Pander
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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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Two planes taking off from National put on collision course with plane trying to land — Three commuter jets came within seconds of a midair collision at Reagan National Airport on Tuesday after confused air traffic controllers launched two outbound flights directly at another plane coming in to land …
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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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Annan Resigns as Syria Peace Envoy — Kofi Annan, the special envoy of the United Nations and Arab League who has sought unsuccessfully for months to resolve the Syria conflict, has submitted his resignation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Mitt Romney's Comeback Plan — After the deluge. “This campaign is not like a baseball game,” says Fehrnstrom. — Image by Carsten Koall / Getty Images — Mitt Romney has lost each of the last 40 days, each day in its own way. Now his campaign, finally reckoning with a summer …
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CU Psychiatrist Called Threat-Team Members About Holmes — Sources Tell CALL7 Investigators Dr. Lynne Fenton Had Concerns About Holmes' Behavior Six Weeks Before Shootings — Arthur Kane and John Ferrugia , CALL7 Investigators — DENVER — The psychiatrist treating accused Aurora theater …
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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 …


Jill Stein, Green Party presidential nominee, arrested — The Green Party's presidential nominee was arrested Wednesday in Philadelphia and charged with trespassing during a protest against Fannie Mae. — Jill Stein, a Massachusetts resident and Harvard-educated doctor …
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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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Romney to Chick-fil-A? — Mitt Romney's hosting a campaign event at Jeffco Fairgrounds in Golden, Colorado around lunchtime today, and a quick scan of Chick-fil-A's website shows several locations within fifteen miles or so of the Romney event. So it should be easy for Romney to stop …
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Armed ‘al-Qaeda’ trio arrested in southern Spain — Police in southern Spain have arrested three suspected al-Qaeda members in possession of explosives and poison, Spanish media say. — They say the suspects include a Chechen and a Turk, and were arrested in La Linea de la Concepcion and Valdepenas.
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Ahmadinejad: World forces must strive to annihilate Israel — In Ramadan speech to ambassadors from Islamic countries, Iranian president says “horrible Zionist current” has been managing world affairs for 400 years, adds that liberating Palestine would solve all world problems.
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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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Romney's CEO style rankled Mass. lawmakers — BOSTON (AP) — What worked for Mitt Romney in the corporate boardroom didn't fly in the more raucous corridors of the Massachusetts Legislature. — Now the Republican candidate for president, Romney took over as governor in 2003 after a long …
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Outside counsel for Rep. Waters case may cost taxpayers $1.3M — The House Ethics Committee may end up spending more than $1 million on an outside counsel's investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and the panel itself. — The secretive committee on Thursday voted to extend the contract …
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