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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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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
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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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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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
MoveOn speaks for ‘pampered’ Romney horse Rafalca in TV ad — The liberal group MoveOn is putting their anti-Mitt Romney message into his horse's mouth in a new TV ad released Thursday. — The ad purports to feature Rafalca, the dressage horse co-owned by the Romneys, speaking to the camera about her upkeep.
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Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Ann Romney slammed for $990 Shirt, Michelle Obama praised for $6,800 jacket
Ann Romney slammed for $990 Shirt, Michelle Obama praised for $6,800 jacket
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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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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Romney to Chick-fil-A? — Mitt Romney's hosting a campaign event …
Romney to Chick-fil-A? — Mitt Romney's hosting a campaign event …
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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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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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Washington Post:
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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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
GOP Hits Obama on Lobbyist Meetings at ‘Caribou’
GOP Hits Obama on Lobbyist Meetings at ‘Caribou’
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
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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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Olympic Medal Tax Pander
The Olympic Medal Tax Pander
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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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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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Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
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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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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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
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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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 …
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
GM profits slip 41% as European struggles take their toll — America's largest car firm made $1.5bn in the second quarter of 2012, with European division reporting operating loss of $361m — General Motors' profits fell 41% in the second quarter as troubles in Europe undercut strong sales in North America.
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Associated Press:
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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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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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
WWII vet Sen. Inouye: Obama's birth-control mandate is no Pearl Harbor — The Senate's most senior member called out a Republican congressman for comparing the federal birth-control mandate to the events of Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11, 2001. — Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) …
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Joanna Paraszczuk / Jerusalem Post:
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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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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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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