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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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Reid: Romney is guilty of my evidence-free accusations until he proves himself innocent; Update: Repeats accusation on floor of Senate — Let's see if we can get the Democratic Party philosophy of late correct. Unless a business owner foots the entire bill for his employees' contraceptives …
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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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The PJ Tatler and The Raw Story
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Harry Reid's Financial McCarthyism: 'I Don't Think the Burden Should Be on Me'
Harry Reid's Financial McCarthyism: 'I Don't Think the Burden Should Be on Me'
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Instapundit, Datechguy's Blog, therightplanet.com, Business Insider, The Atlantic Online and Crooks and Liars
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Harry Reid doubles down on Romney taxes; Romney campaign responds
Harry Reid doubles down on Romney taxes; Romney campaign responds
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The Huffington Post, Weekly Standard, US Politics, The PJ Tatler and Business Insider
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Reid doubles down on tax claims
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Reid stands by Bain Capital investor story
Reid stands by Bain Capital investor story
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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
MoveOn speaks for ‘pampered’ Romney horse Rafalca in TV ad
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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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Michelle Malkin, Reuters, Speaker.gov, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and Pirate's Cove
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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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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
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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The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, AEIdeas and Washington Post
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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National Review, Washington Times and Hullabaloo
Dorian De Wind / The Moderate Voice:
Syrian Military Defectors in Turkey: Should They Return Home and Join the Fighting? — As the fighting in Syria intensifies, especially the battle for the Syrian city of Aleppo and as Kofi Annan, the special envoy of the United Nations and Arab League, throws in the towel …
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Associated Press and New York Times
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Annan Casts Blame Widely as He Resigns as Syria Envoy
Annan Casts Blame Widely as He Resigns as Syria Envoy
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Outside the Beltway, Algemeiner.com and americanthinker.com
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, Wired, The Raw Story, Indecision Forever, The Verge, Business Insider, The Other McCain, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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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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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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Michael Moore: 'I Wouldn't Say I Support' Obama — TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Liberal stalwarts Susan Sarandon and Michael Moore said Wednesday they're not thrilled with President Barack Obama's performance but hope he gets four more years. — “I wouldn't say I support him.
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Reuters, Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
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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TheDenverChannel.com:
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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Associated Press
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
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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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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The Political Carnival and Politico
Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Boehner ‘feeling better’ about GOP retaining majority in the House — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday he is “feeling better” about Republicans' chances of holding the House than he did in April, when he said the party faced a “one in three” likelihood of losing the majority.