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Harry Reid: Says Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years. — The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! Harry Reid says anonymous source told him Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes for 10 years — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., touched off a firestorm last week after he claimed …
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OBAMA'S COLLEGE CLASSMATE: ‘THE OBAMA SCANDAL IS AT COLUMBIA’ — I am President Obama's classmate at Columbia University, Class of '83. I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars.
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Politico:
Harry Reid not releasing his own tax returns — LAS VEGAS — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again deflected questions Monday about releasing his tax returns, even as he continued to pound the demand for Mitt Romney to make more of his own public. — Instead, Reid pointed …
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
WH Sidesteps Reid Vs. Romney Tax Return Controversy — White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today deflected questions about whether the White House would back Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's allegations about Mitt Romney's tax obligations. — Speaking to reporters …
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Darren Goode / Politico:
Reid: Romney issue ‘nothing to do with me’
Reid: Romney issue ‘nothing to do with me’
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CNN:
Romney set to assail Obama for welfare changes — (CNN) - Changes to welfare pushed by President Barack Obama's administration are providing his Republican challenger Mitt Romney with material for a new round of attacks, including a television ad released Tuesday.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More 2008 Obama Voters Than McCain Voters Switching Sides — Vast majority of 2008 voters staying loyal to party in 2012 — PRINCETON, NJ — Eighty-six percent of voters who say they voted for Barack Obama in 2008 are backing Obama again this year, a smaller proportion than the 92% …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney launches new attack on Obama over welfare
Romney launches new attack on Obama over welfare
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Sam Youngman / Reuters:
Romney's former rival Rick Santorum to speak at Republican convention
Romney's former rival Rick Santorum to speak at Republican convention
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why 2012 is not 1980 — With Obama maintaining a small …
Why 2012 is not 1980 — With Obama maintaining a small …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Santorum, Jeb, Rand Paul get convention speaking slots
Elaine Quijano / CBS News:
Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page was a “gentle and kind and loving” child, stepmom says — (CBS News) OAK CREEK, Wis. - Investigators are looking into possible white supremacist links to the gunman who killed six people and wounded three at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee before being killed in a shootout with police.
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Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Sikh temple shooting: Gunman had been on investigators' radar — Authorities Tracked Gunman In Sikh Temple Shooting For More Than A Decade — WASHINGTON — Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page more than once because of his associations with right-wing extremists …
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Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
Obama: America needs “soul searching” on gun violence
Obama: America needs “soul searching” on gun violence
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Pat Robertson Concludes Sikh Temple Shooting Because ‘Atheists Hate God’
Pat Robertson Concludes Sikh Temple Shooting Because ‘Atheists Hate God’
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Micah L. Sifry / TechPresident:
How to Spot Romney's Vice President Pick in Advance — The Romney campaign wants you to download its mobile app to be among the first to find out who Mitt is going to pick as his running mate, but if past history is any guide, you might want to instead be looking at Wikipedia …
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A Big Campaign? — There've been many emails in response …
A Big Campaign? — There've been many emails in response …
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Bill Kristol Claims Thursday The Day To Watch For Romney Veep Pick
Bill Kristol Claims Thursday The Day To Watch For Romney Veep Pick
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
When 1,099 felons vote in race won by 312 ballots — Popular in Politics — In the eyes of the Obama administration, most Democratic lawmakers, and left-leaning editorial pages across the country, voter fraud is a problem that doesn't exist. Allegations of fraud, they say …
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Tiffany Hsu / Los Angeles Times:
Gay activists counter Chick-fil-A with Starbucks appreciation day — LGBT activists are planning to swarm Starbucks on Tuesday in a counter-effort to last week's Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. (Vino Wong / Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) — Gay marriage activists are planning to swarm Starbucks …
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Jesse Bering / Slate:
The Prideful, Arrogant President of Chick-fil-A
Isaac Rauch / Deadspin:
What Did Lolo Jones Ever Do To The New York Times? — This morning's New York Times sports section has an article about Lolo Jones, the virgin hurdler you're probably somewhat aware of (if not, see here), titled, “For Lolo Jones, Everything Is Image.” The thrust of the article is that the attention …
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Dick / DickMorris.com:
The Real Poll Numbers — The media is trying to create a sense of momentum and of inevitability about the Obama candidacy. One benighted Newsweek reporter even speculated about a possible Democratic landslide. — On Friday, I saw the real numbers. These state-by-state polls …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Former Bain worker slams Mitt — The Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is unveiling perhaps the harshest, most personal ad of the 2012 presidential race, featuring a former worker at a Bain-owned company talking about the death of his wife after their family lost health insurance.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Former Republican Governor: Romney Is Afraid To Stand Up To His Right-Wing Base — Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman (R) said Mitt Romney must do a better job of standing up to the radical elements of the Republican party and criticized her party's nominee for not speaking …
New York Times:
Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work — In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the company's hospitals in Florida. — In a follow-up interview, the nurse said a doctor …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Emails: Geithner, Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi workers' pensions — Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company.
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Neil Barofsky / The Great Debate:
Tim Geithner's principal hypocrisy — Last week the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Ed DeMarco, made a familiar argument. He announced that he would not approve the Obama administration's request that struggling borrowers whose mortgages are backed by Fannie Mae …