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2:20 PM ET, August 7, 2012

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Jeb Bush / CNN:
Santorum, Bush, Paul to speak at GOP convention  —  (CNN) - Rick Santorum, who emerged as Mitt Romney's fiercest competitor for the Republican presidential nomination, will speak at the Republican National Convention, a senior GOP official tells CNN.  —  The former Pennsylvania senator …
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CNN:
Koch brothers slam ‘guy who makes obscene gestures with a monkey’  —  (CNN) - Actor Zach Galifianakis may be known for his less-than family-friendly sense of humor, but billionaires David and Charles Koch demonstrated Tuesday they don't find him so funny.  —  The comedian is co-starring …
Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:   Romney Attacks Obama on Welfare Mandates
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Romney should not be afraid to highlight his faith
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Eschaton
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:   Former Republican Governor: Romney Is Afraid To Stand Up To His Right-Wing Base
CNN:
Obama debuts ‘Romney Hood’
Drudge Report:
OBAMA: ROMNEY WANTS VP PETRAEUS  —  President Obama whispered to a top fundraiser this week that he believes GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wants to name Gen. David Petraeus to the VP slot!  —  “The president wasn't joking,” the insider explains to the DRUDGE REPORT.
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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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Woman mentioned in Priorities ad died in '06  —  The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action lobbed a heavy-duty attack at Mitt Romney this morning, airing an ad that links the closure of a GST Steel plant in Kansas City to the loss of a family's health insurance — and the death of a woman some time later.
Discussion: Ballot Box and Mediaite
TheBlaze.com:
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.
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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Matt Hadro / NewsBusters.org blogs:
CNN Smears Political Right, Labels Wisconsin Shooter's Racist Neo-Nazi Band as ‘Far Right’
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Four Pinocchios for Harry Reid's claim about Mitt Romney's taxes  —  “The word's out that he [Romney] hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years.”  —  Reid has generated a lot of controversy with his claim that presumptive GOP nominee did not pay any taxes for 10 years.
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Politico:
Harry Reid not releasing his own tax returns
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 …
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.
Diana Reese / Washington Post:
Sarah Palin: Mama grizzlies united  —  CLEVELAND, Mo—Sarah Palin did not disappoint.  —  The crowd cheered and applauded repeatedly during her speech here Friday night, from her opening remarks about “mama grizzlies” on the Missouri state flag to her promise to stop at the local Chick-fil-A for a midnight snack.
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First Read:   Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate, John Brunner, left, Sarah Steelman, center …
Bridget Willard / Twitchy:
Left, duped by Onion parody, condemns Michele Bachmann for reaction to shooting … More than a few shocked readers of The Onion today called Rep. Michele Bachmann's callous reaction to the shootings in Oak Creek, Wis., “unbelievable.”  Bachmann's relief that “not a single American died in this event” …
Fred Krupp / Wall Street Journal:
A New Climate-Change Consensus  —  It's time for conservatives to compete with liberals to devise the best, most cost-effective climate solutions.  —  One scorching summer doesn't confirm that climate change is real any more than a white Christmas proves it's a hoax.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Power Line
Hemant Mehta / Friendly Atheist:
Illinois Family Institute Issues Ridiculous Back-To-School Warnings for Parents  —  Before you go back to school, the Illinois Family Institute wants to remind Christian parents everywhere how they can go after those damn teachers who challenge students' thinking.  —  No joke.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Wendy Ruderman / New York Times:
In Police Pat-Downs, Many Women See Sexual Overtones  —  Shari Archibald's black handbag sat at her feet on the sidewalk in front of her Bronx home on a recent summer night.  The two male officers crouched over her leather bag and rooted around inside, elbow-deep.
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Save Political Debate.  Bring Back ‘Crossfire.’  —  Cable-television shows about politics are often blamed for polarizing Americans.  To this way of thinking, they are responsible for much of the incivility of today's political culture and have made it harder for us to work together to solve our problems.
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 …
Erik Schelzig / Christian Science Monitor:
Gibson Guitar Corporation admits to importing endangered wood  —  Gibson Guitar Corporation acknowledged Monday that its importations of exotic wood, including ebony, violated environmental laws.  Federal prosecutors will drop criminal charges against Gibson Guitar Corporation …
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Republicans Blasted Obama Administration For Warning About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism  —  The gunman in the shooting at a Sikh temple over the weekend has been labeled a potential domestic terrorist — defined as one who incites politically-motivated violence against his or her own country.
 
 
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
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Tim Geithner's principal hypocrisy
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