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Josh Tyrangiel / Business Week:
Exclusive Romney Interview: On Humility and Tax Returns — Much of the case you make to voters is that you're a successful entrepreneur and a successful executive, and thus you'll make a successful president. Why were you so successful as a businessman? — Well, I had the privilege …
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CNN, The Hill, Washington Post, The Hinterland Gazette, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and New York Magazine
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Super-PAC founder defends controversial Romney attack ad — The founder of the pro-Obama super-PAC Priorities USA Action defended the group's controversial ad that links Mitt Romney to the death of woman who couldn't afford cancer treatments. — “The point of this ad is that — you know …
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Connecting.the.Dots, The Democratic Daily, Taylor Marsh and Jammie Wearing Fools
Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Campaign of Lies Reaches Despicable Low — Politics: Unable to run on his record, President Hope-and-Change has built a campaign based entirely on scurrilous lies about Mitt Romney. But the latest reaches a historic, despicable low. — That ad features a man claiming …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Coulter Explodes At Romney Spokeswoman For Response To Priorities USA Ad: She Needs To Be Fired — Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity strongly condemned the ad released by the pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA that basically accused Mitt Romney of a steelworker's wife dying of cancer.
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Angry Black Lady Chronicles and The Daily Beast
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right
The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right
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American Prospect, Washington Post, USA Today, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, The Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, National Review, Right Wing News, Booman Tribune, The New Republic, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Associated Press, Mother Jones, The Hinterland Gazette, American Power, CNN, Riehl World View, Rumproast, The Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, The Page, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, The PJ Tatler, The Other McCain and Smartypants
Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May
Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May
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Ricochet Conversations Feed, CNN, New York Magazine, Hot Air and Politico
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
OMG!... Joe Soptic, the Anti-Romney Cancer Ad Steelworker, Admits Bain Capital Offered Him a Buyout (Video)
OMG!... Joe Soptic, the Anti-Romney Cancer Ad Steelworker, Admits Bain Capital Offered Him a Buyout (Video)
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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Jawa Report, Scared Monkeys, The Virginian and American Power
Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
The disappearing undecided voter
The disappearing undecided voter
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CNN, Politico, First Read and ABCNEWS
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Wait a Minute: Joe Soptic's Wife Wasn't Even Diagnosed With Cancer Until 2006?
Wait a Minute: Joe Soptic's Wife Wasn't Even Diagnosed With Cancer Until 2006?
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The Gateway Pundit and Ed Driscoll
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Has the Obama Campaign Finally Gone Too Far?
Has the Obama Campaign Finally Gone Too Far?
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Townhall.com, BREITBART.COM and Moe Lane
Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Andrea Saul, Romney Spox, Gets Pilloried For Mentioning Candidate's Most Important Achievement
Andrea Saul, Romney Spox, Gets Pilloried For Mentioning Candidate's Most Important Achievement
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Crooks and Liars, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, Daily Kos, American Spectator and Taylor Marsh
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Debate over dead woman is clarifying moment in prez race
Debate over dead woman is clarifying moment in prez race
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Firedoglake, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller, CBS DC, Newsy, ABCNEWS, The Daily Dish, The Page and Washington Examiner
Rob Portman / CNN:
TRENDING: Portman: 'I think I'll end up being' in the Senate
TRENDING: Portman: 'I think I'll end up being' in the Senate
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BuzzFeed, MarketWatch, Financial Times, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and New York Magazine
Wall Street Journal:
Why Not Paul Ryan? — Romney can win a big election over big issues. He'll lose a small one. — The whispering over Mitt Romney's choice of a running mate is getting louder, and along with it we are being treated to the sotto voce angst of the GOP establishment: Whatever else Mitt does …
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First Read, American Prospect, CNN, ABCNEWS, Politico, USA Today, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, JSOnline, Capital New York, ABCNEWS, GOP 12, Hot Air and Washington Post
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Why do conservatives want Paul Ryan to be vice president? — The Wall Street Journal editorial page has joined the growing movement of influential conservatives uniting behind hero wonk Paul Ryan for vice president. “The larger strategic point,” they counsel, “is that Mr. Romney's best chance …
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American Spectator and The Daily Caller
Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Goldman Sachs Leads Split With Obama, As GE Jilts Him Too
Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
White House told authorities not to crack down on ‘Occupy’ protesters, documents show
White House told authorities not to crack down on ‘Occupy’ protesters, documents show
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The Mahablog, UrbanGrounds and The Daily Caller
New York Post:
City officials pull the plug on vibrator giveaway, leaving thousands dissatisfied — They must have rubbed Mayor Bloomberg the wrong way. — City officials pulled the plug on a vibrator giveaway by the Trojan condom company yesterday, disappointing potentially thousands of pleasure-seeking women …
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Gothamist, Runnin' Scared, Capital New York, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine and The Raw Story
Paul A. Rahe / Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Landslide on the Horizon — When I read Nate Silver, Sean Trende, Charlie Cook, Jay Cost, and the others who make a profession of political prognostication, I pay close attention to their attempts to dissect the polling data and predict what is to come. But I also take everything that they say with a considerable grain of salt.
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Power Line and The Glittering Eye
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Romney Campaign Carefully Chooses Speakers for Convention — TAMPA, Fla. — Newt Gingrich hoped to get a coveted speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. Instead the Romney campaign will have him teach a series of workshops they have nicknamed Newt University.
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Booman Tribune, Media Decoder, CNN, Politico and New York Magazine
KING-TV:
Susan G. Komen for the Cure announces change in leadership — The Susan G. Komen for the Cure shook up its top leadership Wednesday by announcing the resignation of its president and shifting role for its CEO and founder. Two members of its Board of Directors also announced their resignations.
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Daily Kos, U.S. News and Balloon Juice
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Melanie Grayce West / Wall Street Journal:
Breast-Cancer Group Shakes Up Ranks
Breast-Cancer Group Shakes Up Ranks
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Associated Press, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine and LifeNews.com
Daily Mail:
Man who claimed he was beaten for being gay admits he made it all up after police receive video of him hitting HIS OWN head after back-flipping off a curb — A young man who told police he was beaten up in a would-be hate crime appeared in court today admitting that he made the entire incident up.
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The Virginian
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Editor Fired Following Harassment Accusation — CONWAY, Ark. — The gathering, Marc Smirnoff said, was intended as a morale-boosting retreat for his staff at The Oxford American magazine, a July 4 overnight party at a mountain cabin that would fuel the creative intellect.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Inside Higher Ed
Stephen Marche / Esquire:
The Contempt of Women — The rise of men. And the whining of girls. — In the constantly progressing and deteriorating and rapidly revolving kaleidoscope of misunderstanding and disgust and hunger that constitutes gender relations in the twenty-first century, a new gesture has emerged to define us …
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ThinkProgress and Shakesville
NY Daily News:
Cop shot in both legs in Queens — Sgt. Craig Bier is 10th NYPD officer wounded by gunfire this year — A highly decorated NYPD sergeant was shot in both legs late Wednesday during a gunfight with a suspect fleeing down a Queens alleyway, police said. — Sgt. Craig Bier …
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New York Magazine
alliancedefendingfreedom.org:
JACKSON V. ABERCROMBIE RESOURCE PAGE — To book an interview, click on the “Book an Interview” button on any page at ADFmedia.org. — MARRIAGE REMAINS PROTECTED IN HAWAII — Alliance Defending Freedom represented Hawaii Family Forum in defense of state's marriage law, constitutional amendment
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National Review
Bloomberg:
Blink! U.S. Debt Just Grew by $11 Trillion — By Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns 2012-08-08T22:30:26Z — Republicans and Democrats spent last summer battling how best to save $2.1 trillion over the next decade. They are spending this summer battling how best to not save $2.1 trillion over the next decade.
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Hot Air and americanthinker.com
Jonathan Martin / WSMV-TV:
Vanderbilt employee accused of tossing LGBT newspapers — A longtime Vanderbilt University employee is in trouble after cameras caught her taking dozens of newspapers and tossing them straight into the trash. — The papers were editions of Out & About, a monthly publication geared toward Nashville's gay and lesbian community.
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PinkNews.co.uk, Joe. My. God. and ThinkProgress
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Was Romneycare A War On Religion? — Mitt Romney continues to attack President Obama for policies he supported as governor of Massachusetts with a new ad Thursday morning that accuses the administration of waging “a war on religion.” — The commercial claims that an Affordable Care Act …
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NationalJournal.com and The Maddow Blog
New York Times:
Chilling Effect: Incentive to Slow Climate Change Drives Output of Harmful Gases — A view of a coolant-producing factory in Jiangsu Province, China. Some manufacturers of gases used in air-conditioning and refrigeration have earned millions by accumulating emissions credits from the destruction …
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Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Moe Lane, Hit & Run and Althouse