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Kos / Daily Kos:
It's Jon Huntsman Sr, right Harry? — Harry Reid's source. Probably. — Harry Reid has a Republican source who has told him that Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes in 10 years. Who could he possibly known that would have that information? Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman's dad sounds like the likely source.
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Fox News:
Reid aide divulges details on source of Romney tax claim — then retracts — Aug. 7, 2012: Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.AP — After days of silence on Harry Reid's disputed claim that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes for a decade …
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Shot in the Dark, The Reaction, The Huffington Post and The Political Carnival
Wall Street Journal:
The Postmodern President — The challenge is finding anything …
The Postmodern President — The challenge is finding anything …
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Washington Post, National Review, Betsy's Page, Investor's Business Daily and American Power
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Was Harry Reid Right?
Was Harry Reid Right?
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Hullabaloo, CANNONFIRE and Daily Kos
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Obama to include Republicans in hard-hitting convention — Advisers to President Barack Obama are scripting a Democratic National Convention featuring several Republicans in a prime-time appeal to independents — and planning a blistering portrayal of Mitt Romney as a heartless aristocrat who …
Debbie Schlussel:
EXCLUSIVE: Top NY Homeland Security Cop Sues Napolitano; Alleges Obama DHS Officials' Anti-Straight Discrimination, Demands for Oral Sex - “J-No Appointed Lesbian Girlfriend, ICE Chief of Staff Harassed Male Agents” — New York's top Department of Homeland Security cop is suing Department …
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Clayton Cramer's Blog
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Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano favored women pals for jobs: lawsuit — A veteran US law-enforcement official has filed a blockbuster discrimination lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, charging she pushed him aside to make way for a less-qualified woman who's …
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The Gateway Pundit, Wonkette and The Hinterland Gazette
Fareed Zakaria / Time:
The Case for Gun Control — Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Guns were regulated in the U.S. from the earliest years of the Republic. Laws that banned the carrying …
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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Fareed Zakaria's Take on Gun Control Strikingly Similar to The New Yorker's
Fareed Zakaria's Take on Gun Control Strikingly Similar to The New Yorker's
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Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Capital New York and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Talk About Concealed Carry: Fareed Zakaria Plagiarized Paragraph on History of Gun Control
Talk About Concealed Carry: Fareed Zakaria Plagiarized Paragraph on History of Gun Control
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National Review, New York Magazine and The Raw Story
Fareed Zakaria / Time:
The Case for Gun Control
The Case for Gun Control
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Questions and Observations and newsfeed.time.com
Mark Bittman / Opinionator:
Guns, Butter and Then Some — Back in the administration of W. …
Guns, Butter and Then Some — Back in the administration of W. …
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NewsBusters.org blogs and Hullabaloo
BuzzFeed:
Top Romney Aide: Obama Has “Lost His Credibility” — “I don't think a world champion limbo dancer could get any lower than the Obama campaign right now.” — Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom at the campaign's Boston headquarters. — Image by JOSH REYNOLDS / AP
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The Huffington Post, The Impolitic, Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Hill
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BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Contests Polling Numbers — “You've got to have something precipitate that sort of sea change, and we haven't,” said a top adviser. Dumbfounded by three bad polls. — Image by Mario Tama / Getty Images — BOSTON — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is at a loss …
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ThinkProgress, First Read, CBS Miami, Daily Kos and The Political Carnival
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Cancels ABC “This Week” Appearance — After getting caught red handed lying about what she knew about Joe Soptic's story, the man featured in the Obama Super PAC ad essentially accusing Mitt Romney of killing his wife, Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter …
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Power Line
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Killing — The Massachusetts multimillionaire who won …
The Killing — The Massachusetts multimillionaire who won …
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GOP 12, Taking Note, Washington Post and American Spectator
Chicago Tribune:
Scraping bottom — The television ad opens on a grim Joe Soptic …
Scraping bottom — The television ad opens on a grim Joe Soptic …
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USA Today, Politico, AEIdeas and The Other McCain
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden: McConnell decided to withhold all cooperation even before we took office — I've got my copy of Michael Grunwald's new book on the making of stimulus, The New New Deal, and there are a lot of juicy nuggets in it. In particular, it may shed new light on the degree to which Republicans …
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Brad DeLong and Economist's View
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Is Ahead, but Is He Winning? — The polls put the incumbent in the lead, but there are plenty of reasons for Republicans to be optimistic — and Democrats to be jittery. — Reuters — Three months remain until election day, and President Obama narrowly leads in nearly every national poll.
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Firedoglake, Althouse and Brad DeLong
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: A Nation That Believes Nothing — Romney doesn't need to talk about America becoming like Europe—he needs to warn us about America becoming like California. — It's been a week marked by mistakes, some new and some continuing. — The pro-Obama Super PAC ad that essentially blames Mitt Romney …
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Politico, Sense of Events, The Atlantic Online, Smartypants and No More Mister Nice Blog
Abby Ohlheiser / Slate:
Police say that Abdulrahman Zeitoun offered a fellow inmate $20,000 to carry out a trio of killings. — It's safe to say this isn't the happy ending we all had hoped for. — The New York Times reports that the protagonist of Dave Eggers' book Zeitoun—who was celebrated as a hero …
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The Daily Caller
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Catholic Nuns Send Letter To Romney Challenging His ‘Woeful Lack Of Knowledge’ About The Poor — The group of Catholic nuns who launched the Nuns On A Bus tour to shed light on the effects the House Republican budget would have on the poor turned its attention to the GOP's presidential candidate this week …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Republican Party Chairman: Americans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Are The New Birthers — RNC Chairman Reince Priebus compared the overwhelming majority of Americans — including a growing number of Republicans — calling on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns to birthers …
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The Atlantic Online, Politico, The Maddow Blog, Washington Examiner, The Raw Story, The Lonely Conservative and Daily Kos
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Zimmerman Prosecutors In Huge Screw-Up — Photo of dead Trayvon Martin, college docs mistakenly released — In an embarrassing screw-up, Florida prosecutors today accidentally distributed a post-mortem photo of Trayvon Martin as well as copies of George Zimmerman's college records …
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The Jawa Report, Mediaite, Gawker and New York Magazine
Major Garrett / NationalJournal.com:
Axelrod's Veep Bet? Tim Pawlenty — Obama's team is focused on a Romney-Pawlenty ticket. — Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, left, introduces Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and his wife Ann, during a campaign stop in Milford, N.H., Friday, June 15, 2012.
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The Hill, First Read and Spectator
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
In Real Estate Deal, Romney Made His Loss a Couple's Gain — MISSOURI CITY, Tex. — Look closely and it is there, sandwiched between Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Partners II and D3 Family Bulldog Fund: the mortgage on Timothy and Betty Stamps's modest home on Gentle Bend Drive here.