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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Jon Huntsman Sr., longtime Romney backer, calls on him to release tax returns — The internet is alive with speculation that the secret source Harry Reid claims to have on Mitt Romney's tax returns is Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr. He is the founder of Hunstman Corporation and the father …
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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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Was Harry Reid Right? — The Huntsman is now the... wait, this metaphor isn't working. — On several occasions, I've been poised to join the crowd of liberal commentators ritually denouncing Harry Reid for passing on his anonymously sourced claim that Mitt Romney may have paid on the order of no taxes for ten years.
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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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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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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 …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Is Ahead, but Is He Winning?
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Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
UPDATED: Time Suspends Zakaria | Talk About Concealed Carry: Fareed Zakaria Plagiarized Paragraph on History of Gun Control — [UPDATED below page break: TIME magazine has suspended Zakaria.] When CNN host and Time editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria wrote a new piece called “The Case for Gun Control …
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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 reads The New Yorker. We can only assume that because his latest column for Time on gun control, reads a lot like Jill Lepore's lengthy New Yorker article on the NRA from April.
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Fareed Zakaria / Time:
The Case for Gun Control
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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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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
The Postmodern President — The challenge is finding anything his campaign says that is true. — President Obama spent his formative years in academia, so he's no doubt familiar with postmodernism, the literary theory that rejects objective reality and insists instead that everything …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Killing — The Massachusetts multimillionaire who won …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Cancels ABC “This Week” Appearance
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Romney's Strategy Isn't Working — The line from Romney headquarters last month was “every day we're not talking about the economy is a day we lose.” This line, which came from the highest reaches of the campaign, was proffered to explain the unwillingness to provide substantive details on a host of policies besides the economy.
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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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Daily Kos, Brad DeLong and Economist's View
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney wants his taxes, business record off table — Mitt Romney made an unusual suggestion in his interview with Chuck Todd yesterday, which First Read previewed thusly: … Talking about candidates' personal finances is hardly novel, nor is it irrelevant — how candidates make their money …
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Daily Kos and US Politics
Erica Orden / Washington Wire:
White House Approached Schwarzenegger in 2011 — Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting back into the movie business with a lineup of six film projects-but at one point, things might have gone a very different way. — Mr. Schwarzenegger was approached by White House officials …
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Politico, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Power Line and New York Magazine
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 …
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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Leo Shane III / Stars & Stripes:
Smith becomes first gay general officer to serve openly — WASHINGTON — Army reserve officer Tammy Smith calls her recent promotion to brigadier general exciting and humbling, saying it gives her a chance to be a leader in advancing Army values and excellence.
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Tanyanika Samuels / NY Daily News:
‘Son of Sam’ David Berkowitz speaks to the Daily News, decries violence as ‘senseless’ and prays for his victims in notorious 1976-77 killing spree — Exclusive: From jail cell 35 years to the day his reign of terror ended, Berkowitz says society needs to take the 'glory out of guns …
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