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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
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 Impolitic, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Hill
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Was Harry Reid Right?
Was Harry Reid Right?
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The New Republic, 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
NY Daily News:
Janet Napolitano-run Homeland Security treated male staffers like lapdogs, federal discrimination lawsuit charges — James Hayes Jr., who now is New York's top Homeland Security cop, claims Napolitano filled top spots in Washington, D.C., with two of her gal pals who were bent on tormenting male employees.
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Debbie Schlussel and NPR
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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Washington Post, National Review, Betsy's Page and Investor's Business Daily
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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, Washington Post, Taking Note, The Caucus and American Spectator
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Cancels ABC “This Week” Appearance
Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Cancels ABC “This Week” Appearance
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Power Line
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 and The Other McCain
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Talk About Concealed Carry: Fareed Zakaria Plagiarized Paragraph on History of Gun Control — When CNN host and Time editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria wrote a new piece called “The Case for Gun Control,” it ended with a bang: “So when people throw up their hands and say we can't do anything about guns …
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New York Magazine, Media Decoder, National Review and The Raw Story
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Fareed Zakaria / Time:
The Case for Gun Control
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 »
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
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Mediaite
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
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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The Daily Caller
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
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
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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Romney May Have No Choice But to Pick Paul Ryan — Conservative anxiety has stalked Mitt Romney since the outset of his presidential campaign, expressing itself in a series of hopes that a nominee who was not Romney might win, and then, after his nomination became inevitable …
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, The Mahablog, CBS News and The Caucus
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
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