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5:00 PM ET, August 13, 2012

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Catalina Camia / USA Today:

USAT/Gallup Poll: Paul Ryan gets low marks for VP — Americans don't believe Mitt Romney hit a home run with his choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, with more of the public giving him lower marks than high ones. — Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Lonely Conservative, GOP 12, The Caucus, Washington Post, Hot Air, Applesauce, The Political Carnival, Washington Free Beacon, Mother Jones, CBS Miami, Politico, Little Green Footballs, The Hinterland Gazette and BuzzFeed

Paul Krugman:

The Ryan Role — Mark Kleiman points us to a lamentable but revealing column by William Saletan, which illustrates perfectly how the essentially ludicrous Paul Ryan has gotten so far - namely, by playing to the gullibility of self-proclaimed centrists, who want to show their “balance” by finding a conservative to praise.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The New Republic, Politico, The Daily Banter, American Prospect, CANNONFIRE, The Week, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, driftglass, Vagabond Scholar, The Daily Dish, p m carpenter's commentary and The Monkey Cage

Matthew Yglesias / Slate:

Paul Ryan Used His Office To Profit From the Financial Crisis — Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, left, wipes away tears as he and presidential candidate Mitt Romney greet supporters during a campaign event on Sunday in Waukesha, Wis. — Let's put this in the “the real scandal is what's legal” file:

Discussion: National Review and New York Magazine

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:

Paul Ryan's Iowa Speech Opens With Hecklers Getting Dragged Away And They Just Keep Coming — This Mediaite writer was in London for the past week (I was actually winning a bunch of medals. Most people don't realize that “Jon Bershad” is a pen name. I'm really an athlete.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, Towleroad News #gay, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, AEIdeas and Washington Post

BuzzFeed:

Ryan Heckled At First Solo Event — A talk at the Iowa State Fair turns chaotic. Protester allegedly assaults volunteer. — Heckler at Ryan event in Des Moines, Iowa. — Source: p.twimg.com — DES MOINES, Iowa — Paul Ryan's remarks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines today turned …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Moe Lane and The Impolitic

Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - and their Wives! - Open Up to PEOPLE — However tough and tight the race against President Obama gets this fall, Janna Ryan predicts that her husband Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney can count on one thing: fun. — PEOPLE was first to sit down with the freshly minted …

Discussion: GOP 12, USA Today, Politico, The Page, CBS News, Shakesville, The Hill, ABCNEWS and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Matt Miller / Washington Post:

Understanding the Ryan plan — The striking thing about Paul Ryan's ascent is the gulf between his proposals and the way the media have characterized them. Since Mitt Romney named Ryan to the ticket on Saturday, the news has been filled with talk of the “ fiscal conservative ” (NPR) " …

Discussion: Paul Krugman, New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, The Daily Banter, The Caucus, USA Today, Firedoglake and Balloon Juice

Eric Platt / Business Insider:
Paul Ryan's Bank Transactions Were Not Insider Trading

Discussion: Firedoglake, Guardian, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Daily Dish and OpenSecrets.org

Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
What Paul Ryan's budget actually cuts — and by how much

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic Online, Washington Examiner, Firedoglake, The New Republic and The Hill

The Richmonder:
Paul Ryan traded on insider information to avoid 2008 crash

Discussion: Brad DeLong

Josh Glasstetter / rightwingwatch.org:
Paul Ryan Featured Alongside ‘Former Terrorist’

Discussion: US Politics and Weasel Zippers

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Hecklers in Iowa disrupt Ryan's first solo campaign event

Discussion: The Other McCain

Jim Geraghty / National Review: The Very Predictable Playbook Against Paul Ryan

Alexandra Sifferlin / CNN:
Paul Ryan's workout: Is P90X for you?

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Beast, Althouse and Swampland

Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about Paul Ryan

Discussion: Guardian, americanthinker.com, Eschaton and Politico

Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Inside the Ryan budget pushback

Discussion: CNN, NationalJournal.com, ThinkProgress, Buffalo News and Daily Kos

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Paul Ryan: The Next President of the United States?

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Near-Even Split on Ryan - But With Positive Movement

Discussion: Washington Post, AEIdeas, Wake up America, JSOnline and Jammie Wearing Fools

First Read:
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Discussion: ThinkProgress, Jammie Wearing Fools, Guardian, Hot Air, Washington Post, BBC, The Moderate Voice and Booman Tribune

KBTX-TV:

Suspect in Custody, Shooting Near Highland and Fidelity Streets in College Station — News 3 crew on the scene has confirmed that more than one law enforcement officer has been shot in an incident near Fidelity Street in College Station. — A spokesperson for the College Station Police Department …

Discussion: New York Times, KHOU-TV, ThinkProgress, BBC, Gawker, The Raw Story, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit and Shakesville

CNN:

Multiple people shot near Texas A&M University — (CNN) — Police took a man into custody Monday after “multiple people” were shot near Texas A&M University, a police official said. — Several law enforcement officers were among the people shot, Rhonda Seaton of the College Station Police Department told CNN.

Discussion: Boing Boing and Outside the Beltway

Jim Forsyth / Reuters: Multiple people, officers, shot near Texas A&M University

WFAA-TV:
Constable, civilian, suspect killed in shooting near A&M campus

Discussion: Crime Blog, Runnin' Scared and Angry Black Lady Chronicles

Matthew WAtkins / The Eagle:
1 officer killed in CS; suspect in custody

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, The Hinterland Gazette and Associated Press

Orlando Sentinel:

Romney campaign cancels Monday visit to Orlando — Although Mitt Romney was supposed to visit Orlando on Monday, the campaign announced late Sunday that the presumed Republican presidential nominee was too exhausted to make the trip. — The news came after Romney spent what one campaign official …

Discussion: Politico, CNN, ABCNEWS and p m carpenter's commentary

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Mitt Romney cancels Florida campaign stop, citing exhaustion

Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Caucus, Connecting.the.Dots and ABCNEWS

CNN:
New Romney TV ad second straight to attack Obama on welfare

Discussion: Politico, YouTube, Washington Monthly, Washington Wire, The New Republic, ABCNEWS, Hot Air and Ballot Box

George F. Will / Washington Post:
Romney's presidential pick

Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Politico, Betsy's Page, Via Meadia, RedState, Mediaite, Hot Air and BuzzFeed

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Presidential debate moderators announced — The Commission on Presidential Debates has decided on the moderators for this year's debates, sources confirm to POLITICO. — PBS's Jim Lehrer will host the first presidential debate on October 3 in Denver, Colo. CNN's Candy Crowley will host the second …

Discussion: CNN, The Caucus, Hot Air, Wake up America, ThinkProgress, Ricochet Conversations Feed, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Towleroad News #gay, Taylor Marsh, iOwnTheWorld.com and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Commission on Presidential Debates:
Format — The format for the debates, announced on July 25, 2012, will be:

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Politico, Tampa Bay Times, CNN, americanthinker.com, About.com US Politics, Applesauce and Michelle Malkin

Emily Schultheis / Politico:

POLITICO-GW Battleground Poll: Tied up — The race for the White House remained in a dead heat just before Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll finds. — The poll, conducted in the days leading up to the Ryan announcement …

Discussion: Hot Air, USA Today, Washington Wire, New York Times, JOSHUAPUNDIT and First Read

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr, Is Dead at 90 — 4:50 p.m. | Updated Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan who transformed the magazine in the 1960s into a source of sexual empowerment for women, died Monday morning. — A spokesman for the Hearst Corporation …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Gothamist, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Towleroad News #gay, more at Mediagazer »

Amy Walter / ABCNEWS:

An Ideological Battle That Voters Don't Want — In picking Rep. Paul Ryan, whose eponymous budget plan has become synonymous with political polarization, Mitt Romney assured an ideological campaign where a debate over the role of government will be front and center.

Discussion: CNN, Outside the Beltway, Little Green Footballs and The Raw Story

Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION — YOU SEE IT FIRST RIGHT HERE

New York Post:

Anthony Wiener and wife move into $3.3M Manhattan apt. — Anthony Weiner's wife not only took him back, she took him back in style — moving with the shamed pol into a luxurious, $3.3 million Manhattan pad owned by a deep-pocketed Democratic donor, The Post has learned.

Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com, Algemeiner.com, Gothamist, New York Magazine and The Daily Caller

Michael Moynihan / Foreign Policy:

Leftist Planet — Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators? — In 1933, as Joseph Stalin was busy purging his enemies and building a murderous cult of personality, the New York-based left-wing magazine the Nation advised readers interested in traveling to Moscow that Intourist …

Discussion: Hit & Run