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Joe Biden / WDBJ-TV:
Radford business owner declines request from Joe Biden's entourage to stop in store — The owner of Crumb and Get It says he doesn't agree with the Obama administration's policies. — Vice President Joe Biden visits Danville, Floyd, Wytheville — Republicans seize on Biden's ‘put you back in chains’ comment
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Mission Impossible: Managing Joe Biden — BLACKSBURG, Va. — The most emotionally powerful minute of Joe Biden's two-day swing through rural Virginia almost didn't happen. — After the vice president paid a solemn visit Wednesday to the memorial honoring the victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting …
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Washington Post:
Ryan pick presents new challenges for Biden — Video: A remark Joe Biden made at a rally on Tuesday has gotten a lot of attention. The vice president told a diverse crowd, including many African Americans, that Mitt Romney would “put you all back in chains” by unshackling Wall Street.
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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
President Obama: No Apologies, No Scolding for Joe Biden's Remark
President Obama: No Apologies, No Scolding for Joe Biden's Remark
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Ex-Officers Attack Obama Over Leaks on Bin Laden Raid
Ex-Officers Attack Obama Over Leaks on Bin Laden Raid
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The ugly presidential campaign
The ugly presidential campaign
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Fmr. Va. Gov. Douglas Wilder to Biden: ‘Slavery is nothing to joke about’
Fmr. Va. Gov. Douglas Wilder to Biden: ‘Slavery is nothing to joke about’
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Joe Biden / CNN:
Former Obama campaign co-chair: Biden's remarks ‘racial viciousness’
Former Obama campaign co-chair: Biden's remarks ‘racial viciousness’
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Nick R. Martin / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker — Brewer's Immigration Blast At Obama Looks Like A Dud — At first blush, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer seemed to be defying the federal government once again on Wednesday night. — The Republican governor signed an executive order saying Arizona had no plans to give government benefits …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Gov. Jan Brewer defies W.H. on immigration
Gov. Jan Brewer defies W.H. on immigration
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Brewer bars IDs, benefits for DREAMers
Brewer bars IDs, benefits for DREAMers
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Arizona Governor Tries To Thwart Obama's Immigration Directive With Executive Order
Arizona Governor Tries To Thwart Obama's Immigration Directive With Executive Order
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Associated Press:
Cops: LGBT volunteer shoots conservative group's guard — (AP) WASHINGTON - A man suspected of shooting and wounding a security guard in the lobby of a Christian lobbying group had been volunteering at a community center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Shooting spurs heated debate on gay rights, ‘hate group’ label — The shooting of a security guard Wednesday at the Family Research Council (FRC) has spurred a torrent of heated accusations from both sides of the gay rights debate about claims that the conservative organization is a “hate group.”
Washington Post:
Security guard shot at Family Research Council in downtown D.C.
Security guard shot at Family Research Council in downtown D.C.
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GLAAD:
LGBT organizations release joint statement regarding the shooting at Family Research Council (FRC)
LGBT organizations release joint statement regarding the shooting at Family Research Council (FRC)
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
ANALYSIS: Paul Ryan's First Week — ANALYSIS:If Mitt Romney's decision to announce his vice presidential pick earlier than most other presidential candidates in modern political history was supposed to turn the campaign away from the personal (his record at Bain, his refusal to release …
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Cathy Horyn / New York Times:
Embracing the Right Fit
Embracing the Right Fit
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Jammie Wearing Fools, Washington Post and The Caucus
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The next frontier in the case against Paul Ryan
The next frontier in the case against Paul Ryan
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Daily Kos, The New Republic, Connecting.the.Dots, Applesauce, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Balloon Juice
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Give 'em hell, Mitt! — On Medicare, the Romney campaign is borrowing the strategic logic of a long-ago military legend. — Taking command of the French 9th army in 1914 as it retreated before the Germans, Marshal Ferdinand Foch uttered his immortals words: “Hard pressed on my right.
DealBook:
No Criminal Case Is Likely in Loss at MF Global — A criminal investigation into the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and the disappearance of about $1 billion in customer money is now heading into its final stage without charges expected against any top executives.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Continue to Give Obama Low Marks on the Economy — Low rating on the economy may be more problematic than even lower deficit rating — PRINCETON, NJ — Three months before the election, President Barack Obama gets good marks from Americans for his handling of terrorism …
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Karah-Leigh / Athens Daily News:
Red & Black student staffers walk out — The student editorial staff of the University of Georgia's The Red & Black newspaper walked out Wednesday evening after a non-student was named editorial director with final say on all editorial content. — The Red & Black's student editor-in-chief …
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New York Times:
Ecuador Grants Asylum to Assange, Defying Britain — CARACAS, Venezuela — Ecuador said on Thursday that it had decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Mr. Assange has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean embassy in London …
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David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Artur Davis, who backed Obama in 2008, to speak at GOP convention — Former congressman Artur Davis, who officially seconded President Obama's nomination at the 2008 Democratic convention, said Wednesday that he will cap a remarkable political metamorphosis by addressing the Republican convention …
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Investor's Business Daily:
Look Who the Press Is Blaming for the Ugly Campaign — Media Bias: What a surprise. Mitt Romney finally throws a counterpunch to a series of outrageous Obama campaign lies, and the press accuses Romney of going negative. The media's pro-Obama bias is a wonder to behold.
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
What to Do with Political Lies — Fact-checkers are no longer enough: If lies are going to be repeated, the truth needs to be, too. — Shutterstock — My former Washington Post colleague Alec MacGillis has a thought-provoking piece in The New Republic today about “The Welfare Card …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Swing state poll: After picking Ryan, Romney now leads in Ohio, Virginia — and Florida — Via Guy Benson, no self-respecting eeyore would leave a headline as rosy as the above unchecked, so here's me checking it right off the bat. According to Gallup's tracker, Romney's gotten almost no bounce from the Ryan pick — yet.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Marriage advocate pleads for civility — Yesterday's shooting at the conservative Family Research Council in downtown Washington, D.C., is symptomatic of a broader lack of civility in political discourse, the head of an organization promoting traditional marriage said Thursday.