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12:20 PM ET, August 16, 2012

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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 …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The ugly presidential campaign  —  The umbrage industry is working overtime this week.  —  Mitt Romney, the Republicans' presidential standard-bearer, is so outraged by President Obama's attacks that he called the president a hater: “Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger …
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
President Obama: No Apologies, No Scolding for Joe Biden's Remark
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Ex-Officers Attack Obama Over Leaks on Bin Laden Raid
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.
Discussion: CNN and Cold Fury
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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 …
Discussion: Politico, CNN and ABCNEWS
First Read:
Ryan on Medicare: ‘We want this debate’
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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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Is Today the Day?  —  Perhaps further fueling speculation that Barack Obama may replace Joe Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket with, say, Hillary Clinton, take a look at part of the president's schedule for today:  —  10:15AM THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Ex-Obama pal decodes Joe Biden's racial-speak for other Americans
Discussion: protein wisdom and RedState
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.”
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Associated Press:
Cops: LGBT volunteer shoots conservative group's guard
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Marriage advocate pleads for civility
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Human Rights Campaign Maintains Family Research Council is a “Hate Group”
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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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
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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Rolling Stone:
Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No Balls
Discussion: Firedoglake and CBS DC
Matt Ferner / The Huffington Post:
Dave Mustaine, Megadeth Singer, Says Obama ‘Staged’ Aurora Shooting, Sikh Temple Shooting To Pass A Gun Ban (VIDEO) … FOLLOW:  —  Barack Obama , Denver News, Video, Dave Mustaine, Gun Rights, Aurora News, Aurora Shooting 2012, Batman Shooting 2012, Colorado Shooting 2012, Colorado Theater Shooting …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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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 …
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.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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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Executive Excess 2012: The CEO Hands in Uncle Sam's Pocket  —  How our tax dollars subsidize exorbitant executive pay
 
 
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Tina Moore / NY Daily News:
84 percent of New Yorkers say they don't care if a mayoral candidate is gay
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Militants Attack Pakistani Air Force Base
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Choice of Ryan Shifts the Focus From Economy to Ideology
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kirsten Powers / The Daily Beast:
Paul Ryan's Youth Appeal
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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MiamiHerald.com:
Suspected Rivera-ringer might have broken campaign laws
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Iowa deli co-owner caters for Obama visit, but his T-shirt tells another story
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Pennsylvania voter ID law gets approval from state judge
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