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Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney: Akin's ‘Inexcusable’ Comment — In a phone interview this morning, Mitt Romney told National Review Online that Representative Todd Akin's recent comment on rape is “inexcusable.” — “Congressman's Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Crossroads pulls out of Missouri after Akin comments — The conservative outside-spending powerhouse Crossroads GPS is pulling its ads from the Missouri Senate race, three sources confirmed to POLITICO. — The group had originally booked a new round of ads to start Wednesday but began canceling them earlier today.
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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown calls on Akin to drop out of Missouri Senate race — In a rare intra-party rebuke, Senator Scott Brown called on Missouri Representative Todd Akin this morning to withdraw from the US Senate race in his state, after Akin made controversial remarks on rape.
Michelle Malkin:
The Todd Akin mess — Ugh. — Over the weekend, GOP Rep. Todd Akin — the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Missouri — said some really, really stupid things. (Twitchy has comprehensive coverage. Click here and keep scrolling.) — There's no sugar-coating or whitewashing this.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Akin Comments Could Swing Missouri Senate Race — In my review of Senate races last week, I classified Representative Todd Akin of Missouri, who won the Republican primary earlier this month, as a very slight favorite over the Democratic incumbent in the state, Claire McCaskill.
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
A Canard That Will Not Die: ‘Legitimate Rape’ Doesn't Cause Pregnancy — Republicans have been getting in trouble for asserting this since at least 1988 — but anti-abortion politicians keep hauling out this old idea for a reason. — Here we go again. Trotting out the contemporary equivalent …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama On Todd Akin: ‘Rape Is Rape’
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama: ‘Rape is rape’
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BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Said In 2007 He Would Be “Delighted” To Sign A Bill Banning All Abortions Nationally
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Sarah Kliff / Associated Press:
Rep. Todd Akin is wrong about rape and pregnancy, but he's not alone
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Pema Levy / Talking Points Memo:
'God's Little Shield': A Short History Of The False No-Pregnancy-From-Rape Theory
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Todd Akin: 'I've Not Yet Begun To Fight'
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
DNC email ties Romney to Todd Akin
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Well, They *Should* Be Defending Akin
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Fox News:
Rep. Akin ‘rape’ comment draws widespread GOP criticism, call to exit Senate race
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
How Todd Akin And Paul Ryan Partnered To Redefine Rape
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Zerlina Maxwell / NY Daily News:
Todd Akin, Paul Ryan and the very real war on women
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
As a Harvard Alum, I Apologize — Yes, I know, you could imagine many sentences that would follow that headline. But here is what I have in mind right now: A tenured professor of history at my undergraduate alma mater has written a cover story for Daily Beast/Newsweek that is so careless …
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Niall Ferguson / The Daily Beast:
Newsweek Cover Rebuttal: Paul Krugman Is Wrong — The liberal New York Times blogger objected to ‘multiple errors and misrepresentations’ in this week's Newsweek cover story on Obama's record in office. Author Niall Ferguson rebuts the charges. — You know you have hit the target …
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Paul Krugman:
Unethical Commentary, Newsweek Edition — There are multiple errors and misrepresentations in Niall Ferguson's cover story in Newsweek — I guess they don't do fact-checking — but this is the one that jumped out at me. Ferguson says: … Readers are no doubt meant to interpret this as saying …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Niall Ferguson's ridiculous defense
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
POLITICO e-book: Obama campaign roiled by conflict — President Barack Obama's campaign team, celebrated four years ago for its exceptional cohesion and eyes-on-the-prize strategic focus, has been shadowed this time by a succession of political disagreements and personal rivalries that haunted the effort at the outset.
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Politico:
Exclusive: GOP scolded after drinking, nudity in Israel — The FBI probed a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff - and one nude member of Congress, according to more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Condoleezza Rice among the first female members at Augusta National Golf Club — The site of the Masters tournament has granted entry to female members for the first time in its 80-year history. — Augusta National Golf Club has admitted female members for the first time in its history …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
An Unserious Man — Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate led to a wave of pundit accolades. Now, declared writer after writer, we're going to have a real debate about the nation's fiscal future. This was predictable: never mind the Tea Party, Mr. Ryan's true constituency …
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama campaign wants to see Romney's ‘secret plan’ on Afghanistan — The Obama campaign is ceding no ground against Mitt Romney on the Afghanistan conflict, demanding that he outline exactly what he would do to extricate the U.S. from the decade-long war. — “Asked in New Hampshire …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Former union boss at Occupy event: Our goal is to ‘overthrow the capitalist system and build communism’ [VIDEO] — Former Amalgamated Transit Union local 689 president Mike Golash, now an “Occupy” movement organizer, was caught on tape Sunday revealing his political goals …
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