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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Like a Boss — When it comes to being a rich guy, Mitt Romney should own it — What do women want? The conventional biological wisdom is that men select mates for fertility, while women select for status — thus the commonness of younger women's pairing with well-established older men but the rarity of the converse.
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Angelakdka / CBS Pittsburgh:
In Exclusive Interview, Paul Ryan Distances Self From Todd Akin — CARNEGIE (KDKA) — In Congressman Paul Ryan's first interview in Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick reacted strongly to Congressman Todd Akin's comment than women who are raped rarely get pregnant.
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New York Times, The Agonist, Ballot Box, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, ABCNEWS, Wake up America, The Maddow Blog, The Raw Story, TODAY on the Trail, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Taylor Marsh, Hullabaloo, New York Magazine, First Read, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, CNN, Towleroad News #gay, No More Mister Nice Blog, Little Green Footballs, rightwingwatch.org, Balloon Juice, The Caucus, The Moderate Voice, Gothamist and GOP 12
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Just Think No — There's something trying about an unforgiving man suddenly in need of forgiveness. — Yet Todd Akin is right. He shouldn't have to get out of the United States Senate race in Missouri simply for saying what he believes. He reflects a severe stance on abortion …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Ryan Refuses To Say Abortions Should Be Available To Women Who Are Raped
Ryan Refuses To Say Abortions Should Be Available To Women Who Are Raped
Bloomberg:
Ryan's Record Of Abortion Opposition Consistent With Akin's
Ryan's Record Of Abortion Opposition Consistent With Akin's
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Atlantic Online, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan stands by his anti-abortion record while running away from it
Paul Ryan stands by his anti-abortion record while running away from it
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First Read
Josh Richman / Mercury News:
Boxer: Akin is the symptom, but Ryan and Romney are the disease
Boxer: Akin is the symptom, but Ryan and Romney are the disease
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Examiner, Weasel Zippers, Politico, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Ryan Refuses to Explain “Forcible” Rape as Dems Attempt More Akin-izing of the GOP Ticket
Ryan Refuses to Explain “Forcible” Rape as Dems Attempt More Akin-izing of the GOP Ticket
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Daily Kos, The Hill, The Raw Story, The PJ Tatler and CNN
ThinkProgress:
CHART: Akin's Views On Women's Health Are In Line With GOP
CHART: Akin's Views On Women's Health Are In Line With GOP
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The Political Carnival
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Ryan says he is ‘proud of my pro-life record,’ defends bill sponsored with Akin
Ryan says he is ‘proud of my pro-life record,’ defends bill sponsored with Akin
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The Rightnewz
George Bennett / Post on Politics:
Marco Rubio on how he learned he wasn't Romney's VP pick; kind words for Nelson, harsh ones for Akin — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told a Forum Club of the Palm Beaches luncheon crowd today about the phone conversation he had with Mitt Romney the day before Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate.
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The Hill, ABCNEWS and Washington Post
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First Read:
First Thoughts: Not your ordinary August poll — This isn't your ordinary August poll; it looks more like October... The poll's three macro-conclusions: 1) Obama has the advantage heading into the conventions, 2) he's still below 50%, 3) Romney has work to do repairing his image …
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BuzzFeed, Daily Kos, Politico, Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice, The Maddow Blog and The Huffington Post
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney says fact-checkers biased in criticism of campaign's welfare ads
Romney says fact-checkers biased in criticism of campaign's welfare ads
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CNN and Des Moines Register
WMUR:
Sheriff candidate says he wouldn't reject deadly force to stop abortions — Candidate says he believes elective, late-term abortions aren't lawful — Candidate's abortion comments draw criticism — A Republican candidate for Hillsborough County Sheriff said Wednesday …
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Talking Points Memo, CBS Boston and The Raw Story
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Video: Obama Says He's “Pro-Choice” on Third-Trimester Abortions
Video: Obama Says He's “Pro-Choice” on Third-Trimester Abortions
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LifeNews.com, Instapundit, The Gateway Pundit and BuzzFeed
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
The Tax Returns are Hurting Romney, Badly — I didn't mention this in my previous post, but in addition to the aforementioned questions, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal asked respondents about the recent controversies over Bain Capital and Mitt Romney's tax returns to gage whether they affected support for the Republican nominee.
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The Maddow Blog, Politico and Mother Jones
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Rick Santorum: Here Are the Reasons That Romney Might Lose — The former senator is heading to Tampa to speak on behalf of his former rival. He tells Howard Kurtz what Romney must avoid if he is to beat Obama. — Rick Santorum has a simple formulation for how the 2012 election will turn out.
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CNN, Politico, The Hill, The Hinterland Gazette and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Texas Judge Suggests He Will Join ‘Civil Unrest, Civil Disobedience, Civil War Maybe’ If Obama Is Reelected — Judge Tom Head, a county judge in Lubbock, Texas, announced on a local television station that he would personally join the resistance against a United Nations' takeover of American sovereignty …
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, No More Mister Nice Blog, Booman Tribune, The Maddow Blog and Applesauce
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Nick R. Martin / Talking Points Memo:
Texas Judge Warns Of ‘Civil War, Maybe’ If Obama Wins — Texas Judge Tom Head is worried about what might happen if President Obama wins reelection in November. There could be riots, unrest or a “civil war, maybe,” he told a local television station this week.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Business Insider, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Stinque and Wonkette
CBO's Publications:
An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 — For fiscal year 2012 (which ends on September 30), the federal budget deficit will total $1.1 trillion, CBO estimates, marking the fourth year in a row with a deficit of more than $1 trillion.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO warns of deep recession if Congress fails to avert ‘fiscal cliff’
CBO warns of deep recession if Congress fails to avert ‘fiscal cliff’
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CBO's Publications, Washington Times, Wake up America, MarketBeat, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Hot Air and Weekly Standard
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
CBO warns of significant recession if Congress doesn't act to avoid fiscal cliff
CBO warns of significant recession if Congress doesn't act to avoid fiscal cliff
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Outside the Beltway, The Lonely Conservative and NRSC
Dr. Jeff Masters / Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog:
Isaac lashing the Lesser Antilles; TD 10 forms — Tropical Storm Isaac is lashing the entire Lesser Antilles chain of islands with heavy rains this morning, and the winds will be on the increase this afternoon as the storm heads west at 19 mph. Isaac is still a weak and disorganized tropical storm, but that is changing.
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CNN, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Political Insider, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
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Washington Post:
Could Hurricane Isaac derail the GOP convention?
Could Hurricane Isaac derail the GOP convention?
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Truthdig and Firedoglake
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Tampa Mayor: City ‘Prepared’ To Call Off Convention In Event Of Dangerous Weather
Tampa Mayor: City ‘Prepared’ To Call Off Convention In Event Of Dangerous Weather
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ThinkProgress and The BRAD BLOG
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Team Romney calls out Obama for misspelling ‘Ohio’ at campaign stop — President Obama needed a do-over to spell “Ohio” correctly on the campus of Ohio State University this week. — Although Obama and several students at a campaign stop Tuesday morning at Sloopy's Diner on the campus …
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The Ulsterman Report
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Christopher Maloney / Twitchy:
‘O-I-H-O’: Barack Obama's Dan Quayle moment
‘O-I-H-O’: Barack Obama's Dan Quayle moment
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Erika I. Ritchie / Orange County Register:
Rick Warren cancels Obama-Romney forum at Saddleback Church — LAKE FOREST - Rick Warren, Saddleback Church's pastor, announced Wednesday that a civil forum planned with President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the church has been canceled …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Religion Dispatches
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republican Party Changes Rules To Stop The Pauls — Avoiding “distractions” in Tampa. — Image by Czarek Sokolowski / AP — TAMPA, Florida — The Republican National Committee's Rules Committee voted to require written certification that a presidential candidate has a plurality …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Fix
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Bloomberg:
Economists Risk Labeling as Political Hacks — By Laurence Kotlikoff 2012-08-21T22:30:48Z — Some 500 of my colleagues in economics, almost all academics, have signed a statement applauding former Governor Mitt Romney's economic plan and condemning President Barack Obama's handling of the economy.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
Cindy Cooper / Twitchy:
Zing! Romney on Obama: ‘Bless his heart’; Update: No, it's not racist … Oh, yes, he did. He dropped the most awesome insult ever. … Swoon! Romney's point is, of course, correct and needs repeating. But the “bless his heart” is getting more play as of now; it was the delicious final touch on the pro-freedom message.
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The Lonely Conservative, The Other McCain and Pirate's Cove
David Skeel / Wall Street Journal:
A Nation Adrift From the Rule of Law — We are losing sight of the basic principles that made us great in the 20th century. — No one doubts that the coming election will be the most important referendum on the size and nature of government in a generation.
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The Volokh Conspiracy and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Get Lost — So, as you might have heard, Michael Mann of Climategate infamy is threatening to sue us. — Mann is upset — very, very upset — with this Mark Steyn Corner post, which had the temerity to call Mann's hockey stick “fraudulent.” The Steyn post was mild compared with other things …
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Power Line, RedState and The Volokh Conspiracy