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Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
What I Learned at Bain Capital — My business experience taught me how to help companies grow—and what to do when trouble arises. When you see a problem, run toward it before the problem gets worse. — The back-to-school season is here, and as parents take their children to shop for school supplies …
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John Cook / Gawker:
The Bain Files: Inside Mitt Romney's Tax-Dodging Cayman Schemes — Mitt Romney's $250 million fortune is largely a black hole: Aside from the meager and vague disclosures he has filed under federal and Massachusetts laws, and the two years of partial tax returns (one filed and another provisional) …
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Gawker's worthless ‘Bain files’
Gawker's worthless ‘Bain files’
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Gawker, Salon, Guardian, Algemeiner.com, News Desk, FT Alphaville, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider and The Daily Dish
Lance Armstrong:
Lance Armstong's Statement of August 23, 2012 — There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, “Enough is enough.” For me, that time is now. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Armstrong Drops Fight Against Doping Charges — After more than a decade of outrunning accusations that he had doped during his celebrated cycling career, Lance Armstrong, one of the best-known and accomplished athletes in recent history, surrendered on Thursday, etching a dark mark on his legacy …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Romney May Be Nominated Early — TAMPA, Fla. - Mitt Romney's quest to formally win the Republican Party's presidential nomination may come two days earlier. — Plans are underway for Mr. Romney to be nominated on Monday - not Wednesday as previously thought - because of a potential threat …
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Crooks and Liars, Mediaite and Hot Air
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James Hohmann / Politico:
No Ron Paul revolution at convention — TAMPA, Fla. — The Republican establishment has quelled the Ron Paul Revolution, at least for 2012. — Using a mix of charm and procedural hardball, Mitt Romney's campaign and his allies who control the Republican National Committee have ensured …
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Election 2012, Hot Air, The Fix and LewRockwell.com Blog
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
In convention speech, a test for Chris Christie — (CBS News) As Republicans from across the country descend on Tampa for the party's official nominating convention, Chris Christie will be preparing for his big moment: The famously outspoken Republican governor of New Jersey …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Huckabee digs in behind Akin — Todd Akin hasn't had many high-profile supporters with him in the trenches this week, but Mike Huckabee became an important and emphatic exception Thursday afternoon, sending a message to his own supporters accusing Republican elites of trying to drum a good man out of a winnable Senate race.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Galt, Gold and God — So far, most of the discussion of Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president, has focused on his budget proposals. But Mr. Ryan is a man of many ideas, which would ordinarily be a good thing. — In his case, however, most of those ideas appear …
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Prairie Weather, Business Insider and Vox Popoli
Max Pizarro / Politicker NJ:
Booker tells chairs he's weighing 2013 gubernatorial run — In the lead-up to next month's Democrat National Convention in Charlotte, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his political consultant Mark Matzen are meeting face-to-face with county chairs and making it known that Booker is weighing a run …
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Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Still Wins on Likability; Romney, on the Economy — Obama gains on healthcare and taxes since July — PRINCETON, NJ — As the two-week period of back-to-back presidential nominating conventions gets underway next Monday, an Aug. 20-22 USA Today/Gallup poll underscores the strengths …
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Politico and Saint Petersblog
Talking Points Memo:
Second Local Station Says Romney Camp Asked For No Akin Questions — Before Mitt Romney appeared via satellite on an Ohio TV station WHIO Thursday, his campaign told a reporter it would prefer Romney did not get questions about Todd Akin. Fortunately for the Romney campaign, Akin wasn't on the WHIO agenda.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Campaign Forbids Local Reporter From Asking About Akin, Abortion
Romney Campaign Forbids Local Reporter From Asking About Akin, Abortion
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CBS Denver, Washington Post, Politico, The Caucus, Daily Kos and Election 2012
New York Post:
Trash-talking veep's Tampa tantrum — In an electoral season of appalling gutter politics, the Obama campaign is about to test a new bottom. Contrary to tradition — which dictates that Democrats and Republicans respectfully lie low during their rivals' presidential nominating conventions …
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Instapundit and Riehl World News
New York Times:
News Analysis: Romney Would Give Reins to States on Drilling on Federal Lands — By proposing to end a century of federal control over oil and gas drilling and coal mining on government lands, Mitt Romney is making a bid for anti-Washington voters in key Western states while dangling the promise …
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americanthinker.com, Balloon Juice, Riehl World News and Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Gibson / Washington Post:
Cardinal Timothy Dolan's GOP convention blessing prompts debate — The news that New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the nation's most prominent Catholic prelate, will deliver the closing blessing to the Republican National Convention in Florida next week was seen as a huge coup for Mitt Romney, the party's presumptive nominee.
Michael Grunwald / Swampland:
The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama — TIME just published “The Party of No,” an article adapted from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. It reveals some of my reporting on the Republican plot to obstruct President Obama …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Political Carnival
Paul Purpura / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Rev. Grant Storms, critic of Southern Decadence, convicted of obscenity for public masturbation — The Rev. Grant Storms, the former “Christian patriot” pastor whose marches against homosexuality at New Orleans' Southern Decadence festival briefly put him in the national spotlight …
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Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Foxx, Rybak, Malloy to speak in Charlotte — The Democratic National Convention Committee is announcing another set of speakers for Charlotte Friday, including a number of the prominent mayors involved in President Barack Obama's reelection campaign. — Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx …
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Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Botched Restoration of Jesus Fresco Shocks Spain — MADRID — A case of suspected vandalism in a church in a northeastern village has turned out to be probably the worst art restoration project seen in Spain. — An elderly woman stepped forward this week to claim responsibility for disfiguring …
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Gawker and Jesus' General
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: America Meets Mr. Romney — Anticipating the highlights of the GOP's Tampa convention. — It is good that Joe Biden is going to the Republican National Convention to hold high the flag of his party. People make fun of his gaffes, of his embarrassing verbal forays …
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Politico and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
BBC:
Anders Behring Breivik: Norway court rules him sane — A Norwegian court has ruled that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is sane, sentencing him to 21 years in prison. — Breivik admitted killing 77 people and wounding more than 240 others when he bombed central Oslo and then opened fire at an island youth camp last year.
Rob Kauder / KXLY-TV:
Ambassador Crocker arrested for hit and run, DUI — Author: Jeff Humphrey, KXLY4 Reporter , jeffhu@kxly.com — Ambassador Ryan Crocker, one of the most decorated State Department diplomats in the last half century, was arrested on August 14 by the Washington State Patrol for hit-and-run and DUI in Spokane Valley.
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Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China Besieged by Glut of Unsold Goods — GUANGZHOU, China — After three decades of torrid growth, China is encountering an unfamiliar problem with its newly struggling economy: a huge buildup of unsold goods that is cluttering shop floors, clogging car dealerships and filling factory warehouses.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Study: Romney criticism of controversial cancer ad effective with swing voters — A new study by Vanderbilt University found that an ad from Mitt Romney criticizing President Obama over a super PAC attack that insinuated the presumptive Republican nominee was responsible for the death …
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UPI, Nice Deb, The Daily Dish, GOP 12 and The Ulsterman Report
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Romney says his Mormon tithing shouldn't be public — • Mitt Romney says in a new interview that one of the reasons he's distressed about disclosing his tax returns is that everyone sees how much money he and his wife, Ann, have donated to the LDS Church, and that's a number he wants to keep private.
Austin Considine / New York Times:
Buying Their Way to Twitter Fame — AS a comedian, Dan Nainan was blessed with fans, millions of YouTube views and, once, an audience with President Obama. But one thing was missing. — “The number of Twitter followers I had in relation to how many people in the world know about me was woefully inadequate,” he said.