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12:50 PM ET, June 22, 2012

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
POLITICO reporter suspended for remarks  —  POLITICO reporter Joe Williams has been suspended pending review of recent controversial comments he made on television and Twitter, POLITICO editors informed staff late Thursday night.  —  On MSNBC today, Williams made a remark suggesting Mitt Romney …
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
POLITICO REPORTER TWEETS ANN ROMNEY PENIS JOKE  —  Politico, the unofficial web-branch of MSNBC, and whose staff spends more time on MSNBC than Chris Matthews, has a so-called reporter named Joseph Williams who all but called Mitt Romney a racist on Martin Bashir's show today.
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Romney's Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas  —  Mitt Romney's financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney campaign: ‘outsourcing’ does not equal ‘offshoring’  —  Mitt Romney's campaign is disputing a Washington Post report on Bain Capital's record of investing in companies that outsourced jobs, calling it a “fundamentally flawed” story that elides the difference between outsourcing and shipping jobs overseas.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama looks to capitalize on shift in presidential race's momentum  —  President Obama will look to cap a week in which momentum in the presidential race appeared to shift in his favor with a Thursday address to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in Florida.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Romney closing the election gap with focus on the economy
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and msnbc.com
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's White Support Is Too Low to Win
Michael Reagan / Cagle Post:
It's Nice to be Emperor
CNN:
Obama web video accuses Romney of hedging on immigration
Paul Geitner / New York Times:
On Vacation and Sick?  A Court Says Take Another  —  BRUSSELS — For most Europeans, almost nothing is more prized than their four to six weeks of guaranteed annual vacation leave.  But it was not clear just how sacrosanct that time off was until Thursday, when Europe's highest court ruled …
theusconstitution.org:
DEVELOPING: COURT RULES IN CHAMBER'S FAVOR IN EVERY CASE DECIDED SO FAR THIS TERM  —  As we approach the end of the October 2011 Term, it is hard to think about almost anything other than the Court's impending health care decision.  But there is another developing story that has so far been overlooked.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Hullabaloo
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Reed Abelson / New York Times:
Billions of Dollars Are in Play Over Health Care Law
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
Why Dodd-Frank Is Unconstitutional  —  The financial regulations signed into law in 2010 do not honor checks and balances.  They eliminate them.  —  When President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law nearly two years ago, he stated that …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Texas bank challenging Dodd-Frank, consumer bureau in court  —  A Texas community bank and two advocacy groups are filing suit in U.S. District Court to challenge the constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.  —  In particular, the suit will contend that the Consumer Financial …
Latino Decisions:
New Poll: Obama leads Romney among Latinos in key 2012 battleground states  —  New polling released June 22, 2012 by Latino Decisions and America's Voice finds President Obama maintaining a wide lead over Republican Mitt Romney among Latino registered voters in five key battleground states.
David Blankenhorn / New York Times:
How My View on Gay Marriage Changed  —  IN my 2007 book, “The Future of Marriage,” and in my 2010 court testimony concerning Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, I took a stand against gay marriage.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hit & Run
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Associated Press:
Despite Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, public opinion shifts little on issue
Discussion: Advocate and Towleroad News #gay
Ian Simpson / Reuters:
(Note: explicit sexual content)  —  (Reuters) - Jurors in the child sex abuse trial of Jerry Sandusky resumed deliberations on Friday, sequestered and shielded from a shocking new accusation from Sandusky's adopted son that he, too, was abused by the former Penn State assistant football coach.
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Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Gas prices could hit $3 by autumn  —  The darkening clouds of the slowing economy could provide a bright spot for consumers: gasoline at $3 a gallon — or less — by autumn.  —  Nationally, regular gasoline averages $3.47 a gallon, down 47 cents from this year's high in April and well below …
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
Fast and Furious front and center  —  Victim becoming a footnote  —  The two most important words in the current Obama administration scandal aren't “Fast” or “Furious.”  They are “Brian Terry.”  —  In December 2010, Brian Terry — a former Marine and police officer turned Border Patrol agent …
Discussion: Samizdata.net
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Tim Mak / Politico:
Brian Terry's parents: W.H. ‘lying’
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Chief Justice Offers Hint at New Timing for Health Care Ruling  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday indicated that it is likely to go into overtime next week, as the nation awaits its decisions in challenges to President Obama's health care law and a tough Arizona immigration law.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
New MSNBC Show Will Feature a Panel of Political Pundits  —  MSNBC's plan for a new 3 p.m. program is illustrative of a cable news trend.  It's an ensemble show with a cast of four fresh-faced political pundits.  —  The hourlong show, given the name “The Cycle,” will start on Monday.
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John Hooper / Guardian:
Mario Monti: we have a week to save the eurozone  —  Italian prime minister warns that there is no room for failure in talks between single currency's big four countries  —  Italy's prime minister, Mario Monti, has warned of the apocalyptic consequences of failure at next week's summit of EU leaders …
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
The Only Nine Things You Need To Know From The Huffington Post Politico Profile That You Can't Read Online  —  We just downloaded The Huffington Post's profile by Michael Calderone of how Politico is supposedly in disarray.  You can't read it online because it's only on the iPad.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hispanic population soars in presidential swing states  —  Hispanic populations are soaring in toss-up states that will decide the presidential election.  —  Changing demographics in states not usually associated with Hispanic voters has changed the traditional political calculus heading into Election Day.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and CNN
 
 
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Calls Pelosi ‘Mind-Numbingly Stupid’ And Suggests She May Be Mentally Ill
Discussion: The Raw Story
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Prisons, Privatization, Patronage
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
Learning to See Brown Shoots Instead of Green Ones
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Real Time Economics
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Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
At Freshkills Park, Borrowing Goats to Tackle a Weed Problem
Discussion: Gothamist and Globe and Mail
Stephen Gray / PinkNews.co.uk:
Queensland ‘downgrades’ civil partnerships and will ban gay surrogacy
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Robert D. Hershey Jr / New York Times:
Anna Schwartz, Economist Who Collaborated With Friedman, Dies at 96
Discussion: EconLog and Cafe Hayek
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden's brawlers: Veep's security team squared off in Nantucket melee
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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