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4:55 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.
ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
Obama Asks People Getting Married To Forgo Gifts, Ask Their Guests To Donate To His Campaign Instead...  You can even register your wedding on his campaign website.  Could he be any more pompous?
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Laura Wilson / Barack Obama:
The Obama event registry  —  Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?  —  Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift.  It's a great way to support the President on your big day.
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.
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Associated Press:
Despite Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, public opinion shifts little on issue
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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 …
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.
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Eric Randall / The Atlantic Wire:
Huffington Magazine: Politico's Newsroom Is ‘The Hunger Games’
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and Poynter
Ignazio Messina / Toledo Blade:
Wurzelbacher: Story of ad unfairly spun  —  House candidate says he 'wasn't talking about the Holocaust' in video  —  Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss  —  Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is not backing down from an anti-gun-control video released by his campaign this week …
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BuzzFeed:
Allen West Also Blamed Gun Control For The Holocaust
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Mary Cheney marries longtime partner Heather Poe  —  Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has married her long-time partner Heather Poe, The Daily Caller has learned.  —  Cheney spokeswoman Kara Ahern confirmed to TheDC that the couple married Friday morning in Washington, D.C.
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: The saddest hack  —  It's time to take the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez seriously, as depressing as that is … Kathryn Jean Lopez is, as best I can tell, a Heritage Foundation intern who was awarded the job of “National Review Online Editor” …
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 Hogberg / Capital Hill:
Kimberlin Vs. Walker: Walker Fights Back  —  Back on May 29th, Brett Kimberlin won a peace order hearing in Maryland District Court against Aaron Walker, claiming that Walker's blogging and tweeting of Kimberlin's violent past and his previous interactions with Kimberlin in court constituted harassment.
Bloomberg:
Republicans' Voter Suppression Project Grinds On  —  Mitt Romney was in Michigan this week trying to make it competitive in the presidential election.  It's a steep climb for the native Michigander because President Barack Obama's auto bailout, which Romney opposed, has helped bring …
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Calls Pelosi ‘Mind-Numbingly Stupid’ And Suggests She May Be Mentally Ill  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) yesterday called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi “mind-numbingly stupid” and said that there is something medically wrong with her brain because she believes Republicans …
Discussion: The Raw Story
New York Times:
Philadelphia's Msgr.  William J. Lynn Is Convicted of Allowing Abuse  —  PHILADELPHIA — Msgr.  William J. Lynn, a former archbishop's aide, was found guilty Friday of one count of endangering children, becoming the first senior official of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bad news: Jon Stewart not exactly buying the executive-privilege claim  —  Via Katie Pavlich, that's not the only bad news here for Eric Holder and Barack Obama.  Not only does Jon Stewart tell an audience inclined towards supporting Obama in November exactly why Operation Fast and Furious …
nejm.org:
The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine  —  Comments open through December 31, 2012
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Transgender Man Responds To Critics After Marriage Proposal Video Goes Viral … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  LGBT, Video, Gay Voices News, Lgbt Marriage, Marriage Equality, Obama Lgbt Pride Month, Obama Marriage Equality, Pride 2012, Gay Voices News  —  WASHINGTON — A week after popping …
Discussion: Advocate, ThinkProgress and GLAAD
Kj Dell'Antonia / Motherlode:
Talking About Why Women Can't Have It All  —  The cover story for the July/August issue of The Atlantic is one bound to stir conversation — as it was meant to.  In “Why Women Still Can't Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, the director of policy planning at the State Department under Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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 …
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
ABA Picks Sides on Judicial Nominations  —  A decade ago, the Bush Administration caused some controversy when it excluded the ABA from having a formal role in evaluating judicial nominees.  To the Bush Administration, the ABA was just a liberal advocacy group pretending to represent the legal profession as a whole.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and PointOfLaw Forum
Rolling Stone:
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia  —  How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy - until they were caught on tape  —  Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia.  Of course, you won't hear …
Discussion: Angry Bear and Crooks and Liars
 
 
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
David Koch To Host $50,000-A-Person Dinner For Romney In The Hamptons
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Romney Campaign Co-Chair: Romney Would ‘Rescind’ Obama Immigration Directive
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Charlie Sheen Cast As U.S. President in ‘Machete’ Sequel
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rubio blasts both Republicans and Democrats for politicizing immigration
Discussion: CNN, Politico and GOP 12
Daniel Larison / The American Conservative:
Report: Bolton Is a “Leading Candidate” for Secretary of State
Josh Hicks / Washington Post:
Whopper: White House adviser David Plouffe on Romney's jobs record and GOP strategy
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BuzzFeed:
Immigration Divides Romney And His Church
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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