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1:40 AM ET, July 17, 2012

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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Ad Taken Down Over Copyright Claim … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Election 2012, Romney Campaign, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Ad, Mitt Romney Singing Ad, Mitt Romney Web Ad, Obama Singing, Politics News
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David Frum / CNN:
Mitt Romney's painfully bad week  —  Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor.  He is the author of seven books, including a new novel, “Patriots.”  —  (CNN) — By any measure, the Mitt Romney for president campaign has had a painfully bad week.
Washington Examiner:
Romney's new foe: Batman's ‘Bane’ … This summer's much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is getting an unusual boost from Democrats and other foes of Mitt Romney who are eager to tie the Gotham crushing villain to the GOP presidential candidate.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Hillary Clinton: Romney ads featuring her a ‘waste of money’  —  (CNN) - She's been featured in two negative television ads from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the spots would have little effect on voters who already know the story of the 2008 Democratic primaries.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh: Obama ‘hates this country’  —  President Barack Obama “hates this country,” and his philosophy appeals to “people with miserable, meaningless lives” and “people who don't count,” Rush Limbaugh said Monday.  —  “I think it can now be said, without equivocation …
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DealBook:
A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google  —  Updated  —  Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.  —  The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for Yahoo …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Dick Cheney to talk sequester with House GOP  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney is flying to Washington from Wyoming to talk to top House Republicans about automatic cuts to defense spending, according to senior GOP sources.  —  Cheney will speak to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's (Calif.) …
Discussion: CNN
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Humberto Sanchez / Roll Call:
Democrats Want Leverage From Sequester
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court  —  Democrats now positive about both  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, with the most recent reading coming soon …
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Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:
Jonah Falcon, Man With World's Largest Penis, Frisked By TSA At California Airport … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Anatomical Wonders, TSA, Video, 13.5 Inches, Jonah Falcon, San Francisco International Airport, Stop And Frisk, X-Ray Body Scanners, Airport Screening, Largest Penis …
PBS:
His Man in Macau: Inside the Investigation Into Sheldon Adelson's Empire  —  A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate spit of land in Macau and imagined a glittering strip of casinos, hotels and malls.  —  Where competitors saw obstacles …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Cites Campaign Donor as ‘Non-Partisan Economist’  —  At a speech earlier today in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Obama cited economic analysis conducted by one of his campaign donors, Kimberly Clausing, and called her a “non-partisan economist.”  Clausing, a college professor from Reed College …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Bain not going away—Kucinich launching PAC—Bush 43 unveiling book tomorrow—Gillespie …
Bloomberg:
Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S.  —  On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if pleasant, piece of news: For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American.  —  According to data from Environics Analytics WealthScapes published …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and AEIdeas
Orlando Sentinel:
‘Witness 9’ tells prosecutors Zimmerman molested her for years  —  A woman told authorities that while they were children, murder suspect George Zimmerman sexually molested her for a decade, according to prosecution records released today.  —  The woman, identified only as “witness 9,” …
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
Dems Keep Up Romney Bain Attacks  —  Democrats reupped their main point of attack against Mitt Romney today, suggesting once again that the presumed Republican candidate might have committed a felony as the GOP camp refused to play ball.  —  Last week, Romney demanded in five interviews …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Suggests Releasing Additional Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging  —  Mitt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to respond to the growing number of conservatives who are calling on the former Massachusetts governor to release more of his tax returns.
New York Times:
U.S. Priorities in Drug War Debated as Pill Abuse Rises  —  MEXICO CITY — America's drug problem is shifting from illicit substances like cocaine to abuse of prescription painkillers, a change that is forcing policy makers to re-examine the long and expensive strategy of trying to stop illegal drugs from entering the United States.
BuzzFeed:
Top Dem Leaves Fundraising Debate To Attend Fundraiser  —  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse slipped out of this evening's all-night floor debate on fundraising bill to attend fundraiser for a nonprofit health group.  “No line to draw,” says an aide.  —  WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 21: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Bill Friskics-Warren / New York Times:
Kitty Wells, Trailblazing Country Singer, Dies at 92  —  The cause was complications of a stroke, said her grandson John Sturdivant Jr.  —  Ms. Wells was an unlikely and unassuming pioneer.  When she recorded “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” she was a 33-year-old wife …
Discussion: Gawker
 
 
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Hope, Growth and Opportunity Shows Limits of Disclosure Rules
Alex Carp / News Desk:
Writing With Antonin Scalia, Grammar Nerd
Discussion: Althouse
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama misses new budget deadline
Discussion: Hot Air
BBC:
US Navy ship fires on boat in Gulf
Discussion: The Agonist
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Conyers gets an awkward endorsement
Discussion: Hot Air and Sister Toldjah
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
It's True: Corporations Are People
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
JPMorgan just gave a calamitous economic forecast for Obama
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Employees of NY Times, HuffPo, other news outlets dish out money to re-elect Obama
Discussion: FishbowlDC and NewsBusters.org
Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle:
Gas drilling a boom for drug traffickers, too
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Pawlenty Looked at as Romney Running Mate
 

 
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