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11:20 AM ET, July 23, 2012

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ESPN:
Penn State sanctions: $60M, bowl ban  —  The NCAA has hit Penn State with a $60 million sanction, a four-year football postseason ban and a vacation of all wins dating to 1998, the organization said Monday morning.  —  The career record of former head football coach Joe Paterno will reflect …
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Pete Thamel / New York Times:
N.C.A.A. Gives Penn State $60 Million Fine and Bowl Ban  —  INDIANAPOLIS — The N.C.A.A. announced significant penalties against Penn State and its football program Monday, including a $60 million fine and a four-year postseason ban, in the wake of the child sexual abuse scandal involving the former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and American Power
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Massacre suspect James Holmes' gun-range application drew red flag  —  BYERS, COLO. - Less than a month before carrying out the midnight movie massacre that left 12 dead, suspected shooter James Holmes applied for membership at a private gun range, unnerving the club's owner whose calls …
Discussion: TMZ.com
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Online Ammunition Sales Highlighted by Aurora Shootings  —  DENVER — Unhindered by federal background checks or government oversight, the 24-year-old man accused of killing a dozen people inside a Colorado movie theater was able to build what the police called a 6,000-round arsenal legally …
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and Hullabaloo
First Read / msnbc.com:
Candidates lightly tread back on the campaign trail
Discussion: Bloomberg and Daily Kos
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Sen. Ron Johnson: 100-round rifle magazine is a ‘basic freedom’
Associated Press:
Shooting suspect gun club membership rejected
New York Times:
In Aurora, a Day for Memorials and an Obama Visit
Discussion: News Desk
Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Majority of voters blame president for bad economy  —  Two-thirds of likely voters say the weak economy is Washington's fault, and more blame President Obama than anybody else, according to a new poll for The Hill.  —  It found that 66 percent believe paltry job growth …
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Dave Helling / MiamiHerald.com:
People's minds are made up, unlikely to change
Discussion: Hot Air and Ed Driscoll
Larry Celona / New York Post:
Weiner wife under guard  —  Police and federal officials have placed security around ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, after a New Jersey man threatened her, law-enforcement sources said.  —  An individual, described as a Muslim man, made the unspecified threat after Rep. Michele Bachmann …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Weiner's wife under police protection after receiving threat
Discussion: Influence Alley
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Quote of the Day: Mitt Romney Told Olympians They Didn't Get There Alone  —  Our political Quote of the Day gives us one more strand in the heaping-plate-of-spaghetti-of- hyocrisy called American partisan politics, where the accuracy of an assertion is not what matters.
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Matthew Mosk / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney Olympic Archive Still Off-Limits  —  More than a decade has passed since Mitt Romney presided over the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but the archival records from those games that were donated to the University of Utah to provide an unprecedented level of transparency …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Mediaite and The Hill
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Democrats shun Pelosi's plea for cash  —  One by one, the pictures of House members adorning the lobby of Democratic Party headquarters have come down, turning neat rows of framed photos into a disjointed mess — “splattered,” as one aide described it.  —  The half-dozen or so lawmakers whose mugs …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
California Republicans Seek a Turnaround  —  LOS ANGELES — This would seem a moment of great opportunity for California Republicans.  The state has become a national symbol of fiscal turmoil and dysfunction, the Legislature is nearly as unpopular as Congress and Democrats control every branch of government.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Loading the Climate Dice  —  A couple of weeks ago the Northeast was in the grip of a severe heat wave.  As I write this, however, it's a fairly cool day in New Jersey, considering that it's late July.  Weather is like that; it fluctuates.  —  And this banal observation may be what dooms us to climate catastrophe, in two ways.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Romney says Obama visit to Colorado was the ‘right thing’ to do  —  Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney praised President Obama's decision to visit Aurora, Colorado and meet with victims of a mass shooting as “the right thing” to do.  —  Romney, who returned to the campaign trail …
New York Times:
Iraq Insurgents Kill Nearly 100 After Declaring New Offensive  —  BAGHDAD — In a coordinated display intended to show they remain a viable force, Iraqi insurgents launched at least 37 separate attacks on Monday morning, setting off car bombs, storming a military base and ambushing checkpoints, Iraqi authorities said.
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and Taylor Marsh
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Obama Tells Tall Tales About The Bush Years  —  A key attack line in President Obama's campaign stump speech these days is to claim that the country has tried Mitt Romney's economic policies already, and they were a dismal failure.  —  Romney, he says, wants to do two things …
Discussion: Hot Air
Jackie Kucinich / USA Today:
GOP makes room for Rep. Ron Paul at Tampa convention  —  Ron Paul supporters have feuded with state Republican parties across the country, battling for delegate seats at the national convention, but the national party is welcoming Paul and his supporters to the event with open arms …
Discussion: msnbc.com
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Carney: Obama will not push for new gun control measures  —  White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that the Obama administration has no plans to push new gun control measures in the wake of the deadly shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater
Orange County Register:
SATURDAY'S SHOOTING  —  Anaheim's police chief confirmed Sunday the shooting victim on Anna Drive was unarmed.  There were no weapons recovered at the scene that could have belonged to him, Welter said.  —  Welter said he could not immediately confirm how many shots were fired or precisely …
 
 
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Survey USA Poll: Obama's Lead Cut in Half Since Last Poll
Wall Street Journal:
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Political party  —  Harvey Weinstein and Anna Wintour …
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Washington Examiner:
Examiner Editorial: Liberal pundits always rush to blame the Tea Party
Discussion: Hit & Run and Politico
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Obama campaign touts troop withdrawals ahead of VFW convention
Discussion: CNN
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Reuters:
Australian FM counsels Romney
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
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Discussion: Prairie Weather
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Israel advances PA NIS 180m. to ease finance crisis
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT and Israel Matzav
Anthony Bond / Daily Mail:
Olympics' most wanted: Terror police fear suspect hunted after Bulgarian bus bomb could be on his way to London 2012
Helen Lewis Published / New Statesman:
How the media shouldn't cover a mass murder
Discussion: Media Decoder and American Power