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3:35 PM ET, July 24, 2012

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Feinstein: Someone at White House is behind recent intel leaks  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Monday that someone at the White House was responsible for the recent leaks of classified information.  —  “I think the White House …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
White House warns of $1,600 tax hike on 114M middle-class families  —  The White House has launched a new offensive in its fight with congressional Republicans over taxes, arguing 114 million middle-class families will see their taxes rise without action by Congress.
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Blasts Obama For Talking ‘Incessantly’ About The Middle Class  —  President Obama's plan to allow the Bush tax cuts for incomes above $250,000 to expire at the end of the year has revived the Republican talking point that he is waging “class warfare” against the wealthy …
Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. Feinstein suggests some leaked info came from the White House  —  House and Senate Intelligence Committees.  (L to R) Reps. C.A. Ruppersberger, and Mike Rogers; Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Dianne Feinstein.  —  WASHINGTON - The Democratic leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee …
CNN:
Celebs open their wallets in White House race, mostly for Obama
Discussion: E2-Wire and Weasel Zippers
Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
White House threatens to veto GOP drilling bill
Discussion: Politicker
Jeremy Herb / Ballot Box:
Romney to knock Obama on intel leaks
Discussion: Firedoglake and GOP 12
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Divine Miss M  —  What I find most fascinating about Michele Bachmann — and there are many, many more where she came from — is that she presents herself as a godly woman, humbly devoted to her Christian faith.  I'd like to meet that god, and I'd like to understand that Christianity.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Newt defends Bachmann on Huma Abedin allegations  —  Newt Gingrich, appearing with Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen on POLITICO Live's Driving the Day this morning, defended Rep. Michele Bachmann for asking questions about the Muslim Brotherhood - and declined to hit his former presidential rival …
Amy Walter / ABCNEWS:
Obama Fights Back Against 'You Didn't Build That' Attacks  —  Ten days after Mitt Romney turned President Obama's remarks about public investment in infrastructure into an attack on the president's support for American free enterprise system, Team Obama is finally pushing back.
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Washington Post:
How super PACs are saving Mitt Romney  —  Republican-aligned super PACs and other outside conservative groups have spent more than $144 million on general election ads in swing presidential states, a huge outlay of cash that has allowed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to not only combat …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Million-dollar donors account for nearly half of GOP super PAC fundraising  —  If super PACs are indeed saving Mitt Romney early in the 2012 election (as we posited Tuesday morning), he's got a lot of very wealthy people to thank for it.  —  About four dozen donors and families have given …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Reuters:
Obama attacks on taxes and Bain hit Romney ratings  —  (Reuters) - Sustained attacks by President Barack Obama's campaign on Republican rival Mitt Romney's business history and refusal to release more tax records appear to be working, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
Discussion: American Prospect
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Romney Leads on the Economy, Trails Elsewhere
Discussion: Washington Post
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
If the first six months don't count...  Mitt Romney sat down with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, and made a curious observation.  He said voters who want a strong economy should vote for him, but Americans “ought to give, whichever president is going to be elected, at least six months or a year to get those policies in place.”
BuzzFeed:
First Female U.S. Astronaut, Sally Ride, Comes Out In Obituary  —  “I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay that they know that another one of their heroes was like them,” Sally Ride's sister, Bear Ride, said.  —  Astronaut Sally Ride, mission specialist on STS-7 …
The Times of Israel:
Actor slaps and fells female host, denounces Israelis, in Egyptian TV ‘prank’ gone wrong  —  Second guest in Al-Nahar candid camera fiasco declares he ‘hates the Jews to death’  —  Two Egyptian actors, “pranked” by an Egyptian TV station over the weekend into thinking that they were being interviewed …
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Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
Worst Prank You Can Play on an Egyptian?
Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker  —  Ahead Of Voter ID Trial, Pennsylvania Admits There's No In-Person Voter Fraud  —  As the Justice Department investigates Pennsylvania's voter ID law on the federal level, a coalition of civil rights groups is gearing up for a state trial starting Wednesday examining whether …
Bloomberg:
The U.S. Economic Policy Debate Is a Sham  —  Watching Democrats and Republicans hash out their differences in the public arena, it's easy to get the impression that there's a deep disagreement among reasonable people about how to manage the U.S. economy.  —  Nothing could be further from the truth.
Discussion: Business Insider
Jack Abramoff / The Atlantic Online:
I Know the Congressional Culture of Corruption  —  Congressmen accept donations and solemnly recite their oath of office: My vote is not for sale for a mere contribution.  They are wrong.  —  Though democracy is not perfect, it is certainly the most effective polity; as Winston Churchill averred …
Sara Burnett / Denver Post:
Aurora theater shooting: Gun sales up since tragedy  —  Firearm interest spikes as some seek protection  —  Background checks for people wanting to buy guns in Colorado jumped more than 41 percent after Friday morning's shooting at an Aurora movie theater, and firearms instructors say they're …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
GOP Operatives Praise Scott Brown's Latest Ad  —  Republican operatives in Washington are praising Scott Brown's latest campaign ad.  The ad, a contrast spot being run by the Republican Massachusetts senator, shows that Brown's Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, is to the left …
Wall Street Journal:
Libor Probe Expands to Bank Traders  —  Groups From at Least Nine Institutions Allegedly Banded Together to Rig Key Global Interest Rates  —  Several groups of traders are under investigation by regulators around the world for allegedly banding together to rig interest rates, people close to the probe said.
New York Post:
Bloomberg's gun-control idea: Cops go on strike  —  By GERRY SHIELDS in DC and BETH DEFALCO in NY  —  Mayor Bloomberg ramped up his gun-control rhetoric to a whole new level last night, saying he's surprised cops don't walk off their jobs until the public forces lawmakers to get guns off the streets.
Gabriel Malor / New York Post:
Of massacres & media myths  —  Media assumptions that violence is right-wing are routine — and routinely wrong.  —  On Friday morning, Brian Ross of ABC News speculated on live TV that James Holmes, the accused killer in Aurora, Colo., was a member of the Tea Party.
Discussion: Hot Air
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The VP's remarks will not be tweeted  —  Vice President Joe Biden will take questions from reporters on a White House press call today, and as has been the case in the past, the on-the-record conversation will be embargoed until the end of the call.  —  The curious caveat …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Philadelphia Church Official Sentenced to at Least 3 Years in Prison  —  PHILADELPHIA — Msgr.  William J. Lynn, the first Roman Catholic official in the United States to be convicted of covering up sexual abuses by priests under his supervision, was sentenced to three to six years in prison on Tuesday.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Joe. My. God.
Mitt Romney for President of the United States …:
Governor Romney: “The Context Is Worse Than The Quote”  —  Location  —  “This is an ideology which says hey, we're all the same here, we ought to take from all and give to one another and that achievement, individual initiative and risk-taking and success are not to be rewarded as they have in the past.
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Mindy Meyer's ‘State Senate Campaign’ Website Explodes On Twitter, Is Truly Awful  —  On Monday afternoon, the Twitter-verse came alive after a campaign website by Republican state senate candidate in New York's 21st district went viral.  Her site, complete with sparkly letters that let visitors know …
 
 
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Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Did Some Political Figures Have Secret Swiss Accounts?
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Cuomo Is Editing His Years as State Attorney General
Discussion: Politicker and The Raw Story
Peter Lauria / Reuters:
Exclusive: IAC takes control of Newsweek Daily Beast from Harmans
Moody's:
Announcement: Moody's changes the outlook to negative on Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg …
Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
George and Laura Bush Drop by Romney HQ
Discussion: USA Today
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senators Face Risks Over Proposal on Tax Cuts
Andy Marso / Topeka Capital-Journal:
House hopeful changes name to Thomas Jefferson
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Lawrence K. Altman / New York Times:
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Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Caucus and msnbc.com
Edith Honan / Reuters:
Penn State hit with unprecedented penalties for Sandusky scandal
David Leonhardt / Economix:
A Closer Look at Middle-Class Decline
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
It is ‘morally wrong’ to pay tradesmen cash in hand, says David Gauke
Discussion: Samizdata.net and BBC
Karol / Alarming News:
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