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11:15 AM ET, August 17, 2012

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Matt Rhoades / Barack Obama:
Letter from Jim Messina to Matt Rhoades  —  Dear Matt:  —  I am writing to ask again that the Governor release multiple years of tax returns, but also to make an offer that should address his concerns about the additional disclosures.  Governor Romney apparently fears that the more he offers …
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Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Obama Campaign Asks Romney for 5 Years of Tax Returns  —  The Obama campaign, determined to renew the focus of the presidential race on questions about Mitt Romney's taxes, is trying to pressure the Republican candidate to release five years of his returns.  —  Obama campaign manager Jim Messina sent …
Discussion: GOP 12
Alexander Burns / Politico:   Messina writes Rhoades on Romney taxes
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Romney's present, Ryan's future  —  Vice-presidential picks are always judged by their effect on the coming election.  They rarely have any.  —  They haven't had a decisive influence since Lyndon Johnson carried Texas for John Kennedy in 1960.  (That and Illinois put Kennedy over the top.)
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Politico:
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan pursue united front strategy  —  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan plan to campaign together again sooner than aides had originally planned, likely twice next week, as part of a new offensive to take on the touchy issue of Medicare, campaign officials tell POLITICO.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Romney raises $10M in week since Ryan selected as VP
Discussion: GOP 12
Tom Morello / Rolling Stone:
‘Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against’
Carl Hulse / The Caucus:
And Playing the Role of Paul Ryan ...
Lean Forward / msnbc.com:   Sandra Fluke: Paul Ryan on women's issues — so bad it's unbelievable ... but true
BBC:
Pussy Riot members jailed for two years for hooliganism  —  Judge Marina Syrova: “These three plus others... plotted together to undermine civil order, motivated by religious hatred”  —  Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been jailed for two years after staging an anti-Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral.
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CBS News:
Russian female punk band Pussy Riot found guilty of hooliganism over Putin protest at church site  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  (CBS/AP) MOSCOW - A judge found three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism on Friday, in a case that has drawn widespread international condemnation …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Russian Punk Band Is Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Anti-Putin Stunt
Discussion: News Desk, The Lede and Althouse
Shiv Malik / Guardian:
Pussy Riot found guilty - live blog
David Simon:
Mitt Romney paid taxes at a rate of at least 13 percent.  And he's proud to say so.  —  Can we stand back and pause a short minute to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal …
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Jonathan Lemire / NY Daily News:
Mitt Romney insists that he's always paid his taxes and never less than 13 percent
Discussion: Boston Globe, First Read and USA Today
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Romney Says He Paid at Least 13% in Income Taxes
Discussion: The Caucus
Christopher Bedford / The Daily Caller:
Biden's ‘good friend,’ donor receives $20M federal loan to open foreign luxury car dealership in Ukraine  —  In late July, John Hynansky — a longtime friend of Vice President Joe Biden, and a major donor to Biden's campaigns as well as President Barack Obama's — was awarded a $20 million taxpayer loan …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Cold Fury
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Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Presented With Letters, Ryan Admits Requesting Stimulus Cash  —  After repeated denials, Paul Ryan has admitted he requested stimulus cash even after sharply criticizing the program.  —  Ryan had denied doing so as recently as Wednesday, when he spoke to ABC's Cincinnati affiliate, WCPO, in Ohio.
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Touré: Romney Engaging In The ‘Niggerization’ Of Obama  —  On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's The Cycle the group discussed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's assertion that President Obama should “take [his] campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.”
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Hot Air
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Obama's betrayal  —  In the innocent, bygone days of February, President Obama told NBC News that the campaign would get negative against him, but provided this assurance: “I think that you will be able to see how we conduct ourselves in the campaign.  I think it will be consistent …
Mark Potok / Hatewatch:
SPLC: Family Research Council License-to-Kill Claim ‘Outrageous’  —  Editor's Note: The following statement may be attributed to Mark Potok, Senior Fellow of the Southern Poverty Law Center and editor of its Intelligence Report and Hatewatch blog.  —  Yesterday's attack on the Family Research Council …
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Matthew Mosk / ABCNEWS:
Secret ‘Menu’ Details Perks for Big Democratic Donors  —  Those seeking invites to the most lavish receptions at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, “gold ticket” access to “dialogues,” and private breakfast briefings with party luminaries, can expect a hefty price of admission.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Jen Chung / Gothamist:
Islamophobic Billboard At Metro-North Station Encourages Hatred, Says Local Pol  —  On the heels of a pro-Palestine ad at Metro-North stations and a judge ruling that the MTA shouldn't have rejected Islamophobic pro-Israel ads is a new poster controversy: At the Hartsdale Metro-North station …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Exclusive: White House studying potential oil reserve release  —  (Reuters) - The White House is “dusting off old plans” for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen prices and prevent high energy costs from undermining sanctions against Iran, a source with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday.
BBC:
Moscow bans gay pride for century  —  Nikolay Alexeyev has been campaigning for years for the right to stage gay parades in Russia  —  Moscow's top court has upheld a ban on gay pride marches in the Russian capital for the next 100 years.  —  Earlier Russia's best-known gay rights campaigner …
 
 
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Mitt Romney's Transition Team Is Hard at Work
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Time and CNN Reinstate Journalist After Review
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Fit for office: Candidates in best shape ever
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
The Obama Campaign's Forlorn Hope: Just Get Unlikely Voters to Turn Out
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
New rules expose bigger funding gaps for public pensions
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Finland prepares for break-up of eurozone
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Gallup:
In U.S., Majority Overweight or Obese in All 50 States
Discussion: CBS Boston and ThinkProgress
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
New York Democrats Skipping Convention for, Well, You Name It
John Fund / National Review:
Serial Fraud Kept Congressman in Office
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
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For Europe's Economy, a Lost Decade Looms
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