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10:45 AM ET, August 13, 2012

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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - and their Wives!  - Open Up to PEOPLE  —  However tough and tight the race against President Obama gets this fall, Janna Ryan predicts that her husband Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney can count on one thing: fun.  —  PEOPLE was first to sit down with the freshly minted …
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Christine Delargy / CBS News:
“60 Minutes”: Romney, Ryan answer critics of Medicare position  —  CBS News chief Washington correspondent and anchor of “Face the Nation” Bob Schieffer sat down with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on Sunday for their first interview since the Republican presidential nominee announced Ryan as his running mate.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
GOP again turns to Kristol ball  —  Once again, Bill Kristol gets his way — and once again, watch out.  —  For two consecutive presidential cycles now, the founding editor of the Weekly Standard has successfully led the conservative media drumbeat for a bold vice presidential pick: In 2008 …
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The first place for news and analysis from the NBC News Political Unit.  Follow us on Twitter.  —  First Thoughts: Shake it up … Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claps as vice president select Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., gives the thumbs up to supporters during …
James Downie / Washington Post:
No, Paul Ryan is not ‘courageous’
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Romney finds safety in CBS and Schieffer
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan Only Passed 2 Bills Into Law In More Than A Decade
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Romney Picked Ryan Over Advisers' Early Doubts
Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Ryan Could Make Wisconsin a True Battleground
Paul Ryan / CNN:
Emotional homecoming for Ryan
Discussion: Reuters and Politico
Washington Post:
Romney camp on Ryan budget: Romney's in charge
Discussion: Forbes
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
POLITICO-GW Battleground Poll: Tied up  —  The race for the White House remained in a dead heat just before Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll finds.  —  The poll, conducted in the days leading up to the Ryan announcement …
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Paul Ryan / CNN:   New Romney TV ad second straight to attack Obama on welfare
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Michelle Obama: Barack's not a ‘superhero’  —  “He's not a superhero; he's a human.  So he needs your help,” the First Lady said.  AP Photo  —  Close  —  First Lady Michelle Obama says her husband isn't a “superhero” and that President Barack Obama will need all the help he can get in order to be reelected.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama camp: 1,000 attended ‘half-full’ fundraiser
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: ‘Chicago Is an Example of What Makes This Country Great’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Strong / Roll Call:
Darrell Issa to Sue Eric Holder Monday  —  House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa plans to sue Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday for refusing to provide documents related to the “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling operation.  —  “The committee expects to file …
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
GOP-led House Oversight Committee to file contempt suit against AG Eric Holder
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:   Book: Holder went on 'Reefer Madness'-like campaign to distract from Fast and Furious
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION — YOU SEE IT FIRST RIGHT HERE  —  “...Everything I said at the 2008 convention about then-candidate Obama still stands today, and in fact the predictions made about the very unqualified and inexperienced Community Organizer's plans to …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Presidential debate moderators announced  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates has decided on the moderators for this year's debates, sources confirm to POLITICO.  —  PBS's Jim Lehrer will host the first presidential debate on October 3 in Denver, Colo. CNN's Candy Crowley will host the second …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Taylor Marsh
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Erskine Bowles says Ryan budget “sensible ... honest, serious”  —  Why is this important?  Erskine Bowles has a long pedigree as a Democratic budget thinker — and presidential adviser.  When Barack Obama needed to pick the co-chair for his deficit committee, which he roundly ignored in the end …
Jessica Silver-Greenberg / DealBook:
Problems Riddle Moves to Collect Credit Card Debt  —  The same problems that plagued the foreclosure process — and prompted a multibillion-dollar settlement with big banks — are now emerging in the debt collection practices of credit card companies.  —  As they work through a glut of bad loans …
Discussion: naked capitalism
Ed Hammond / Financial Times:
Spanish commercial property on the brink  —  The Spanish and Italian commercial property markets have all but collapsed with the number of transactions in both countries falling more than 90 per cent in the three months to July as investors worry about the future of the eurozone.
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Jessica Pressler / New York Magazine:
122 Minutes With Jamie Dimon  —  The JPMorgan Chase CEO is really, really, really sorry.  Except when he's not.  —  E  —  ven here, on his own turf, they are giving Jamie Dimon a hard time.  —  “Um, yeah, my question is kind of broad?” begins a gawky guy who identifies himself as a Tufts student interning in Client Solutions.
Discussion: News Desk and Business Insider
 
 
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