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Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’

(ABC News) Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.

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Obama's clean debt-ceiling request stuns Boehner

(MarketWatch) President Barack Obama's refusal to tie spending cuts to a hike in the U.S. debt limit "almost took my breath away," House Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday. Obama met Boehner and other congressional leaders for a White House lunch on Wednesday and reportedly clashed over raising the debt ceiling. Boehner wants spending cuts to equal any hike in the debt limit.

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Bringing Back Rev. Jeremiah Wright Puts 'Mormonism On The Table'

Roland Martin was on CNN this morning along with The Blaze's Will Cain, who also had questions about the latest anti-Obama ad that emphasized his middle name: "what are you trying to reinforce there?" Martin interjected that this was precisely "why this is so stupid." "You can try all day to drudge up Jeremiah Wright," he warned conservatives, "but you're now putting Mormonism on the table..."

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Romney Ropes Off Media to Avoid Making Unscripted Gaffes

(Businessweek) Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is clamping down on unrehearsed comments by the presumed Republican nominee, tightening control of his message to limit gaffes as he courts a broader swath of the electorate that will decide the November election.

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Uber-Wealthy Capitalist Gave a TED Talk -"Rich People Don't Create Jobs"- And TED Refuses to Post It

(Business Insider) As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject.

kpete

Bill Clinton on John Boehner

"Mr. Speaker, I like it when you cry. You give new meaning to compassionate conservative."

Drunken Irishman

WaPo/ABC poll: 54% of blacks support gay marriage in wake of Obama announcement...

To quote Joe Biden, this is a big fucking deal because I think with the President coming out in support of gay marriage, it will help inch more and more blacks toward it. While 54% is not a huge number, only 37% now say they don't have a favorable impression of it. To compare, in '08, only 35% said gay marriage was acceptable. The biggest holdouts? White Protestants. Anyone really surprised?

Kadie

Joe Biden slams Romney in Ohio speech "They Don't Get Us"

ProSense

"...Romney is operating from the assumption that voters are stupid."

(Steve Benen) Mitt Romney delivered a curious speech in Iowa yesterday, presenting his thoughts on the budget deficit, the debt and debt reduction, which is worth reading if you missed it. We often talk about the problem of the left and right working from entirely different sets of facts, and how the discourse breaks down when there's no shared foundation of reality, and the Republican's remarks offered a timely peek into an alternate reality where facts have no meaning.

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