• Presumptive vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said on Sunday that while he turned over “several years” of tax returns to the Romney campaign during his vetting process, he would only make two years of tax returns public for voters. Democrats quickly seized on the tax return question. Danny Kanner, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, blasted out an email after the interview aired: “If Mitt Romney needed to examine several years of tax returns to determine whether Paul Ryan was qualified to be Vice President, why won’t he let the American people see his own returns and determine if he himself is qualified to be President?”
• Paul Ryan welcomed himself to the Romney campaign by claiming on 60 Minutes that he wants to eliminate the same kind of tax shelters where Mitt Romney hides his money.
• Romney slams Obama for medicare cuts in Ryan’s budget. With Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee, Mitt Romney’s central argument pushing back against critics of the House budget chief’s Medicare plan is that President Obama cut deep into Medicare under the Affordable Care Act. But Ryan’s plan includes the same cuts, which don’t target beneficiaries.
• Contrary to Romney’s lies, the ACA does not steal money from seniors. In fact, there are no cuts to Medicare benefits. The cuts are on the provider side. So, for example, Michele Bachmann’s husband can no longer bill Medicare to cure people of The Gay.
• In remarks seemingly aimed at Israel, the United States said Friday it had “eyes” and “visibility” inside Iran’s nuclear program and would know if Tehran made a “breakout” towards a nuclear weapon. Washington also indicated it had not changed its view that Iran was not yet on the verge of building a nuclear bomb, despite Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s statement that US intelligence now viewed the threat as more “urgent.”
• Computer security experts say they have identified a new computer virus dubbed Gauss infecting networks in the Middle East. The Gauss virus is likely state-sponsored, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab said, and appears to have been coded by the same team that wrote Flame, data-mining malware designed to stealthily spy on computers in Iran, TG Daily reported Thursday.
• A 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook northwest China‘s Xinjiang-Uighur region Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, which was measured by China’s earthquake networks center at magnitude 6.2, struck at 6:47 p.m. local time.
F.D.Brightly
How many years did Ryan have to show? [Shorter Question Everything]
• Presumptive vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said on Sunday that while he turned over “several years” of tax returns to the Romney campaign during his vetting process, he would only make two years of tax returns public for voters. Democrats quickly seized on the tax return question. Danny Kanner, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, blasted out an email after the interview aired: “If Mitt Romney needed to examine several years of tax returns to determine whether Paul Ryan was qualified to be Vice President, why won’t he let the American people see his own returns and determine if he himself is qualified to be President?”
• Paul Ryan welcomed himself to the Romney campaign by claiming on 60 Minutes that he wants to eliminate the same kind of tax shelters where Mitt Romney hides his money.
• Romney slams Obama for medicare cuts in Ryan’s budget. With Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee, Mitt Romney’s central argument pushing back against critics of the House budget chief’s Medicare plan is that President Obama cut deep into Medicare under the Affordable Care Act. But Ryan’s plan includes the same cuts, which don’t target beneficiaries.
• Contrary to Romney’s lies, the ACA does not steal money from seniors. In fact, there are no cuts to Medicare benefits. The cuts are on the provider side. So, for example, Michele Bachmann’s husband can no longer bill Medicare to cure people of The Gay.
• In remarks seemingly aimed at Israel, the United States said Friday it had “eyes” and “visibility” inside Iran’s nuclear program and would know if Tehran made a “breakout” towards a nuclear weapon. Washington also indicated it had not changed its view that Iran was not yet on the verge of building a nuclear bomb, despite Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s statement that US intelligence now viewed the threat as more “urgent.”
• Computer security experts say they have identified a new computer virus dubbed Gauss infecting networks in the Middle East. The Gauss virus is likely state-sponsored, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab said, and appears to have been coded by the same team that wrote Flame, data-mining malware designed to stealthily spy on computers in Iran, TG Daily reported Thursday.
• A 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook northwest China‘s Xinjiang-Uighur region Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, which was measured by China’s earthquake networks center at magnitude 6.2, struck at 6:47 p.m. local time.