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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Palin and Her Enemies — If Sarah Palin's political career ended last Friday, 10 tumultuous months after she was introduced as the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee, those five words will be its epitaph. — Had she refused John McCain, Palin would still be a popular female governor …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Palin's Prospects — She dashed her chances of winning the 2012 nomination, but a path to the presidency remains open to Sarah Palin. — Forget about Sarah Palin as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and probably ever. She may have no interest in seeking the GOP nomination.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Not-So-Useful Idiot — Ross chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the biggest farce in American politics in living memory. The column is yet another rehash of the Nixonian class resentments and Rovian cynicism that dominate what passes for the GOP's thinking classes: if only she'd waited and …
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Sarah Palin's surprise — From my latest American Spectator column: … Please read the whole thing. Sunday morning, I was driving back from Lake Weiss — where we'd shot our fabulous annual Fourth of July fireworks show — when the editor called asking me to write the column.
Jim Prevor / Weekly Standard:
Republicans Should Reexamine the Public Good of Private Citizens … In that phrase, “just being a private citizen,” Senator Grassley encapsulates both why Sarah Palin is so phenomenally appealing to the Republican base and how divorced the national Republican apparatus is from the core values of party members.
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Kevin Hassett / Bloomberg:
California's Nightmare Will Kill Obamanomics: Kevin Hassett — Last week, we discovered that the state of California will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. — With California mired in a budget crisis, largely the result of a political impasse that makes spending cuts …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
HELP Is on the Way — The Congressional Budget Office has looked at the future of American health insurance, and it works. — A few weeks ago there was a furor when the budget office “scored” two incomplete Senate health reform proposals — that is, estimated their costs and likely impacts over the next 10 years.
David M. Drucker / Roll Call:Senate's Health Timeline May Slip
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Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Robert S. McNamara, Former Defense Secretary, Dies at 93 — Robert S. McNamara, perhaps the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century, who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war's moral consequences …
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Thomas W. Lippman / Washington Post:
Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93 — Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect …
Michelle Malkin:
Video: Sen. Cornyn gets an earful — From the very beginning of the Tea Party movement, I've reported that activists have directed their disgust at both parties over fiscal recklessness. — It's an inconvenient truth the Tea Party-bashers would rather ignore. — The anger at Republicans who voted for TARP hasn't gone away.
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Mark Norris / Dallas Morning News:Tea party protest at Southfork Ranch falls short of estimated 50,000 attendees
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Obama: Student Radical — During the campaign, I wrote a piece called “Why Won't Obama Talk About Columbia? — The years he won't discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about.” So now, nearly six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Special Report: Ideologically, Where Is the U.S. Moving? — Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views have grown more conservative — PRINCETON, NJ — Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become …
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Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Iran's Revolutionary Guard takes command — Calling the move “a new phase of the revolution,” leaders insist there is no room for compromise on Ahmadinejad's reelection. — Reporting from Beirut — The top leaders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard publicly acknowledged they had taken …
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Martin Fletcher / Times of London:Iran clerics declare election invalid and condemn crackdown
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Huckabee: Obama Needs To Stop Blaming Bush Because Bush Didn't Complain About Inheriting Clinton's Economy — On Fox and Friends this morning, host Gretchen Carlson asked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) about Vice President Biden's comment that the Obama administration …
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Marc Lynch:Say it ain't so, Joe — It's hard to tell exactly what Joe Biden …
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Washington Post:
Former Lawmakers and Congressional Staffers Hired to Lobby on Health Care — Firms Are Enlisting Ex-Lawmakers, Aides — The nation's largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress in hopes of influencing …
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Is A Case Of Quant Trading Sabotage About To Destroy Goldman Sachs? — Major developing story: Matt Goldstein over at Reuters may have just broken a story that could spell doom for if not the entire Goldman Sachs program trading group, then at least those who deal with “low latency …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Presented by The First Five Years Fund: Offers pour in for Sarah Palin from left, right and center - Next two weeks could be make-or-break for health care - Al Franken to be sworn in tomorrow — BIRTHDAY: DNC's Cloe Axelson (hat tip: Mike Czin) — BREAKING - Bloomberg …
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Wall Street Journal:
Scores Reported Dead After Unrest in China — SHANGHAI — The death toll in riots in China's northwestern Xinjiang region rose sharply Monday, with state media saying that 156 people had been killed in what appears to be one of the deadliest episodes of unrest in China in decades.
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BBC:
Coffee 'may reverse Alzheimer's' — Drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer's disease, US scientists say. — The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested caffeine hampered the production of the protein plaques which are the hallmark of the disease.
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