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6:10 PM ET, July 6, 2009

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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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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.
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
What The Right Means When They Say “America”  —  UPDATE: Several posters have pointed out the distinction between the meritocratic and democratic ideal.  I have conflated the two, and thus portions of this are wrong.  Having thought on that fact though, I still can't bring myself to see Palin is one or Obama as the other.
Discussion: The American Scene
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.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   The Not-So-Useful Idiot  —  Ross chronicles the meteoric rise …
Sean Lengell / Washington Times:
Palin fires back at critics on Twitter
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   Fred's Palin Plan
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The Huffington Post:
Schumer: With Franken Seated No Need To Compromise On Public Option  —  One of the leading Senate Democrats in the health care reform battle said that the seating of Al Franken has given the party the purpose and direction it needs to ensure that a public option for insurance coverage remains in any bill.
Caitlin Taylor / The Note:
Dem Senator: Second Stimulus ‘Probably Needed’  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports:  —  As job losses mount, Democrats are growing impatient about the impact of the massive stimulus package passed earlier this year, with talk beginning on Capitol Hill about a possible second stimulus bill.
Discussion: Glenn Thrush's Blog
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 …
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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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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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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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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Ezra Klein:
It's Not the Money. It's the Relationships.
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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Matthew Goldstein / Commentaries:
Goldman: We reported trading data
Discussion: Zero Hedge
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Ousted Honduran president expected in Washington … WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials say Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this week.  It would be the highest-level contact the Obama administration has had with Zelaya since he was deposed last week.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BEWARE POST-DATED RESIGNATIONS?  —  Let me start by saying I don't think this is likely.  But given our experience with Larry Craig, I do think it's worth considering.  Remember, former Sen. Larry Craig came out and announced he was resigning his office.  But folks who listened closely noticed …
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.
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.
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
JACKIE'S DOOMED LOVE - WITH RFK  —  Jackie Kennedy had a four-year love affair with Bobby Kennedy that began not long after JFK's assassination and grew so intense that when RFK was gunned down, it was she — not his wife — who instructed doctors to pull the plug, an explosive new book claims.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Marc Andreessen's Burgeoning Blogging Empire: Invests In Talking Points Memo
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Pearce challenging Teague over his energy vote
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Full text of Michael Jackson resolution
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and YID With LID
Rachel Slajda / Talking Points Memo:
Palin's Attorney: Her Resignation Is “Self-Sacrifice”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Can the Climate Bill Get to 60 Votes?
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
Gays attacked  —  Investigating reports of the murder and torture …
Discussion: Think Progress
Richard Berner / Morgan Stanley:
America's Fiscal Train Wreck
Leora Broydo Vestel / New York Times:
Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge
Spiegel Online:
‘Obama Is Like a Chess Player’
The Independent:
Top judge: ‘use of drones intolerable’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice