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Mark Mellinger / WANE-TV:
Lugar to Tea Party: “Get real.” — WASHINGTON, DC (WANE) - He's an institution in Washington, DC. Over the years, few senators have garnered more respect on Capitol Hill than Indiana's Richard Lugar . He's been a fixture in the Senate since 1977; seemingly unbeatable at the ballot box.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Ditching unwritten rules for Senate freshmen, Paul does it his way — Rand Paul has broken with tradition by eschewing the unwritten rules for freshman senators: Keep a low profile, learn the chamber's arcane procedures and cozy up to senior colleagues. — Unlike ex-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Lugar tells Tea Party to ‘get real’
Lugar tells Tea Party to ‘get real’
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The Fix, Weasel Zippers and Ballot Box
Laurence H. Tribe / New York Times:
On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail — THE lawsuits challenging the individual mandate in the health care law, including one in which a federal district judge last week called the law unconstitutional, will ultimately be resolved by the Supreme Court, and pundits are already making bets on how the justices will vote.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
A new Dem threat to health care law — A handful of moderate Senate Democrats are looking for ways to roll back the highly contentious individual mandate — the pillar of President Barack Obama's health care law — a sign that red-state senators are prepared to assert their independence ahead of the 2012 elections.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Fix or repeal? Obama's health-care trap
Fix or repeal? Obama's health-care trap
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
There will be blog — Conservatives To Beck: You're Doing It Wrong. — As much as I'm enjoying the feud between Bill Kristol and Glenn Beck over Beck's paranoid theory that the upheaval in Egypt will lead to a caliphate in Eastern Europe, I'm not entirely sure why Kristol is objecting.
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Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
Comic treatment for health plan — MIT econ whiz's hip idea to explain overhaul — The MIT economics whiz who crafted President Obama's national health-care overhaul now plans to explain the complex and controversial plan to the masses — in one long comic book.
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Aljazeera:
Mass protests continue in Egypt — Pro-democracy supporters hold fresh rallies in Cairo, just hours after the release of a detained Google executive. — Protesters in the Egyptian capital are holding mass demonstrations, with a new wave of optimism reaching the pro-democracy camp following …
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Reuters:
House seen blocking healthcare funds — (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote to block funding for President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul when it takes up a budget plan next week, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said on Tuesday.
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The Politico:
GOP hedges on health care funds
GOP hedges on health care funds
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Ryan Crowe / CBS Dallas:
Mandatory Arabic Classes Coming To Mansfield — MANSFIELD (CBSDFW.COM) - Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language. The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.
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Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Christine O'Donnell Will Use Committee To ‘Investigate’ Left-Wing Groups — Failed GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is back, and she's telling supporters she wants her newly formed political action committee ChristinePAC to “investigate and counter attack leftwing groups.”
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
O'Donnell pledges PAC will counter ‘liberal’ GOP establishment
O'Donnell pledges PAC will counter ‘liberal’ GOP establishment
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David Schmidt / Live Action Blog:
Bronx, NY Planned Parenthood Staffer Tells “Pimp” He Can Pose As Guardian To Get Tax Payer Funded Services For Underage Sex Workers — NYC Planned Parenthood Supervisor, Employee Shown Willing to Assist Pimp/Sex Trafficker With Girls As Young As 13 — Supervisor and Staffer Serve Up Business As Usual …
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Lila Rose / Big Government:
Planned Parenthood NY: Giving Pimps Discounts, on the Tax Payers' Dime
Planned Parenthood NY: Giving Pimps Discounts, on the Tax Payers' Dime
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TPMMuckraker, Weasel Zippers and New York Times
Tim Adler / Deadline.com:
First Look: Meryl Streep As Mrs. Thatcher — Pathé UK has released the first shot of Meryl Streep as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Streep is in the 2nd week of filming The Iron Lady here in London. It's the first feature from director Phyllida since she directed Streep in Mamma Mia.
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Big Hollywood, The Gateway Pundit and AmSpecBlog
Lbentzterp / CNN:
CNN Poll: Republicans want winner over ideology in 2012 — Washington (CNN) - Given the choice between a candidate who agrees with them on the issues or a candidate who can defeat President Barack Obama in 2012, a new national poll indicates Republicans overwhelming want a winner.
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Right Wing News, Hot Air, GOP 12 and The Politico
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Inside the Secret Service — When President Obama and two-thirds of the world's leaders gather in New York City, it is up to the U.S. Secret Service to keep them all safe. Granted unprecedented access, our author tells the story of how the agency pulls off the most complicated security event of the year …
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The Politico:
For jobs Gibbs lacks, the list goes on — Robert Gibbs has held many jobs in his accomplished political career: White House spokesman, presidential confidant, campaign strategist and more. He even ran a Democratic 527 group during the 2004 campaign. — But there are also quite …
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Posey Can't Say If He Takes Govt. Health Care Because He Doesn't ‘Know’ If He's ‘A Federal Employee’ — Over the past few months, congressional Republicans have endured much criticism for privately accepting government-sponsored health insurance as they publicly railed against health care reform.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
'I Didn't Raise Taxes Once' — Refreshing the President's memory. — Bill O'Reilly's Fox interview with President Obama on Sunday was fascinating, and not merely because Mr. Obama made clear he's an ardent fan of these pages. What really caught our attention was the President's claim that “I didn't raise taxes once.
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Frank Jacobs / Strange Maps:
500 - It's 10:15 in Germany. Do You Know Where Your Isoglosses Are? — Germans have a reputation for punctuality. Is that why they have so many ways of telling the same time? If it's 10:15 in the germanosphere (1), you'll have at least four options of expressing that particular moment.
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Outside the Beltway and Mother Jones
Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
My Farewell* Post to Politics Daily Readers … For the last couple of years, I have been honored and privileged to be a part of the superb Politics Daily team. It is with some reluctance that I announce my imminent departure from PD for The Daily Caller. — PD remains a unique place on the Web …
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New York Times:
On Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray — Teaching creationism in public schools has consistently been ruled unconstitutional in federal courts, but according to a national survey of more than 900 public high school biology teachers, it continues to flourish in the nation's classrooms.
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Little Green Footballs, The Volokh Conspiracy and Joanne Jacobs
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Welfare Reform for the whole country — What could go wrong? … Make that “shared sacrifice for everyone but rich people who will not feel any of this personally.” Let's try to be accurate. — But I think the Obama administration may have found a comparison that will make the Villagers' eyes roll …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
CNN's King: I'm out-Foxed — CNN's John King acknowledged last night that his network has a “Fox problem,” complaining that CNN gets little access to the expected GOP presidential field. — Introducing a quick interview with Newt Gingrich the CNN host was able to land over the weekend in Simi Valley …
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Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann's New Gig, Revealed: “Chief News Officer, Current Media” — Less than three weeks after his high-visibility departure from MSNBC, Keith Olbermann has revealed his next step. Fittingly, Olbermann scooped his own news conference with a tweet: “Greetings from Keith Olbermann, Chief News Officer of Current Media!
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Wall Street Journal:
A ‘Truce’ on Social Issues? Get Real — Is Mitch Daniels afraid to talk about abortion? — If you think going to war is contentious, look at what happens when you call for a truce. Ask Mitch Daniels. — In a June profile by the Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson …