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Senator Kyl Drops Out of the Debt Talks, Leaving Zero Republicans at the Table — ABC News' Sunlen Miller (@sunlenmiller) reports: — Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., will also drop out of the debt talks, a source within his office confirms today. The Arizona Republican's office will issue a formal statement shortly.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Why Eric Cantor won't make the budget deal — (Brendan Hoffman - Getty Images) Eric Cantor is pulling out of the debt-ceiling talks. But he's not saying they should end. In fact, he's saying they've been very successful thus far. “We have a blueprint to move forward to trillions …
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TPMDC, The Politico, Sky Dancing, The Atlantic Online, Washington Monthly, Washington Wire, Balloon Juice and Blue Virginia
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
McConnell: GOP Would Not Voice Opposition To Libya Campaign If Obama Was A Republican — The NATO-led air campaign in Libya is causing a significant rift within the GOP. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and House Republicans have said the U.S. involvement violates …
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Los Angeles Times and TPMDC
Wall Street Journal:
Cantor Pulls Out of Biden-Led Budget Talks — WASHINGTON—House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Thursday said he was pulling out of the bipartisan budget talks headed by Vice President Joe Biden for now because the group has reached an impasse over taxes that only President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) could resolve.
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
How To (Temporarily) Survive a Debtpocalypse
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National Review
John R. Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Top Republicans Walk Out of VP Biden's Debt Talks
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The Politico and The Note
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Budget Talks Near Collapse as G.O.P. Leader Quits
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Washington Monthly and Jared Bernstein
Jennifer Steinhauer / The Caucus:
Cantor Quits Biden's Debt Ceiling Talks
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Weigel, Washington Monthly and TalkLeft
Michele Chabin / USA Today:
U.S. Jews not able to fly on Delta flights to Saudi Arabia — JERUSALEM — Jews and Israelis, or passengers carrying any non-Islamic article of faith, will not be able to fly Delta Air Lines flights from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia under Delta's new partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines.
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YID With LID, The Sundries Shack, Weasel Zippers, Runnin' Scared, Pajamas Media, Fox Nation, Doug Ross and American Glob
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Cathy Lynn Grossman / USA Today:
Airline to Jewish rumor: ‘Delta does not discriminate.’
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AmSpecBlog, Hot Air and The Volokh Conspiracy
Bob Unruh / WorldNetDaily:
Delta adopts Saudi ‘no-Jew’ fly policy
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The Huffington Post and Atlas Shrugs
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
Thaddeus McCotter Creates Chaos At Straw Poll Auction — At today's Iowa Straw Poll land auction, participating campaigns were surprised by a mystery participant who would not state which campaign she was representing. — Kellie Paschke, a lobbyist whose clients include Iowans for Tax Relief …
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The Politico and Nice Deb
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Mystery Candidate Leads to Walk Out at Ames Straw Poll Land Auction — ABC News' Russell Goldman (@GoldmanRussell) and Arlette Saenz (@ArletteSaenz) report: — A little bit of intrigue at the Ames straw poll land auction... Representatives of Republican candidates are meeting today in Ames …
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USA Today and Ben Smith's Blog
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Gingrich: I won't drop out of the presidential race before Iowa caucuses
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The Politico
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Obama Addresses New York Marriage Equality Bill At LGBT Fundraiser: Issue Best Left To States — President Obama spoke at an LGBT fundraiser this evening in New York City, just as the New York Senate prepares to take up marriage equality legislation. Obama addressed the measure directly …
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Pam's House Blend, The New Civil Rights Movement, AMERICAblog Gay and Back2Stonewall.com
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Speech Is Interrupted by Gay Marriage Supporters — President Obama said he expected some heckling and he got it. More than 600 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people paid $1,250 each to attend a Democratic fund-raising dinner in Manhattan on Thursday and …
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American Power
Andrew Harmon / Advocate:
Senators to Obama: Time to Evolve
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Prop 8 Trial Tracker and Lynn Sweet
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Is Rick Running? — A Republican campaign veteran tells us that Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to run for President, though the official word from Team Perry is still a definite maybe. — A Republican campaign veteran tells us that Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to run for President …
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The TrogloPundit, The Note, The Atlantic Online, USA Today, Ballot Box, The Daily Caller, Flap's Blog and The Page
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Military leaders know Obama's decision is a disaster — The press is reporting that the top military leaders have “endorsed” President Obama's Afghan troop withdrawal decision. With all due respect to the fine reporters, that is not the news. Under our Constitution …
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Guardian, Hot Air, Arizona Republic, New York Times, Pajamas Media, ThinkProgress, National Review, Swampland and American Glob
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn't ‘Shrink’ — (CNSNews.com) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Small Business Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration believes taxes on small business must increase so the administration does not have to …
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The Lonely Conservative and The Right Scoop
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Benefits Rollback for Work Force — TRENTON — New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday approved a broad rollback of benefits for 750,000 government workers and retirees, the deepest cut in state and local costs in memory, in a major victory for Gov. Chris Christie …
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JammieWearingFool and NewsBusters.org blogs
TAPPED:
The Rules of the Game — The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza joins a chorus of voices asking political observers not to underestimate Jon Huntsman's chances for winning the Republican nomination. With his decision to skip the Iowa caucuses, Lizza argues, Mitt Romney has made it easy for Huntsman …
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ThinkProgress, The Reaction and News Desk
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads the way in Florida
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The New Republic, FiveThirtyEight, GOP 12, Orlando Sentinel and Flap's Blog
Chris Tomlinson / MiamiHerald.com:
Perry gets tepid response at Latino convention — Gov. Rick Perry received a tepid response when he addressed the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials on Thursday, joking about the pronunciation of a Hispanic appointee's last name and frequently staring blankly …
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24Ahead and The Daily Caller
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
‘Mission accomplished,’ Obama style — There was no banner, no naval cheering section, no aircraft-carrier landing and — thank heavens — no flight suit. But make no mistake: President Obama gave his own version of a “mission accomplished” speech Wednesday.
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New York Times and Weekly Standard
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
President Obama's Afghanistan speech confirms America's decline
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Jack & Jill Politics and The Moderate Voice
Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones:
Kansas: The First Abortion-Free State? — If new guidelines from the Kansas health department are enforced, the last three abortion clinics in the state could be forced to shut their doors this summer. — Back in April, the state legislature passed a law directing the Kansas Department …
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Jezebel, Hullabaloo and The Atlantic Online
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE — Herman Cain: Jon Stewart Attacked Me 'Because I'm Black' — ThinkProgress filed this report from Iowa Falls, Iowa. — Earlier this month, ThinkProgress reported that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain told an audience in Pella, Iowa that he would not sign a bill longer than three pages.
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Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Salon, Wonkette, The Wire, The Washington Independent, Fox Nation and Gawker
Ashton Elijah / LGBTQ Nation:
Legislator warns of HIV epidemic in New York if marriage equality becomes law — While the debate over marriage equality continues to rage in Albany, one legislator from Clinton County, New York, fears that an HIV epidemic will break out in the Empire State if gay couples are allowed to marry.
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ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Back2Stonewall.com and Daily Kos
The United States Department of Justice:
Two Men Charged in Plot to Attack Seattle Military Processing Center … SEATTLE - Two men were arrested late last night and are charged by criminal complaint with terrorism and firearms related charges. The complaint alleges that Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, aka Joseph Anthony Davis, 33 …
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Reuters, The Jawa Report and The Investigative Project …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Answering Andrew Sullivan on Allison Benedikt — Andrew weighs in on the Benedikt controversy with a thoughtful post, which you should read in full. He writes, at the end: … The outrage comes form the fact that many of us — I would dare say most American Jews — believe that you just don't get to walk away.
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The Daily Dish, The Reality-Based Community, National Review and Water Over Rocks
Jennifer Abbasi / Popular Science:
Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea — Researchers test sexual adaptations in time-traveling brine shrimp — When time travel finally becomes possible, we might want to think twice about getting it on. According to a new study on tiny shrimp (Artemia franciscana) …
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Proof Positive
Felix Gillette / Business Week:
The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace — It once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart — Alamy, Bloomberg, Getty Images — In 2006, Jeremy Jackson—the buff, bronzed former Baywatch child star—couldn't imagine a world without Myspace.
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The Wire, more at Techmeme »
Jack Shafer / Slate Magazine:
Who Is Jose Antonio Vargas? — A prominent journalist comes out as an illegal immigrant, raising additional questions about his real identity. — A prefatory note before I join the Jose Antonio Vargas commentary: I am an immigration dove, to pluck a pungent phrase from today's Twitter-stream.
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Gawker, The New Republic, ProPublica and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
John Melloy / Fast Money:
Firms Have Record $800 Billion Of Cash But Still Won't Hire — Companies are hoarding a record amount of cash as fears of another Lehman-like credit crisis, weak demand and a lack of incentives from the Obama Administration cause chief executives to choose a negative real return on their money …
LATimes / Top of the Ticket:
Marijuana bill officially introduced to Congress by Ron Paul, Barney Frank — Marijuana laws should be set at the state, not federal, level, Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank argued in a bill they introduced Thursday. — The goal of the bill, HR 2306, is not to legalize marijuana but to remove …
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Hit & Run, The Daily What and Unqualified Offerings
Wall Street Journal:
World Oil Reserves Tapped — U.S., 27 Countries Intervene and Release 60 Million Barrels to Drive Down Prices — The U.S. and 27 other countries agreed Thursday to release 60 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves, temporarily driving down oil prices to a four-month low …
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