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2:45 PM ET, June 27, 2011

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David Frum / CNN:
I was wrong about same-sex marriage  —  Editor's note: David Frum writes a weekly column for CNN.com.  A special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002, he is the author of six books, including “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again,” and is the editor of FrumForum.
Discussion: Good As You, FrumForum and NOM Blog
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New York Times:
Gay Marriage: Where's Mr. Obama?  —  On Thursday night, when same-sex marriage in New York State was teetering on a razor's edge, President Obama had a perfect opportunity to show the results of his supposed evolution on gay marriage.  —  Unfortunately, he did not take it, keeping his own views in the shadows.
Michael Barbaro / City Room:
How the Same-Sex Marriage Deal Nearly Collapsed  —  Until the end, when 33 state senators had cast their votes on Friday night, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo privately feared that his bill to legalize same-sex marriage would fail.  —  A few days before, it nearly did.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Hillary Clinton backs New York gay marriage law
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
New York Times:
Gay Marriage: A Milestone
Discussion: National Review
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Democracy and Gay Marriage
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Bachmann won't take Fox host's apology  —  Via POLITICO's Jennifer Epstein, Michele Bachmann isn't accepting an apology from Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace for asking her yesterday, “Are you a flake?”  —  ABC News' Jon Karl, who's been getting face-time with Bachmann in Waterloo in advance …
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Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace On Michele Bachmann's ‘Flake’ Question: 'I Messed Up, I'm Sorry'
Discussion: The Note, The Hill and The Wire
Associated Press:
Justices Reject Ban on Violent Video Games for Children  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let California regulate the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments do not have the power to “restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed” despite complaints about graphic violence.
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Jordan Fabian / Ballot Box:
Supreme Court strikes down Arizona matching funds campaign law
Discussion: ABCNEWS
CNN:
Justices strike down taxpayer-supported campaign spending law
Discussion: FrumForum
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
SCOTUS issues limited campaign finance ruling
Discussion: Weigel
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Supreme Court rejects ban on violent video game sales to kids
Discussion: FrumForum
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Sarah Palin team reaching out to Iowa activists for meetings  —  Sarah Palin's camp is reaching out to activists and operatives in Iowa about setting up meetings while she's in the state Tuesday for the screening of a documentary about her - including with Chuck Laudner, a former Iowa GOP executive director and prominent conservative.
Discussion: National Review and The Note
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The Note:
Is Michele Bachmann Just Another Mike Huckabee?
The Note:
Herman Cain's ‘Money Bomb’ Drops Today
Discussion: USA Today and The Hill
Robert Pear / New York Times:
U.S. Plans Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors  —  WASHINGTON — Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of “mystery shoppers” to pose as patients, call doctors' offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it.
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
GOP compromise on debt: Cut military spending?  —  As President Obama prepares to meet Monday with Senate leaders to try to restart talks over the swollen national debt, some Republicans see a potential path to compromise: Significant cuts in military spending.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Putting defense spending on the table
CNN:
TSA stands by officers after pat-down of elderly woman in Florida  —  (CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
In Response To Prosser Choking Allegations, Fox's Van Susteren Calls On Female Chief Justice To Resign  —  Over the weekend, the Wisconsin State Journal reported that Justice David Prosser “grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her chambers last week …
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Robertson: God Will Destroy America For Marriage Equality  —  Following a story on New York passing marriage equality, Pat Robertson on The 700 Club warned that God will destroy America just like God destroyed Sodom, saying that “there's never been a civilization ever in history …
Katie Kindelan / ABCNEWS:
Bristol Palin Cites ‘Foolish Decision’ on Virginity and ‘Not Accusing Levi of Date Rape’  —  Bristol Palin's contention that former boyfriend Levi Johnston “stole” her virginity is no attempt to bash him for their first sexual encounter, she said on “Good Morning America” today.
Maggie Fox / NationalJournal.com:
Wisconsin Cuts Funds to Planned Parenthood  —  On shaky ground: Four states have acted to cut funds to Planned Parenthood.  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a budget Sunday that cuts education and health clinics — including Planned Parenthood clinics — to plug a $3 billion shortfall without raising taxes, AP reported.
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Wisconsin GOP Defunds Planned Parenthood, Denying Preventative Health Care To At Least 12,000 Women
Discussion: Balloon Juice
ABC News:
N Korean children begging, army starving  —  Footage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state.  —  The video is some of the most revealing footage ever smuggled out of the impoverished North Korean state.
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Several States Forbid Abortion After 20 Weeks  —  Dozens of new restrictions passed by states this year have chipped away at the right to abortion by requiring women to view ultrasounds, imposing waiting periods or cutting funds for clinics.  But a new kind of law has gone beyond such restrictions …
New York Post:
LI man busted for ‘pretending’ to be soldier to get first-class upgrade  —  This GI Joe wannabe got a hero's welcome just by dressing the part.  —  A Long Island man was arrested for donning an Army uniform and brazenly posing as a soldier so he'd get bumped up to first class on a flight …
Discussion: Outside The Wire
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Inside Nancy Pelosi's drive to win the House majority back for Democrats  —  View Photo Gallery —  It has been almost six months since the California congresswoman relinquished the speakership of the House.  Now, as minority leader, she is focused on winning back Democratic control.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
160 Million and Counting  —  In 1990, the economist Amartya Sen published an essay in The New York Review of Books with a bombshell title: “More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing.”  His subject was the wildly off-kilter sex ratios in India, China and elsewhere in the developing world.
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
New Pro-Romney Super PAC Run By Operative Behind Racist Willie Horton, ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Ads  —  The Washington Post reported last week that a new “Super PAC” — a political committee that can accept unlimited corporate contributions — has been set up by Mitt Romney supporters to run ads for the 2012 election.
Alex Kowalski / Bloomberg:
Consumer Spending in U.S. Stagnated in May  —  Consumer spending unexpectedly stagnated in May as employment prospects dimmed and rising inflation caused Americans to cut back.  —  Purchases were little changed, the weakest outcome since June 2010, after a revised .3 percent gain the prior month …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
 
 
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
To Quote Sir Robin's Minstrel: “They Bravely Ran Away, Away”
Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
Rod Blagojevich verdict to be announced
Discussion: msnbc.com and ABCNEWS
Jed Babbin / American Spectator:
Pinch Happened  —  It's been a bad month for the New York Times.
Brian C. Mooney / Boston Globe:
‘RomneyCare’ — a revolution that basically worked
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Emptywheel
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Tim Pawlenty Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Protect Kids from Pollution
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Going To College Is Very Valuable  —  American higher education …
Geoffrey R. Stone / New York Times:
Our Untransparent President
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Susan Carroll / Houston Chronicle:
Report: Feds downplayed ICE case dismissals
Discussion: Right Wing News and Pajamas Media
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Helen Thomas claims to have reapplied for White House press credentials
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Perry's Predicament: Does He Have Time to Build a National Campaign?
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
The Right's Blogger Provocateur
Discussion: The Wire, The Other McCain and Poynter
John O'Connor / The State:
Haley poised to act on state budget
 

 
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UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

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