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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
How you know the negotiations have truly failed — (SHAWN THEW VIA BLOOMBERG) The best advice I've gotten for assessing the debt-ceiling negotiations was to “watch for the day when the White House goes public.” As long as the Obama administration was refusing to attack Republicans publicly …
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Obama: It's Kids Versus Corporate Jets on Debt-Ceiling Talks — President Obama speaks during a press conference in the East Room of the White House on June 29, 2011. — Kids versus corporate jets. — If President Obama's news conference accomplished anything on Wednesday afternoon …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama picks fight with GOP over tax cuts for the rich — The primary goal of President Obama's presser, which just wrapped up, was obvious: He was clearly out to pick a major public fight with Republicans over tax cuts for the rich. Obama mounted a surprisingly aggressive moral case …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama: Republican Leaders Must Bend on Taxes
Obama: Republican Leaders Must Bend on Taxes
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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Round 1 in Appeals of Health Care Overhaul Goes to Obama — The Obama administration prevailed Wednesday in the first appellate review of the 2010 health care law as a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that it was constitutional for Congress …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
George W. Bush-Appointed States' Rights Crusader Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Affordable Care Act
George W. Bush-Appointed States' Rights Crusader Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Affordable Care Act
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Sixth Circuit upholds ObamaCare mandate
Sixth Circuit upholds ObamaCare mandate
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: 6th Circuit Upholds Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act
BREAKING: 6th Circuit Upholds Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Obama press conference - false choices and demagoguery — I watched Obama's press conference today, and he is a wonder to behold. He is a relentless demagogue who plays Americans against Americans and sets up false choices as part of a class warfare agenda.
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CNN:
Republicans reject president's call to include tax revenues in debt deal — (CNN)-Republican congressional leaders Wednesday rejected President Barack Obama's call to include tax revenues as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. — Obama said at a White House press conference Wednesday …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
'That's why they're called leaders'
The Note:
Obama Breaks Silence About Boeing v. NLRB Labor Dispute — ABC News' Amy Bingham reports: — President Obama broke his silence today about the dispute between Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board over a proposed plant in South Carolina. — The move by the NLRB to block Boeing's plan …
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Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Bachmann: Media wants a ‘mud wrestling fight’ with Palin
Bachmann: Media wants a ‘mud wrestling fight’ with Palin
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Texas lukewarm on Perry bid
Texas lukewarm on Perry bid
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ThinkProgress:
Bachmann's Husband Calls Homosexuals ‘Barbarians’ Who ‘Need To Be Educated’ And ‘Disciplined’ — When trying to figure out where presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) gets her stringent, anti-gay views, you only have to look as far as her husband.
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Sarah Palin Blasts Hollywood Stars as ‘Full of Hate’ at Movie Premiere (Exclusive Audio) … PELLA, Iowa — Sarah Palin stared a bit uncomfortably at a movie screen Tuesday night watching a montage of Matt Damon, David Letterman, Madonna, Howard Stern, Bill Maher, Louis C.K. and other celebrities malign her …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate Magazine:
Has Bachmann Met Her Waterloo? … Like This Story — Follow Slate's Fighting Words … - Do Gay Bars Make a Lot of Money? - Extremely Witty Poems by a Poet Who Was Sure He Was Going to Hell- Shafer: Why Patch and Other Hyperlocal Journalism Is a Complete Waste …
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Alex DiPrato / WPRI-TV:
RI Senate OKs civil unions bill — Gov. Chaffee says he'll sign it in to law — PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Rhode Island moved one step closer to allowing same-sex civil unions on Wednesday after the Senate passed a bill to legalize them. — The Senate Judiciary committee voted 7-4 to approve the measure.
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Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Rhode Island Lawmakers Approve Civil Unions
Rhode Island Lawmakers Approve Civil Unions
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Toronto Sun:
Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant — John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death - according to the tragic Beatles star's last personal assistant. — Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 …
Edwin Mora / CNSNews:
U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends ‘To Promote, Produce, or Protect’ Terrorists; Also Calls Israel Anti-Terror Partner — (CNSNews.com) - In an implicit admission that Israel is so threatened by terrorism that it is not only surrounded by countries and territories that produce terrorists …
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Scott Baker / Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze:
WOMAN SEATED NEAR BECK AT MOVIE CLAIMS INNOCENCE...BUT WHAT DOES TWITTER TELL US... (WITH UPDATES!) — On Tuesday, Glenn Beck told his radio and TV audiences how he and his family were harassed during an outing to an outdoor movie in New York City's Bryant Park. — You can listen to Glenn describe what happened here.
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Hiram Reisner / NewsMax.com:
Glenn Beck's Wife Attacked in NYC Park
Glenn Beck's Wife Attacked in NYC Park
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Jeff Jacoby / Townhall.com:
Townhall Columnists Jeff Jacoby — Marriage Cannot Be Redefined — SAME-SEX WEDLOCK became lawful in New York last week after the state legislature passed a bill recognizing “otherwise-valid marriages without regard to whether the parties are of the same or different sex.”
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Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Nerves Show on Team Obama — Recent scrambling by the president's political advisers indicates they're very worried about his reelection chances. — Fretful: President on defense. — It's been a rough June for the White House. Instead of being able to run a campaign taking credit …
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Durbin: Maybe Illegal Alien Will Become President Someday — (CNSNews.com) - Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) said in a congressional hearing Tuesday that a young person who is an illegal alien in the United States today may someday become president.
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Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Sarah Palin's man in Iowa says she will run for the White House in 2012 — Sarah Palin will run for the White House in 2012 and conduct an “unorthodox, grassroots campaign the likes of which you've never seen”, according to the man in Iowa who has spent the past eight months organising for her in Iowa.
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Rob Shuter / PopEater:
Bristol Palin: Michele Bachmann ‘Dresses a Lot Like My Mom’
Bristol Palin: Michele Bachmann ‘Dresses a Lot Like My Mom’
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Brian Palmer / Slate Magazine:
Bush v. Gore — Is it worse for a child to see pornography or graphic violence? — The Supreme Court struck down a California law regulating the sale of violent video games to children on Monday. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia noted that, unlike sexual content, which can be regulated …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Myspace to Be Sold to Specific Media for $35 Million — Closing another chapter on one of the Internet's most iconic properties, Myspace has been sold to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million. — Sources close to the situation said the deal is being completed today …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Birthers Sue Esquire Over Parody, Seeking More than $200 Million — Joseph Farah and Jerome Corsi have some pretty interesting beliefs. They believe there's no proof Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. * They also believe Hearst Corp. and a writer it employs ought to pay them hundreds …
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Elise Young / Bloomberg:
Christie Loses Support for Second Term as Residents Oppose Cuts — More than half of New Jersey residents say they wouldn't back Governor Chris Christie for a second term, disapproving of his choices on a range of policy and personal issues, from killing a commuter tunnel to using …
Andrew Ferguson / New York Times:
What Does Newt Gingrich Know? — Let's consult the literature — all 21 books by the self-proclaimed ideas man of politics. (Gingrich cites 23 books on his Web site. We are not counting the Contract With America or the coffee-table book “Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous With Destiny.") — Multimedia
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Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Common Sense and Sensibility — This month, the Supreme Court ruled that police, when questioning a child suspected of committing a crime, must take the suspect's age into account and may have to provide Miranda warnings in circumstances that would not require the warnings to be given to an adult suspect.
Wall Street Journal:
Prescriptions to Revive Recovery — The U.S. economy resembles a patient who survived a heart attack, and tells his doctor: “I took your advice, swallowed the pills and I still don't feel well.” — We were warned the post-recession recovery, now marking its second anniversary, would be painfully slow.
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Grasping Reality …