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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Responds To David Brooks: We Won't Cut Tax Loopholes To Reduce Deficit, Only To Finance More Tax Cuts — As the August debt ceiling deadline looms and Republicans continue refusing to consider revenue increases, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks excoriated the GOP for its intransigence.
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Firedoglake, AMERICAN FUTURE, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
GRAPH: Contrary To GOP Claims, U.S. Has Second Lowest Corporate Taxes In The Developed World — During negotiations regarding raising the nation's debt limit, congressional Republicans have defended tax loopholes for corporations, claiming that America has a high corporate tax rate that is stifling economic growth and job creation.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Why Can't the GOP Get to Yes? — David Brooks does the David Brooks equivalent of losing his temper … Why can't they take the deal? — There's one semi-fair reason, which is that the Democrats and the GOP leadership got entirely too cute with the last round of negotiations …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Mother of All No-Brainers
The Mother of All No-Brainers
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Bloggers bop New York Times's David Brooks
Bloggers bop New York Times's David Brooks
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Scarecrow's myFDL diary, msnbc.com and driftglass
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Thatcher: Power With Responsibility
Thatcher: Power With Responsibility
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Economix, The Incidental Economist, A plain blog about politics and FrumForum
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Time in House Could Be Short for Republican Newcomers
Time in House Could Be Short for Republican Newcomers
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The Hill, Crooks and Liars, Booman Tribune, Prairie Weather and Suburban Guerrilla
The Daily Beast:
White Supremacist Stampede — A startling number of white-power candidates are seeking public office. Eve Conant reports on their under-the-radar strategy and David Duke's White House flirtation. — Add to the growing list of candidates considering a bid for the GOP presidential nomination …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Daily Beast Plays The David Duke Card — Democrats must be in trouble if The Daily Beast is running a headline White Supremacist Stampede, with this opening line: … Ah yes, the David Duke card gets played. — Duke is an anti-Semitic kook who is far more likely in recent years …
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Politics and American Glob
WMUR:
Romney Holds Sizable Lead In Poll; Bachmann Jumps To 2nd — Romney Still Leads In Hypothetical Race With Obama — DURHAM, N.H. — Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney continues to lead a field of Republican presidential candidates, according to the latest WMUR Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller and Politics
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney leads in NH poll; Bachmann creeping up
Fox News:
Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty of Killing 2-Year-Old Daughter — BREAKING: A Florida jury has acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. — Anthony, 25, wept after the clerk read the verdict, which jurors reached after less than 11 hours of deliberation over two days.
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Anthony cleared of murdering Caylee
Anthony cleared of murdering Caylee
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Sara Just / ABCNEWS:
No Deal Yet: President Rejects Short-Term Debt Fix — President Obama made an unscheduled appearance today before reporters to say that some progress has been made in the deeply divided negotiations over the nation's debt ceiling, and “greater progress is in sight.”
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Vows To Filibuster Everything Until Senate Debates Debt Ceiling
Rand Paul Vows To Filibuster Everything Until Senate Debates Debt Ceiling
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Daily Kos
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Cornyn: Short-term debt-limit increase might be needed
Cornyn: Short-term debt-limit increase might be needed
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Swampland, The New Republic and FrumForum
Michael McConnell / Advancing a Free Society:
The Debt Ceiling Is Certainly Not “Unconstitutional”
The Debt Ceiling Is Certainly Not “Unconstitutional”
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The Reality-Based Community, The Atlantic Online and The Volokh Conspiracy
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Newt Gingrich raises $2M, reveals significant debt — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will report raising approximately $2 million in the second fundraising quarter of the year and ending the month of June with $225,000 in the bank, POLITICO has learned.
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Politics, Los Angeles Times, Iowa Caucuses, The Daily Caller and FrumForum
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
For Film Graduates, an Altered Job Picture — LOS ANGELES — One after another, touring groups of prospective students and their parents stopped late last month to pose for pictures around a bronze Douglas Fairbanks, who wields his sword in a courtyard fountain here at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.
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Gawker
Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
Why Gallup's Analysis of Jewish Voters is Dishonest — There it was in bold Gallup-type headlines. … The problem with the headline is that it is Dishonest. — Assuming the overall Jewish American approval numbers are correct, they gave President Barack Obama a 60% job approval rating in June …
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Pajamas Media
Susan Donaldson James / ABCNEWS:
Post-Traumatic Stress Cure: Writer Stages Her Own Rape — Mac McClelland, a civil rights reporter who has seen the impact of sexual violence around the globe, couldn't shake the image of Sybille, a woman who said she had been raped at gunpoint and mutilated in the aftermath of Haiti's catastrophic 2010 earthquake.
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Sky Dancing, The Other McCain, Feministe, Don Surber and The Jawa Report
host.madison.com:
Madison 360: Baldwin likely to forgo safety for her dream of Senate seat — She really wants to do it. — That's the precise phrase I've heard for weeks from elected officials, political professionals and supporters who know her. — While the words are consistent …
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GayPatriot, The TrogloPundit, JSOnline, The Raw Story, Althouse and TPMDC
Andy Newman / City Room:
Strauss-Kahn Accuser Files Libel Suit Against N.Y. Post — The hotel maid in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case filed a libel suit against The New York Post on Tuesday over a series of articles it published during the Fourth of July weekend claiming that she was a prostitute.
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Outside the Beltway, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan is in total denial — If Paul Ryan really believes what he said about his Medicare plan in this interview with a local Wisconsin TV station, then he is in total denial about how unpopular his proposal really is — and how much of a jam it created for his fellow Republicans:
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TPMDC, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Sky Dancing
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Disappointing Comeback — Two years ago, officials said, the worst recession since the Great Depression ended. The stumbling recovery has also proven to be the worst since the economic disaster of the 1930s. — Across a wide range of measures—employment growth, unemployment levels …
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The Heritage Foundation
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Ohio GOP Weakens Election Law By Allowing Poll Workers To Refuse To Inform Voters Where They Can Vote — Last week, the GOP-led House passed an election law overhaul without the highly restrictive voter ID provision. However, the House tweaked the bill to weaken a law mandating poll workers …
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Plain Dealer and Hullabaloo
Serena Solomon / DNAinfo.com:
Drunk Puppy Buying Banned by West Village Pet Stores — Drunk puppy buying customers are a challenge for Greenwich Village pet stores surrounded by bars and clubs. — DNAinfo Reporter/Producer — WEST VILLAGE — You've heard of drunk dialing and drunk Facebooking, but drunk puppy buying?
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Runnin' Scared, Gawker and The Raw Story
Richard Black / BBC:
Global warming lull down to China's coal growth — Solar power is coming to China - but coal-burning grew amazingly quickly a few years back — The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China's coal use, a study suggests.
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NewsBusters.org, YID With LID, Weasel Zippers, Biased BBC and Watts Up With That?
Guardian:
Families of 7/7 victims ‘were targets of phone hacking’ — New revelation deepens crisis at News of the World after it emerges that officers will review child murder cases — The phone-hacking crisis enveloping the News of the World intensified on Tuesday night after it emerged …
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New York Times:
Perry Breaks With a Fellow Texan: Bush — AUSTIN, Tex. — Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican contemplating a presidential run, shares many attributes with the last man who ran for president from here, his predecessor and onetime patron, George W. Bush. He has the same straight-legged Texas swagger …
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Salon, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Katrina vanden Heuvel / Washington Post:
Invoke the 14th — and end the debt standoff — On its current course, the United States is four weeks away from defaulting on its debt for the first time in its history. If that happens, businesses will fail. Financial institutions will fail. Home values will decline. Mortgage rates will skyrocket.
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Felix Salmon and ThinkProgress
Ashby Jones / Wall Street Journal:
Latinos Join the Electoral Land Grab — Hispanics Fight for More Representation Based on Booming Population — Texas state Sens. Jose Rodriguez, left, and Steve Ogden with a district map during a debate last month. — Emboldened by their booming population, Hispanics are pushing …
Fox News:
Obama Campaign Rejects Claim Biden May Be Replaced by Cuomo on 2012 Ticket — Vice President Joe Biden is on the 2012 re-election ticket, President Obama's aides said Tuesday after a report that the campaign was looking to replace him with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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National Review, American Glob, Capital Tonight, New York Post and blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Center for American Progress:
The Fiscal Impact of States' Anti-Immigrant Legislation — Jason Azurmendi, left, is joined by Will Pesante, center, and Kristen Everett, right, all of Atlanta, as they protest a proposed controversial state immigration bill outside the state capitol on April 14, 2011 in Atlanta.
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The Washington Independent and ImmigrationProf Blog