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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney raises $18.25 million — Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney talks with reporters outside Allentown Metal Works in Allentown, Pa., last week. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised $18.25 million …
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Outside the Beltway, TPMDC, The Page and GOP 12
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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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GOP 12, National Review, Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
WMUR poll shows no bump for Jon Huntsman — It was possible to dismiss the recent Suffolk University poll showing Jon Huntsman in low single digits, but today's WMUR poll solidifies it - the former Utah governor got no discernible bounce from his rollout. — As of now, Michele Bachmann …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and FrumForum
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Senate postpones Libya authorization bill to focus on debt — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) canceled a vote on legislation authorizing U.S. military action in Libya after facing pressure from GOP lawmakers, who warned they would vote the measure down in order to focus on budget matters.
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americanthinker.com and FrumForum
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New York Times:
Obama Summons G.O.P. and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks — WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressional Republicans on Tuesday to agree to a broad deficit-cutting deal, pledging to put popular entitlement programs like Medicare on the table in return …
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Washington Monthly and The Politico
Katrina vanden Heuvel / Washington Post:
Invoke the 14th — and end the debt standoff
Invoke the 14th — and end the debt standoff
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ThinkProgress
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Obama calls lawmakers to White House in effort to break debt stalemate
Obama calls lawmakers to White House in effort to break debt stalemate
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Bark Bark Woof Woof, Sky Dancing and CBS News
Sara Just / ABCNEWS:
No Deal Yet: President Rejects Short-Term Debt Fix
No Deal Yet: President Rejects Short-Term Debt Fix
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CNN, Hit & Run, The Politico and The Note
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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The Hill, USA Today, Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic Online, The Note, The Other McCain, FrumForum, The Daily Caller, The Caucus, TPMDC and Los Angeles Times
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama plays small ball on policy — President Barack Obama swept into office as the anti-Bill Clinton, even saying at one point that he wasn't sent to Washington to “do school uniforms” — political shorthand for the former president's downsized ambitions against a Republican Congress.
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Twitter Blog:
Twitter Town Hall — Tomorrow at 2pm Eastern Time, the White House will hold its first Twitter Town Hall, and United States President Barack Obama will answer Twitter users' questions about the American economy — live at askobama.twitter.com. — On Twitter you can find real-time conversations …
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Fast pace in House leads to lawmaker mistakes, confusion on votes — The rapid-fire succession of floor votes in the House this year has triggered lawmaker confusion and mistakes. — With dozens of votes stacked in a lengthy series on recent bills, a number of House lawmakers have cast the wrong votes.
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
U.S. indicts Somali on terrorism charges — The U.S. military secretly captured a terrorism suspect in the Gulf of Aden in April and detained him for more than two months aboard a U.S. Navy ship before flying him to New York City on Tuesday and indicting him on federal terrorism charges.
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The Agonist
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Power Line:
WHY CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BECOME THE “DEAD PARROT SKETCH” OF AMERICAN POLITICS — For years now the climate campaign and the politicized science community has been complaining that it has a “communications problem,” which can be solved if only they shout louder, or get the human car alarm former …
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The Debate Link, The Moderate Voice, The Volokh Conspiracy and Pajamas Media
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Richard Black / BBC:
Global warming lull down to China's coal growth
Global warming lull down to China's coal growth
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NewsBusters.org, Weasel Zippers and Biased BBC
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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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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Outside the Beltway and Gawker
New York Times:
Strauss-Kahn Lawyers and Prosecution Set Meeting to Discuss Dismissal or Plea Deal — Manhattan prosecutors are scheduled to meet on Wednesday with the lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to discuss whether the sexual assault case against him can be resolved through a dismissal or a plea agreement …
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Reuters, New York Magazine, Washington Post and Global Spin
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Andy Newman / City Room:
Strauss-Kahn Accuser Files Libel Suit Against N.Y. Post
Strauss-Kahn Accuser Files Libel Suit Against N.Y. Post
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New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and Outside the Beltway
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, Gawker, The Lede, Mashable!, Boing Boing and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Supreme Court to decide on Mexican's execution — The U.S. Supreme Court has until Thursday to intervene before Texas is scheduled to put to death a convicted murderer and rapist from Mexico whose execution could place the U.S. in violation of a 38-year international treaty.
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Houston Chronicle, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
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.
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Treasury announces $10 billion in TARP profit from banks — The federal government has reaped a $10 billion profit on bank loans made under the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). — The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that the government had pulled in another $1.7 billion in proceeds stemming from TARP loans.
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FrumForum
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
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
'That's racist' as a punch line — A phrase once considered one of the most serious accusations possible has become a gag line. — A scene from “30 Rock.” Hannibal Buress, a comedian and writer for NBC's television program says “That's racist” works in comedy because it pushes buttons. (NBC)
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Pajamas Media and American Glob
Matt Buedel / Journal Star:
Police, firefighters shot with fireworks at Taft Homes ‘riot’ — PEORIA — A large-scale illegal fireworks display in a housing complex adjacent to the state's largest Fourth of July celebration turned into what police termed a near-riot Monday as tens of thousands of revelers tried to filter out of Downtown.
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Fox Nation
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
DNC boss, president at odds on Cuba policy — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), tapped by President Obama to head the Democratic National Committee, is a hard-liner on Cuba, which means the chairwoman of the organization intent on reelecting the president disagrees with Obama …
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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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Booman Tribune, The Atlantic Online, Mediaite, Weigel and Bark Bark Woof Woof
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, Coffee & Markets, The Other McCain, Don Surber, Feministe and The Jawa Report