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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CNN Cancels ‘In the Arena’ With Eliot Spitzer — 1:30 p.m. | Updated CNN on Wednesday cancelled Eliot Spitzer's 8 p.m. political talk show, “In The Arena,” and said it would shift Anderson Cooper's 10 p.m. nightly newscast into the time slot. — The cable news channel also said that Erin Burnett …
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Jill Serjeant / Reuters:
CNN drops Eliot Spitzer TV talk show
CNN drops Eliot Spitzer TV talk show
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Barack Obama's Dangerous Embrace Of Economic Fatalism — Even as the Obama administration continues to defend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from its critics, the White House appears to have sincerely pivoted away from the idea that a higher level of aggregate demand …
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Right Wing News, The New Republic, TalkLeft and Pundit & Pundette
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Paul Krugman:
The Obama-Keynes Mystery — I'm not alone in marveling at the extent to which Obama has thrown his rhetorical weight behind anti-Keynesian economics; Ryan Avent is equally amazed, as are many others. And now he's endorsing the structural unemployment story too.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Confluence
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is ‘Rather Pathetic’ … WASHINGTON — Having the Senate declare that millionaires should share more of the pain involved in putting America's financial house in order is “rather pathetic,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared Tuesday.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Our surreal debate over taxing the rich — So it's come to this. Republican opposition to any kind of revenue increase as part of the deficit deal has grown so implacable that Dems will now hold a Senate vote tomorrow on the basic idea that millionaires and billionaires should help contribute to fixing our deficit.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos, The Democratic Daily, Sky Dancing, The Big Picture and The New Republic
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Sessions: Asking Millionaires To Pay More Is ‘Rather Pathetic’
Sen. Sessions: Asking Millionaires To Pay More Is ‘Rather Pathetic’
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bachmann surging, signs of weakness for Romney — When PPP polled New Hampshire in April Michele Bachmann was stuck at 4%. She's gained 14 points over the last three months and now finds herself within single digits of Mitt Romney. Romney continues to lead the way in the state with 25% …
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Washington Post, TPMDC, Gallup, The New Republic, GOP 12, Indecision Forever and Balloon Juice
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pawlenty co-chairman: Bachmann will be ‘very hard to beat’ in Iowa
Pawlenty co-chairman: Bachmann will be ‘very hard to beat’ in Iowa
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CNN and Fox Nation
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem leader says he'll help GOP on debt-ceiling vote, but at a price — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Wednesday said he's willing to help Republicans secure the votes they need to pass an increase in the debt ceiling, but not without conditions.
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CNN, The Daily Caller and Booman Tribune
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Cantor: GOP willing to talk tax loopholes in debt negotiations
Cantor: GOP willing to talk tax loopholes in debt negotiations
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Weasel Zippers
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘We look a lot like Greece already’
McConnell: ‘We look a lot like Greece already’
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Washington Monthly and Paul Krugman
Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
What became of ‘repeal and replace’? — When they took control of the House, Republicans could barely stop talking about their plans to “repeal and replace” the health care reform law. — Six months later, they hardly talk publicly about those plans at all. And they're nowhere close to “replacing” the law.
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
E.P.A. Chief Stands Firm as Tough Rules Loom
E.P.A. Chief Stands Firm as Tough Rules Loom
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Rob Bluey / The Daily Caller:
White House uses Twitter to bully critics — President Obama's director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee's duties at the White House include “online response” — and there has been no shortage of responses to one person who routinely communicates with him on Twitter.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama's Twitter townhall: A win-win for the White House
Obama's Twitter townhall: A win-win for the White House
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Michelle Malkin, CNN, Hot Air, GeekWire and Twitter Blog
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Takes Questions From His Tweeps
Obama Takes Questions From His Tweeps
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Media Decoder, Mediaite, Gawker and Althouse
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Court bars enforcement of 'don't ask, don't tell' — (07-06) 13:16 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court ordered a halt today to the armed forces' discharge of openly gay service members, citing the Obama administration's disavowal of laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Court Order Striking Down Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Court Order Striking Down Don't Ask, Don't Tell
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Pam's House Blend
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Ninth Circuit Halts DADT Enforcement, Pentagon “Taking Immediate Steps” To Comply
Ninth Circuit Halts DADT Enforcement, Pentagon “Taking Immediate Steps” To Comply
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DownWithTyranny!, Equality Matters, Towleroad News #gay and Daily Pundit
Elaine Quijano / CBS News:
Policy shift in presidential condolence letters — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — NEW YORK - Most families who lose a loved one in the war zones receive a letter of condolence from the President of the United States. But there are a few who do not receive this honor.
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The Politico, Fox News and Shakesville
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North — AGUA NEGRA, Mexico — The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause …
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ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, The Lede, Indecision Forever, Greg's Opinion, Swampland and The Business Insider
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann's husband shares her strong conservative values — Lake Elmo, Minn. — In an interview last year with a Christian- — radio talk show, Marcus Bachmann, a therapist who runs a faith-infused counseling center here, compared homosexuals to “barbarians” who “need to be educated, need to be disciplined.”
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Weigel, ThinkProgress, The Awl, Pam's House Blend, Pajamas Media, Ben Smith's Blog and Shakesville
Casey Anthony / The Daily Beast:
Worse Than O.J.! — While the stunning Casey Anthony acquittal defied logic, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark details how juries often delude themselves—and why this verdict trumps even her case. — Sick, shaken, in disbelief. As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case …
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
TSA warns of possible airline threat involving implanted bombs — A traveler is inspected at a TSA checkpoint at LAX this year. (Mark Boster) — The government has warned airlines that terrorists are considering surgically implanting explosives into people in an attempt …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
TSA warns airlines of ‘human bombs’
TSA warns airlines of ‘human bombs’
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Mirror.co.uk, Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Watch a 50-Mile Wide Dust Storm Devour Phoenix — Now, we have a new reason to compare the Great Recession to the Great Depression: Steinbeck-style dust storms. Tuesday evening, a massive cloud of darkness known as a “habub” overtook Phoenix. The National Weather Service reports that the wall …
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msnbc.com, Watts Up With That? and Shakesville
Heather Vogell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level — Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes. — Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students' answer sheets.
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newsfeed.time.com, The Washington Independent, Freakonomics, neo-neocon, The Nation, Joanne Jacobs and Althouse
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws — Former President Bill Clinton Wednesday compared GOP efforts to limit same-day voter registration and block some convicted felons from voting to Jim Crow laws and poll taxes. — In a speech to liberal youth activists Wednesday …
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CNN, Sister Toldjah, Weasel Zippers, TPMDC and FrumForum
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
ACORN continues to receive taxpayer cash, group says — In spite of a law aimed at de-funding the controversial organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is still receiving taxpayer money through an offshoot group. — Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch discovered …
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Judicial Watch, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Pajamas Media
John Stossel / Real Clear Politics:
The College Scam — What do Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Mark Cuban have in common? — They're all college dropouts. — Richard Branson, Simon Cowell and Peter Jennings have in common? — They never went to college at all. — But today all kids are told: To succeed, you must go to college.
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National Review
Nick Schulz / Economics 2.0:
How Effective Was The 2009 Stimulus Program? — So the stimulus — the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA — is starting to wind down. What are the results? — Depends on whom you ask, of course. Conservatives will say unemployment is near double-digits and growth is slow, so clearly it didn't work.
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Don Surber, Hit & Run, RedState and Pajamas Media
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
The 2012 Horse Whisperers — Who's giving foreign-policy advice to the crop of GOP front-runners? — Michele Bachmann: The Tea Party's new hawk — Despite all of Bachmann's Tea Party credentials, she's not looking like an isolationist when it comes to foreign policy.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Eunomia and The Other McCain
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The GOP's evolving case against taxes — There are two ways to increase taxes. One is you just raise rates, particularly the top rates. Economists in general — and Republican economists in particular — don't much like this approach because it raises taxes on the last dollars you've earned.
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The New Republic and A plain blog about politics
Merrill Matthews / Human Events:
Gov. Rick Perry: The Candidate Obama Would Fear the Most — More than any other potential GOP presidential candidate, President Obama fears Texas Gov. Rick Perry. That's because Perry is the only one who can devastate virtually any Obama claim. — Take the whine we hear most often from the President …
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