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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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TPMDC, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Outside the Beltway, The Page and americanthinker.com
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Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Pawlenty's Homespun Tale — SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.—Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty brings a biographical peculiarity to his quest for the White House. Were he to win, he'd be the first president who had never lived outside his home state. — In fact, Mr. Pawlenty has lived …
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The Note, Minnesota Independent and ABCNEWS
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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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Democratic Strategist and Weasel Zippers
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Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
House GOP expected to ax transportation funds
House GOP expected to ax transportation funds
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Washington Monthly, Weigel and Eschaton
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Fast pace in House leads to lawmaker mistakes, confusion on votes
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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The New Republic, Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, FrumForum and Advancing a Free Society
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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 …
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Senate postpones Libya authorization bill to focus on debt
Senate postpones Libya authorization bill to focus on debt
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americanthinker.com and FrumForum
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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iOwnTheWorld.com, Datechguy's Blog, The Debate Link, The Moderate Voice, The Volokh Conspiracy and Pajamas Media
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James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
There has been no global warming since 1998
There has been no global warming since 1998
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Hawaii Reporter, Right Wing News, China Digital Times and Watts Up With That?
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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The Atlantic Online, Greg's Opinion, Swampland and The Business Insider
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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TalkLeft and The New Republic
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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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Ben Smith's Blog, The Awl and Pajamas Media
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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 …
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The Atlantic Online and Mediaite
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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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Rob Schumacher / msnbc.com:
50-mile wide, mile-high dust storm engulfs Phoenix
50-mile wide, mile-high dust storm engulfs Phoenix
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Outside the Beltway
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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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Romney raises $18.25M; Gingrich in debt
Romney raises $18.25M; Gingrich in debt
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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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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 and GOP 12
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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Kayla Webley / newsfeed.time.com:
Investigation Finds ‘Widespread’ Cheating in Atlanta Schools — At least 178 teachers and principals at nearly four dozen schools in Atlanta have been implicated in what is likely the largest cheating scandal in U.S. history to date. — The report found that teachers …
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The Jawa Report and Freakonomics
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year's end, officials say — Keeping U.S. troops in Iraq after the departure deadline would require accord of Iraq's deeply divided government. The Iraqis have not made a formal request for U.S. troops to stay.
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Weasel Zippers, Associated Press and The Atlantic Online
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Weapons prove Iranian role in Iraq, U.S. says
Weapons prove Iranian role in Iraq, U.S. says
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The Atlantic Online and Confederate Yankee
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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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Is Jiang Zemin Dead? Real-time Illustration of News Control in China — For the past 24+ hours, anyone following various social-media feeds* about China has seen rumors, then official denials, then silence, about the possible demise of former president Jiang Zemin, shown in his prime at right.
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China Real Time Report