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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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James Pethokoukis:
Obama really might have made it worse — The Republican charge is a body shot aimed right at the belly of President Barack Obama's re-election effort: He made it worse. — No, not that White House efforts at boosting the American economy and creating jobs and “winning the future” …
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AmSpecBlog, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette, Washington Wire, Datechguy's Blog and Washington Post
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, Mediaite, New York Times and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
Casey Anthony and the court of public opinion
Casey Anthony and the court of public opinion
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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, Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Fast pace in House leads to lawmaker mistakes, confusion on votes
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
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Writing off Pawlenty — It's a big day for early Pawlenty obituaries. — Ward and Stein think he's too much of a lone ranger who takes his own advice: — “He hasn't had any longtime advisers, those guys who have been with him for six or eight or 10 years,” said the Minnesota GOP official who has years of experience with Pawlenty.
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Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Pawlenty's Homespun Tale
Pawlenty's Homespun Tale
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The Note, Minnesota Independent and ABCNEWS
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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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is ‘Rather Pathetic’
Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is ‘Rather Pathetic’
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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
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
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, WMUR, Hot Air, Daily Kos, msnbc.com, Balloon Juice, Outside the Beltway, The Page and americanthinker.com
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 GOP 12
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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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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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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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
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.
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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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
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
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
As Plastic Reigns, the Treasury Slows Its Printing Presses — WASHINGTON — The number of dollar bills rolling off the great government presses here and in Fort Worth fell to a modern low last year. Production of $5 bills also dropped to the lowest level in 30 years.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Sen. Graham: Gadhafi, like Hitler, is serious about attacking Europe — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned on Tuesday that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is “serious” about attacking European cities in order to pressure European officials to cease their airstrikes against Libya.
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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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ABCNEWS, Houston Chronicle, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers
Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Preparing For New iPhone in Third Quarter — TAIPEI—Apple Inc. has placed orders for key components used in a next-generation iPhone it is preparing to launch sometime in the third quarter, according to people familiar with the situation. — According to some suppliers of components to Apple …
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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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