Top Items:
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 …
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
GOP 12, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Ballot Box, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
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.
Discussion:
FrumForum
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress
New York Times:
Obama Summons G.O.P. and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks
Obama Summons G.O.P. and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks
Discussion:
The Politico
Sara Just / ABCNEWS:
No Deal Yet: President Rejects Short-Term Debt Fix
No Deal Yet: President Rejects Short-Term Debt Fix
Discussion:
CNN, Hit & Run, The Politico and The Note
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
Discussion:
Bark Bark Woof Woof, Sky Dancing and CBS News
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.
RELATED:
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
Paul Ryan Responds To David Brooks: We Won't Cut Tax Loopholes To Reduce Deficit, Only To Finance More Tax Cuts
Discussion:
Ricochet Conversation Feed, The Reaction, Firedoglake, AMERICAN FUTURE, Economist's View, Donklephant, Hullabaloo, The TrogloPundit, Opinion L.A., JustOneMinute, Democratic Strategist, The Atlantic Online, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Don Surber, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Religion Dispatches and Washington Monthly
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Bloggers bop New York Times's David Brooks
Bloggers bop New York Times's David Brooks
Discussion:
driftglass, Firedoglake, Cafe Hayek, NewsBusters.org blogs and Scarecrow's myFDL diary
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 …
Discussion:
The Debate Link, The Moderate Voice, The Volokh Conspiracy and Pajamas Media
RELATED:
Richard Black / BBC:
Global warming lull down to China's coal growth
Global warming lull down to China's coal growth
Discussion:
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.
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
The Agonist
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
The Business Insider
RELATED:
The Daily Beast:
White Supremacist Stampede
White Supremacist Stampede
Discussion:
Booman Tribune, The Atlantic Online, Mediaite, Weigel, Brilliant at Breakfast, No More Mister Nice Blog, Bark Bark Woof Woof, The Gateway Pundit, Gawker, Pam's House Blend, Newshoggers.com, Notes From Underground, Little Green Footballs, The Raw Story, iOwnTheWorld.com, USA Today and Balloon Juice
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.
Discussion:
The Hill, The Atlantic Online, The Note, FrumForum, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway and The Caucus
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 …
Discussion:
Gawker, The Lede, Mashable!, Boing Boing and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Discussion:
Gawker
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
JammieWearingFool
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.
Discussion:
FrumForum
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.
Discussion:
The Other McCain, Sky Dancing, Coffee & Markets, Don Surber, Feministe and The Jawa Report
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 …
Discussion:
Pajamas Media
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Advice for a Young Blogger: How to get a million or less hits on your blog over some unspecified period of time, maybe — Received: … Oh. I'm sorry. Wrong email. … C, here are my top 10 rules on the delicate topic of blogging. — 10. Always link to stories on blogs around …
Discussion:
American Power, The Other McCain and The Lonely Conservative
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 …
Discussion:
The Heritage Foundation