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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts — President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue.
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New York Times:
President Looks for Broader Deal on Deficit Cuts — WASHINGTON — Heading into a crucial negotiating session on a budget deal on Thursday, President Obama has raised his sights and wants to strike a far-reaching agreement on cutting the federal deficit as Speaker John A. Boehner has signaled new willingness to bargain on revenues.
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Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Economist's View, The Page and American Power
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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Reuters, The Politico, CNN, The Daily Caller, Booman Tribune and The Hill
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Cantor says GOP open to cutting tax loopholes in debt deal, but Senate Republicans balk
Cantor says GOP open to cutting tax loopholes in debt deal, but Senate Republicans balk
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Weasel Zippers, Hullabaloo and FrumForum
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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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Rep. Tim Scott Floats Impeachment If Obama Invokes 14th Amendment On Debt Limit (VIDEO) … WASHINGTON — While some have asserted that the debt limit might be unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment, and therefore President Obama does not need congressional approval to raise it …
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Weasel Zippers, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and FrumForum
Washington Wire:
Obama Skirts Question on 14th Amendment's Place in Debt Talks
Obama Skirts Question on 14th Amendment's Place in Debt Talks
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Political Punch, Balkinization and Hit & Run
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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CNN, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air and GeekWire
Elaine Quijano / CBS News:
Policy shift in presidential condolence letters
Policy shift in presidential condolence letters
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Fox News, The Politico and Shakesville
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pawlenty co-chairman: Bachmann will be ‘very hard to beat’ in Iowa — Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) is going to be “very hard to beat” in Iowa's Republican caucuses, a co-chairman of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's campaign said Wednesday. — Vin Weber, a former GOP congressman …
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GOP 12, CNN, The Caucus, Washington Post, The Note, The Huffington Post, Iowa Caucuses and Fox News
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bachmann surging, signs of weakness for Romney
Bachmann surging, signs of weakness for Romney
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TPMDC, The Atlantic Online, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, GOP 12, The Politico, The New Republic, Indecision Forever and The Reaction
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Perry doing better with Texas Republicans
Perry doing better with Texas Republicans
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GOP 12 and Ballot Box
blogs.abcnews.com:
Romney Raises More Than All His Republican Contenders Combined
Romney Raises More Than All His Republican Contenders Combined
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AlterNet.org, The Note and Ballot Box
Jon Gillooly / mdjonline.com:
Herman Cain wins straw poll at Cobb GOP get-together
Herman Cain wins straw poll at Cobb GOP get-together
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Daily Kos, Taegan Goddard's …, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Political Insider
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Katie Pavlich Scandal Grows: FBI, DEA Involved With Operation Fast and Furious — Yesterday, Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson answered questions from Rep. Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley surrounding Operation Fast and Furious. Melson voluntarily participated in the interview …
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Fox News, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
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Hans A. von Spakovsky / Pajamas Media:
Gunwalker: The ATF's Kenneth Melson Blows the Whistle on the Justice Department
Gunwalker: The ATF's Kenneth Melson Blows the Whistle on the Justice Department
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Sister Toldjah, Moe Lane, Power Line, The Lonely Conservative, Wizbang, Confederate Yankee, Nice Deb, Daily Pundit and Hot Air
Ron Kampeas / JTA:
U.S. says Israel's inclusion on terrorist watch list was a mistake — WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel was included erroneously on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security terrorist watch list, a U.S. official said. — John Morton, the director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division …
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Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
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ABCNEWS:
Casey Anthony Juror: ‘Sick to Our Stomachs’ Over Not Guilty Verdict — Casey Anthony juror Jennifer Ford said today that she and the other jurors cried and were “sick to our stomachs” after voting to acquit Casey Anthony of charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
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Telegraph:
Phone hacking: families of war dead ‘targeted’ by News of the World — The bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked by a private investigator working for the News of the World. — The bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked
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Guardian, msnbc.com, American Power and FrumForum
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View from Geneva:
Timeline: Falk's reaction — Reaction: UN's Falk Denies, Then Deletes Anti-Semitic Cartoon — After UN Watch today exposed his publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon, the UN Human Rights Council's Richard Falk first denied publishing the cartoon—and then deleted it. See his blog here.
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Weasel Zippers, Israel Matzav, Harry's Place, The Jawa Report and Israellycool
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Richard Falk / richardfalk.wordpress.com:
Apology for Unintentionally Posting Anti-Semitic Cartoon in Qaddafi Arrest Warrant Blog
Apology for Unintentionally Posting Anti-Semitic Cartoon in Qaddafi Arrest Warrant Blog
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View from Geneva and YID With LID
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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Firedoglake, Outside the Beltway, Bark Bark Woof Woof and FrumForum
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Paul DeMiglio / Frontlines, The SLDN Blog:
07-06-11 SLDN Statement on Ninth Circuit Court's DADT Ruling
07-06-11 SLDN Statement on Ninth Circuit Court's DADT Ruling
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New York Times, Poliglot, Taylor Marsh, LGBTQ Nation and Equality Matters
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under Scott Walker's Collective Bargaining Law — While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) law dismantling collective bargaining rights has harmed teachers, nurses, and other civil servants, it's helping a different group in Wisconsinites — inmates.
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ECHIDNE of the snakes and The Raw Story
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Media Making Things Up: “Tears” and “Rages” During “The Undefeated”? Really? — Obviously we've seen our share of media lies, but the latest fabrications circulated take a big slice of the cake. The UK Daily Mail reports that I was “in tears” as Todd “rages over Hollywood stars ripping” me in the new film “The Undefeated.”
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Daily Mail, Top of the Ticket, The Note, Conservatives4Palin, The Daily Caller and The Other McCain
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Interrogation at sea skirts Obama pledge — Graham says fear of using Gitmo subverts 'what's best for the country' — The Obama administration, which refuses to send terrorism suspects to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, on Wednesday defended its decision to interrogate …
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democracyarsenal.org, Guardian and Lawfare
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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The Hill, The Daley Gator and Opinion L.A.
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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ThinkProgress, Sky Dancing, The Confluence, No More Mister Nice Blog, Right Wing News and TalkLeft
Jon Donnison / BBC:
Hamas arrests male hairdresser for Gaza woman's haircut — Hamas argues it is enforcing a law supported by most of the population in Gaza — The Hamas government in Gaza has begun enforcing a law introduced last year banning men from cutting women's hair.
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Jihad Watch, msnbc.com and Elder of Ziyon
Paul Broun / National Review:
Thinking Outside the Box: Let's Lower the Debt Ceiling — In the midst of our economic emergency, which is beginning to resemble a full-on Greece-style meltdown, every politician in America has taken to the soap box to say the exact same thing: We need to reduce our national debt and cut spending to get America back on track.
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Mother Jones and TalkLeft