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CBS News:
Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3 — President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.
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Zeke Miller / Politics:
Boehner Says The Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem — Speaker of the House John Boehner introduced a new argument to the debt ceiling and deficit reduction talks Tuesday, saying raising the borrowing limit is Republicans' concession in the negotiations. — “This debt limit increase is [Obama's] problem,” he said.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Boehner: avoidable economic crash isn't my problem
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TPMDC, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Why liberals should thank Eric Cantor — (KAREN BLEIER - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) I knew the White House wanted a compromise on the debt ceiling. I just didn't expect them to do quite so much, well, compromising. — Here's what appears to have been in the $4 trillion deal they offered …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Magic Lever — The world economy is a complex, unknowable organism. Most of us try to diversify our investments and balance risk and security to protect against the unexpected. — But a few years ago a group of bankers thought they had the magic tool to help them master financial trends and predict the future.
Erik Wasson / Healthwatch:
Cantor outlines $353B in Medicare, Medicaid savings during debt talks
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Los Angeles Times:
Boehner-Cantor rivalry affecting debt talks
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Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Cantor in a Box — House Speaker John Boehner assigned his No. 2 …
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Corey Boles / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Says ‘Real Deal’ Not Possible With Obama
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John Tompkins / Brazosport Facts:
Ron Paul won't seek congressional term in 2012 — LAKE JACKSON — After serving almost 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul told The Facts this morning he will not be seeking another term for the District 14 seat. — Paul, 75, will instead focus on his quest for the presidency in 2012.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rep. Ron Paul won't seek reelection — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Tuesday that he won't seek reelection in 2012. — Paul posted to his official Twitter account a message had he had “decided not to seek re-election to Congress,” along with a link to a website, The Facts, on which he explained his decision.
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New York Times:
Half Brother of Afghan President Is Killed in Kandahar — By ALISSA J. RUBIN, CARLOTTA GALL and RUHULLAH KHAPALWAK — KABUL, Afghanistan — The powerful half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday by a close family associate, according to Karzai family friends who were nearby.
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan president, killed by trusted confidant
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Mirwais Khan / Associated Press:
Afghan president's half brother killed in south
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Aljazeera:
Karzai's brother shot dead in Kandahar
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Fresh doubt cast on Obama's health care story — During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother's struggle with cancer. Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Darrell Issa questions White House's 2012 actions — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is probing what he sees as signs of an unseemly overlap between President Barack Obama's official and political activities. — In what could be considered the committee's sharpest probe …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama warns Social Security checks might not be sent Aug. 3
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Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
470 Business Leaders Urge Congress, White House to Act on Debt
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Proud Of Being Ignorant — This is the dumbest story ever written in all of human history. … Note that this was under “Politics and Policy.” It's as if the purveyors of Beltway-ism and fen-fen joined forces and hatched a diabolical plot. — Adam expounds: … The worst part is there no actual hypocrisy.
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Natalie Jennings / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama orders 1,556-calorie meal at Shake Shack
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Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Police reports show different side of Michele Bachmann — From complaining about her house being egged to filing a report that she was being held “against my will” in a public restroom, Michele Bachmann has left a trail of police reports showing a seldom-seen side of a presidential candidate.
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blue cheddar:
“Right to Life” robocalls from D.C. tell Wisconsin recall voters to stay home — If you get a robocall informing you that you should not vote in a recall election in Wisconsin today, please know you've been lied to. You need to go to the polls between the hours of 7AM and 8PM and vote in person as usual.
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Jonathon M. Seidl / Breaking news and opinion …:
Education Omaha Schools Spend $130,000 in Stimulus Money to Buy 8,000 ‘Social Justice’ Diversity Manuals — If I told you that your tax dollars (130,000 of them) went to buying a “diversity” manual that asserts the government and other institutions create advantages that …
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Weasel Zippers and Doug Ross
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Thinks We're Still in the Bush Era — Another day, another chart from the “non-partisan” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on what “accounts” for the public debt. At some level, these exercises are silly: all prior legislation could be equally said to …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann: I'm ‘Very Proud’ Of Husband's Ex-Gay Therapy Clinics — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) refused to comment on her husband's Christian counseling clinics, dodging a question from a local ABC News reporter in Iowa about new video evidence showing one counselor telling a gay patient …
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israel Bans Boycotts Against the State — JERUSALEM — The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed contentious legislation that effectively bans any public call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements, making such action a punishable offense.
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Mark Weiss / Telegraph:
Israel parliament passes anti-boycott bill
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The Atlantic Online and Taylor Marsh
Mike Waterhouse / WEWS-TV:
Unruly passenger on flight diverted to Cleveland faces federal charges — Passenger helps flight crew restrain suspect — Last Updated: 14 hours and 16 minutes ago — CLEVELAND - The unruly passenger who caused a commercial jet flying from Chicago to Germany to divert to Cleveland Friday is facing federal charges.
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Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich Leaps On The Court Stripping Bandwagon, Claiming ‘There Is No Supreme Court In The American Constitution’ — ThinkProgress filed this report from Pella, Iowa. — At an Iowa campaign stop, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) offered a truly bizarre explanation …
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Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Obama: Job Losses Prove Stimulus Worked — (CNSNews.com) - Three days after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the national unemployment rate had ticked up from 9.1 percent in May to 9.2 percent in June, President Barack Obama said that the loss of jobs in the public sector is …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Future Deficit Can Inherently Exists In The Future — Kicking the can down the road is generally understood to be a bad thing. But it's crucial to note that in the context of discussion of America's long-term structural deficit, the can in question inherently exists in the future.
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Jim Davenport / The Post and Courier, Charleston SC:
Utah's Huntsman passes on S.C. senator's pledge — GREER — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who would like to be the Republican nominee in the White House race, said Tuesday he's not about to sign the spending limit pledge that a South Carolina senator has turned into a threshold test for 2012 presidential hopefuls seeking his support.
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New York Times:
Gordon Brown Says Newspaper Hired ‘Known Criminals’ — LONDON — Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought new and alarming charges on Tuesday to the broadening scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain, accusing one of the most prestigious newspapers in the group of employing …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Blow against O in Weiner race — In “a shot across President Obama's bow,” Democratic former Mayor Ed Koch yesterday urged voters in Queens and Brooklyn to make “history” by voting for the Republican candidate to replace randy ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner in the Sept. 13 special election …
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