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4:30 PM ET, July 12, 2011

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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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The Politico:
Senate GOP mulls new debt strategy  —  Trying to get out of the political box which they have helped to create, Senate Republicans are actively discussing a new plan under which the debt ceiling would grow in three increments over the remainder of this Congress unless lawmakers approve a veto proof resolution of disapproval.
Discussion: The Note, CNN, Daily Kos and Politics
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.
Erik Wasson / Healthwatch:
Cantor outlines $353B in Medicare, Medicaid savings during debt talks  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Monday proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid he said would save $353 billion over the next decade.  —  Cantor made the proposal in talks at the White House.
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
470 Business Leaders Urge Congress, White House to Act on Debt
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Mitch McConnell Just Proposed the “Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011″
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
The Big Blink? McConnell Proposes Giving Obama Authority To Raise Debt Limit Alone
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Boehner: avoidable economic crash isn't my problem
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Michelle Malkin:
Another mortifying McConnell head-banging-against-the-wall moment
Discussion: Reuters and Riehl World View
Rich Lowry / National Review:   McConnell's Contingency Plan
Rep. Allen West / Fox News:
Boehner Assures Republicans He Won't Cave on Tax Hikes
Discussion: White House Dossier
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: McConnell to Obama: Eat your own darn peas
Rich Lowry / National Review:
More Contingency Plan  —  The initial legislation would authorize …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner: 'This Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem'
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama warns Social Security checks might not be sent Aug. 3
Discussion: CNN
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.
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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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.
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Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:
Sebelius: Obamacare's Penalty on Small Businesses a ‘Great Incentive’ for Growth  —  (CNSNews.com) - Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com on Monday that a provision in President Barack Obama's health-care law that requires small businesses …
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Mirwais Khan / Associated Press:
Afghan president's half brother killed in south
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.
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 …
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 double check.  You need to go to the polls between the hours of 7AM and 8PM in 6 recall districts and vote in person as usual.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:   Wisconsin recall elections underway
Jeremy Scahill / The Nation:
The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia  —  Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency.  Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
N.Y. clerk quits over gay marriage  —  A rural New York town clerk has resigned her post rather than grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  —  “I would be compromising my moral conscience by participating in licensing same-sex couples,” Laura Fotusky, the clerk of the Town of Barker, told POLITICO.
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 …
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 …
Star-Ledger Guest / NJ Voices Guest blog:
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shows progressive streak  —  By David E. Bernstein and Josh Blackman  —  Since John Paul Stevens' retirement in 2010, Stephen Breyer seems poised to become the leader of the Supreme Court's liberal wing.  In the nine cases that split 5-4 along ideological lines …
 
 
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Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Fiorina Joins Senate GOP Campaign Arm
The Right Scoop:
Keith Ellison: Bachmann wants women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com
Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Pair tried to steal historical documents worth millions, police say
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Marion Barry Proposes Apartment Building Ban
Joe Scarborough / The Politico:
Media meltdown over GOP tax pledge
Discussion: Salon
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Not over 'til ex-first lady sings
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Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Are We About to Repeat the Mistakes of 1937?  —  Bruce Bartlett …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Hot Air
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Future Deficit Can Inherently Exists In The Future
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Eschaton
Mike Waterhouse / WEWS-TV:
Unruly passenger on flight diverted to Cleveland faces federal charges
Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:
2nd Living Recipient Awarded Medal of Honor
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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