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7:50 AM ET, July 12, 2011

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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
'C'mon, Man!'  Exclaims VP in Deficit Meeting.  'Let's Get Real!'  —  Officials familiar with the negotiations say today's meeting began with President Obama asking House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., to lay out what was agreed upon in the deficit reduction talks led by Vice President Biden.
Discussion: National Review and Pajamas Media
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Cantor conspicuous confusion over compromise  —  All of the relevant players in D.C. want to raise the debt ceiling and prevent a crisis.  President Obama is urging Republicans to compromise: Democrats will accept a lot of cuts if Republicans accept a little revenue.
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Offered To Raise Medicare Eligibility Age As Part Of Grand Debt Deal … WASHINGTON — In his press conference on Monday morning, President Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that he was willing to tackle some sacred cows as part of a larger package to raise the debt ceiling.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Sen. Paul: Boehner has ‘no plan’ to balance the budget
Discussion: The Politico and The Note
The White House:
Press Conference by the President James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Five Separate Sources Confirm Obama Floated Raising Medicare Age ‘As Part Of A Big Solution’
Discussion: Firedoglake and Shakesville
Natalie Jennings / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama orders 1,556-calorie meal at Shake Shack  —  First lady Michelle Obama ordered a whopper of a meal at the newly opened Washington diner Shake Shack during lunch on Monday.  —  A Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed the first lady, who's made a cause out of child nutrition …
Hollie McKay / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE: Mila Kunis Says She'll Accompany U.S. Marine to Corps Ball  —  Most men will spend their lives dreaming about going on a date with Mila Kunis - but for one U.S. Marine, that fantasy may very well turn into a reality.  —  Sgt. Scott Moore, of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Qala …
Dennis Welch / The Arizona Guardian:
Lawmaker points loaded gun at reporter in the Senate  —  A state lawmaker known for championing the rights of gun-owners pointed a loaded firearm at the chest of a reporter during a recent interview at the Capitol.  —  Republican Sen. Lori Klein was showing off her raspberry-pink handgun …
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WFTV Channel 9:
Alan Grayson To Run For Office Again  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — WFTV learned on Monday that former U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson is running for office again.  —  On Monday, Grayson said he doesn't plan to do anything different.  He said he's running again because of all the people who have reached out and asked him to.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Alan Grayson to Run for Congress
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel
Saeed Shah / Guardian:
CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA  —  Senior Pakistani doctor who organised vaccine programme in Abbottabad arrested by ISI for working with US agents  —  The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden …
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Kenric Ward / Sunshine State News:
U.S. Jobless Numbers Dragging Obama Down in Florida  —  Romney beats president in hypothetical match-up as independents swing toward GOP  —  A slipping economy has Floridians moving away from President Barack Obama and warming up to Republican Mitt Romney, a Sunshine State News Poll shows.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Why we're in the budgetary soup  —  Just in case you hadn't noticed, no one has elected Grover Norquist to anything.  Still, he looms as a major obstacle to Congress reaching a deficit-reduction agreement needed to raise the federal debt ceiling.  Norquist heads Americans for Tax Reform …
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
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Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
Robert Samuelson Chooses Badly
Liz Aldermanand Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Debt Contagion Threatens Italy  —  Throughout Europe's debt crisis, Italy has largely managed to steer clear of the troubles that have engulfed its profligate Mediterranean neighbors.  —  But the contagion that started in the euro zone's smaller countries is suddenly moving to some of its largest.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Calculated Risk
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:   Euro in Crisis: Is the Italian Domino Falling?
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Michele Bachmann Clinic: Where You Can Pray Away the Gay?  —  A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be “re-oriented.”
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Polygamist, Under Scrutiny in Utah, Plans Suit to Challenge Law  —  Kody Brown is a proud polygamist, and a relatively famous one.  Now Mr. Brown, his four wives and 16 children and stepchildren are going to court to keep from being punished for it.  —  The family is the focus of a reality TV show …
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 …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Pro-Voucher Tea Party Group Admits It Wants To ‘Shut Down Public Schools And Have Private Schools Only’  —  As ThinkProgress has documented, a tightly-knit group of right-wing Political Action Committees (PACs) and corporate foundations have unleashed an assault on public education …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Now Divided on Debt Limit Debate  —  Default Concerns Rise among Independents  —  As the debate over the nation's debt and deficit continues, the public has grown more concerned that failing to raise the debt limit would force the government into default and hurt the economy.
Discussion: CNN
Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Huntsman goes on offense against Romney  —  Greer, South Carolina (CNN) - Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman signaled Monday that he intends to sharpen his campaign message against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the front-runner in the Republican presidential race and the candidate Huntsman's team views …
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Note
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 …
New York Times:
British Tabloid Sought Phone Data of Investigators  —  LONDON — Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own cellphone messages had been targeted by the tabloid and had most likely been listened to.
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann Responds To Slavery Controversy With Another Slavery Analogy  —  In their apparent effort to ban pornography, GOP presidential frontrunner Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN) and competitor Rick Santorum simultaneously signed a pledge declaring that African-American children …
rebelpundit:
Chicagoans Overwhelmingly Vote to Ban Palin, Beck & Coulter Books at Book Fair in Obama's Home Town  —  In June we attended the Printer's Row Literature Festival in Chicago.  City blocks were closed off for tents and booths full of all types of literature.  We presented a board with a selection …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Grasping Centrist Banner in Debt Impasse  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama made no apparent headway on Monday in his attempt to forge a crisis-averting budget deal, but he put on full display his effort to position himself as a pragmatic centrist willing to confront both parties and address intractable problems.
LATimes / Top of the Ticket:
‘South California’ proposed as 51st state by Republican supervisor  —  The 51st state should be named South California, says Jeff Stone, a Republican on the the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.  But the proposed 13 southern California counties that would split off from the Golden State would not include Los Angeles.
Rebecca Rosenberg / New York Post:
The ‘randy’ rabbi  —  A prominent Long Island Jewish leader was caught with his dreidel out in a string of sordid sex tapes, according to sensational Manhattan court records.  —  Rabbi Avraham Rabinowich — who leads the wealthy, Conservative Bellmore Jewish Center and is vice president …
Newsweek:
More Harm Than Good  —  How the IMF's business model sabotages properly functioning capitalism.  —  Zhang Jun, Xinhua /Corbis  —  Ministers and central bank governors wait during a photo session at the G20 meeting of the IMF, in Washington, April 2011.  —  The International Monetary Fund's …
Discussion: National Review and EconLog
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
The Great Fiction  —  Catherine Rampell, Bruce Bartlett, and Matt Yglesias are all pushing the chart below from a paper by Suzanne Mettler.  According to this gang, people who use, for example, the mortgage interest deduction or who have a 529 college savings program are willfully ignorant …
City Room:
Court Date for Strauss-Kahn Is Postponed  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office and the lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn have agreed to postpone the next hearing in the sexual assault case against him for two weeks, a court official said on Monday.  —  The move — which pushes …
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine
 
 
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Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Celebrity Targets of Tabloid Cheer Its Demise
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Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
HHS plays up flexibility in rules for new insurance exchanges
Discussion: The Politico
New York Times:
Drought Spreads Pain From Florida to Arizona
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
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Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Julian E. Barnes / Washington Wire:
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': More Court Wrangling
Discussion: MyFox Philadelphia
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Clinton surpasses $75 million in speech income after lucrative 2010
Tony Mauro / The BLT:
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Robert Bridges / Wall Street Journal:
A Home Is a Lousy Investment
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Top Senate Dems privately warn: Deep Medicare cuts will squander our big advantage on issue