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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.
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Los Angeles Times:
Boehner-Cantor rivalry affecting debt talks  —  It's not the first sign of friction between the two Republican leaders.  —  The debt talks are not the first time friction has been apparent between House Speaker John A. Boehner, rear, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.  (Win McNamee, Getty Images / July 12, 2011)
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.
Discussion: msnbc.com
The Note:
Treasury Sec. Geithner Expects Agreement on Broad Outline for Deficit Reduction by End of the Week  —  ABC News' Amy Bingham reports:  —  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said today that he expects the president and congressional leaders to reach an agreement on a broad outline for deficit reduction by the end of the week.
Discussion: CNN and ABCNEWS
Erik Wasson / Healthwatch:
Cantor outlines $353B in Medicare, Medicaid savings during debt talks
Discussion: The Politico
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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Telegraph:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirms brother's assassination
Mirwais Khan / Associated Press:
Afghan president's half brother killed in south
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan president, killed by trusted confidant
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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BBC:
Gordon Brown attacks News International tactics
James Robinson / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch invited to appear before MPs
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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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.”
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bachmann opens door to raising debt limit — if it repeals healthcare bill  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) opened the door to voting to raise the debt ceiling on Monday — in the extraordinarily unlikely instance that it's tied to a repeal of President Obama's healthcare law.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Now Divided on Debt Limit Debate
Discussion: Daily Kos, Don Surber and CNN
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Wisconsin recall elections underway  —  (CNN) - Six Republican state senators in Wisconsin face recall elections Tuesday stemming from the state battle over collective bargaining rights that shut down the state legislature for weeks in February and March.  —  Protest Democrats …
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
It's a Season of Recalls for Voters in Wisconsin
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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 …
Haji Mujtaba / Reuters:
U.S. drone strikes kill 45 suspected militants in Pakistan  —  (Reuters) - At least 45 suspected militants were killed by missiles launched by U.S. drone aircraft in Pakistan's northwest, local intelligence officials said on Tuesday, one of the largest death tolls to date in the controversial air bombing campaign.
Discussion: Politics and msnbc.com
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Guardian:
Suspected US drones kill 38 in Pakistan
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Lawfare
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
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 …
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.
Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:
2nd Living Recipient Awarded Medal of Honor  —  At a White House ceremony later today, Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry, an Army Ranger, will become only the second living recipient of the Medal of Honor for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Petry lost his right hand while throwing a live grenade away from his fellow soldiers.
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
RSC looks to slash energy subsidies from energy, water spending bill  —  The Republican Study Committee on Monday introduced an amendment to the Energy and Water Appropriations Act that would cut $3.25 billion in spending for energy subsidies, which Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Alan S. Blinder / Wall Street Journal:
Our National Jobs Emergency  —  Immediate government spending cuts would only make things worse.  A new jobs tax cut for companies repatriating their profits could help.  —  Last Friday's employment report landed with a loud thud.  Only 18,000 net new jobs in June?  How could that be?
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Half Sigma
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Not over 'til ex-first lady sings  —  Michelle Paterson, former governor David Paterson's wife, is writing a book.  —  “It's about getting thrown into being first lady.  How the press treated us.  About those who served David and who didn't.  All from my own perspective.  I don't include anyone else's thinking.
Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media:
Video: President Obama promises ‘massive job killing taxes’ if re-elected  —  From today's presser on the debt ceiling debate.  Check out how the prez frames the debate over taxes.  —  Click here to view the embedded video. … Re-elect me to get massive job killing tax hikes when I'm a lame duck and you can't do a thing about it.
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
Mark Weiss / Telegraph:
Israel parliament passes anti-boycott bill  —  Israel's parliament has passed a controversial bill making it illegal for any citizen advocating a boycott of Israel or West Bank settlements.  —  The Knesset voted 47-38 in favour after a stormy debate, during which opposition members accusing …
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.
Discussion: Eschaton
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 …
 
 
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Christian / Ghosts of Alexander:
How to be an Afghan Expert
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
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Rick Perlstein / New York Times:
Betty Ford, Pioneer
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Kos
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Bill Maher To Piers Morgan: I Hope Sarah Palin And Michele Bachmann ‘Split the MILF Vote’
Discussion: National Review
Wall Street Journal:
The Taxman Retreateth  —  The IRS stops its attack on political donors, at least for now.
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
TSA's Forced Indignities Don't Make Us Safer: Jeffrey Goldberg
Discussion: Instapundit
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
TIR Poll: Look Out for Chris Christie
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Lawrence Hurley / New York Times:
Supreme Court Picks One EPA Enforcement Case Over Another and Attorneys Ask Why
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP looks for special election upset
Discussion: CNN and msnbc.com
The Hill:
Six months in, handful of House freshmen haven't offered a bill
Discussion: Say Anything
LATimes / Top of the Ticket:
‘South California’ proposed as 51st state by Republican supervisor
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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