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8:30 PM ET, July 19, 2011

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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Stress-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged  —  In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann's then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman.  —  Dziok had worked for Bachmann …
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Michael Crowley / Swampland:
Reporter Accosted After Bachmann Comments on Migraines  —  It's not easy to get to Michele Bachmann.  Her appearance at a rally on Tuesday in Aiken, South Carolina, attended by perhaps 150 people, featured three uniformed police officers and two body guards in plain clothes.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann's handlers get rough with reporter  —  This morning, the Daily Caller published a story I was inclined to leave to others: Michele Bachmann suffers from severe migraines.  —  But now the Bachmann camp has suddenly invited a whole lot more scrutiny to the story.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bachmann continues to surge  —  Michele Bachmann's momentum continues to build and she's taken first place by the smallest of margins on PPP's newest national Presidential poll.  21% of Republican primary voters say she's their top choice to 20% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Rick Perry …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bachmann Says Migraines Won't Be a Problem if She's Elected President  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Michele Bachmann suffers from migraine headaches so intense that she at times has sought emergency medical treatment, but she said Wednesday that the condition would not prevent her from serving as president if elected.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Bachmann Surges to Second Place
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:   Michele Bachmann: Migraines don't impact my abilities
The Note:
The Note: Straw Poll Shake Up?: Bachmann Under Scrutiny, Rick Perry Backtracks
The Hill:
Coburn rejoins Gang of Six, backs $3.7T deficit-reduction plan  —  Democratic and Republican senators are rallying behind a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan announced Tuesday morning by the five remaining members of the Gang of Six.  —  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who pulled out of the Gang …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama praises ‘Gang of Six’ plan  —  President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the proposal put forward earlier in the day by “Gang of Six,” a group of Republican and Democratic senators, is “a very significant step” that represents “the potential for bipartisan consensus” …
Discussion: The Hill, FT Alphaville and The Note
New York Times:
Obama Renews Push for a Bipartisan Deal on Debt
David Wessel / Washington Wire:
‘Gang of Six’ Plan: Tax Increase or Tax Cut?
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Gang of Six plan punts on key details
Discussion: Firedoglake
Tim Fernholz / NationalJournal.com:
DOCUMENT: Gang of Six Deficit Plan Executive Summary
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
When Would You Announce Support for the Gang of Six Plan? …
Dan Mitchell / International Liberty:
The Gang of Six Is Back from the Dead: Contemplating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in their Budget Plan
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama endorses Gang plan as ‘good news’
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Obama Endorses Feinstein's Bill To Repeal The Defense Of Marriage Act  —  A day before the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to hold hearing on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration has endorsed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) legislation to repeal it.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama backs Respect For Marriage Act
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Obama backs bill to end DOMA
National / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Supports Repeal of Gay-Marriage Ban
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Allen West tirade: Wasserman Schultz ‘vile...despicable...not a Lady’  —  Florida GOP Congressman Allen West this afternoon dispatched a scathing personal email to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, calling her “vile, unprofessional ,and despicable,” “a coward …
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial  —  MIAMI — Assertions by the prosecution that Casey Anthony conducted extensive computer searches on the word “chloroform” were based on inaccurate data, a software designer who testified at the trial said Monday.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Urging Obama's Assassination Is Lawful Online Speech, Divided Appeals Court Says  —  A Southern California man was wrongly convicted of online threats against Barack Obama two weeks before Obama was elected president in November 2008, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Discussion: Law Blog and Election Law Blog
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Ninth Circuit Panel Reverses Conviction for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Then-Candidate Obama
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft  —  Updated Added links to documents and comment from United States Attorney's office in Boston.  —  Updated Changed headline and post to remove reference to Mr. Swartz being a co-founder of Reddit, as this is disputed.  Added comment from Demand Progress.
David Weigel / Weigel:
Only 19 Percent of Republicans Think Obama Would Be Raptured  —  Behold: The best poll questions of the day, from PPP's survey of 574 GOP primary voters nationwide.  —  They've either found a new way of asking whether people think Obama is a Christian, or they've discovered that some number …
Discussion: First Draft and Salon
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
FAMiLY LEADER's Bob Vander Plaats Erupts In Laughter At Faggot Joke: 'That's Pretty Good'  —  The FAMiLY LEADER's 14-point marriage fidelity pledge has divided the GOP's 2012 presidential field and raised concerns among GOP operatives that the group and its president — three …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Road Not Taken  —  Over the past months, Republicans enjoyed enormous advantages.  Opinion polls showed that voters are eager to reduce the federal debt, and they want to do it mostly but not entirely through spending cuts.  —  There was a Democratic president eager to move to the center.
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Balancing Act  —  A balanced budget amendment is the wrong debt solution.  —  Republicans this week plan to force votes in the House and Senate on a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  The last time Congress voted on a BBA was in 1997.  It failed.  The first unsuccessful BBA was proposed in 1936.
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected ‘Anonymous’ Hackers  —  The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned.  —  More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y. …
Joe Conason / National Memo:
Exclusive Bill Clinton Interview: I Would Use Constitutional Option To Raise Debt Ceiling And “Force The Courts To Stop Me”  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that he would invoke the so-called constitutional option to raise the nation's debt ceiling “without hesitation …
The Note:
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Dissatisfaction With Washington Hits 19-Year High  —  Analysis by ABC News' Pollster Gary Langer (@LangerResearch):  —  Discontent with Washington's budget battles has spurred public dissatisfaction with the federal government to its highest level in nearly 20 years …
Guardian:
Phone-hacking: Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - live  —  • Rupert Murdoch attacked at select committee  —  • ‘This is the most humble day of my life,’ Murdoch tells MPs  —  • News Corp chair was ‘asked to enter No 10 by back door’  —  • Rupert ‘had no knowledge at all of Taylor settlement’
 
 
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
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Kate Nocera / The Politico:
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Bachmann surges to 2nd place in GOP '12 field
N.C. Aizenman / Washington Post:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Coburn unveils $9T deficit-reduction plan
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Paul Krugman:
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Discussion: ThinkProgress
Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
New Kids Paying Manhattan Rents
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Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Some federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs
Discussion: National Review and Fausta's Blog