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10:40 AM 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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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.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Priebus: Obama video may be ‘crime’  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is accusing President Barack Obama of committing “an apparent crime” when he recorded a video in the White House as part of a raffle to raise money for his reelection campaign.
The Politico:
GOP has no backup plan after vote  —  There's a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they've gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal.  —  But if that's the case, the conservatives aren't in on the plan.
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Debt ceiling debate turns ‘scary’  —  Washington's frayed nerves showed through Monday amid tough talk on the right, a White House veto threat, canceled weekend passes and the top Senate Democrat likening default to a “very, very scary” outcome even for those “who believe government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub.”
Marin Cogan / The Politico:
House frosh head to White House with demands
The Hill:   House Republicans seeking an alternative debt-ceiling plan
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Poll: Little confidence in leaders to deal with debt issue; Obama has edge
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bachmann Nation: For Republicans and Tea Partyers, there is no imminent crisis  —  A new Pew poll finds that a majority of Republicans voters, and an even larger majority of Tea Party supporters, simply don't think failing to raise the debt ceiling will lead to a crisis:
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Split Evenly on Urgency of Debt Limit Debate
Discussion: The New Republic
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
Discussion: CBS News, Hot Air and The Monkey Cage
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 …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton: I'd use 14th Amendment  —  Former President Bill Clinton would invoke the 14th Amendment - “without hesitation, and force the courts to stop me,” he says - to raise the debt ceiling if he were in President Barack Obama's shoes, with the deadline to raise the limit just two weeks away.
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO  —  News Corp. is considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to chief executive officer to succeed Rupert Murdoch, people with knowledge of the situation said.  —  A decision hasn't been made and a move depends in part …
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Latest Updates on Phone Hacking Scandal
Joe Weisenthal / Politics:
Wynn CEO Goes On Epic Anti-Obama Rant On Company Conference Call  —  Who doesn't love a good rant?  —  We certainly do, and as usual, Steve Wynn, the CEO of casino company Wynn Resorts, delivered on his company's quarterly conference call today.  —  Via Seeking Alpha, here's the crux of it:
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 …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In a ‘quiet moment,’ gay judge makes history  —  The remarkable thing about what happened on the Senate floor Monday night was that it was utterly unremarkable.  —  The matter under consideration - the nomination of the first openly gay man to serve on the federal bench - would at one time have been a flashpoint in the culture wars.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Poliglot and Gawker
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Howard Portnoy / The Greenroom:
What if the President Told a Joke and Nobody Laughed?  —  Not possible, you say—not for the funniest person alive.  But it's true.  President Obama was on the White House lawn today, introducing former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordary as the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Daily Mail:
Climate change sceptics should get less BBC coverage and be challenged ‘more vigorously’, says report on science output  —  Opponents of global warming should be given less coverage by the BBC than the climate change lobby, the corporation will rule.  —  The BBC is set to publish a report tomorrow …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Justice Department lawyers contradict FBI findings in anthrax case  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has called into question a key pillar of the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and terrorized Congress a decade ago.
Discussion: ProPublica and MiamiHerald.com
Wall Street Journal:
Borders Forced to Liquidate, Close All Stores  —  Above, the exterior of a closed store in San Rafael, Calif.  —  Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it.  —  Borders, which employs about 10,700 people …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Conservative groups threaten GOP lawmakers who vote for McConnell's last-ditch plan - @OMBPress - Panetta's spokespair: George Little and Capt. John Kirby - NYC moguls entreat Christie to run  —  FIRST LOOK — Jason Furman, deputy director of the White House's National Economic Council, on …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
New York Post:
Uncle Sam, sugar daddy  —  Forget all the numbers being tossed around in Washington — the millions and billions and trillions of dollars being taxed, borrowed, printed and spent as the country approaches the Aug. 2 debt-ceiling deadline.  —  Forget the political jockeying for position between …
New York Times:
Murdoch and Son Testify at Hearing on Hacking  —  LONDON — Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared Tuesday before British lawmakers probing the phone hacking scandal that has seized public life, raising questions about the police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron.
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Mich. voters prefer Romney in matchup with Obama, poll finds  —  WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney still holds a slight lead among voters over President Barack Obama in a head-to-head matchup in Michigan, a new poll showed Monday.  —  The poll of 600 likely voters by Lansing-based EPIC …
Discussion: Hotline On Call and The Page
MyFOX8.com:
Hacked DOT Road Sign Reads “Impeach Obama”  —  UNION COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP)— An electronic DOT road sign was apparently hacked when a displayed message read “Impeach Obama.”  —  DOT officials told WSOC they had not heard of the display when first contacted on Sunday night, but sent an engineer to correct the sign afterward.
Amir Mir / Asia Times:
US drones target white jihadis  —  ISLAMABAD - The July 5 killing of yet another white jihadi commander in an American drone strike in the North Waziristan tribal agency of Pakistan - an Australian national this time - has given credence to earlier reports by Western intelligence agencies …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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.
Discussion: National Review
Haaretz:
Israel Navy intercepts sole remnant of flotilla heading for Gaza  —  Dignite-Al Karame ignores call to change course from Gaza; IDF chief orders take over of vessel; video shows Israel Navy's interception of the Karame.  —  The Israel Navy intercepted the French yacht Dignite-Al Karame …
 
 
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Associated Press:
Ex-Bush spokesman considering Senate race in WA
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Ready to Swim 103 Miles With the Sharks
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Wall Street Journal:
Debt Worries Roil Markets
Discussion: The Page
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Fox, CNN And MSNBC To Cover Murdoch Hearing
Discussion: Mediaite
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
DOJ Argues to Keep DADT Repeal In Executive Branch's Control, Out of the Courts
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
The scramble for South Carolina
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses, msnbc.com and The Page
BBC:
Kinnock: Murdoch facing his ‘nemesis’
Renny McPherson / Boston Globe:
Inside Al Qaeda's hard drives
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CBS News:
“Unrelenting” heat wave scorches Midwest
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Tom Coburn unveils $9 trillion plan
Discussion: CNN, Gretawire and Hot Air
George Packer / New Yorker:
EMPTY WALLETS  —  In the midst of the debt crisis in Washington …
Discussion: Daily Kos and News Desk
Guardian:
News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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