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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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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann Predicted The World Would End In 2006: ‘We Are In The Last Days’
Bachmann Predicted The World Would End In 2006: ‘We Are In The Last Days’
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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’
Priebus: Obama video may be ‘crime’
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Marin Cogan / The Politico:
House frosh head to White House with demands
House frosh head to White House with demands
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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’
Debt ceiling debate turns ‘scary’
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Warren Buffett: Debt ceiling should be removed
Warren Buffett: Debt ceiling should be removed
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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Poll: Little confidence in leaders to deal with debt issue; Obama has edge
Poll: Little confidence in leaders to deal with debt issue; Obama has edge
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Guardian:
Phone-hacking: Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - live — • Rupert and James Murdoch at select committee — • ‘This is the most humble day of my life,’ says Rupert Murdoch — • 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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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Latest Updates on Phone Hacking Scandal … Latest Updates on Phone Hacking Scandal — On Tuesday, The Lede is following parliamentary hearings on the phone-hacking scandal. — ‘Yates of the Yard’ Explains His Resignation — Like his boss, Sir Paul Stephenson, the commissioner …
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Bloomberg:
News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO
News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO
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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
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Support for debt ceiling increase doubles
Poll: Support for debt ceiling increase doubles
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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.
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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 …
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Washington Blade and Towleroad News #gay
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:
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.
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
BREAKING: Senate confirms first out gay male to federal bench
BREAKING: Senate confirms first out gay male to federal bench
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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.
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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.
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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. …
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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John R. Talbott / The Huffington Post:
Why Facebook Is Undervalued — Facebook shares are currently trading in private transactions that value the company at close to $80 billion. A public offering is expected next year at what some guess will be a $100 billion plus valuation. While these valuations seem high for a company …
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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.
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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 …
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Washington Examiner and National Review
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name — This time of year it is worth remembering Mein Kampf, the turgid and unreadable Bible of the Nazi movement that was published back in July of 1925. The last time I looked, you could still buy it at the international airport newstand in the Malaysian capital …
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