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11:30 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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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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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Warren Buffett: Debt ceiling should be removed
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
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 …
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO
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
Discussion: Hot Air, CBS News 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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Poliglot and Gawker
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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.
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
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. …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Mediaite
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
 
 
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Peggy Fikac / Houston Chronicle:
Perry says presidential bid is a definite maybe
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
The Challenge of Attaining a Sustainable Federal Budget
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Associated Press:
Ex-Bush spokesman considering Senate race in WA
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Mich. voters prefer Romney in matchup with Obama, poll finds
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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
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Haaretz:
Israel Navy intercepts sole remnant of flotilla heading for Gaza
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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
Amir Mir / Asia Times:
US drones target white jihadis
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Renny McPherson / Boston Globe:
Inside Al Qaeda's hard drives
Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:
A Craze for Pooches in Iran Dogs the Morality Police
Discussion: ParaPundit
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Tom Coburn unveils $9 trillion plan
Discussion: CNN and Gretawire
George Packer / New Yorker:
EMPTY WALLETS  —  In the midst of the debt crisis in Washington …
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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