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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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The Note: Straw Poll Shake Up?: Bachmann Under Scrutiny, Rick Perry Backtracks — By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) — Is Michele Bachmann healthy enough to be president? That is the question raised by a new Daily Caller story quoting several former aides …
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
Michele Bachmann's Migraines and the History of Presidential Ailments — Last night, the Daily Caller posted a story about Michele Bachmann's crippling migraine headaches, which a number of Bachmann staffers describe as incapacitating and requiring “heavy pill use” to medicate.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bachmann “incapacitated” by migraines?
Bachmann “incapacitated” by migraines?
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
The scramble for South Carolina
The scramble for South Carolina
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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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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Priebus: Obama video may be ‘crime’
Priebus: Obama video may be ‘crime’
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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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David Rogers / The Politico:
Debt ceiling debate turns ‘scary’
Debt ceiling debate turns ‘scary’
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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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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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BBC:
1711: Iain Watson Political correspondent, BBC News — Police say they've arrested a man following the attack on Rupert Murdoch. According to one of the committee members Paul Farrelly, the assailant made for Rupert Murdoch with what appeared to be a paper plate with shaving foam on it, in the form of a custard pie.
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Susanna Kim / ABCNEWS:
Man Attempts Attack on Murdoch During Hearing; Murdoch's Wife Lunges at Attacker — A Parliament hearing into hacking by News Corp. journalists erupted into chaos Tuesday as CEO Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man with what appeared to be a pie. — Wendi Deng Murdoch, his wife …
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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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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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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 …
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Martina Stewart / CNN:
From Clinton to Palin to Bachmann: Why some Dems now support GOP women
From Clinton to Palin to Bachmann: Why some Dems now support GOP women
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Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Rick Perry Group Gears Up for Iowa Straw Poll
Rick Perry Group Gears Up for Iowa Straw Poll
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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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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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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Split Evenly on Urgency of Debt Limit Debate — OVERVIEW — While administration officials project an economic catastrophe if the debt limit is not raised by Aug. 2, many Americans do not see this deadline as a major problem. Four-in-ten (40%) say that, from what they've read and heard …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bachmann Nation: For Republicans and Tea Partyers, there is no imminent crisis
Bachmann Nation: For Republicans and Tea Partyers, there is no imminent crisis
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
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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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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.
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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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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:
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Coburn Proposes Eliminating The Dollar Bill To Reduce The Deficit — Yesterday, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) unveiled his dead-on-arrival plan to reduce the nation's debt by $9 trillion over the next 10 years. Coburn, who stormed out of debt talks a few weeks ago in a tempter tantrum …
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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.
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Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Some federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs — Federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, a USA TODAY analysis finds. — Death — rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs …
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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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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. …
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