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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:

Pelosi Outlines Revenue-Free Path Forward On Debt Limit Fight — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi acknowledged Friday that Democrats may reluctantly accept a last-minute compromise to avoid a default that involves up to $2.5 trillion in spending cuts — without agreed-upon new tax revenues …

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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:

The President Is Actually Trying to Talk the Markets Into a Panic. — An enraged Barack Obama just took to the nation's airwaves to announce his effort to strike a deal with Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner has fallen apart. Perhaps for the first time in American history …

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Right Wing News, Taylor Marsh and Doug Ross

David Rogers / The Politico:

Debt talks between Barack Obama and John Boehner break down — Debt talks between President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner broke down again Friday with Republicans accusing the White House of upping its demands for new revenues after a rival deficit reduction plan had emerged in the Senate.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Pajamas Media, Outside the Beltway, TPMDC, msnbc.com, Reuters and Hot Air

New York Times:

Obama Should Raise the Debt Ceiling on His Own — PRESIDENT OBAMA should announce that he will raise the debt ceiling unilaterally if he cannot reach a deal with Congress. Constitutionally, he would be on solid ground. Politically, he can't lose. The public wants a deal.

Discussion: CANNONFIRE and The Moderate Voice

Brian Montopoli / CBS News:

John Boehner walks away from debt talks — House Speaker John Boehner has walked away from negotiations with President Obama over a deal to raise the debt limit. — “In the end, we couldn't connect. Not because of different personalities, but because of different visions for our country,” Boehner said in a letter to colleagues.

Discussion: The Politico, Don Surber, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast and The Other McCain

Rebecca Kaplan / The Atlantic Online:

Obama: Can They Say Yes to Anything? — After John Boehner breaks off debt-limit talks with the White House, the president laments the death of a potential compromise — President Obama ordered Democratic and Senate leaders to the White House for negotiations on Saturday …

Paul Kane / Washington Post:

Obama-Boehner talks collapse; each side blames the other — Debt-reduction negotiations between President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner collapsed Friday, derailing an effort to reach a landmark agreement to cut spending, overhaul the tax code and avert a government default.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Lonely Conservative, DownWithTyranny!, Weasel Zippers, The Atlantic Online, Clusterstock and Pajamas Media

Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama blasts GOP, Boehner on debt: ‘We have run out of time’

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Doug Ross

The Huffington Post:
Debt Ceiling Deadline Might Be August 10, Not August 2: Report

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The Politico:
John Boehner's move plays to House

Discussion: The Note, Pundit & Pundette and The Moderate Voice

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The easiest, most effective way to resolve the crisis

Discussion: Eschaton

David Jackson / USA Today:
Boehner calls off debt talks with Obama

Discussion: The Huffington Post, MarketWatch, Washington Post and The Moderate Voice

Wall Street Journal:
Grand Bargain Talks Collapse

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New York Times:

At Least 80 Dead in Norway Shooting — OSLO — A lone political extremist bombed the government center here on Friday, killing 7 people, the police said, before heading to an island summer camp for young members of the governing Labor Party and killing at least 80 people.

Daily Mail:

Police dismiss initial fears Norwegian terror attacks were work of Islamist organisations — Police have said the Norwegian terror attacks do not appear to be linked to Islamist terrorism. — The 32-year-old Norwegian man arrested for gunning down children on the holiday island of Utoya …

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Haroon Siddique / Guardian:

Norway attacks - live coverage — • “Several” killed by gunman at youth conference in Utoya — If you have any information please email me at hannahgodfrey66@gmail.com — 10.41pm: On BBC's Newsnight Security Correspondent Gordon Corera says a youth rally is not a usual type of target …

BBC:
‘Eighty dead’ in Norway shooting

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Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Norway: dozens killed in terror attacks

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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Terror Strikes Norway

Discussion: The Long War Journal, The Atlantic Online, National Review and Pajamas Media

BBC:
Live text — Reporters: Peter Jackson, Susannah Cullinane …

Associated Press:
Norway horror: 80 die in camp shooting, 7 in blast

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Clusterstock

BBC:
Twin terror attacks shock Norway

Discussion: Reuters, msnbc.com, The Other McCain, Pajamas Media, Atlas Shrugs and Taylor Marsh

ThinkProgress:

FAA Will Close at Midnight, Furloughing Up to 4,000 Workers — The Federal Aviation Administration will shut down at midnight after GOP senators refused to let go of an anti-union provision amending the National Mediation Board's union voting rules. Speaking of the matter, Sen. Dick Durbin …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Lisa Caruso / Bloomberg:
U.S. House Stops Voting for Week With No Action to Keep FAA Operating

Discussion: Truthdig

Oregonian:

Sources: Young woman accuses Oregon Rep. David Wu of aggressive, unwanted sexual encounter — By Charles Pope, Janie Har and Beth Slovic — A distraught young woman called U.S. Rep. David Wu's Portland office this spring, accusing him of an unwanted sexual encounter, according to multiple sources.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Hotline On Call

The Politico:
Wu at center of sex allegation

Discussion: Big Journalism

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

Obama weighs in on ‘constitutional option’ — President Obama hosted a town-hall event in College Park, Maryland, this morning, and much of the discussion naturally turned to the debt-ceiling fiasco unfolding on Capitol Hill. Of particular interest, though, was an exchange about the so-called “Constitutional Option.”

Discussion: Balkinization, Daily Kos and The Volokh Conspiracy

New York Times:
Debt Ceiling Talks Collapse as Boehner Walks Out

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Monthly, CNN, Balkinization, Crooks and Liars and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CC&B dies a quick death in the Senate

Discussion: Weigel, TPMDC, The Hill and Daily Kos

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

GOP Makes Big Gains among White Voters — Especially among the Young and Poor — OVERVIEW — As the country enters into the 2012 presidential election cycle, the electorate's partisan affiliations have shifted significantly since Barack Obama won office nearly three years ago.

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The Note:
Study: Democrats Losing Support of Poor Whites

Discussion: americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:

Bernie Sanders Says It Would Be A ‘Good Idea’ To Primary President Obama — Recently, President Obama has faced fire from many in his own base for endorsing unpopular proposals that would include regressive cuts to Social Security in order to win a hike in the debt ceiling.

Discussion: Valley News Live, The Confluence, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Taylor Marsh

Paul Krugman:

Debt and Forgetfulness — I keep seeing comments along the lines of “Keynesianism doesn't work, because liberals keep running deficits even when times are good, and never pay debt down.” — Guys, how about looking at recent history (pdf)? — Between 1993 and 2001 …

Discussion: Economist's View and Hullabaloo

Paul Krugman:

Obama / Nixon — Bruce Bartlett says what you're not supposed to say: Obama has governed as a moderate conservative, somewhat to the right of Richard Nixon. The frothing-at-the-mouth comments are an extra bonus. — And it is, of course, true; although Obama defenders would say that he had no option.

Discussion: Liberal Values, Booman Tribune, Sky Dancing and TalkLeft

Paul DeMiglio / Frontlines, The SLDN Blog:

Finally, Certification Issued! — Sarvis: We celebrate this day, but the fight for LGB equality in America's military marches forward — (Washington, D.C.) Service members today welcomed a key milestone in repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” (DADT), as President Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta …