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10:30 AM ET, July 24, 2011

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Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Boehner's Market Signals?  Did August 2nd Just Become Tomorrow?  —  Unbelievable.  The scripting of this high stakes drama between House Speaker John Boehner balancing the White House on one side and the never compromise, never surrender Tea Party on the other keeps getting better and better.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  GOP readies new debt ceiling plan; bill set for Sunday  —  House Republicans are finishing work on a new proposal to resolve the standoff over the debt ceiling.  The proposal, set to be finished and crafted into the form of a bill by Sunday, will be in two parts.
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Boehner Set To Call Obama's Bluff In Push For Short-Term Debt Ceiling Deal … Harry Reid , Debt Ceiling , Boehner Bluff , Boehner Obama , Boehner Savings , Boehner Short Term Deal , Debt Ceiling August , John Boener , Obama Bluff , Obama Savings , Obama Short Term Deal , Reid Short Term Deal , Short Term Deal , Politics News
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Congress ditches Obama on debt talks  —  First came the Biden talks.  When those blew up, the Obama-Boehner talks took center stage.  And when that failed, the McConnell-Reid talks looked promising.  And after they faltered, the Obama-Boehner talks tried to find a new life.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Boehner tells GOP he will unveil new debt strategy  —  House Speaker John A. Boehner told his troops Saturday that he hopes to roll out a two-step strategy within the next 24 hours for raising the federal debt ceiling to avoid roiling Asian financial markets when they open Sunday …
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body … WASHINGTON — Debt ceiling negotiators think they've hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public's unwillingness to let go of benefits such as Medicare and Social Security that have been earned …
The Note:
Obama and Boehner Back at the Altar?  —  ABC's Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) reports: With the opening of Asian markets now hours away and talks between Congressional leaders at a stand-still, ABC News has learned of a new high-stakes turn in the debt ceiling drama.
Discussion: Politics and blogs.abcnews.com
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Pelosi sees entitlement and tax reform delayed
Discussion: National Review
The Hill:
Responsibility for debt talks shifts to Congress, away from Obama
Discussion: Roll Call and Doug Ross
Bloomberg:
Boehner Said to Tell Republicans Positive Signal Needed for Asian Markets
Discussion: Sky Dancing and New York Times
Jamie Klatell / The Hill:   Reid: ‘I hope GOP leaders will reconsider their intransigence’ in negotiations
Andrew Goldman / New York Times:
Cornel West Flunks the President  —  What's with the black suit, white shirt, black tie outfit you always wear?  Do you have anything else in your closet?  —  I've got four black suits that I circulate, and they are my cemetery clothes — my uniform that keeps me ready for battle.
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Republicans, Zealots and Our Security  —  IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage.  —  Well, wake up to the national security threat.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
A Rock-Solid Conservative Who's Willing to Bend  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma was a Tea Partier long before the movement even had a name, the family physician who came to Washington to hammer on Democrats and Republicans alike.  His years of bill blocking earned him the nickname Dr. No.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Troubled David Wu reaches out to Nancy Pelosi  —  Rep. David Wu spoke to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats on Saturday about his political future in the wake of allegations of a sexual encounter with a teenager, but it is not clear whether the Oregon Democrat will step down from office.
Discussion: Red Dog Report
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Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Bad Food?  Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables  —  Mark Bittman writes about food for the opinion section.  —  WHAT will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits?  The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the Standard American Diet.
Daily Mail:
The shuttle as you've never seen it before: Space Station astronauts capture Atlantis re-entering the atmosphere from above ...hours before it is wheeled into hangar for the last time  — Now Atlantis is home, 3,200 of the shuttle program's 5,500 contract workers will lose their jobs tomorrow
Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Anders Behring Breivik: profile of a mass murderer  —  A right-wing fundamentalist with a hatred for Norway's left, multiculturalism and Muslims  —  Not far from of Elverum, 80 miles north of Oslo, a cluster of clapboard buildings, white and red, sits under a low mountain ridge at the end of a dirt track.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Make Way for the Radical Center  —  DID I mention that I've signed a pledge — just like those Republican congressmen who have signed written promises to different political enforcers not to raise taxes or permit same-sex marriage?  My pledge is to never vote for anyone stupid enough to sign a pledge …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Amy Winehouse, British Soul Singer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 27  —  Amy Winehouse, the British singer who found worldwide fame with a smoky, hip-hop-inflected take on retro soul, yet became a tabloid fixture as her problems with drugs and alcohol brought about a strikingly public career collapse …
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Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
Right-Wing Pundits Jumped To Blame Muslims And ‘Jihadists’ For Norway Attacks  —  When news began to unfold on Friday of the terror attacks in Norway that has left more than 90 dead, many blogs and Twitter accounts immediately lit up with speculation about who was behind the massive bombings …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
After Long Wait, Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York
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Charles Moore / Telegraph:
I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right
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Anne Bayefsky / Weekly Standard:
The Czechs Pull Out of Durban III (Updated)
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Pajamas Media
Michael McConnell / Advancing a Free Society:
Contrary to the President, Social Security Checks Are Not At Risk
Discussion: Pundit Press and EconLog
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
The official straw poll ballot is now final, but write-ins will be counted
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Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
At least 32 die in east China high-speed train crash
Associated Press:
Gunmen Kill Iranian Nuclear Scientist in Tehran
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Pajamas Media
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
FAA hits partial shutdown. Nobody notices.
Discussion: The Other McCain
Jeffrey Sachs / The Huffington Post:
Budgetary Deceit and America's Decline
Discussion: Economist's View