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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
To Hell with You People — Look, I am past exhausted talking about liberal media bias. It's real, we all know it, and people who deny it aren't even fooling themselves. But some things just have to be pointed out. This morning I watched the first 15 minutes of the Today Show.
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Tea Party's War on America — You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. — These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Last Look from Across the Pond: Was This Obama's “Read My Lips” Moment? — I understand why Tea Partiers and even conservatives who drink decaf might think the debt ceiling deal isn't very good, even allowing for the current strength of forces on the political chess board.
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Orrin Hatch: I'm a tea party person
Orrin Hatch: I'm a tea party person
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Guy Benson Endless: The Left Ratchets Up ‘Tea Party Terrorists’ Narrative
Guy Benson Endless: The Left Ratchets Up ‘Tea Party Terrorists’ Narrative
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Michael Lind / Salon:
The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism — The Tea Party movement takes its name from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American patriots dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest British imperial power. But while New England was the center of resistance to the British empire …
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Obama signs debt bill into law — Treasury won an immediate reprieve of $400 billion in new borrowing authority Tuesday, as the Senate gave final approval to a hotly contested debt and deficit-reduction agreement hammered out with the White House Sunday night.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pelosi: My Deficit Committee Members Will Oppose All Entitlement Benefit Cuts — The debt limit fight is over, but the fight over entitlement programs will continue for months. In the weeks ahead, the leaders of both parties in both the House and Senate will name three members each …
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Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's grand slam
Obama's grand slam
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems eat Satan sandwich, GOP looks to next course
Dems eat Satan sandwich, GOP looks to next course
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Don Surber:
Saving Matt Damon — Many conservatives think of Matt Damon as another stuck-on-himself multi-millionaire liberal in Hollywood who says one thing but lives otherwise. — But I think of him as a friend of Ben Affleck, who is married to Jennifer Garner, who grew up in Charleston, West Virginia …
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Richard Lawson / Gawker:
Matt Damon Gives Libertarian Reporter a Satisfying Smackdown
Matt Damon Gives Libertarian Reporter a Satisfying Smackdown
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Kristin Fisher / wusa9.com:
Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, Possible Jail Time — “I've just always loved animals,” said Skylar Capo. “I couldn't stand to watch it be eaten.” — Skylar couldn't find the woodpecker's mother, so she brought it to her own mother, Alison Capo, who agreed to take it home.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Fiscal Conservatives Barred from Supercommittee — Will Senate Republicans be able to prevent tax hikes? — The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon. No suspense there. But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS …
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Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Who gains from debt deal? The Pentagon, for one — WASHINGTON — The last-minute deal that Congress is considering to raise the federal debt limit probably will mean trillions of dollars in government spending reductions for most agencies. But one department stands to gain: the Pentagon.
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Debt deal could cut defense $900B over next decade
Debt deal could cut defense $900B over next decade
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP winning the larger argument over government — In recent days, the debt ceiling deal — which just passed the Senate and is about to be signed by the President — has sparked a fair amount of handwringing among liberals who worry that the fight shows the left has lost the larger argument …
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Rachel Maddow Extends MSNBC Contract (Exclusive) … MSNBC has extended Rachel Maddow's contract in a new multi-year deal that will keep the primetime host at the cable news network well beyond the 2012 presidential election. — The announcement is expected to come Tuesday at the network's portion …
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John Detrixhe / Bloomberg:
Moody's, Fitch Affirm U.S. Ratings While Warning of Downgrades — Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings affirmed their AAA credit ratings for the U.S. while warning that the ratings could be downgraded if lawmakers fail to enact debt reduction measures and the economy weakens.
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Allan Chernoff / CNNMoney.com:
Debt ceiling cost to taxpayers: $1.7 billion — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The debt ceiling debacle has just cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1.7 billion. — That's the amount of additional interest the government had to pay investors Monday to sell Treasury bills that finance its operations.
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Jsimoncnn / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Most Americans dislike debt deal, think lawmakers acted like ‘spoiled children’ — (CNN) - A majority of Americans disapprove of the deal struck Sunday by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders that will raise the country's legal borrowing limit …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Virginia Republican Numbers —In another sign of his strength as he prepares to enter the Presidential race Rick Perry leads the Republican field in Virginia, pointing to the possibility for him to be a very strong candidate particularly in the South. He gets 20% to 16% for Mitt Romney …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney to pick up pace in new phase of 2012 campaign
Mitt Romney to pick up pace in new phase of 2012 campaign
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Moderate Senate Dems prepare a balanced budget amendment — One of the big victories by tea-party Republicans in the debt-ceiling measure signed into law Tuesday was securing a requirement that Congress vote later this year on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Stocks Slump More Than 2% Despite Debt Vote — A Senate vote to pass the debt ceiling plan on Tuesday may have averted the potential for the United States to default on its obligations, but it failed to lift investors' spirits. The Dow Jones industrial average slumped 266 points by the close of trading …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Calls Use of the Word ‘Terrorists’ to Describe Tea Partyers ‘Inappropriate’ and ‘the Product of An Emotional Discussion’ — Given the presence of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., at Congress last night - and President Obama's January 12 speech to the nation about the need for …
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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Perfect Timing: Pamela Geller's New WND Book Echoes Oslo Terrorist's Book — With impeccable timing, today Pamela Geller is hyping the release of her new book, published by the far right's craziest pseudo-news and Birther site, World Net Daily: Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Joe Lieberman Says U.S. Should Cut Social Security To Pay For Fighting ‘The Islamist Extremists’ — This past April, right-wing war hawk John Bolton suggested during an interview on Fox News that the United States should cut Social Security and Medicare to finance the defense budget.
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Financial Times:
Spain and Italy rush to quell fresh crisis — By Richard Milne in London and Victor Mallet in Madrid — Spanish and Italian politicians rushed to formulate a fresh response to the debt crisis engulfing their two countries as their borrowing costs hit new euro-era highs on Tuesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Downgrade, Alphabetically — H is for Hillary, who would have made a better president. — Snapshots from President Obama's efforts to improve America's standing in the world, 923 days into his administration: — A is for the Arab world, and our standing in it: This year …
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Gingrich slams Obama's “Paul Krugman presidency” — Newt Gingrich invokes the liberal economist and New York Times columnist.
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
‘Two And A Half Men’ Premiere To Feature Charlie Harper's Funeral, His Girlfriends Back & His House For Sale — UPDATE MONDAY: I've got more information on the shrouded-in-secrecy ninth-season premiere of CBS' comedy Two and a Half Men, which will feature the debut of new star Ashton Kutcher and which I now hear will be a two-parter.
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Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Reaping Millions in Nonprofit Care for Disabled — Medicaid money created quite a nice life for the Levy brothers from Flatbush, Brooklyn. — The brothers, Philip and Joel, earned close to $1 million a year each as the two top executives running a Medicaid-financed nonprofit organization serving the developmentally disabled.
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Paul Tullis / The Huffington Post:
What Obama Forgot About Change in Washington — So after all that, what did we get, really? — $91 billion a year in promised cuts for 10 years. That's about 6% of last year's federal budget, and it is subject to approval by future Congresses. This is evocative of what happened in 1981 …
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Ulrike Putz / Spiegel Online:
Iran Nuclear Program — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. — Sabotaging Iran's Nuclear Program — Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source — The funeral of Darioush Rezaei on July 24. Mossad has been blamed for the killing.
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Saeed Ahmed / CNN:
Tooth Fairy cutbacks: Economy at root — (CNN) — Getting the Tooth Fairy to pony up in this sagging economy has been like pulling teeth. — A recent survey found that the national going rate has seen a 40-cent decline this year: From $3 to $2.60. — What's worse?
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Ben Forer / ABCNEWS:
MADE IN AMERICA: Money Where Their Mouths Are? — Republican presidential candidates are pitching plans to revive the economy, selling a message of jobs and growth. But when it comes to what they are buying, ABC News found that four of the candidates are selling merchandise made overseas.
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New York Times:
Debt Bill Becomes Law, Averting Default — WASHINGTON — President Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation raising the government's debt ceiling and cutting trillions of dollars in spending, finally ending a fractious partisan battle just hours before the government's borrowing authority was set to run out.
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