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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Pileup at the White House — It has been a Junius Horribilis for President Obama. — Job growth has stalled, the Democrats have been humiliated in Wisconsin, the attorney general is facing a contempt-of-Congress citation, talks with Pakistan have broken down, Bill Clinton is contradicting Obama …
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The Moderate Voice, WBAY-TV, The Week, Taylor Marsh and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
John Bryson's leave of absence adds to Obama's bad news — Commerce Secretary John Bryson stepped aside Monday, telling President Barack Obama he will take a medical leave of absence two days after he was involved in two car accidents near Los Angeles. — Bryson, whose spokeswoman …
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Commerce secretary's hit-and-run keeps Obama off message — A hit-and-run accident involving Commerce Secretary John Bryson threw the White House off message Monday just as President Obama sought to regain his footing after a series of political missteps. — After hitting a car …
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Jeff Kearns / Bloomberg:
Fed Says U.S. Wealth Fell 38.8% In 2007-2010 On Housing — The financial crisis wiped out 18 years of gains for the median U.S. household net worth, with a 38.8 percent plunge from 2007 to 2010 that was led by the collapse in home prices, a Federal Reserve study showed.
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Crooks and Liars, Sweetness & Light, Connecting.the.Dots and Suburban Guerrilla
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Martin Crutsinger / Business Week:
Fed reports how much recession shrank US wealth
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Does Mitt Romney need ‘Obamacare’? — Republicans are cheerleading for the Supreme Court to strike down President Barack Obama's health care law. — But there's one Republican who might be sorry: Mitt Romney. — There's fear in some GOP circles that if the court wipes the Affordable Care Act off …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Revisit Economic Debate
Obama to Revisit Economic Debate
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Loss of wealth highlights economic anxiety
Loss of wealth highlights economic anxiety
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Follower Problem — If you go to the Lincoln or Jefferson memorials in Washington, you are invited to look up in admiration. Lincoln and Jefferson are presented as the embodiments of just authority. They are strong and powerful but also humanized. Jefferson is a graceful aristocratic democrat.
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The Mahablog, No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice, Angry Bear and First Draft
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
The Fiscal Legacy of George W. Bush — Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul. He is the author of “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform - Why We Need It and What It Will Take.”
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Mother Jones, The Daily Dish and Daily Kos
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
HUGE! Neal Rauhauser's Vicious Lies Exposed by Yet Another Leaked E-Mail — Last night, I published an e-mail showing that Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser, representing himself as an agent of Brett Kimberlin's Velvet Revolution, had used his connections to the “Anonymous” …
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Brooks Bayne / The Trenches:
BREAKING: Neal Rauhauser Believes SWATter is One of His Own
BREAKING: Neal Rauhauser Believes SWATter is One of His Own
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The Other McCain and Datechguy's Blog
John Corvino / The New Republic:
Are Gay Parents Really Worse For Children? How a New Study Gets Everything Wrong — Question: What do the following all have in common? … Give up? The answer—assuming that they all have biological or adopted adult children between the ages of 18 and 39—is that they would all be counted as …
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The Daily Dish, Ross Douthat, Healthland, Box Turtle Bulletin, Slate, National Review, Good As You and The New Civil Rights Movement
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IU News Room:
IU community mourns passing of Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The entire Indiana University community mourns the passing today of Distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom, who received the 2009 Nobel Prize …
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Real Time Economics, Hit & Run and msnbc.com
Tim Mak / Politico:
Jeb Bush comments have blogs in uproar — Conservatives in the blogosphere lashed out at Jeb Bush for saying that Ronald Reagan and his father, George H.W. Bush, would not have fit well in the modern Republican Party, ripping the former Florida governor as a “RINO” and dismissing his “steaming pile of nonsense.”
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Power Line, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly and pandagon.net
Bloomberg:
House Of Dimon Marred By CEO Complacency Over Unit'S Risk — JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) could have spotted trouble at its chief investment office long before traders there racked up at least $2 billion in losses. One reason it didn't: Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon.
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
North Dakota Considers Eliminating Property Tax — BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them.
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americanthinker.com, Althouse, Rush Limbaugh, Randy's Roundtable and msnbc.com
The Boston Globe:
Mass. stalled antibullying guide under Romney — Objections to writing ‘transgender,’ ‘bisexual’ — In July 2006, former governor Mitt Romney vetoed a $158,000 budget line item that was earmarked for counseling violence victims in the “LGBT community.” — Former governor Mitt Romney's …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
THE ACADEMIC SCANDAL ELIZABETH WARREN AND HARVARD DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT — In 1990, Rutgers Professor Philip Shuchman charged Elizabeth Warren, along with Teresa A. Sullivan (above), the President of University of Virginia who resigned unexpectedly yesterday, and Jay Westbrook …
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JOSHUAPUNDIT, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Jammie Wearing Fools
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Fines for foul mouths in Mass. town — A Massachusetts town is crying foul on residents with dirty mouths. — Middleborough, a town of about 20,000 residents in the southeastern corner of the state, voted 183-50 on Monday to empower police officers to issue a $20 fine for cursing in public, The Associated Press reported.
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Jack Maddox / CNN:
Sheriff: Father kills man sexually abusing his daughter — (CNN) — A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said. — The father was casually acquainted with the alleged abuser, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.
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Scared Monkeys, Healthland, UrbanGrounds, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Daily Pundit
ThinkProgress:
Minnesota Priest Argues Catholics Can (And Should) Vote ‘No’ on MN Marriage Inequality Amendment — Minnesota priest Bob Pierson spoke out passionately on Sunday against Minnesota's proposed marriage inequality amendment. Pierson argued that Catholics must be free to vote their conscience.
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BuzzFeed:
Obama Sees Sharpest Drop In Donors From Western States — Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho are home to the highest percentage of 2008 Obama donors who have yet to contribute $200 or more this year. Analysts cite the issues, from climate change to the war in Iraq, and the economy.
Karen Weintraub / Boston Globe:
Freezer failure at brain bank hampers autism research — A freezer malfunction at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital has severely damaged one-third of the world's largest collection of autism brain samples, potentially setting back research on the disorder by years, scientists say.
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Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare's Secret History — How a Pfizer CEO and Big Pharma colluded with the White House at the public's expense. — On Friday House Republicans released more documents that expose the collusion between the health-care industry and the White House that produced ObamaCare, and what a story of crony capitalism it is.
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Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative
New York Post:
Now 'USA'-ban school boots Bieber, too — Bye, bye, Bieber! — Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that PS 90 in Brooklyn has scrapped Justin Bieber's ballad “Baby” from being belted out at the school's June 20 kindergarten graduation ceremony. — The move was triggered by a report …
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Romney Reverses Course, Claims It's ‘Completely Absurd’ To Say He Doesn't Want To Hire More Teachers — Mitt Romney slammed President Obama last week for wanting to hire “more firemen, more policemen, and more teachers,” making a clear assertion that those workers belong among …
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The Raw Story, Wonkette and Shakesville
Reuters:
Top conservative says read my lips: Don't sign ‘no new tax’ pledge — Spinners and Winners — As a conservative Republican, Lindsey Graham has never had a problem promising not to raise taxes. Like almost every other Republican member of Congress, during his last re-election campaign …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ABCNEWS, Daniel W. Drezner, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
BuzzFeed:
Glenn Beck's New Brand: Prophet Of Love — Two years after his controversial peak, an ambitious rally in Dallas — and a careful relaunch. Beck 2.0 is the conservative Dick Clark. — Graphics by Chris Ritter for BuzzFeed — IRVING, Texas — The spring of 2010 was a dark time for Glenn Beck.
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