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6:00 PM ET, June 16, 2012

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Tim Mak / Politico:
Sarah Palin mocks Obama on drug use, dogs  —  LAS VEGAS - Sarah Palin ridiculed President Barack Obama at a conservative bloggers conference Friday for his “cocaine snorting” and eating dog as a child.  —  “That cocaine snorting, and what he ate — Fido?  Rufus?” the former Alaska governor said …
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Tim Mak / Politico:
Bloggers honor Breitbart in Las Vegas  —  LAS VEGAS — The RightOnline conservative bloggers conference opened Friday evening with a tribute to Andrew Breitbart, the late conservative pundit known for his pugilistic journalism and confrontations with the left.
The Right Scoop:
Full Speech: Sarah Palin at Right Online 2012  —  Sarah Palin spoke tonight at Right Online 2012 about the impact the new media is having on the political landscape, all the way from Matt Drudge and his modem to the new media reporters on the ground exposing the Occupy movement.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
WHCA: Reporter ?discourteous?  —  The president of the White House Correspondents' Association has called today's “rude interruption” of President Obama by a Daily Caller reporter “discourteous,” but said that the Daily Caller's status as a member for the White House in-town press pool …
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Alex Pareene / Salon:
Angry Daily Caller person shouts at president  —  Daily Caller writer expresses disapproval of Barack Obama's immigration announcement in a manner you'd expect  —  So.  The president was just giving a Rose Garden address announcing his administration's plan to stop deporting certain immigrants.
Bill Mears / CNN:
Justice Ginsburg suggests ‘sharp disagreement’ over hot-button cases  —  Washington (CNN) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is predicting “sharp disagreement” as the Supreme Court prepares by month's end to release some of its most-talked-about rulings, including the constitutionality of the health care law championed by President Obama.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
On eve of health ruling, Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicts ‘sharp disagreement’
Discussion: Hot Air
Siva Vaidhyanathan / Slate:
Strategic Mumblespeak  —  Er, UVA's Teresa Sullivan was fired for what?  —  In the 19th century, robber barons started their own private universities when they were not satisfied with those already available.  But Leland Stanford never assumed his university should be run like his railroad empire.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
George F. Will / Washington Post:
George Will: Unleash the high court  —  Because judicial decisions have propelled American history and because a long-standing judicial mistake needs to be rectified, the most compelling of the many reasons for electing Mitt Romney is that presidential elections shape two of the federal government's three branches.
LAW.com:
In second book, Scalia, Garner warn judicial decisions leading to ‘descent into social rancor’  —  The National Law JournalJune 15, 2012  —  A new book co-authored by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing expert Bryan Garner accuses judges - including some on the Supreme Court …
Discussion: protein wisdom
The White House:
Presidential Letter — 2012 War Powers Resolution 6-Month Report  —  Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)  —  I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by my Administration and consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148), as part of my efforts to keep …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Acknowledges U.S. Is Fighting Groups Tied to Al Qaeda in Somalia and Yemen
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Agonist
John Yoo / National Review:
Executive Overreach  —  President Obama's claim that he can refuse to deport 800,000 aliens here in the country illegally illustrates the unprecedented stretching of the Constitution and the rule of law.  He is laying claim to presidential power that goes even beyond that claimed by the Bush administration, in which I served.
Jacob Goldstein / NPR:
The Karl Marx MasterCard Is Here.  It Needs A Tagline.  —  The German bank Sparkasse Chemnitz recently launched a Karl Marx credit card.  The bank let people vote online for 10 different images, and Marx was the “very clear winner,” beating out a palace, a castle and a racetrack, among others.
Samuel P. Jacobs / Reuters:
Independents say Obama hurts job creation  —  (Reuters) - With President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney delivering dueling visions for the U.S. economy in speeches on Thursday, a majority of independents said that Obama's policies have made it harder for Americans to gain employment …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
 
 
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Santorum: Romney ‘solid’ on social conservative issues
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Indie Voters Could Sink Obama
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Pervy Perp Again Busted For Sex With Teddy Bear
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Wis. Gov. Walker hits Obama over economy in GOP weekly address
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
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Catholic hospitals say Obama compromise on birth control for women employees is unworkable
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