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Opinion: Defeat of healthcare law would erode voters' trust in Supreme Court — Every political strategist working the fall elections sees a game changer coming by the end of the month. — That's when the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of President Obama's signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act.
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ABCNEWS, Pirate's Cove, Jammie Wearing Fools, The Lonely Conservative and Prairie Weather
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Supreme Court's Super Mondays Don't Serve Justice — For court watchers, the drama is becoming unbearable. With just two Mondays left on the U.S. Supreme Court's calendar to announce opinions — June 18 and 25 — the five most important cases of the term all remain undecided.
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Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire

TPM2012 — Whitehouse: ‘Very Little’ Hope For Bipartisan Push …
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Campaign 2012 and CANNONFIRE


Egypt's military issues decree giving vast powers to armed forces, but few to president — CAIRO — Egypt's military leaders issued a constitutional decree Sunday that gave the armed forces sweeping powers and degraded the presidency to a subservient role, as the Muslim Brotherhood declared …
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Power Line, Questions and Observations, Guardian, The Moderate Voice and The Lede
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Rival camps claim victory in Egypt vote
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Taylor Marsh, The Agonist, Newsy and New York Times

Egypt rulers promise power transfer by end of June
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The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and Haaretz

Greece as Victim — Ever since Greece hit the skids, we've heard a lot about what's wrong with everything Greek. Some of the accusations are true, some are false — but all of them are beside the point. Yes, there are big failings in Greece's economy, its politics and no doubt its society.
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Markets Relief Fades at Greek Election Results — LONDON — Market relief at the future of the euro zone began to fade by midmorning Monday, as stocks and the euro retreated and Spain's borrowing costs pushed up to around the 7 percent barrier seen by many as unsustainably high.
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Via Meadia, Slate, Ezra Klein, Daniel W. Drezner, IHT Rendezvous and The Daily Beast

Ann Romney: ‘I doubt’ we'll take as many overseas vacations as the Obamas — Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said Monday that she doubted that she and her husband would vacation overseas as frequently as the Obamas if her husband were to win election.
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Romney: No need to detail how I'll pay for massive tax cuts. Just trust me. — There's a great deal to chew on in Mitt Romney's interview with Bob Schieffer, which just aired on CBS. — Romney repeatedly refused to say whether he'd repeal Obama's order to halt deportations of DREAM-eligible youth.
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p m carpenter's commentary, The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and ThinkProgress

Romney mum on whether he'd overturn Obama immigration move
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Business Insider and Taylor Marsh


A Guide to How Obama's New Immigration Policy Will Work, And a Word of Caution — President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer attempt to deport young undocumented immigrants brought here as children, signaling a compassionate shift …
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The Reaction
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Romney's ‘Doing Fine?’ becomes ‘¿Van Bien?’ — (CNN) - Mitt Romney unveiled a Spanish language version of an English ad he released last week targeting President Barack Obama's record on the economy, days after the president announced a new policy aimed at stopping the deportation of some young illegal immigrants.

MCSO arrests girl, 6, suspected of illegal immigration — Maricopa County Sheriff Office deputies arrested a 6-year-old suspected illegal immigrant Friday, the day President Barack Obama softened the country's deportation policy toward young illegal immigrants.
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The Huffington Post, Balloon Juice, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite and The Lonely Conservative
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Six-Year-Old Illegal Alien Gets Arrested. Whose Fault Is It?
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Arrests 6-Year-Old Undocumented Immigrant
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland


WBUR Poll: Angus King Heavy Favorite To Replace Sen. Snowe — A new WBUR poll shows former Maine Gov. Angus King as the heavy favorite to replace retiring Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. Current poll numbers have King, who is running as an independent, with 50 percent of likely voters …
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Firedoglake, Washington Wire, Freedom to Marry Blog, Ballot Box, ThinkProgress, Hotline On Call and Outside the Beltway

The Obama Campaign Needs an Intervention — During a focus group in Denver last week, Jeffrey Penny laid out his “criteria” for giving President Barack Obama his vote this year as he did in 2008. — “I just want to see specifics and quit the trash talk,” the 31-year-old web designer …
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Vodkapundit


Scalia and Ginsburg Drop Hints about Obamacare's Fate at the Supreme Court — A Tea-Party supporter protest outside the US Supreme Court on the third day of oral arguements over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 28, 2012 in Washington, DC.
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The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Campaign 2012 and Questions and Observations
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The folly of Obamacare — We pay our presidents for judgment …
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Power Line

Giant Mushroom Cloud In Beijing (VIDEO) (PHOTOS) … FOLLOW: — Foreign Affairs, Video, Mushroom Clouds, Beijing, Beijing Mushroom Cloud, Beijing-China, China Mushroom Cloud, China Pollution, Green Haze, Haze, Massive Mushroom Cloud China, Mushroom Cloud Beijing, Mushroom Cloud Beijing Photos, World News


Obama's Harvard law professor says ‘President MUST be defeated in 2012’ (even though he's the man Barack used to have on speed dial) — A former professor of Barack Obama has turned against his one-time student and publicly urged voters not to re-elect him.


Obama plays 100th round of golf as president — CHICAGO — President Obama is spending Father's Day in his hometown playing the 100th round of golf of his presidency. — After a late night at the wedding of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's daughter Laura, the president was out of the house …
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Obama Plays Golf for the 100th Time of his Presidency
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NO QUARTER, The Gateway Pundit, ABCNEWS and Nice Deb


Research Report: How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the United States — Ryan T. Cragun, Stephanie Yeager, and Desmond Vega — The home in the photo (above) is the $1.75 million mansion of the Reverend Randy White, the former head pastor of Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Florida.
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The New Civil Rights Movement