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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Mourdock cheers SCOTUS for striking down Obamacare (Updated) — Yes, you read that right. — Indiana Treasurer and GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock applauds the Supreme Court's decision invalidating the Affordable Care Act in a new video uploaded to his YouTube account.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Tensions rise as justices kick healthcare ruling to next week — The Supreme Court did not rule on President Obama's healthcare law Thursday, raising tensions before a decision next week. — The ruling was possible Thursday but not expected. The court traditionally holds its biggest decisions until …
Ezra Klein:
Of course the Supreme Court is political — A poll of former Supreme Court clerks found that 57 percent think the individual mandate will be overturned — up from 35 percent before the oral arguments. The InTrade political betting markets put the odds of an overturn at 76 percent.
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theusconstitution.org:
DEVELOPING: COURT RULES IN CHAMBER'S FAVOR IN EVERY CASE DECIDED SO FAR THIS TERM
DEVELOPING: COURT RULES IN CHAMBER'S FAVOR IN EVERY CASE DECIDED SO FAR THIS TERM
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How Badly Will SCOTUS Screw Up Obamacare?
How Badly Will SCOTUS Screw Up Obamacare?
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Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Boehner: If Supreme Court strikes down health care law, ‘there will be no spiking of the ball’
Boehner: If Supreme Court strikes down health care law, ‘there will be no spiking of the ball’
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Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Health insurance plans owe $1.1 billion in rebates
Health insurance plans owe $1.1 billion in rebates
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Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg:
Romney Campaign Said To Ask Scott To Downplay Job Gains — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state's economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee's message that the nation …
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
GOP Holds Early Turnout Edge, But Little Enthusiasm for Romney — Obama Better Liked, Romney Ahead on Economy — OVERVIEW — Less than five months before Election Day, voters are not as engaged with the presidential campaign as they were at this point four years ago, when interest in the campaign reached record levels.
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BuzzFeed:
Romney's Cold War Strategy To Defeat Obama — Can the Republican spend him to death? “Our SuperPACs are our Star Wars.” — Image by Joe Raedle / Getty Images — Mitt Romney has adopted what top Republicans describe as a Cold War strategy to defeat President Barack Obama: To spend him into oblivion.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
4 Pinocchios for Obama's newest anti-Romney ad
4 Pinocchios for Obama's newest anti-Romney ad
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Mara MacDonald / WDIV-TV:
Poll shows Obama, Romney in statistical dead heat in Michigan; state called ‘purple’
Alexander Burns / Reuters:
Race gap hardens in 2012 contest
Race gap hardens in 2012 contest
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Anne-Marie Slaughter / The Atlantic Online:
Why Women Still Can't Have It All — It's time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here's what has to change.
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E.J. Graff / American Prospect:
Why Does The Atlantic Hate Women? — The picture alone filled me with dread: a baby in a briefcase. (Do go look at Jessica Valenti's hilarious compilation of images from this genre.) That sick feeling only increased when I got to the hideous headline: “Why Women Still Can't Have It All.”
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Garrett Epps / American Prospect:
The Court's Scott Walker Moment — On First Amendment Thursday, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court delivered an unsubtle warning to public employee unions: You are living on borrowed time. — In Knox v. Service Employees International Union, the five—Chief Justice John Roberts …
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
‘The Cycle’: MSNBC's New 3 PM Show Features Four Co-Hosts … REACT: — FOLLOW: — MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan, Msnbc 3 PM, Steve Kornacki, The Cycle, Toure, Toure Msnbc, Media News — MSNBC has found its replacement for Dylan Ratigan's show: “The Cycle.” — The new program …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The 20 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media (2012 Edition) — Welcome to the 4th annual 20 hottest conservative women in the new media. Besides myself, this year's new slate of judges included, 1) Ali Akbar from Vice and Victory and National Bloggers Club. 2) Steven Crowder.
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
BREAKING: Texas bank launches constitutional challenge to Dodd-Frank financial reform law — If the U.S. Supreme Court throws out President Obama's healthcare law this month, the only other remaining major achievement from the president's first term would be, arguably, the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
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Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
Yes, Iraq Definitely Had WMD, Vast Majority Of Polled Republicans Insist … REACT: — FOLLOW: — WASHINGTON — How misinformed are Republicans about world affairs? If presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's assertion that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe” …
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Sara Ganim / PennLive.com:
Jerry Sandusky case: Sandusky's adopted son, Matt, says he is a victim and would have testified, lawyer says — BELLEFONTE — Matt Sandusky, through his attorney Andrew Shubin, said that he met with prosecutors this week to say for the first time that he is a molestation victim of Jerry Sandusky, his adopted father.
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Sandusky case goes to jury
Sandusky case goes to jury
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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Romney vows to ‘replace’ Obama's immigration order — Mitt Romney said today he'll “replace and supersede” a recently imposed Obama administration order that halts the deportation of some illegal immigrants brought to the USA as children. — In his first extended remarks since Obama's order last week …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Breaking Now — We've got the first nuggets out of Mitt Romney …
Breaking Now — We've got the first nuggets out of Mitt Romney …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
John Bryson resigns as commerce secretary, citing recent seizure — View Photo Gallery — Commerce Secretary John Bryson resigns: Bryson's departure comes less than two weeks after he hit two vehicles near his California home, an episode that was tied to a seizure.
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Jennifer Epsteinand Josh Boak / Politico:
John Bryson resigns as Commerce secretary
John Bryson resigns as Commerce secretary
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BuzzFeed:
Ann Romney's High Horse — Super Hit had Butorphanol, Delomidine, Romifidine, and Xylatine in its system at the time of his sale, according to court documents. Testified an expert: “In my 38 years of practice, I have never come across a drug screen such as this where the horse has been administered …
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden's brawlers: Veep's security team squared off in Nantucket melee — This hulking Secret Service agent was taken in by Nantucket police after a barroom brawl, but was freed when everyone agreed not to press charges. — Eric “Bomb Squad” Gahagan, a Massachusetts State trooper …
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition — WASHINGTON — A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
‘Today’ Show's Unfortunate Lower Third — Really, “Today” show? You couldn't have come up with a less obtuse lower third for Ann Curry's interview with Steve Carell this morning? — New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
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Hunter Walker / Politicker:
Former KKK Leader David Duke Endorses Charles Barron [Video] — Dr. David Duke in his video endorsing Charles Barron for Congress. (Photo: YouTube) — Former KKK Grand Wizard and member of the Louisiana Legislature David Duke released a video yesterday endorsing Charles Barron in his race …
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Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Jay Rockefeller's swan song? — Now we know the first open Senate race of 2014: Jay Rockefeller's West Virginia seat. — Already the subject of speculation that he will not run for a sixth term in two years when he will be 77, Rockefeller's stunning coal-industry-needs-to-face- reality speech Wednesday seemed to confirm the rumors.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Rove: Pelosi ‘sounds like Mad Red Queen’ with arrest threat — Karl Rove said Rep. Nancy Pelosi was “dead wrong” when she suggested Wednesday that she could have had him arrested. — “The only way I could have been arrested is if the House adopted the resolution, which it did not,” …