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9:50 AM ET, June 25, 2012

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Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
The Muslim B'Hood takeover in Egypt shows Arab Spring is radical Islamic nightmare.  —  A year ago there were those of us who warned the Obama Administration of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt.  We were castigated as alarmists and loose cannons.  Today our predictions have come …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
White House offers praise of Egypt's election of Muslim Brotherhood president
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
New York Post:
Slapping a friend  —  For the past couple of months, Democrats and their pundit allies — apparently expecting to lose on ObamaCare in the Supreme Court — have been engaged in a campaign to delegitimize the high court in the eyes of the public.  In a related development …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
For Obama, Supreme Court health-care, immigration rulings to close a tough term  —  The Supreme Court this week will conclude its term by handing down much-anticipated rulings on health care and immigration, President Obama's remaining priorities before the justices.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking Fast and Furious docs  —  A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for The Hill.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Hispanic Voters Put Other Issues Before Immigration  —  Healthcare, unemployment are tops among six issues tested  —  PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. Hispanics prioritize immigration, healthcare, and unemployment to equal degrees, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll asking about the importance of six national policy issues.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Latinos strongly backing Obama
Jimmy Carter / New York Times:
A Cruel and Unusual Record  —  THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.  —  Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation's violation of human rights has extended.
Kathleen Geier / Washington Monthly:
Concern troll of the day: Campbell Brown  —  Question: does the New York Times op ed page have any quality control mechanisms?  At all?  —  Okay, we all know that there are major problems with some of their op ed columnists.  First off, there's David Brooks, that shallow …
Discussion: American Power
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
25% Fewer Men Than Women Graduate College; Obama: It's ‘A Great Accomplishment ... For America’  —  (CNSNews.com) - In an op-ed published Saturday in Newsweek, President Barack Obama marked the 40th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX—which bars gender discrimination in education …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Washington Post:
Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials  —  In January 2008, President George W. Bush was scrambling to bolster the American economy.  The subprime mortgage industry was collapsing, and the Dow Jones industrial average had lost more than 2,000 points in less than three months.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Brian X. Chen / Bits:
Flipboard in Content Deal With New York Times  —  The New York Times said on Monday that it would make its articles available through Flipboard, a popular app for browsing news and social media on phones and tablets.  It will be the first time that the newspaper has allowed subscribers …
Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz Getting Booted  —  Back in April, the Shark Tank floated the likelihood that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz was perhaps on her way out as DNC Chairwoman.  We now have learned that Wasserman Schultz will not be back as DNC Chairwoman after the November elections.
Hal Libby / The Daily Caller:
Shop owners recall more teen Romney pranks: fake stickup, impersonating firefighter  —  On a Friday evening in 1962, or perhaps 1963, Ben Shaw and his sales employees at the Princeton Prep Shoppe in Birmingham, Mich., were watching traffic roll by as an ordinary work day wound down.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Seth / GLAAD:
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Romaric Ollo Hien / Agence France Presse:
Wine, women and song tempt Mali's Islamists
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Shadid said to blame NYT for death
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Koch: I helped change Obama
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New York Times:
Ex-Governor of New York Reluctantly Accepts Portrait
Boston Globe:
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Jewish surrender: LA Jewish Federation submits to Hamas-linked Muslim groups, cancels Geller event
New York Post:
Why ‘Fast and Furious’ matters
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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