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Amy Davidson / News Desk:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hero — I am glad that John Roberts, the Chief Justice, voted to uphold almost all of the Affordable Care Act. But the stance of humble gratitude toward Roberts that's been assumed by many in the past day is beginning to be a bit much.
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The Democratic Daily and Brad DeLong
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
A Dark Cloud On A Sunny Day
A Dark Cloud On A Sunny Day
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The Moderate Voice, naked capitalism and Suburban Guerrilla
James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Common Sense: Health Care Won, but Congress May Have Lost
Common Sense: Health Care Won, but Congress May Have Lost
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JustOneMinute and CNN
New York Post:
It's on to November
It's on to November
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TAX POLITICS, Wall Street Journal, American Power, The Other McCain and Outside the Beltway
Mark Walsh / ABA Journal Daily News:
SCOTUS Notebook: A Minute-by-Minute Account from Inside the Courtroom on the Big Day
SCOTUS Notebook: A Minute-by-Minute Account from Inside the Courtroom on the Big Day
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Newshoggers.com and Scope Blog
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Health Care Overhaul Is Still No Hit With Public — WASHINGTON — On the day President Obama took the final step in turning the Affordable Care Act into law, his senior adviser, David Axelrod, predicted the public would eventually embrace his ambitious effort at health care reform.
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Matt Cover / CNSNews:
White House Statement on Obamacare Mandate Tax Contradicts Supreme Court Ruling — (CNSNews.com) - The White House said Friday that the Obamacare insurance mandate tax is a penalty for not having insurance - a statement that directly contradicts what the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Wake up America, Patterico's Pontifications, protein wisdom, Conservatives4Palin and Politico
Nick Summers / The Daily Beast:
New Poll: Voters Dislike Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling
New Poll: Voters Dislike Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Weekly Standard, American Power and Gallup
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House urges Dems to go on offense on healthcare reform
White House urges Dems to go on offense on healthcare reform
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Spike Dolomite Ward / Los Angeles Times:
The court saved my lifeline
The court saved my lifeline
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The Moderate Voice, CBS News and Daily Kos
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Friday night news dump: White House salaries edition — The White House released its annual report to Congress on staff salaries. At 4:39 p.m. on Friday. — A quick review found the White House payroll appears to have grown since last year, going from $37.1 million in 2011 to $37.8 million in 2012.
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Weasel Zippers and TAX POLITICS
AJE - Al Jazeera English:
Egypt's Morsi defies military in fiery speech — President-elect takes symbolic oath of office and says “no institution is above the people” on eve of his inauguration. — Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president-elect, took a symbolic oath of office during a rousing speech in Cairo …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Morsi Promises to Work for Release of Imprisoned Sheik
Morsi Promises to Work for Release of Imprisoned Sheik
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National Review, americanthinker.com, The Lede, The Jawa Report, Outside the Beltway and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Kate Wiltrout / Virginian-Pilot:
SEAL training range won't show woman as target — The Navy will not use a target depicting a Muslim woman holding a gun at a new training range for SEALs in Virginia Beach. — The announcement came hours after the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Pentagon to remove the target.
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The Jawa Report, Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
For Opponents of Health Care Law, No Easy Road to Repeal — WASHINGTON — Minutes after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold most of the health care law, Congressional Republicans vowed to use every ounce of their legislative muscle to repeal it on their own. — The court's ruling that Congress …
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Prairie Weather and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Manu Rajuand Jake Sherman / Politico:
The Republican recipe for repeal
The Republican recipe for repeal
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CNN, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Obama Contributor, Who Helped Enact Assault-Weapons Ban, Ran ‘Fast and Furious’ — (CNSNews.com) - Dennis K. Burke, who as a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s was a key player behind the enactment of the 1994 assault-weapons ban, and who then went …
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Weasel Zippers
Eugene Kiely / FactCheck.org:
Obama's ‘Outsourcer’ Overreach — The president's campaign fails to back up its claims that Romney ‘shipped jobs’ overseas. — Obama accuses Romney in a series of TV ads of being a “corporate raider” who “shipped jobs to China and Mexico,” asking if voters want to elect an “outsourcer in chief.”
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Betsy's Page and National Review
Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to ‘run away’ and ‘hide’ from gunmen — A pocket card handed out to Homeland Security employees in April detailing how they should handle an “active shooter” situation. — Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for telling them …
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The Jawa Report
Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
Mississippi Tea Party Chairman Calls For Open Rebellion Against Federal Government After Obamacare Ruling — Of all the right-wing meltdowns following yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, this statement put out by the chairman …
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The Huffington Post and The Raw Story
Eric Lach / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker — Texas GOP's 2012 Platform Opposes Teaching Of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’ — The Republican Party of Texas' recently adopted 2012 platform contains a plank that opposes the teaching of “critical thinking skills” in schools. The party says it was a mistake …
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Daily Kos, Colorlines and Taking Note
Associated Press:
Obama administration considers turning Taliban detainees over to Afghanistan — The Obama administration is considering a new gambit to restart peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan that would send several Taliban detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba …
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Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Strong / Roll Call:
Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record — In the midst of a fiery floor debate over contempt proceedings for Attorney General Eric Holder, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) quietly dropped a bombshell letter into the Congressional Record.
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Doug Ross, americanthinker.com, JustOneMinute and RedState
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CNN:
No criminal prosecution of Holder for contempt
No criminal prosecution of Holder for contempt
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Mediaite, The Raw Story and Politico