memeorandum: Ten Questions for Brandon Darby (Robert Stacy McCain/The Other McCain)

10:00 PM ET, July 1, 2012

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Jan Crawford / CBS News:

Roberts switched views to uphold health care law — (CBS News) Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed …

Jan Crawford / CBS News:

Roberts switched views to uphold health care law — Some of the conservatives, such as Justice Clarence Thomas, deliberately avoid news articles on the Court when issues are pending (and avoid some publications altogether, such as The New York Times). They've explained that they don't want …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, Hit & Run, National Review and The PJ Tatler

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
McConnell: Healthcare ruling clears way for Senate to repeal law

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, iOwnTheWorld.com, Macsmind, Politico and UrbanGrounds

John Boehner / CNN:
House leaders duel over health care repeal

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Gary Fineout / NBC 6 Miami: Gov. Scott Says Fla. Won't Comply with Health Care Law

CNN:
Obama chief of staff: Time to get over debate

Discussion: Politico, New York Magazine and Taylor Marsh

New York Times:

Bain Attacks Make Inroads for President — Propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements, President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital to raise questions about Mr. Romney's commitment to the middle class, strategists in both parties say …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Politico, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hullabaloo and Prairie Weather

CNN:
TRENDING: Rupert Murdoch's advice to Romney: Get some pros on your team

Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and New York Magazine

Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Political Perceptions: Romney's Clintonesque Challenge

Discussion: Daily Kos

Jason Samenow / Washington Post:

Derecho: Behind Washington, D.C.'s destructive thunderstorm outbreak, June 29, 2012 — Radar sequence of derecho thunderstorm complex. Storm traveled about 600 miles in 10 hours at an average speed of 60 mph. (Storm Prediction Center) Between 9:30 and 11 p.m. Friday night …

Discussion: Guardian, Addicting Info, Weekly Standard, WJLA-TV and Taylor Marsh

Washington Post:
Power outages could last for days

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Bill Scher / New York Times:

How Liberals Win — PRESIDENT OBAMA has endured much criticism of his legislative skills from his fellow progressives. His conciliatory approach has been compared unfavorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt's gleeful pugnacity and Lyndon B. Johnson's relentless arm-twisting.

Discussion: The Impolitic, The Agonist, protein wisdom and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Cade Metz / Wired:

‘Leap Second’ Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web — An oddity in the world's atomic clocks caused problems with some big name web operations on Saturday, including Reddit and Mozilla. — Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Discourse.net, Mashable!, BuzzFeed, IHT Rendezvous, New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared and Gawker

Gary Taubes / New York Times:

What Really Makes Us Fat — A CALORIE is a calorie. This truism has been the foundation of nutritional wisdom and our beliefs about obesity since the 1960s. — What it means is that a calorie of protein will generate the same energy when metabolized in a living organism as a calorie of fat or carbohydrate.

Discussion: JustOneMinute

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:

Ten Questions for Brandon Darby — BRANDON DARBY (photo by Todd Wiseman/Texas Tribune) … 1. How long have you been following the Brett Kimberlin story, and how did you become interested in it? — The Kimberlin/Rauhuaser issue isn't unique to Kimberlin and Rauhuaser.

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Busted: Audio of Obama Lawyer Arguing Obamacare Is a Tax Stuns WH Chief of Staff Jack Lew (Video) — Democrats told us Obamacare was not a tax. — Then they argued in front of the Supreme Court that it was a tax. — Now they want to tell us again that Obamacare is not a tax.

Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and The Lonely Conservative

Glenn Reynolds / Washington Examiner:

Sunday Reflection: The Supreme Court, Obamacare and ‘legitimacy’ — In the weeks and months leading up to the Supreme Court's Obamacare decision — when Democrats were afraid they were going to lose — we were treated to a steady parade of liberal pundits and politicians arguing that a decision …

Discussion: Hot Air, Hit & Run, Power Line and American Power