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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I'm Gay.” — Last week, Entertainment Weekly ran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who come out in a much more restrained and matter-of-fact way than in the past. In many ways, it's a great development: we're evolved enough not to be gob-smacked when we find out someone's gay.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell: Covering 30 million uninsured is ‘not the issue’ — Mitch McConnell's appearance today on Fox News Sunday was remarkably revealing — it showed as clearly as you could want that the Supreme Court decision is finally forcing Republicans to declare what, exactly …
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
W.H. gets unexpected backup: Romney camp says it's a penalty, not a tax — Prominent Dems including White House chief of staff Jack Lew and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have repeatedly argued in recent days that the fee for not buying insurance under the health care law is in fact a penalty and not a tax.
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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Romney team agrees with Obama, individual mandate not a tax — A spokesman for Mitt Romney said the former Massachusetts governor agrees with President Obama that the individual mandate upheld by the Supreme Court last week is a penalty or a fine, rather than a tax.
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Rupert Murdoch / CNN:
TRENDING: Murdoch on Romney: ‘Of course I want him to win’
TRENDING: Murdoch on Romney: ‘Of course I want him to win’
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
CPAC's boy wonder swings left — Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009's Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party.
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Wall Street Journal:
A Vast New Taxing Power — The Chief Justice's ObamaCare ruling is far from the check on Congress of right-left myth. — The commentary on John Roberts's solo walk into the Affordable Care Act wilderness is converging on a common theme: The Chief Justice is a genius.
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Dems target vulnerable GOP lawmakers over health law repeal vote — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is launching a new campaign Monday targeting vulnerable GOP lawmakers on healthcare ahead of the House vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Donald Trump: ‘Roberts wanted to be loved’
Donald Trump: ‘Roberts wanted to be loved’
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Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in history ... if you ignore history — Maybe you've heard that Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in history. Not so. Not even close. Kevin Drum posted the evidence in a table. I turned it into a chart. More here and here.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
No, ‘Obamacare’ isn't ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart)
No, ‘Obamacare’ isn't ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart)
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
No, Obamacare Isn't the Biggest Tax Increase in History
No, Obamacare Isn't the Biggest Tax Increase in History
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Why are Republicans so awful at picking Supreme Court justices? — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s decision to side with the court's liberal bloc and uphold Obamacare raises an important question for conservatives: Why are Republicans so awful at picking Supreme Court justices?
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Christopher S. Rugaber / Associated Press:
US manufacturing shrinks for first time in 3 years — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years, a troubling sign as evidence builds that economic growth is slowing. — The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers …
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Manufacturing Contracts For First Time In Three Years
U.S. Manufacturing Contracts For First Time In Three Years
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Lexi Stemple / Fox News:
Gov. Scott: Florida will not implement insurance exchanges or expand Medicare — Florida, the state the led the fight against President Obama's health care law, will not comply with the Supreme Court opinion. — Gov. Rick Scott tells Fox News that he and his Attorney General, Pam Bondi …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Scott and Jindal Go Over the Brink on Medicaid Expansion
Scott and Jindal Go Over the Brink on Medicaid Expansion
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Associated Press:
Armando Montano, AP summer intern, dies in Mexico City at age 22 — Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press - In this June 4, 2012 photo, Armando Montano, 22, poses for an ID photo at the Associated Press office in Mexico City. Montano, an aspiring journalist who was working this summer …
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nbcnewyork.com:
Christie Calls Reporter “Idiot” at Press Conference — When a reporter tried to ask Chris Christie an off-topic question at a press conference, the governor snapped at him — New Jersey's governor is known for speaking his mind when something displeases him.
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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show — And these documents challenge Romney's claim that he left Bain Capital in early 1999. — Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma — Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed …
Josiah Ryan / Campus Reform:
Secret Service disrupts students' ‘Fire Holder protest’ over ‘suspicious package’ — The Secret Service on Monday shutdown a student-protest calling for the firing of Attorney General Eric Holder saying they were acting on concerns over a ‘a suspicious package’ apparently left by a tourist on White House grounds.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Great Illusion — Over the past few months I've read a number of optimistic assessments of the prospects for Europe. Oddly, however, none of these assessments argue that Europe's German-dictated formula of redemption through suffering has any chance of working.
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Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
The real victor in Brussels was Merkel — Mario Monti faced down the German chancellor and won the battle. He will survive a few more weeks or months in politics. It was clever of him to threaten a veto on something Angela Merkel badly needed. He had her in the corner.
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Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
Romney Surrogate Falsely Claims That Obamacare Would Harm Breast Cancer Patients — Following the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the Affordable Care Act, Republicans are renewing their attacks against reform law by claiming that it will harm health care. On Sunday, Carly Fiorina …
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Washington Post:
Sweaty Washington returns to work; mass outages persist, though numbers decline — Area residents experienced slightly less sweltering temperatures and relatively quiet roads on Monday, as utility companies continued to battle massive power outages from Friday's severe storms.
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