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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
A Tax Is a Tax Is a Tax — One of the few bright spots in last week's Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care overhaul was a political one: The opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts argues that Obamacare is constitutional under the taxing powers of Congress.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Division, Uncertainty over Court's Health Care Ruling — Top One-Word Reactions — ‘Disappointed,’ ‘Surprised’ — OVERVIEW — The public has long been divided in its opinions about the 2010 health care law. There is now a similar division of opinion over last week's Supreme Court decision …
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Politico
David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
Roll Call - The Newspaper of Capitol Hill Since 1955 At the Races — Democrats won a victory with last week's Supreme Court ruling, but that doesn't mean the law will become more popular for the party politically. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) — The Supreme Court's decision upholding …
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2012 Decoded
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Early Reaction to Supreme Court Decision on the ACA — This poll fielded following the Supreme Court's decision upholding the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) finds a majority of Americans (56 percent) now say they would like to see the law's detractors stop …
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
CONSERVATIVES TO MITT: QUIT NOW IF YOU WON'T FIGHT OBAMATAX!
CONSERVATIVES TO MITT: QUIT NOW IF YOU WON'T FIGHT OBAMATAX!
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Power Line, GOP 12, Hot Air, The Caucus, Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit and Conservatives4Palin
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Now Leads Romney, 48% to 43%
Obama Now Leads Romney, 48% to 43%
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FiveThirtyEight, ABCNEWS, The Moderate Voice and Business Insider
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Psychiatrist: Obamacare ‘Absolutely Infantilizes Americans’
Fox News Psychiatrist: Obamacare ‘Absolutely Infantilizes Americans’
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Obama braces for June jobs data — Weak June manufacturing numbers released Monday intensified concern about the fragility of the economic recovery and turned election-watchers' attention toward unemployment numbers due out at the end of this week. — The reports, just four months …
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Nicholas Shaxson / Vanity Fair:
Where the Money Lives — For all Mitt Romney's touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is remarkably shy about disclosing numbers and investments. Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House to prohibit IRS from implementing healthcare law — The House as early as next week will pass legislation prohibiting the IRS from receiving any money from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the 2010 healthcare reform law. — Passage of the financial …
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RedState
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Eric Holder says Republicans have made him a ‘proxy’ to attack President Obama — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply criticized lawmakers Monday for voting to hold him in contempt of Congress last week, saying Republicans have made him a “proxy” to attack President Obama in an election year.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep Suggests Arresting Attorney General Eric Holder
GOP Rep Suggests Arresting Attorney General Eric Holder
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The Maddow Blog
Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:
Twitter complied with 75 percent of US requests for user info — Twitter received 679 requests for user information from the U.S. government in the last year, according to a report released by the company Monday. — The requests from the United States exceeded that of any other country …
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Los Angeles Times
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Twitter Blog:
Twitter Transparency Report
Twitter Transparency Report
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Obama campaign touts economic record ahead of first 2012 bus tour — President Obama's campaign is tagging his two-day bus trip in the Midwest later this week the “Betting on America” tour, an opportunity for the campaign to push their economic message against Mitt Romney in two key swing states.
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Sean Higgins / Washington Examiner:
Washington Post Fact Checker: I Don't Fact Check Our Own Writers
Washington Post Fact Checker: I Don't Fact Check Our Own Writers
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Politico, Washington Post and The Buzz Florida Politics Feed
Sharon Udasin / Jerusalem Post:
Israelis, Palestinians: 2 states in 5 years unlikely — Joint poll finds that the majority of both sides view the chances of establishing Palestinian state within next 5 years low. — Most Israelis and Palestinians view the chances of establishing an independent Palestinian state within …
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Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Romney, an Eye on Campaign, Plans a Trip to Israel
Romney, an Eye on Campaign, Plans a Trip to Israel
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BuzzFeed, The Caucus, Washington Examiner, Hotline On Call, ABCNEWS, Mondoweiss, The Rightnewz and Israel Matzav
David Frum / CNN:
Want to keep AC on? Bury power lines — Workers repair power lines in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Sunday. David Frum says buried power lines would help. … (CNN) — Congratulations: If you're reading this, you have electricity. Unfortunately, more than 3 million Americans this weekend couldn't join you.
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Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway and The Daily Dish
Brian Moylan / Guardian:
I don't regret outing Anderson Cooper | Brian Moylan — Given the struggles that gay men and women deal with in this country every day, Cooper's silence on the issue was a problem — • Emma Keller: Anderson Cooper was bullied into coming out — Congratulations, Anderson Cooper, on finally coming out of the closet.
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Emma G Keller / Guardian:
Anderson Cooper was bullied into coming out. We should know better
Anderson Cooper was bullied into coming out. We should know better
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte To Join Romney In New Hampshire On July 4 — Chris Fitzgerald/Candidate Photos/Newscom — ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: — New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte plans to march with Mitt Romney in Wednesday's Fourth of July parade in Wolfeboro, N.H., GOP sources tell ABC News.
Jim Sanders / Sacramento Bee:
California bill would allow a child to have more than two parents — Beaver had June and Ward. — Ricky had Ozzie and Harriet. — Mom and Dad, same-sex couples or blended families, California law is clear: No more than two legal parents per child. — When adults fight over parenthood …
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ProPublica:
Columnist Clarence Page Spoke at Rally for Iranian Militant Group — Late last month, syndicated columnist Clarence Page appeared at a rally in Paris in support of the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian group that has been lobbying Washington to be removed from the U.S. government's list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.
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Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Here's the Video of Newt Gingrich Bowing to the Leader of an Iranian Terrorist Group
Here's the Video of Newt Gingrich Bowing to the Leader of an Iranian Terrorist Group
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tpmmuckraker …, Wonkette and The Maddow Blog
New York Times:
Rigged Rates, Rigged Markets — Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, resigned on Monday, saying “the buck stops with me.” His was the first departure since the British bank agreed last week to pay $450 million to settle findings that, from 2005 to 2009, it had tried to rig benchmark interest rates to benefit its own bottom line.
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Vox Popoli, Jared Bernstein and DealBook
Nmcalvanah / Florida Democracy 2012:
Rep. West: Obama Wants Americans To ‘Be His Slave’ — PORT ST. LUCIE — Republican Rep. Allen West kicked off his Treasure Coast campaign for congressional District 18 on Sunday with a rally, during which he criticized President Obama on a variety of issues, using phrases and language guaranteed to get attention.
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Taylor Marsh, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos
nbcnewyork.com:
Judge: Twitter Must Turn Over Occupy Wall Street Protester's Tweets — Prosecutors say the messages could show whether Malcom Harris was aware of police orders he's charged with disregarding — Twitter has been ordered to give a New York City judge almost three months' worth …
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Midlevel Finance Jobs Leave Wall Street as Firms Cut Costs
Midlevel Finance Jobs Leave Wall Street as Firms Cut Costs
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