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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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Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, Politico, The Moderate Voice and The Maddow Blog
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Now Leads Romney, 48% to 43% — Represents largest lead for Obama among registered voters since April — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama has maintained at least a slight margin over Mitt Romney in each of the last six Gallup Daily tracking averages, including a 48% …
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ABCNEWS, FiveThirtyEight, The Moderate Voice and Business Insider
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
Roll Call - The Newspaper of Capitol Hill Since 1955 At the Races
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2012 Decoded
CNN:
CNN Poll: Health care ruling has not impacted race for White House, so far
CNN Poll: Health care ruling has not impacted race for White House, so far
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ABCNEWS, Politico, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, GOP 12, Taylor Marsh and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem memo to GOP women highlights benefits preserved in court ruling
Dem memo to GOP women highlights benefits preserved in court ruling
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CNN
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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Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Politico
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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
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Secret Service shuts down ‘Fire Holder’ protest outside White House
Secret Service shuts down ‘Fire Holder’ protest outside White House
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The PJ Tatler
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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La Daily Musto, Gawker, The New Civil Rights Movement, Mediaite, New York Magazine and BuzzFeed, more at Mediagazer »
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I'm Gay.”
Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I'm Gay.”
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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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The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Crain's New York Business, BuzzMachine, ThinkProgress, Gawker, Poynter and The Agonist
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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Business Insider
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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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Twitter Transparency Report — Wednesday marks Independence Day here in the United States. Beyond the fireworks and barbecue, July 4th serves as an important reminder of the need to hold governments accountable, especially on behalf of those who may not have a chance to do so themselves.
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World Now, Engadget, Mashable!, Wired, The Raw Story, Guardian and AllThingsD
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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Jammie Wearing Fools
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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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Jammie Wearing Fools
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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, The Buzz Florida Politics Feed and Washington Post
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
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
Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Romney, an Eye on Campaign, Plans a Trip to Israel — JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will visit Israel this summer to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders, a senior aide to the prime minister confirmed on Monday evening.
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BuzzFeed, Washington Examiner, Hotline On Call, ABCNEWS, Mondoweiss, The Rightnewz and Israel Matzav
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.
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
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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iOwnTheWorld.com
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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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Firedoglake and Via Meadia