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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
CONSERVATIVES TO MITT: QUIT NOW IF YOU WON'T FIGHT OBAMATAX! — The Obama campaign has seized on remarks made by Romney adviser Eric “Etch-A-Sketch” Fehrnstrom this morning on MSNBC, to the effect that the individual mandate in Obamacare (and Romneycare) is not a tax.
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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, Outside the Beltway and ABCNEWS
Josh Kraushaar / 2012 Decoded:
Romney Campaign Declaring Cease Fire on Health Care — In the aftermath of the Supreme Court health care ruling, the early conventional wisdom was that an unfavorable health care ruling at the court would be good for Republicans politically, even as it was a serious policy setback for conservatives.
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Washington Post:
Romney camp sides with Obama that health insurance mandate is not tax — View Photo Gallery — : The Romneys took a break from campaigning last weekend and headed to New Hampshire. View the best photos from the campaign trail. — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Monday rejected …
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TheBlaze.com, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Conservatives4Palin and ABCNEWS
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
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Early Reaction to Supreme Court Decision on the ACA
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Early Reaction to Supreme Court Decision on the ACA
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Washington Post, Liberal Values, CNN, Politico, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, Washington Wire and The Maddow Blog
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, Hot Air, Business Insider and Guardian
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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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Fifteen governors reject or leaning against expanded Medicaid program — At least 15 governors have indicated they will not participate in the expansion of Medicaid under the healthcare law, striking a blow to President Obama's promise of broader insurance coverage.
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Weasel Zippers and Washington Post
Keith Hennessey / Wall Street Journal:
A Strategy to Undo ObamaCare — To push through key parts of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats used the ‘reconciliation’ process. A Republican president, House and Senate can use reconciliation to repeal them. — Now that the Supreme Court has ruled ObamaCare's individual mandate constitutional …
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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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americanthinker.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
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CNN:
New Obama TV ad goes after Romney over outsourcing — (CNN) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign says they're going up Tuesday with a new TV commercial that attacks Mitt Romney for what they say is the Republican challenger's past support of outsourcing jobs overseas.
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Obama campaign touts economic record ahead of first 2012 bus tour
Obama campaign touts economic record ahead of first 2012 bus tour
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Jammie Wearing Fools
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 Reaction and Washington Post
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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ThinkProgress, Business Insider, Taegan Goddard's …, MoJo Articles and Washington Post
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
Twitter Transparency Report
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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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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Politico
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
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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msnbc.com and americanthinker.com
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
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
8,733,461: Workers on Federal ‘Disability’ Exceed Population of New York City — (CNSNews.com) - A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That was up from 8,707,185 in May.
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Michelle Malkin, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Gateway Pundit and The Lonely Conservative
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