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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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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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CNN:
CNN Poll: Health care ruling changes views of Supreme Court — Washington (CNN) - The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the national health care law may not have changed many minds regarding the controversial measure, but a new poll indicates it sure did change Americans views of the high court.
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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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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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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)
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I'm Gay.” — [Re-posted from earlier today.] — 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 …
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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 — With the increasing acceptance of gay lifestyles, why should we care if someone chooses to keep their sexuality private? — • Brian Moylan: I don't regret outing Anderson Cooper
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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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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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Doing Double Duty at Justice
Doing Double Duty at Justice
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The Lonely Conservative and Outside the Beltway
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.
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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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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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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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 …
Jack Furnari / BIZPAC Review:
Democratic official's shock emails: Israel guilty of “crimes against humanity” — Local Democrats are in an uproar about a series of emails about Israel, sent last year by one of their representatives to the Democratic National Committee, and a candidate for state representative.
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Washington Free Beacon, Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report and The PJ Tatler
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Probation Fees Multiply for Poor as Companies Profit — CHILDERSBURG, Ala. — Three years ago, Gina Ray, who is now 31 and unemployed, was fined $179 for speeding. She failed to show up at court (she says the ticket bore the wrong date), so her license was revoked.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney at Langone, Murdoch, Blankfein meeting: I won't be ‘flip-flopper’ on immigration — Mitt Romney last week told a private group of potential supporters and business and media elites, including Rupert Murdoch, that he was treading carefully around the issue of immigration to avoid looking like a “flip-flopper.”
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Rand Paul puts forward measure that would force the Senate to read bills — After blasting the Senate last week for passing a 600-page bill no one had time to read, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation that would force the Senate to give its members one day to read bills for every 20 pages they contain.
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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 — The former speaker of the house traveled to Paris last week to speak to an Iranian exile group led by Maryam Rajavi, who also heads an officially designated terrorist group called MEK.
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WRAL-TV:
Perdue vetoes controversial fracking bill — RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Bev Perdue announced Sunday that she has vetoed a controversial proposal to legalize fracking in North Carolina. — The bill, Senate Bill 820, was backed by Republican leaders in the House and Senate …
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Washington Post:
Colorado's table was set for monster fire — No one predicted fires like the current ones, but years ago climate scientists warned state and federal officials that they could start seeing early springs, more hot and dry weather, and frequent and perhaps severe droughts, Doesken said.
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Marc Ambinder / GQ:
Exclusive: In His Second Term, Obama Will Pivot to the Drug War — According to ongoing discussions with Obama aides and associates, if the president wins a second term, he plans to tackle another American war that has so far been successful only in perpetuating more misery: the four decades of The Drug War.
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