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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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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, Liberal Values, Hullabaloo, Politico, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice and The Maddow Blog
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
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, CNN, Hot Air and Business Insider
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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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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Washington Post:
Romney camp sides with Obama that health insurance mandate is not tax
Romney camp sides with Obama that health insurance mandate is not tax
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TheBlaze.com, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Conservatives4Palin and ABCNEWS
Josh Kraushaar / 2012 Decoded:
Romney Campaign Declaring Cease Fire on Health Care
Romney Campaign Declaring Cease Fire on Health Care
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ABCNEWS, Questions and Observations and New York Times
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
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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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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CNN:
New Obama TV ad goes after Romney over outsourcing
New Obama TV ad goes after Romney over outsourcing
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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
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 Blog:
Twitter Transparency Report
Twitter Transparency Report
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The Daily Beast:
Exclusive — Over the years, as the media fixated on Anderson Cooper's sexuality, Kathy Griffin talked around the questions. Now that he's come out, she explains why she thinks her friend needs to be careful. — My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
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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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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, Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Politico
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
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
Los Angeles Times:
Mayor Villaraigosa, KTLA's Lu Parker end relationship — TV reporter's publicist confirms that the couple have broken up after three years. Villaraigosa declines to answer questions about Parker, who had been living at mayor's mansion. — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Lu Parker at the 2011 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala.
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Poynter
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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