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Thomas Fleming / Wall Street Journal:
What Life Was Like in 1776 — Americans had the highest per capita income in the civilized world, paid the lowest taxes—and were determined to keep it that way. — Almost every American knows the traditional story of July Fourth—the soaring idealism of the Declaration of Independence …
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Althouse
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
The eternal meaning of Independence Day — On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience when Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas invited Lincoln to come join him on the balcony to watch the speech.
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The Gateway Pundit
Paul Campos / Salon:
Roberts wrote both Obamacare opinions — A Court source tells Salon the chief justice wrote the majority opinion and much of the dissent in the ACA case — This weekend CBS News' Jan Crawford reported that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote in regard to upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
The “narrative” of judicial intrigue
The “narrative” of judicial intrigue
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The Volokh Conspiracy, Booman Tribune, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Balkinization and emptywheel
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The amazing number of people who know nothing about the health-care ruling
The amazing number of people who know nothing about the health-care ruling
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Daily Kos, The Maddow Blog and Firedoglake
Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
Liberals fear the John Roberts rebound
Liberals fear the John Roberts rebound
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Politico, Mother Jones and SCOTUSblog
ThinkProgress:
NEWS FLASH — North Carolina General Assembly Officially Dismantles The Racial Justice Act | Today in North Carolina, the Republican-dominated General Assembly overrode Gov. Bev Perdue's (D-NC) veto of the rewritten Racial Justice Act. The landmark legislation allowed North Carolina death row inmates …
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
North Carolina Defunds Planned Parenthood In Midnight Vote, Overriding Veto
North Carolina Defunds Planned Parenthood In Midnight Vote, Overriding Veto
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Taylor Marsh, Balloon Juice and ThinkProgress
Craig Jarvis / Raleigh News & Observer:
Lawmakers override veto of Racial Justice Act revamp
Lawmakers override veto of Racial Justice Act revamp
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Los Angeles Times and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
SOM - State of Michigan:
Snyder signs most of election reform legislation — LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder recently signed legislation to increase election transparency, prevent election fraud and provide consistency across all voting locations. — The election reform bills provide for better documentation …
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Politico and The Raw Story
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Dave Murray / MLive.com:
Gov. Snyder vetoes election bills denounced as ‘voter suppression’ by critics
Gov. Snyder vetoes election bills denounced as ‘voter suppression’ by critics
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Daily Kos
Vanity Fair:
Ben Bradlee's 20 Best Verbal or Written Barbs Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant — Microsoft C.E.O. Steve Ballmer delivers the keynote address at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, on January 9.
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Guardian, MarketBeat and TechCrunch
Gregg Carlstrom / AJE - Al Jazeera English:
Arafat's widow calls to exhume his body — A nine-month investigation suggests that the late Palestinian leader may have been poisoned with polonium. — It was a scene that riveted the world for weeks: The ailing Yasser Arafat, first besieged by Israeli tanks in his Ramallah compound …
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Mondoweiss, msnbc.com, Reuters and Truthdig
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Erika Johnsen / Hot Air:
Bam: Trend of CO2 emissions falling toward 1991 levels — This is ten different kinds of glorious. — Greenies are always lamenting that we need big government to force humanity to treat the planet with their idea of respect, and bemoaning the toll that prosperity ostensibly takes on the environment.
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John Hanger's Facts of The Day and CARPE DIEM
ThinkProgress:
STUDY: Medicaid Expansion Saves States Billions — Republican politicians across the country claim that Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid, the widely popular program which makes health insurance available for lower-income Americans, will increase costs for states.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hullabaloo and PhillyNow
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Why Logic Won't Work in the Medicaid Expansion Debate
Why Logic Won't Work in the Medicaid Expansion Debate
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Hullabaloo, Mother Jones, Washington Post and Blog For Arizona
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Report: Rep. Cuellar to skip Dem convention — Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar is joining a growing list of lawmakers who will be skipping their party's nominating convention this September. — The four-term lawmaker from Texas says he wants to focus his efforts on his reelection bid …
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Weasel Zippers
Associated Press:
Anti-abortion amendment a no-go in Ohio — COLUMBUS, Ohio - An anti-abortion group fell short Tuesday in its attempt to gather enough signatures to ask voters this fall to change the state constitution to declare that life begins when a human egg is fertilized.
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The Raw Story
New York Times:
As Weather Channel Buys Wunderground, Storm Clouds Brew Among Fans — It's stormy out there. — The announcement on Monday that the Weather Channel Companies, owners of television's Weather Channel and weather.com, would buy one of its rivals, Weather Underground, set off howls of displeasure …
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Democracy Now and Althouse
The Official Google Blog:
Spring cleaning in summer — Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people's lives. But to make the most of them, we need to focus—or we end up doing too much and not having the impact we strive for. So last fall we started a spring clean, and since then we've closed or combined more than 30 products.
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Engadget
Mike Konczal / nextnewdeal.net:
The IMF Goes All-Out on Balance-Sheet Recessions, Providing Sanity on Economic Policy — The literature summary I just put out on balance-sheet recessions examines the recent April 2012 World Economic Report by the IMF. It is remarkable how important this report is.
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Firedoglake, Mother Jones and Brad DeLong
Laura Leslie / @NCCapitol:
Carney: ‘I feel rotten’ about accidental fracking vote — State House lawmakers have apparently accidentally legalized fracking in North Carolina, due to a deciding vote one Democrat says was a mistake. — Rep. Becky Carney, D-Mecklenburg, says she did not intend to cast the key vote that overrode the governor's veto of the bill.
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John Frank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Lawmaker's mistaken vote puts state on a path toward fracking
Lawmaker's mistaken vote puts state on a path toward fracking
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Business Insider and Politico