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Akron Beacon Journal:
Akron restaurant owner dies hours after meeting Obama — The owner of an Akron restaurant where President Barack Obama stopped for breakfast this morning died, apparently of a heart attack, shortly after meeting him. — Josephine “Ann” Harris, 70, of Copley Township …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Hours After Meeting Obama, Ohio Restaurant Owner Dies (Updated: White House Responds) — The Akron Beacon Journal reports: … UPDATE: The White House responds, via the pool report:
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Ed Driscoll and Riehl World View
TMZ.com:
Gov. Chris Christie — Fightin' Words On the Jersey Shore [VIDEO] — GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE — FIGHTIN' WORDS — On the Jersey Shore — EXCLUSIVE — Things got downright HOSTILE on the Jersey Shore last night — with NJ Governor Chris Christie getting into a heated verbal altercation right …
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Representative Thaddeus McCotter / Facebook:
“Strike Another Match, Go Start Anew” — Cites the totality of this past ‘nightmarish’ month and a half's effect on his family — LIVONIA, MI - Today, U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter made the following statement: — “Today I have resigned from the office of United States Representative …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rep. McCotter resigns after ‘nightmarish’ month and a half — GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.) resigned on Friday, citing the effects a “nightmarish” month and half has had on his family. — “After nearly 26 years in elected office, this past nightmarish month and a half have …
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Ted Nugent / Washington Times:
Turncoat Roberts — Chief justice's surprise ruling means limited government is dead — Yogi Berra said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it. When supposed-conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. came to a judicial conservative-liberal fork in the road, he veered left.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Federal Judge Richard Posner: The GOP Has Made Me Less Conservative — Judge Richard Posner, a conservative on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, has long been one of the nation's most respected and admired legal thinkers on the right. But in an interview with NPR …
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ProfessorBainbridge.com, ThinkProgress, The Reaction, PrawfsBlawg and Crooks and Liars
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
June jobs swoon: America's labor market depression continues — This was not the employment report either the American worker or the Obama campaign wanted to see right now. The Labor Department said the U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, less than the 90,000 economists had been forecasting.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
June Job Creation at 80,000; Rate Holds Steady at 8.2%
June Job Creation at 80,000; Rate Holds Steady at 8.2%
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Kayla J Adams / The Times of Israel:
Jordanian MP pulls a gun on his critic during live TV debate — After trading insults with activist, parliamentarian first throws a shoe and then points a gun at adversary. Host tries to break up brawl. No shots fired — A Jordanian member of parliament pulled a gun on a political activist during …
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Mediaite and The Jawa Report
Patrick from Popehat / The Agitator:
So. It Has Come To This. — The scene is a security screening station at Los Angeles International Airport, August 2012. — Screening Officer Jules: Greetings, prospective passengers! Looking to travel through the public airways? Now don't be distressed! You know who we are?
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Howard Portnoy / The Greenroom:
Now TSA wants to test passengers' beverages at the gate?
William Bergstrom / Politico:
Ralph Nader: ‘Cowering’ Democrats face defeat — If the “cowering” Democrats — who “are tortured daily by Republican leaders” — come away the losers in November, they will have only themselves to blame, according to Ralph Nader. — “If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water …
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Ralph Nader / The Nader Page:
Jolting the Democratic Party from Its Stupor
Jolting the Democratic Party from Its Stupor
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Taylor Marsh and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Franklin Foer / New York Times:
The Worst Marriage in Georgetown — Dinners were served in the basement. Ambassadors, generals with many stars, senior White House officials and closely read columnists — all would walk past the yellowing kitchen, which looked as if it hadn't been updated since the Ford administration …
Matthew Breen / Advocate:
IN OBAMA WE TRUST — For the first time in decades, The Advocate has a candidate it can endorse for president. That candidate is Barack Obama. — Never has the substantial progress in equal rights and treatment of LGBT people been more at risk than in this presidential contest.
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Taylor Marsh and Towleroad News #gay
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Romney-Rice? — Erin McPike's “close examination of the [Romney] campaign's activity” at RealClearPolitics suggests four leading contenders for Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick—former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, Ohio senator Rob Portman, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal.
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Hot Air, Mediaite, National Review, Daily Kos, CANNONFIRE, No More Mister Nice Blog, TBogg, ABCNEWS and Real Clear Politics
Abby Livingston / Roll Call:
Texas: Ted Cruz Internal Poll Shows Lead Over David Dewhurst — Ted Cruz (above) led Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a recent internal poll. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) — Ted Cruz led Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst by 9 points in a recent internal poll conducted for the former Texas …
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Politico and Weekly Standard
Economist:
The rotten heart of finance — A scandal over key interest rates is about to go global — THE most memorable incidents in earth-changing events are sometimes the most banal. In the rapidly spreading scandal of LIBOR (the London inter-bank offered rate) it is the very everydayness …
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Robert Scheer / The Huffington Post:
Crime of the Century — Forget Bernie Madoff and Enron's Ken Lay …
Crime of the Century — Forget Bernie Madoff and Enron's Ken Lay …
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The Agonist
Bob Sullivan / msnbc.com:
Is the government reading your email? — Does the U.S. government read your email? It's a simple question, but apparently there's no simple answer. And the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service are reluctant to say anything on the topic. — In March, the American Civil …
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Riehl World View, US Politics and Reuters
Ginger White / Salon:
Life after Herman Cain — When I spoke out about our 13-year affair, my world crumbled. Meanwhile his eccentric political career carries on — If I had one wish, how would I use it? Would I wish I had never taken him up on his offers to fly me around the world?
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Guardian, Wonkette, Political Insider and New York Magazine
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
The Escalating Campaign Against Anita Sarkeesian And The Long-Term Weakness of Sexist Trolls — I can't even bring myself to embed it here: some trogolodytes have created a game that lets players beat up Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist video blogger who's been subject to an unremitting campaign …
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New Statesman and Jezebel
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama hits Romney: ‘Principles matter’ — President Obama sharply attacked Mitt Romney over the individual mandate on Friday, hitting him for “abandoning a principle” he fought for in the past due to political considerations. — “One of the things that you learn as president …
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Angry Black Lady Chronicles, Hot Air, Politico, CNN and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Philip Bump / Grist:
Duke Energy CEO Bill Johnson resigns after one day, gets $44 million in severance — When Duke Energy announced its merger with Progress Energy last year, the two companies agreed that Progress CEO Bill Johnson would assume the same position at the combined company.
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ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal and Washington Monthly
David Brooks / New York Times:
Honor Code — Henry V is one of Shakespeare's most appealing characters. He was rambunctious when young and courageous when older. But suppose Henry went to an American school. — By about the third week of nursery school, Henry's teacher would be sending notes home saying that Henry “had another hard day today.”
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Daily Caller
Obama Isn't Working:
Broken Record, Broken Promises — Today, the Obama Administration told Americans “not to read too much into” monthly jobs reports. — As it turns out, they've been encouraging Americans to do that for years. But after 41 straight months of unemployment over 8%, you don't have to read between the lines to see the truth.
Nelson Jones / New Statesman:
Tory MPs are losing patience with Osborne — The Chancellor's “disproportionate obsession” with Ed Balls comes under attack from his own side. — At one point in The Godfather Part III, Michael Corleone sagely remarks: “Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
Jonathan Rauch / Washington Post:
A plan that offers Obama a fighting chance — At this point in 1980, Jimmy Carter was on the path to oblivion but didn't know it. Barack Obama may share Carter's fate if he doesn't change course soon. — The 1980 presidential race was neck and neck until the end.
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Weekly Standard, Mother Jones and Mediaite
TMZ.com:
Natalie Wood Death Certificate Changed — Cause of Death Now “Undetermined” — Death Certificate Changed — “UNDETERMINED” — EXCLUSIVE — Natalie Wood's death certificate has been changed from “Accident” to “Undetermined” ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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LAist
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Aide: Trump not a lock for the convention — POLITICO's Ginger Gibson reports: … It was not many weeks ago that Trump tweeted out a link to a story floating him as a potential convention keynote speaker, in which he said people would love to hear it. But removing himself …
Politico:
Zombie economy threatens Obama — Romney, meanwhile, quickly seized on the numbers in an appearance in Wolfeboro, N.H., where he was concluding a family vacation. — “American families are struggling, there is a lot of misery in America and these numbers understate what people are feeling …
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William E. Forbath / Campaign Stops:
Workingman's Constitution — WORK and opportunity, poverty and dependency, material security and insecurity: for generations of reformers, the constitutional importance of these subjects was self-evident. Laissez-faire government, unchecked corporate power and the deprivations and inequalities …
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American Power, ACS Blog and Hullabaloo
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
House panel's draft of farm bill cuts $35B — The leaders of the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday released a draft 2012 farm bill that cuts direct spending by $35 billion, about $11 billion more than a Senate-passed bill. — The five-year bill would authorize farm subsidies …
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