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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was ‘A Mistake’ — Dick Cheney has some advice for Mitt Romney on choosing a running mate: Don't pick another Sarah Palin. — In his first interview since receiving a heart transplant in March, Cheney told ABC News, that John McCain's decision …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Romney to allow press into Israel fundraiser after all — JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney's campaign has reversed a decision to not allow the media into a fundraiser here Monday morning, bowing to reporters' demand that they be allowed to record the Republican's address to some of his top donors.
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Romney would ‘respect the decision’ of Israel to attack Iran to stop nuclear weapon capability, adviser says — View Photo Gallery — Romney continues overseas tour: The Republican presidential candidate began his week-long overseas tour with a stop in London, praising …
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The Glittering Eye, Algemeiner.com and Booman Tribune
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Adviser says Romney would back Israeli attack on Iran
Report: Adviser says Romney would back Israeli attack on Iran
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The Mahablog, CNN, Prairie Weather and ThinkProgress
Benjamin Netanyahu / CNN:
Romney talks tough on Iran
Romney talks tough on Iran
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ABCNEWS, Washington Monthly, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, Israel Matzav and Politico
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Justice Antonin Scalia reiterated just how extremely his Constitutional originalism can be applied. Referring to the recent shooting in Aurora, CO, host Chris Wallace asked …
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PoliticusUSA and DownWithTyranny!
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Scalia: ‘Handheld rocket launchers’ could be constitutional — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday said that even “handheld rocket launchers” could be considered legal under his interpretation of the Constitution's Second Amendment. — In the wake of a massacre in Colorado …
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John Aloysius Farrell / NationalJournal.com:
Scalia: Guns May be Regulated
Scalia: Guns May be Regulated
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Thomas M. Burton / Washington Wire:
Justice Scalia: 'I'm Not Cantankerous'
Justice Scalia: 'I'm Not Cantankerous'
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USA Today and New York Magazine
Richard A. Muller / New York Times:
The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic — CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists …
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Newshoggers.com, The Raw Story, Power Line, Dot Earth, Applesauce, Hit & Run, iOwnTheWorld.com and Pirate's Cove
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Temple Mount Tackiness — Today is Tisha b'Av, the ninth of Av, a Jewish day of fasting and mourning. It is on this day that the First and Second Temples were destroyed. The Western Wall, in Jerusalem, is a retaining wall of the Second Temple. It is, especially on this day, a locus of prayer and reflection.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Israel Matzav
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Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Romney and Wife Go to Jerusalem's Western Wall — JERUSALEM — Mitt and Ann Romney visited one of the holiest sites in the Jewish faith today, arriving at the Western Wall on a sacred day of mourning in Israel. — The Romneys arrived via motorcade at the site of prayer and spent …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
R.I.P. Inkblot — I hate to write this post, but all of you have been part of Inkblot's life for so long that I can hardly not do it. One of our neighbors saw the flyers we posted around the neighborhood and called a few minutes ago to tell us that she had seen the body of a cat nearby.
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The Reality-Based Community and Outside the Beltway
Bill Keller / The New York Times:
WikiLeaks, A Post Postscript — AS rumors build about the potential financial blockade against the New York Times by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express for hosting U.S. government cables published by WikiLeaks, I find myself in the awkward position of having to defend WikiLeaks.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
House GOP lawmakers double down on Muslim Brotherhood comments — Republican lawmakers who demanded an investigation into whether Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff is a covert agent for the Muslim Brotherhood said this week they have no regrets. — Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann …
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Andrew Hacker / New York Times:
Is Algebra Necessary? — A TYPICAL American school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra. In both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail. Why do we subject American students to this ordeal?
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Washington Monthly
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Arms-trade treaty talks collapse, supporters rip Obama — I doubt anyone reading Hot Air will mind this, but it looks like the UN won't get a chance to dictate terms of the Second Amendment any time soon. Yesterday evening, talks on an international arms-trade treaty collapsed when the US …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Obama blamed for failure of international arms-trade treaty