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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Darrell Issa: Lois Lerner lost her rights — House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said embattled IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights and will be hauled back to appear before his panel again. — The California Republican …
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Can A Congressional Witness Deny Guilt and Then Plead the Fifth?
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Power Line, NewsMax.com, The Fix and Politico
Katie Glueck / Reuters:
Rush Limbaugh: Darrell Issa let Lois Lerner get away at IRS hearing
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CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Politico
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes — WASHINGTON — One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.
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Taylor Marsh, Philly.com, Politico, ThinkProgress, Hit & Run, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Week, Twitchy, Yahoo! News, FP Passport, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider and The Spectacle Blog
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Restarts Bid to Close Guantanamo — Plan Calls for Speeding Up Detainee Transfers, Kick-Starting Drive to Shut Prison; Hunger Strike Has Increased Pressure — The Obama administration is set to restart transfers of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. officials said, kick-starting a long-stalled drive to close the prison.
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msnbc.com and The PJ Tatler
BBC:
Man dead in suspected Woolwich terror attack — A man has died and two are injured after police responded to a reported machete attack in south-east London. — The government is reported to be treating the attack as a suspected terrorist incident and the prime minister said it was “truly shocking”.
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Daily / Telegraph:
‘Soldier beheaded’ in ‘Islamist terror attack’ oustide barracks in Woolwich — Two suspected terrorists were shot by armed police after attacking a pedestrian, believed to be a soldier, with a machete-style knife close to military barracks in an ‘Islamist attack’.
Daily Mail:
Blood on his hands, hatred in his eyes: 2.30pm on a suburban high street, Islamic fanatics wielding meat cleavers butcher a British soldier, taking their war on the West to a new level of horror — Clutching a bloodied meat cleaver after executing a soldier on a crowded street, he delivers a chilling message of hate.
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Power Line, Real Science, Scared Monkeys and Israpundit
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Tensions Brew Inside White House Over Counsel's Role — Has an overly-aggressive White House Counsel's office gotten Obama into trouble more than once? — Via: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters — WASHINGTON — As they watched President Obama lumber into controversy over mandating contraception coverage …
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Politico, Washington Post and Hot Air
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Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
Michelle Said to be Considering an Extended Vacation
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Weasel Zippers
Ed Rogers / PostPartisan:
The Insiders: A special prosecutor in the IRS matter is inevitable
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Washington Post and Hot Air
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Jay Carney: Some press criticism of White House ‘legitimate’
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The Hill
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Ted Cruz: 'I don't trust the Republicans' — Sen. Ted Cruz proclaimed on the Senate floor Wednesday that he doesn't trust other Republicans to fix the country's fiscal situation, explaining why he objects to sending the Senate budget to conference with the House.
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Hot Air, The Monkey Cage, Yahoo! News, CNN, National Review and The Hill
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Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: 'I Don't Trust The Republicans'
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Weasel Zippers, Washington Monthly, The Impolitic, The Maddow Blog and The PJ Tatler
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
GOP moderates feud with conservatives over stall tactics on budget
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Conservatives4Palin, A plain blog about politics, The Hill, Booman Tribune and Post Politics
Claire Duffin / Telegraph:
Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: ‘We want to start a war in London tonight’ — Exclusive: A cub scout leader confronted terrorists just seconds after they had beheaded a soldier asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: “It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose.”
CBS News:
Ibragim Todashev implicated Tsarnaev, himself in triple homicide before FBI shooting — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — A friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in an unsolved triple homicide before authorities say he instigated a violent confrontation …
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Little Green Footballs, Twitchy and WESH-TV
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Jimio / Twitter Blog:
Getting started with login verification — Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.
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The Moderate Voice, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, NYT Bits, BBC, The Verge, Wired, Riehl World News and Plain Dealer, more at Mediagazer »
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Sergeant Accused of Secretly Filming Female Cadets — WASHINGTON — A sergeant first class on the staff of the United States Military Academy at West Point faces charges for allegedly videotaping female cadets without their consent, sometimes when they were in the shower, according to Army officials.
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msnbc.com, Gawker, Politico, The Raw Story, U.S. News, Shakesville and Outside the Beltway
Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Arizona House non-prayer sparks Christian re-do — PHOENIX (AP) — An atheist lawmaker's decision to give the daily prayer at the Arizona House of Representatives triggered a do-over from a Christian lawmaker who said the previous day's prayer didn't pass muster.
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Valley Fever
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Matthew Hendley / Valley Fever:
Atheist State Lawmaker Quotes Carl Sagan Instead of Doing Prayer Before House Session
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Little Green Footballs, The Raw Story, Mediaite and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Climate-Change Wars Begin This Summer — The biggest piece of President Obama's second-term agenda is his widely expected plan for the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new carbon regulations for power plants, a move that could bring the United States in line with the greenhouse-gas-reduction goals …
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ACS Blog
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid escalates ‘nuclear’ threat
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Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, PostPartisan, Plain Dealer, Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
National Updates:
Exclusive video: Man with bloodied hands speaks at Woolwich scene — ITV News has obtained footage of a man with bloodied hands addressing a camera on a south London street. — He makes a series of political statements before walking towards a man, believed to be a soldier, lying prone on the street.
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BBC, News Desk, Shakesville and The Huffington Post
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Nominee In Virginia Called Three-Fifths Clause An ‘Anti-Slavery Amendment’ — The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia has called the Constitution's original clause to count blacks as three-fifths of a person an “anti-slavery amendment.”
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Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, ThinkProgress, The Hinterland Gazette, Booman Tribune and Daily Kos
Jill Colvin / Politicker:
Not Everyone Is Returning Anthony Weiner's Calls — Anthony Weiner at a basketball game. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) — After jumping late into a race they've been running in for months, ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner decided to break the ice with his now-Democratic rivals with a telephoned “hello” before they meet on the campaign trail.
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Talking Points Memo and Politico
Tesla Motors:
TESLA REPAYS DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY LOAN NINE YEARS EARLY — ONLY AMERICAN CAR COMPANY TO HAVE PAID BACK GOVERNMENT — PALO ALTO, Calif.— Tesla Motors announced that it has paid off the entire loan awarded to the company by the Department of Energy in 2010.
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Politico, The Verge, ThinkProgress and Bloomberg
Sky News:
Woolwich Assailants ‘Filmed’ Hacking Attack — Video: Witness says ‘crazed’ men carried out Woolwich attack — Two attackers armed with machetes filmed their deadly assault on a man in London, according to Sky sources. — The victim, reportedly a serving soldier, was hacked to death …
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Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Brian Wingfield / Bloomberg:
Pritzker Understated Income, Files Amended Disclosure — Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker inadvertently understated a portion of her income by at least $80 million in a disclosure form required for her nomination to be U.S. Commerce secretary and has amended the document.
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Wall Street Journal and Gawker
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