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Adele M. Stan / RH Reality Check:
Texas Congressman: Masturbating Fetuses Prove Need for Abortion Ban — As the House of Representatives gears up for Tuesday's debate on HR 1797, a bill that would outlaw virtually all abortions 20 weeks post fertilization, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) argued in favor of banning abortions …
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Katie McDonough / Salon:
GOP lawmaker: Extreme abortion ban justified because of masturbating fetuses
GOP lawmaker: Extreme abortion ban justified because of masturbating fetuses
Rep. Marsha Blackburn / Politico:
Late-term abortions must end
Late-term abortions must end
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LifeNews.com and National Review
Rebecca Elliott / Politico:
Dana Rohrabacher warns John Boehner on speakership — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) says Speaker John Boehner should be ousted if he rams through an immigration bill without majority Republican support. — “If Speaker Boehner moves forward and permits this to come to a vote even though …
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New Republic, The Daily Caller, The Maddow Blog, “The Lid”, Daily Kos and The Moderate Voice
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
John Boehner to require majority GOP support on immigration — Speaker John Boehner privately tried to assure conservatives in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that he wouldn't advance an immigration bill through the House without the support of the majority of Republicans.
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The Plum Line, The Maddow Blog, Right Wing Watch and Balloon Juice
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner: No immigration vote without ‘majority support’ of GOP
Boehner: No immigration vote without ‘majority support’ of GOP
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Hot Air and The Spectacle Blog
Chris Frates / NationalJournal.com:
Boehner Aims to Move Immigration by Capitalizing on a Conservative Rift
Boehner Aims to Move Immigration by Capitalizing on a Conservative Rift
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First Read, Outside the Beltway and Taegan Goddard's …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rohrabacher: Boehner ‘should be removed as Speaker’ if he moves Senate immigration bill
Rohrabacher: Boehner ‘should be removed as Speaker’ if he moves Senate immigration bill
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The Huffington Post, Politico, New York Times, Washington Wire, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Dan Coats / Wall Street Journal:
To My Congressional Colleagues: Stop the NSA Grandstanding — Members have had ample opportunity to learn about these valuable programs. — Last week, Edward Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor, attempted to make a political point by leaking several documents …
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Lawfare and The Permanent Select Committee …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
N.S.A. Chief Says Surveillance Has Stopped Dozens of Plots
N.S.A. Chief Says Surveillance Has Stopped Dozens of Plots
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emptywheel
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell To Reid: If You Go Nuclear On Nominations, I'll Go Nuclear On Everything When I'm Majority Leader — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday starkly warned Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) not to eliminate the filibuster on presidential nominations …
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Washington Monthly
CNN:
CNN Poll: Did White House order IRS targeting? — Washington (CNN) - A growing number of Americans believe that senior White House officials ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups, according to a new national poll. — And a CNN/ORC International survey …
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Politico, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, National Review, Conservatives4Palin and The College Fix
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Claire McCaskill endorses Hillary Clinton for 2016 — Saying that “it's important we start early,” Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in one of the first major moves of the 2016 cycle. — “Now, as I look at 2016 and think about who is best to lead this country forward …
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New York Times and Taylor Marsh
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Ready For Hillary Clinton for President 2016:
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), an Early Obama '08 Supporter, Announces Support of Ready for Hillary
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), an Early Obama '08 Supporter, Announces Support of Ready for Hillary
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Washington Wire, The Fix, Hot Air and Guardian
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
McCaskill becomes first lawmaker to endorse Ready for Hillary PAC
McCaskill becomes first lawmaker to endorse Ready for Hillary PAC
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Weekly Standard, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and BuzzFeed
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hidden camera catches wireless company employees passing out ‘Obama phones’ to people who say they'll SELL them for drugs, shoes, handbags and spending cash — The ‘Lifeline’ free-cell-phone scheme cost $2.2 BILLION last year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of paying customers
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Intel Committee Blocks Former Staffer From Talking To Press About Oversight Process — The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has taken the unusual step of actively blocking a former committee aide from talking to TPM about congressional oversight of the intelligence community.
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Hot Air, Prairie Weather, Secrecy News and Hullabaloo
Gov. Bobby Jindal / Politico:
GOP needs action, not navel-gazing — We've had enough. Yes, we just lost our second straight presidential election to Barack Obama. Yes, losing is painful and has consequences. Yes, when you lose, you make adjustments. Enough already. Let's get on with it. — Yes, we have plenty of changes to make.
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Little Green Footballs, Washington Monthly, Wonkblog, New Republic, National Review, Business Insider and The Maddow Blog
Charlie Rose:
Distribute this video: — Yes, Father's Day. — Charlie that was really something based upon these photographs: — And this speech: — “I want to be a better father, a better husband, a better man. But I will tell you this: Everything else is unfulfilled if we fail at family, if we fail at that responsibility.
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News Desk, Hawkings Here, Mediaite, The Week, National Review, The Raw Story, First Read, Gawker and BuzzFeed
J. Christian Adams / Rule of Law:
Left Loses Big in Citizenship-Verification Supreme Court Case — Something perverse happened after the Supreme Court's decision today invalidating citizenship-verification requirements in Arizona for registrants who use the federal voter registration form. The Left knows they lost most of the battle, but are still claiming victory.
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protein wisdom, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Conservatives4Palin and UrbanGrounds
Matt Friedman / New Jersey Online:
Groups claim to have found ‘smoking gun’ to force Christie to move U.S. Senate election to November — TRENTON — Two liberal groups say they've found a “smoking gun” in a century-old state law that could force Gov. Chris Christie to schedule the general election in November.
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Our Commitment to Our Users' Privacy — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — To that end, we are disclosing the total number of requests for user data that law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made to us between December 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013.
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Guardian:
US to begin direct peace talks with Taliban over Afghanistan — ‘Peace and reconciliation’ milestone comes after US drops request for formal rejection of al-Qaida as precondition to talks — The US is to open direct talks with Taliban leaders within days, it was revealed on Tuesday …
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New York Times, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Week, Pat Dollard and The Hinterland Gazette
Isaac Chotiner / New Republic:
“What Part of ‘Politico’ Do You Not Understand?” — A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation — The dominant mode of Washington journalism tends to both reflect and entrench the values of its era. The eminent writers and editors of the immediate postwar age …
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Mediaite, Gawker, FishbowlDC, Poynter and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Moonlight Serenade — Whom does Mrs. Weiner work for? — Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress two years ago this Friday in a side-splitting social-media scandal, is running for mayor of New York? We don't know why, but we're now pretty sure it's not for the money.
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NewsBusters
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
Fantastic Mrs. Fox — Sarah Palin returns to Fox News and forces America into a difficult choice.
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Crooks and Liars, The Raw Story and Mediaite
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Bill Ayers: Try Obama for war crimes — Bill Ayers believes President Obama should be put on trial for war crimes at The Hague, the Weather Underground co-founder told Real Clear Politics in an interview posted Tuesday. — Ayers told the website he “absolutely” believed the president …