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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
New same-sex marriage challenge fails — Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy turned down at midday Sunday a request to stop same-sex marriages from occurring in California. Without comment, and without seeking views from the other side, Kennedy rejected a challenge to action …
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Ted Olson: GOP moving toward backing same-sex marriage — The attorney and former George W. Bush administration official who helped defeat California's ban on gay marriage said the Republican Party is moving toward embracing the right of same-sex couples to wed. — “Republicans are changing.
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Supreme Court rejects bid to halt same-sex marriages in California — The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to stop same-sex marriages in California, a lawyer for the gay couples who sued said Sunday. — Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., one of the lawyers who challenged Proposition 8 …
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americanthinker.com and Joe. My. God.
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Prop 8 attorney: 'We're not giving up on any state'
Prop 8 attorney: 'We're not giving up on any state'
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: High court rejects petition to halt gay marriages in Calif.
Report: High court rejects petition to halt gay marriages in Calif.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies — Exclusive: Edward Snowden papers reveal 38 targets including EU, France and Italy — Berlin accuses Washington of cold war tactics — US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washington …
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New York Times, The Hinterland Gazette, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, msnbc.com and Firedoglake
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Schumer: Russia ‘should pay a price’ for harboring NSA leaker Snowden
Schumer: Russia ‘should pay a price’ for harboring NSA leaker Snowden
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The Hinterland Gazette, Reuters and NPR
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Julian Assange Praises ‘Hero’ Snowden, Rebukes U.S. ‘Disgraceful’ Treatment On ABC This Week
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ABC News, Taylor Marsh and The Raw Story
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Assange: US decision to cancel Snowden's passport is a ‘disgrace’
Assange: US decision to cancel Snowden's passport is a ‘disgrace’
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Politico and Connecting.the.Dots
Associated Press:
Ecuador: VP called about Snowden
Ecuador: VP called about Snowden
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Associated Press, Scared Monkeys and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Millions flood Egypt's streets to demand Mursi quit — (Reuters) - Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood.
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“WAKE UP, AMERICA!” — Massive protests and counter-protests are under way in Egypt. It is hard to be optimistic about events in that part of the world, but who knows? The course Egypt is on is unsustainable, as its economy is close to utter collapse. I don't see how the current Muslim …
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BBC:
Egypt Morsi: Mass political protests grip cities
Egypt Morsi: Mass political protests grip cities
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Guardian, NewsBusters, Taylor Marsh, NPR, The Week, Pat Dollard and VodkaPundit
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WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO - Syrian Jihadists behead Catholic priest — Jihadists are terrorizing Syrians and persecuting Christians. — Syrian terrorists have beheaded a Catholic priest who they accused of collaborating with the Assad regime. Those accusations have not yet been verified.
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CATHOLIC PRIEST BEHEADED IN SYRIA BY AL-QAEDA-LINKED REBELS AS MEN AND CHILDREN TAKE PICTURES AND CHEER — Syrian Catholic priest Francois Murad killed last weekend by jihadi fighters was beheaded, according to a report by Catholic Online which is linking to video purportedly showing the brutal murder.
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The Jawa Report
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Mandela and Obama — GATHERING valedictory material on Nelson Mandela as he faded in a Pretoria hospital the other day, I came across a little book called “Mandela's Way.” In this 2010 volume, Rick Stengel, the ghostwriter of Mandela's autobiography, set out to extract “lessons on life …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
War On the Unemployed — Is life too easy for the unemployed? You may not think so, and I certainly don't think so. But that, remarkably, is what many and perhaps most Republicans believe. And they're acting on that belief: there's a nationwide movement under way to punish the unemployed …
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Daily Kos
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Republicans Paint Clinton as Old News for 2016 Presidential Election — WASHINGTON — Stuart Stevens, the top strategist for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, declared to an audience of reporters at a breakfast last month that electing Hillary Rodham Clinton would be like going back in time.
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An Unstoppable Climb in C.E.O. Pay — WHEN we made our annual foray into the executive pay gold mine in April, chief executives' earnings for 2012 showed what appeared to be muted growth on the year. The $14 million in median overall compensation received by the top 100 C.E.O.'s …
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Gutierrez: Boehner's majority plan could doom immigration reform — A House Democrat seeking to forge an immigration deal warned Sunday that Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) pledge to only move a bill that a majority of his conference supports could create a “stalemate.”
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Claims Immigration Bill Will ‘Force’ Immigrants To Become Citizens
Congressman Claims Immigration Bill Will ‘Force’ Immigrants To Become Citizens
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland