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Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
Good Riddance to Brotherhood's Fake Democrats — A few months ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan told me about his meetings with Mohamed Mursi, the now-deposed president of Egypt. The king wasn't fond of Mursi, both because the Egyptian was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and because Abdullah found Mursi exceedingly stupid.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
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BBC:
Protests in Egypt over Morsi ousting — Supporters of Egypt's ousted president are gathering for protests in the capital to demand his reinstatement. — The army, which removed Mr Morsi and detained him in response to widespread unrest, has said it will allowed peaceful protests.
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NPR
New York Times:
For Islamists, Dire Lessons on Politics and Power — CAIRO — Sheik Mohamed Abu Sidra had watched in exasperation for months as President Mohamed Morsi and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood bounced from one debilitating political battle to another. — “The Brotherhood went too fast …
Megan Gallegos / Courthouse News Service:
Police Commandeer Homes, Get Sued — LAS VEGAS (CN) - Henderson police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their neighbors, the family claims in court. — Anthony Mitchell and his parents Michael and Linda Mitchell sued …
Discussion:
The Volokh Conspiracy and The Impolitic
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
E Pluribus Unum — It's that time of year — the long weekend when we gather with friends and family to celebrate hot dogs, potato salad and, yes, the founding of our nation. And it's also a time for some of us to wax a bit philosophical, to wonder what, exactly, we're celebrating.
Paul Pirie / Washington Post:
The American Revolution was a flop — Paul Pirie, a former historian, is a freelance writer in Ontario. — The easiest way of assessing whether the United States would have been better off without its revolution is to look at those English-speaking countries that rejected the American Revolution …
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The Week
Reuters:
Russia increasingly impatient over Snowden's airport stay — (Reuters) - Edward Snowden should find another country to seek refuge in, a Russian official said on Thursday, signaling Moscow's growing impatience over the former U.S. spy agency contractor's stay at a Moscow airport.
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bigstory.ap.org and The Hinterland Gazette
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Lord of U.S. Labor Policy — Lafe Solomon, acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, defies Congress and the courts on behalf of Big Labor. — For a true expression of the imperious and extralegal tendencies of the Obama administration, there is little that compares with the Wisdom of Solomon.
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Power Line
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rasmussen Poll Says Blacks Are More Racist Than Whites — The right-leaning polling firm Rasmussen Reports dove into America's views of race on Wednesday with a bizarre survey that concluded most of the nation thinks blacks are more likely to be racist than whites.
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Crooks and Liars, Riehl World News, Weasel Zippers and Rasmussen Reports
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
I.R.S. Scrutiny Went Beyond the Political — WASHINGTON — In 2010, a tiny Palestinian-rights group called Minnesota Break the Bonds applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status. Two years and a lot of prodding later, the I.R.S. sent the group's leaders a series of questions …
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Yahoo! News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Morning Read
Michael A. Walsh / New York Post:
Celebrating liberty as it slips away — 'It captures the spirit of our Founders, the spirit they wrote in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty,and pursuit of happiness," said Nancy Pelosi the other day. But the “it” she was celebrating wasn't the country's 237th birthday …
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National Review
Boston Herald:
Kerry vacationing on Nantucket amid Egypt turmoil — By: — Secretary of State John Kerry is spending a sun-splashed Fourth of July on Nantucket, even as a chaotic overthrow of the government rocks Egypt and continues to test diplomatic relations in Washington.
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Twitchy, Mediaite and American Power