memeorandum: Venezuela's Maduro offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden (Reuters)

1:10 AM ET, July 6, 2013

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‘Muslim Brotherhood claims interim Egyptian president is Jewish’ — Wash Post: MB website said Israel conspiring to insert ElBaradei. — The Muslim Brotherhood claimed in a post on its official website that Egypt's new interim president Adli Mansour is Jewish, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

Discussion: “The Lid”, National Review, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch and The Other McCain

Washington Post:

U.S. must suspend aid after Egypt's coup — THERE IS no ambiguity about what happened in Egypt on Wednesday: a military coup against a democratically elected government and the wrong response to the country's problems. The armed forces forcibly removed and arrested President Mohamad Morsi …

Discussion: New York Times, NPR, Little Green Footballs, Hot Air, Texas on the Potomac, New Republic, War Is A Crime .org, Atlas Shrugs, Guardian, msnbc.com and The Week

David Brooks / New York Times:

Defending the Coup — The debate on Egypt has been between those who emphasize process and those who emphasize substance. — Those who emphasize process have said that the government of President Mohamed Morsi was freely elected and that its democratic support has been confirmed over and over.

Discussion: Washington Post, New Republic, Committee to Protect …, The Huffington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, FAIR Blog, The Week, Washington Monthly, Gawker, Mediaite, Hot Air and The Lede

David Sirota / Salon:
David Brooks' bigoted rant

Discussion: New Republic and The Week

Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
Good Riddance to Brotherhood's Fake Democrats

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, CNN, Weasel Zippers, The Dish and The Volokh Conspiracy

David P. Goldman / PJ Media:
Dismiss the Egyptian People and Elect a New One

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Power Line, Daniel Pipes and National Review

New York Times:
Morsi Loyalists Clash With Soldiers in Cairo Protests

Discussion: The Lede, CNN, Mediaite, Washington Monthly, Weasel Zippers, The Week and Via Meadia

Wall Street Journal:
After the Coup in Cairo — The U.S. shouldn't cut off aid to a new Egyptian government.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Reuters:

President of Venezuela Offers Asylum to Snowden — CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has petitioned several countries to avoid capture by Washington.

Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, KDVR.com and Mashable

Reuters:

Venezuela's Maduro offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden — (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has petitioned several countries to avoid capture by Washington.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, BBC, The Hinterland Gazette, Firedoglake, The Hill, emptywheel, Business Insider and NPR

Robert Robertsson / Reuters:

Iceland parliament declines Snowden's citizenship bid — (Reuters) - A bid by Edward Snowden for Icelandic citizenship failed when the country's parliament voted not to debate it before the summer recess, lawmakers said on Friday, with options for the U.S. fugitive narrowing by the day.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Business Insider and Weekly Standard

BBC:

Venezuela and Nicaragua make Snowden asylum ‘offers’ — The presidents of both Nicaragua and Venezuela have indicated their countries could offer political asylum to US fugitive Edward Snowden. — Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro said it would give asylum to the intelligence leaker …

Discussion: New York Times, The Moderate Voice and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »

Jake Miller / CBS News:

John Kerry on his boat during Egypt upheaval, State Dept. concedes — As regime change was unfolding in Egypt, Secretary of State John Kerry spent time on his boat Wednesday afternoon in Nantucket Sound, the State Department acknowledged to CBS News on Friday, after repeatedly denying that Kerry was aboard any boat.

Discussion: Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Patterico's Pontifications, Scared Monkeys, Boston Herald, Twitchy and American Power

Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Reversing denial, State says Kerry was briefly on boat

Discussion: The Greenroom, Post Politics and Weasel Zippers

Boston Herald:
Republicans: Put John Kerry on a plane

Discussion: “The Lid”, CBS Boston, Twitchy, Betsy's Page, Althouse and Israel Matzav

Trayvon Martin:

State rests and defense begins its case in George Zimmerman trial — SANFORD — Trayvon Martin's mother sat at the witness stand Friday, head held high, and decisively insisted that the chilling cries captured on a 911 call belonged to only one person: her slain child, Trayvon Benjamin Martin.

Discussion: Power Line, NPR and Booman Tribune

Erin Donaghue / CBS News:
George Zimmerman trial: Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, testifies her son was screaming in 911 call

Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Taylor Marsh

Patrick Marley / JSOnline:

Scott Walker signs abortion bill; providers quickly sue — Legislation requires doctors to have hospital admitting privileges — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Friday requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges …

Discussion: Post Politics and NPR

Associated Press:
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signs abortion bill requiring ultrasound

Discussion: CNN

Hadas Gold / Reuters:

George W. Bush to push immigration reform — Former President George W. Bush is expected to make a speech next week on how immigration reform is good for the country, the Dallas Morning News reports. — Bush will speak after a citizenship ceremony at the George W. Bush Presidential Center …

Dianne Solis / The Scoop Blog:
George W. Bush expected to talk about immigration reform Wednesday at Bush Institute

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Hill, The Fix and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Matt Berman / NationalJournal.com:

The Really Great News From the June Jobs Report: the April and May Numbers — 195,000 new jobs in June is solid. But the new jobs report shows we also gained 70,000 more jobs in April and May than we thought. — Happy jobs day! First, the immediate good news: The June report showed …

Discussion: Pew Research Center, Calculated Risk, Campaign for America's Future, The Daily Caller, Yahoo! News and americanthinker.com

Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Adds 195,000 Jobs; Unemployment Remains 7.6%

Discussion: Campaign for America's Future, Wall Street Journal, Economix, The Week, Hot Air, Tea Party Patriots, Daily Kos, Gawker and Outside the Beltway

Alan B. Krueger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in June

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Economix and Yahoo! News

Catherine Rampell / Economix:

Yes, the Sequester Is Affecting the Job Market — The across-the-board automatic federal budget cuts that began in March do not seem to be derailing the recovery so far, given that the job market over all has continued to grow. And certainly some of the scariest predictions about the sequester …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

Oregon Looks at Way to Attend College Now and Repay State Later — Going to college can seem like a choice between impossibly high payments while in school or a crushing debt load for years afterward, but one state is experimenting with a third way. — This week, the Oregon Legislature approved …

Discussion: Oregon Working Families Party and Marginal Revolution

Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:

Police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program — WASHINGTON—A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF's Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, “The Lid” and Twitchy