memeorandum: A Hidden Consensus on Health Care (Ross Douthat/New York Times)

6:05 PM ET, July 7, 2013

Top Items:

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

McCain calls Morsi ouster a coup d'etat, urges blocking aid — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi a coup d'etat and pressed the Obama administration to suspend aid to the country on Sunday. — “It was a coup and it was the second …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, NewsHounds blog, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Politico and Boston Herald

Businessweek:

News From Bloomberg — Obama Call for Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt — The Obama administration's call for an “inclusive” political process in Egypt with a role for the Muslim Brotherhood has been overshadowed by conflict between security forces and supporters of the Islamist group.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers and BizzyBlog

Alarabiya.net English:
Cairo residents: ‘Heavily armed Islamists attacked us’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:
Morsi Spurned Deals, Seeing Military as Tamed

Discussion: Mondoweiss, Los Angeles Times, The Reaction, Hot Air and Bloomberg

Fox News:
McCain: After thinking ‘long and hard,’ US should suspend aid to Egypt

Discussion: National Review, Post Politics, Booman Tribune, The PJ Tatler and “The Lid”

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

A Hidden Consensus on Health Care — TO follow what's happening with the new health care law right now, you have to understand that for all the deep divisions on the issue, there's actually a real bipartisan consensus about how the American health care system ought to be reformed.

Discussion: National Review and Brad DeLong

Washington Post:

Health insurance marketplaces will not be required to verify consumer claims — The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law's requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers' income and health insurance status.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Wake up America, Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler, Power Line, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, NewsBusters and Instapundit

Yuval Levin / National Review:
Obamacare's Invitation to Fraud

Discussion: Doug Ross and VA Viper

Avik Roy / Forbes:
Not Qualified For Obamacare's Subsidies? Just Lie — Govt. To Use ‘Honor System’ Without Verifying Your Eligibility

Discussion: americanthinker.com

Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:

Louisiana Republican Introduces Bill To Ban LGBT Rainbow Flag From Public Buildings — A city councilman in Louisiana is drafting a new set of ordinances that would ban the flying of rainbow flags on any public property after a constituent took umbrage with one such flag that was raised by a local LGBT organization.

Discussion: The Raw Story

theadvertiser.com:
Gay pride flag display at Lafayette park raises ire

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Mediaite

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Perry vows Texas will pass abortion bill — Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Sunday promised his state will push through a law restricting abortion rights, which has gained national attention, within the next 10 days. — “We have a special session with some important issues in front of us.

Discussion: CNN and LifeNews.com

Kevin Cirilli / Politico:

Perry: 2016 an option — Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't ruling out another Republican presidential run in 2016. But he didn't announce on Sunday whether he'll seek a fourth term as governor. — Asked about 2016 on “Fox News Sunday,” Perry said: “Well, certainly, that's an option out there …

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette

Tim Alberta / mobile.nationaljournal.com:

House Republicans Draft Their Debt-Ceiling Playbook — With an anxious eye toward the coming debt-ceiling negotiations, House Republicans are drafting what members call a “menu” of mandatory spending cuts to offer the White House in exchange for raising the country's borrowing limit.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, No More Mister Nice Blog, ThinkProgress and Taegan Goddard's …

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. — WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation's surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, addictinginfo.org, Outside the Beltway, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, The Hinterland Gazette, Business Insider, Via Meadia, Balloon Juice, The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Moderate Voice, The Gateway Pundit and emptywheel

Corey G. Johnson / Sacramento Bee:

Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval — The Center for Investigative Reporting — Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals …

Bobby Cervantes / Politico:

Menendez: Snowden asylum anti-U.S. — Sen. Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said any country that accepts Edward Snowden — the former national security contractor who leaked NSA program details — “is taking a step against the United States.”

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

NTSB chief Hersman: San Francisco crash could have been worse — National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman on Sunday said investigators were in the initial stages of their probe into the deadly crash of a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport …

Discussion: Politico and The Hinterland Gazette