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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 …
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News From Bloomberg — Obama Call for Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers and BizzyBlog
Alarabiya.net English:
Cairo residents: ‘Heavily armed Islamists attacked us’
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 …
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The Hinterland Gazette
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 …
Associated Press:
John Kerry's wife in critical condition — A hospital spokesman says Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, has beem hospitalized in critical but stable condition in a Nantucket hospital. — Hospital spokesman Noah Brown said Heinz Kerry was admitted into the emergency room …
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Scared Monkeys
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.
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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 …
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Matt Ridley / Wall Street Journal:
Science Is About Evidence, Not Consensus — Last week a friend chided me for not agreeing with the scientific consensus that climate change is likely to be dangerous. I responded that, according to polls, the “consensus” about climate change only extends to the propositions that it has been happening …
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Power Line
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.”
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