memeorandum: Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after prostitution scandal, to jump into race for city controller (Kenneth Lovett/NY Daily News)

8:20 AM ET, July 8, 2013

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Spitzer Seeks Ballot for City Comptroller's Race — Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York five years ago amid a prostitution scandal, is re-entering political life, with a run for the citywide office of comptroller and a hope that voters have forgiven him his previous misconduct.

Discussion: Politico, Ballot Box, DealBook, New York Post, CNN, The Fix, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, BuzzFeed, The Week, Weasel Zippers, Reuters, The Daily Caller, Post Politics, Yahoo! News, Business Insider and Twitchy

Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after prostitution scandal, to jump into race for city controller — Currently, Scott Stringer is the front-runner. But Spitzer will start collecting petition signatures Monday. — He's back! Eliot Spitzer will start collecting signatures to get on the ballot for city controller.

Discussion: The Week and ProfessorBainbridge.com

Associated Press:

Teresa Heinz Kerry hospitalized — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday while on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. — Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston …

Discussion: Wake up America, The Hinterland Gazette, Scared Monkeys and Althouse

Peter Baker / New York Times:

Kerry's Wife Is Flown for Emergency Care — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, became ill with a serious medical condition during a vacation on Nantucket on Sunday and was flown to a hospital in Boston for emergency treatment, the State Department said.

Discussion: MyFoxBoston, Politico and The Raw Story

Dan Abrams / ABC News:

Analysis: George Zimmerman Probably Won't Be Convicted of Murder or Manslaughter — Here's Why — I drew a legal conclusion on “Good Morning America” Saturday that would have surprised the Dan Abrams who covered the George Zimmerman case leading up to, and shortly after, his arrest.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and The Strata-Sphere

Andrew Branca / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Why Zimmerman's Motion for Acquittal Should Have Been Granted — Immediately following the close of the State's case on Friday, Mark O'Mara, the lawyer leading George Zimmerman's defense team, stood before Judge Nelson and made his oral motion for a judgment of acquittal for his client …

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Obama loses altitude, needs solid wins six months into second term — Six months into his second term, the momentum that President Obama gained from his reelection win is a fading memory. — Few could have foreseen this White House struggling so much after Obama's convincing 332-206 electoral vote victory …

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post: Obama's summertime push: Immigration and the economy

New York Times:

Immigration in the House — The Republican caucus of the United States House of Representatives is holding a private meeting on Wednesday. The subject will be immigration. Perhaps it will be a showdown or a summit that will reset the party's direction on this issue.

Discussion: msnbc.com

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Rep. Labrador: Bad immigration bill could be ‘the death’ of the GOP

Discussion: Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite and National Review

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rep. McCaul: Senate immigration reform bill threw ‘candy’ at border

Discussion: Politico and CNN

BBC:

Egypt unrest: Tensions soar amid Cairo killings — At least 42 people have been shot dead near a military barracks in Cairo, amid ongoing unrest over the removal of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi. — The Muslim Brotherhood says its members were staging a pro-Morsi sit-in at the barracks …

Businessweek:
News From Bloomberg — Obama Call for Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt

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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
McCain calls Morsi ouster a coup d'etat, urges blocking aid

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Weasel Zippers

CNN:

Pilot in deadly plane crash had no experience landing 777 in San Francisco — San Francisco (CNN) — [Breaking news update at 11:33 p.m.] — (CNN) — The pilot of the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday was making his first landing with a Boeing 777 …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Twitchy

Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
NTSB: South Korean plane was flying far too slowly to reach runway just before crash

Discussion: The Week, Politico and Wonkblog

David DeSteno / New York Times:

The Morality of Meditation — MEDITATION is fast becoming a fashionable tool for improving your mind. With mounting scientific evidence that the practice can enhance creativity, memory and scores on standardized intelligence tests, interest in its practical benefits is growing.

Emily Swanson / The Huffington Post:

Mike McCaul On Immigration Bill: ‘Bunch Of Candy’ Thrown At Border — Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Sunday that the money for border security proposed as part of the immigration legislation passed by the Senate was “a bunch of candy” …

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Defining Prosperity Down — Friday's employment report wasn't bad. But given how depressed our economy remains, we really should be adding more than 300,000 jobs a month, not fewer than 200,000. As the Economic Policy Institute points out, we would need more than five years of job growth …

Discussion: Marginal Revolution and Paul Krugman

John Hudson / Foreign Policy:

Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower's Law Firm — The offices of a Dallas law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend. Burglars stole three computers and broke into the firm's file cabinets.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Instapundit