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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Hate All Legislation Now — Kill them all, actually. — One of the novel developments in conservative thought during the Obama years is a burgeoning hatred not merely for government but for lawmaking. Before the Obama era, the ends of crafting laws divided the parties, but the means did not.
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Immigration Reform Has No Pulse — Let's kick things off on a high note today: A body doesn't become a corpse until sometime after it loses its pulse. That might not be strictly correct biologically speaking. Biologists probably don't refer to dead bodies as corpses.
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Politico:
Immigration reform heads for slow death
Immigration reform heads for slow death
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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system
Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system
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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor — A conservative mogul worth $43 billion says he knows the secret to helping poor people. According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Wal-Mart says it will pull out of D.C. plans should city mandate ‘living wage’ — The world's largest retailer delivered an ultimatum to District lawmakers Tuesday, telling them less than 24 hours before a decisive vote that at least three planned Wal-Marts will not open in the city if a super-minimum-wage proposal becomes law.
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Walmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
Walmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
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Trishula Patel / Washington Post:
Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms — Police searched the Northern Virginia home of activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody on a charge of being in possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while also having a gun, authorities said.
Corrie MacLaggan / Reuters:
Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions — (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives approved sweeping abortion restrictions on Tuesday, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and tougher standards for clinics that perform the procedure.
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Steve Saleeba / CBS Boston:
‘Free Jahar’ Chant As Boston Bombing Suspect Heads To Court — BOSTON (CBS/AP) - A small group of demonstrators showed up at Moakley Federal Courthouse in South Boston on Wednesday to show support for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. — Tsarnaev appeared in court for his first public hearing.
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Boston bomb suspect pleads not guilty
Boston bomb suspect pleads not guilty
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Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler:
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests — Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests
Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests
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New York Times:
The Decline of North Carolina — Every Monday since April, thousands of North Carolina residents have gathered at the State Capitol to protest the grotesque damage that a new Republican majority has been doing to a tradition of caring for the least fortunate.
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TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber Pisses Into Restaurant Mop Bucket — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ [VIDEO] — PISSES INTO RESTAURANT MOP BUCKET — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ — EXCLUSIVE — Justin Bieber is an oblivious, self-important little twit who goes out of his way to make the working man's life miserable …
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Associated Press:
John Kerry: Wife's condition improving — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry has paid tearful thanks for the outpouring of good wishes for his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry and says her condition is improving. — Kerry, looking weary, was speaking at the opening of U.S.-China talks at the State Department Wednesday.
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Kerry chokes back tears in first comments on wife's health scare
Kerry chokes back tears in first comments on wife's health scare
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Take cameras out of the courtroom — As a courtroom junkie since my early reporting days, it is at great personal sacrifice that I suggest the following: It may be time to get television cameras out of the courtroom. — Or at least, judges might be encouraged to exclude electronic media from high-profile trials.
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Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...
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Emad Mekay / Al Jazeera English:
Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists — Berkeley, United States - President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt's crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president. — But a review of dozens …
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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Egypt Is Arena for Influence of Arab Rivals
Egypt Is Arena for Influence of Arab Rivals
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Begich: Is Palin even a resident? — Sarah Palin “quit on Alaska” as governor and “ has lost touch” with her home state, Mark Begich told POLITICO. — The Democratic senator said Palin, who said Tuesday she's considering challenging him for his seat in 2014, might not even be a resident …
Felix Salmon:
Wage deflation charts of the day — NELP, the National Employment Law Project, has taken a detailed look at what happened to wages during the recovery — specifically, between 2009 and 2012. They looked at the annual Occupational and Employment Statistics for three years — 2007 …
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
McDonnell's corporation, wife allegedly benefited from $120,000 more from donor — RICHMOND — A prominent political donor gave $70,000 to a corporation owned by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his sister last year, and the governor did not disclose the money as a gift or loan, according to people with knowledge of the payments.
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
The NSA slide you haven't seen — Recent debate over U.S. government surveillance has focused on the information that American technology companies secretly provide to the National Security Agency. But that is only one of the ways the NSA eavesdrops on international communications.
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Lee Drutman / Sunlight Foundation:
Why the 2012 election was unusual — and why it wasn't — Back in the days after the 2012 election, when it became clear that despite losing the popular House vote, Republicans had actually won a sizeable majority in the House, plenty of speculation set in as to why: Was it gerrymandering?
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Pete Kasperowicz / E2-Wire:
House blocks enforcement of light bulb standards — The House on Wednesday voted to block the enforcement of light bulb standards that many say would effectively force people to buy more expensive compact fluorescent bulbs. — Just like last year, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) …
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
HISTORIC: Senate panel advances trans-inclusive ENDA — A Senate committee made history on Wednesday by approving for the first time a trans-inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and picking up key Republican support from Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
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Lori Mitchell / WKRN-TV:
Naked wife distracts victim while husband burglarizes home — A woman distracted a man by skinny dipping in his pool while her husband burglarized the man's home. — The incident occurred on the afternoon of June 27 at the victim's home on Canterbury Lane in the Camelot subdivision in Crossville, about 100 miles east of Nashville.
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