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7:30 AM ET, July 11, 2013

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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Boehner warns House GOP will be weaker without immigration reform  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged their House Republican colleagues to pass immigration reform legislation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with the Speaker arguing that the party would be …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' Obamacare search-and-destroy mission  —  Watching House Republicans' latest complaint about Obamacare brings to mind the joke Woody Allen used to open “Annie Hall,” about two elderly women at a Catskills resort.  —  “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” says one.
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.
New York Times:
Republicans in House Resist Overhaul for Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — Meeting for the first time as a group to hash out their approach to immigration, House Republicans on Wednesday came down overwhelmingly against a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws …
Discussion: Goppers and Taegan Goddard's …
Politico:
GOP reaching out to Dems on immigration  —  There are two extreme poles in the House Republican Conference, and they were on clear display Wednesday in the Capitol.  —  In the meeting, which stretched more than two hours, Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) stood up and delivered a speech about the dangers …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Power Line
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
North Carolina GOP Attaches Abortion Restrictions To Motorcycle Safety Bill With No Public Notice
Associated Press:
Divided House Republicans grapple with immigration
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Judicial Watch:
Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch Detail Role of Justice Department in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests … Document: DOJ Community Relations Service was deployed to Sanford, FL, “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting …
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Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler:
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
Discussion: PJ Media and Instapundit
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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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) …
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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Pat Greenhouse / Boston Globe:
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev arrives at Boston federal court for arraignment
Michael Howard Saul / Wall Street Journal:
Spitzer Leads Stringer in Comptroller Race: Poll  —  Former Governor Who Resigned After Scandal Is Frontrunner  —  Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leads Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer by nine percentage points in the race for New York City comptroller, according to a Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll.
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:
Exclusive: Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA Prism requests  —  SUNNYVALE — In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate …
Discussion: Guardian
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.
Discussion: CNN and Hot Air
Thomas B. Edsall / Opinionator:
The Decline of Black Power in the South  —  To understand the depth of the damage that the Supreme Court's June 25 decision, Shelby County v. Holder, has inflicted on the voting rights of African-Americans, you have to measure it against the backdrop of the takeover of state legislatures, primarily in the South, by the Republican Party.
KPBS San Diego:
Filner Asked To Resign Over Sexual-Harassment Claims  —  At least three staunch supporters of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner are asking him to resign over allegations of sexual harassment, KPBS has learned.  —  Former Councilwoman Donna Frye, who was a member of Filner's staff until she resigned in April …
Discussion: Associated Press
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
GOP bill would defund schools with rules against playing with imaginary guns  —  Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) introduced legislation this week to block federal funding for schools that enforce rules which punish students for playing with imaginary weapons.  —  The Student Protection Act …
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).
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Senate Dems heading back to the drawing board on student loans  —  Senators working on a fix for higher interest rates on student loans are headed back to the drawing board after Democrats failed Wednesday to advance their preferred plan to curb the increase.
Discussion: Politico
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Egypt's preferable tyranny  —  Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi knows neither Thomas Jefferson's advice that “great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities” nor the description of Martin Van Buren as a politician who “rowed to his object with muffled oars.”
Discussion: New Republic and Hot Air
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.
 
 
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US-Egypt fighter jet deal ‘on track’
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Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Cost of Compromise  —  In his 2011 memoir, “Five Chiefs …
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Discussion: Yahoo! News and EconLog
Wall Street Journal:
Fed Affirms Easy-Money Tilt
Discussion: MoneyBeat and Real Time Economics
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
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Dr. Benjamin S. Carson Sr / Washington Times:
CARSON: Restoring plain and civil speech to politics
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Branstad, Braley lead in Iowa
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The Jay-Z and Beyonce bill
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Felix Salmon:
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