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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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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 …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Goppers, First Read and Taegan Goddard's …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' Obamacare search-and-destroy mission
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Immigration Reform Has No Pulse
Immigration Reform Has No Pulse
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans More Pro-Immigration Than in Past — Record-low 35% want flow decreased; support for increasing it now 23% — PRINCETON, NJ — As House Republicans and Democrats each met separately this week to consider how to handle immigration reform, Americans remain more accepting of immigration than they were even a few years ago.
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Jeff Sessions / National Review:
Sessions: How GOP Can Turn Immigration Debate On Its Head
Sessions: How GOP Can Turn Immigration Debate On Its Head
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BREITBART.COM and Booman Tribune
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Senate Dems heading back to the drawing board on student loans
Senate Dems heading back to the drawing board on student loans
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Politico
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ex-Sanford police chief: Zimmerman probe ‘taken away from us’ — (CNN) — The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked “in a number of ways” by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida. — Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial …
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and National Review
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Tim Huelskamp hits Barack Obama, Bill Clinton — Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp on Wednesday managed to jab both President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton in less than 140 characters. — The outspoken Republican tweeted that he doesn't trust Obama on border security any more than the 42nd president with women.
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Mediaite, The Hinterland Gazette and Post Politics
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep: Trusting Obama On Border Security Like Trusting Clinton With Your Daughter — Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) fired the zinger over his Twitter feed: … When he was asked by NBC News about the tweet, Huelskamp called it an “off-hand” remark but largely stood by the jab.
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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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Washington Monthly, The Impolitic, The Raw Story and Hullabaloo
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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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msnbc.com, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, The Impolitic and American Prospect
BBC:
US-Egypt fighter jet deal ‘on track’ — The US is going ahead with plans to deliver four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt despite the political unrest in the country, senior American officials say. — This comes as Washington is continuing to evaluate last week's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the army.
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Hot Air, Israel Matzav, The BLT and Guardian
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.
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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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Pat Greenhouse / Boston Globe:
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev arrives at Boston federal court for arraignment
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev arrives at Boston federal court for arraignment
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News Desk, BuzzFeed, Los Angeles Times, CNN and Scared Monkeys
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Carry Forward — Illinois joins the rest of the states in permitting concealed guns. — “This is a historic, significant day for law-abiding gun owners,” the Associated Press quotes Rep. Brandon Phelps as saying. “They finally get to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
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Washington Post and Jezebel
Regina Medina / Philly.com:
Kane won't defend Pa. in gay-marriage suit, sources say — Attorney General Kathleen Kane is expected to announce Thursday that her office won't defend the state in a federal lawsuit that challenges Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage, the Daily News has learned.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Towleroad News #gay
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — July 11, 2013 - American Voters Say 2-1 Stay Out Of Syria, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Drop In Foreign Policy Approval Keeps Obama Score Low — American voters say 61 - 27 percent that it is not in the national interest to be involved in Syria and oppose 59 …
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Taegan Goddard's … and ABC News
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Booker raises $4.6M in 2nd quarter — Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) raised a staggering $4.6 million in the second quarter of the cycle and now has $4.5 million cash on hand for his Senate campaign in New Jersey. — The haul may be enough to vault him ahead of his opponents in fundraising.
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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.”
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Michael J. Totten's blog, New Republic and Hot Air
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 …
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.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Time to Throw Out Second Best GOP Senators — Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi is a loyal Republican, a decent guy, and generally a good senator. He also needs to retire from the Senate because he is not good enough, and I don't care if that makes him sad. — The New York Times probably thought …
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