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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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Tom Cotton / Wall Street Journal:
It's the House Bill or Nothing on Immigration — What's to stop President Obama from refusing to enforce the Senate bill's border-security promises? — America is a nation of immigrants, but we're also a nation of laws, and the U.S. immigration system should respect both traditions.
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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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Lee Stranahan / BREITBART.COM:
TRAYVONGATE: NEWEST OBAMA SCANDAL IS 17 MONTHS OLD — The newest Obama scandal is seventeen months old. — Welcome to Trayvongate, where the President of the United States used both the bully pulpit, the Department of Justice and sly media manipulation to gin up charges of racism in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting.
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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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George Zimmerman / USA Today:
Judge considers lesser charges for Zimmerman — George Zimmerman's defense team rested Wednesday. The jury deliberations are expected to start Friday. … The judge in the George Zimmerman murder trial will decide Thursday if she will grant a prosecution request to allow the jury …
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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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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.
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New York Post:
Spitzer a no-show in 2012 election vote after writing column about voting for Obama — Eliot Spitzer failed to vote in last year's presidential election — just four days after penning a column proclaiming “Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama,” The Post has learned.
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Michael Howard Saul / Wall Street Journal:
Spitzer Leads Stringer in Comptroller Race: Poll
Spitzer Leads Stringer in Comptroller Race: Poll
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New York Times:
Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi — CAIRO — The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Egypt's preferable tyranny
Egypt's preferable tyranny
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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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Mark Begich / CNN:
Palin fires back in war of words with Begich — Washington (CNN) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hit back Thursday against Sen. Mark Begich after the Democratic senator, also from Alaska, argued Palin had lost touch with the values of their state. — “Really, Mark? Really?” she wrote on her Facebook page.
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Associated Press:
San Diego mayor accused of sexual harassment — A prominent onetime supporter of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner urged him to resign Wednesday less than a year after taking office amid allegations that he sexually harassed women. — Radio and television station KPBS obtained a letter to Filner …
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Rand Paul Stands By His ‘Southern Avenger’ — WASHINGTON — In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sen. Rand Paul stoutly defended an aide who, as a radio shock jock in South Carolina, praised John Wilkes Booth, heaped scorn on Abraham Lincoln and wore a ski mask emblazoned with the stars and bars of the Confederate Battle Flag.
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Lawmakers say administration's lack of candor on surveillance weakens oversight — Lawmakers tasked with overseeing national security policy say a pattern of misleading testimony by senior Obama administration officials has weakened Congress's ability to rein in government surveillance.
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The ObamaCare Spin Machine Revs Up — Team Obama works hard to limit the political damage of the health law in the 2014 elections. — There's been a recent flurry of activities attempting to boost the Affordable Care Act. In mid-June, for example, President Obama's “Organizing for Action” …
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National Review
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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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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Lauren Pack / Dayton, Ohio, News and Information:
Man arrested for having sex with pool raft — HAMILTON — A Hamilton man repeatedly arrested for public indecency has again been indicted after a child saw him engaging in sex with a rubber raft last month, according to police. — Edwin Charles Tobergta, 34, of 1320 Harmon Ave. …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
Obama's Big Problem Is Obama — For the White House, immigration reform perfectly encapsulates the most frustrating reality of President Barack Obama's second term: If it's to be a success, Obama needs to stay out of the lawmaking process. — That's the message he's gotten from Democratic and Republican legislators alike.