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8:05 PM ET, July 12, 2013

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Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
This, Courtesy of MSNBC, Is Trayvon Martin's Dead Body.  Get Angry.  —  A reader of mine sent me this photo last night.  As the murder trial of George Zimmerman wheezes to its conclusion, the TV networks dutifully pipe in live pool video from the courtroom, as if it is force-fed …
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Erik Wemple:
Geraldo: Jurors would have ‘shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did’  —  On this morning's “Fox & Friends,” criminal-justice expert Geraldo Rivera fielded a question about a ruling in the George Zimmerman trial, under which the jury will be allowed to consider a manslaughter conviction.
Daniel J. Flynn / American Spectator:
Two Males, No Men  —  They don't make men like they used to.  One can consult a Danish study that shows plummeting testosterone levels for scientific confirmation of this.  Or, one could more easily turn on any cable news network's wall-to-wall coverage of the Zimmerman-Martin case …
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Balloon Juice
John Fund / National Review:
Obama's Alinskyite Administration
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Geraldo: Al Sharpton And ‘Race Politics’ Forced Florida To Pursue ‘Weak’ Case Against Zimmerman
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
You're Allowed To Carry A Gun Into The Texas Senate Gallery, But Not A Tampon  —  An example of an item that's not permitted in the Texas Gallery.  (Credit: Shutterstock)  —  On Friday afternoon, the Texas Senate will vote on a package of abortion restrictions that Republican lawmakers …
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Chris Tomlinson / Associated Press:
Tampons Seized In Security Checks At Texas Abortion Debate  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats in the Texas Senate on Friday questioned whether proposed abortion restrictions are constitutional and whether they would make it more difficult for women in the state to obtain health care.
Wendy Davis / CNN:
Wendy Davis: Real Texans ready to fight
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
Larry Gordon / Los Angeles Times:
Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security chief, to head UC  —  U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is being named the next president of the 10-campus UC system.  (Alex Wong / Getty Images / July 18, 2012)  —  Janet Napolitano, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security and former governor of Arizona …
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WikiLeaks:
Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport  —  Edward Joseph Snowden delivered a statement to human rights organizations and individuals at Sheremetyevo airport at 5pm Moscow time today, Friday 12th July.  The meeting lasted 45 minutes.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Obama to personally lobby Putin on Edward Snowden
David Brooks / New York Times:
Pass the Bill!  —  It's beginning to look as though we're not going to get an immigration reform law this year.  House Republicans are moving in a direction that will probably be unacceptable to the Senate majority and the White House.  Conservative commentators like my friends Bill Kristol …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Oh, snap!  The GOP misfires on food stamps.  —  There was a rare moment of candor on the House floor this week.  —  Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), a committee chairman and the man who led House Republicans to their majority in 2010, was explaining why he and his colleagues decided to drop the food stamp program from the farm bill.
Janegalt / Megan McArdle:
Why I Think the GOP Will Have Control in 2017  —  My assertion that there's a 70% chance that the GOP controls White House, Senate, and House in 2017 has attracted a lot of pushback.  And it's certainly possible that I'm wrong!  Here's my thinking, for what it's worth:
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Report: Obamas plan weeklong Martha's Vineyard vacation next month
Discussion: CNN
Susan Walsh / The Reliable Source:
White House summer interns: It never hurts to have connections
Discussion: Yahoo! News and ABC News
ThinkProgress:
Iowa Supreme Court: It's OK To Fire A Woman For Being Too Attractive  —  Joseph Diebold is an intern with ThinkProgress.  —  Standing by a December decision, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that a male dentist who fired a female assistant because she was too attractive and threatened his marriage did not commit sex discrimination.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Holder Tightens Rules for Obtaining Reporters' Data  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been criticized for the Justice Department's aggressive tactics in secretly obtaining phone logs and e-mails of reporters as part of leak investigations, on Friday announced …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama meets Holder, accepts report on Justice's targeting of media for leaks
Discussion: Politico
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Implosion Of Virginia Governor Shows Why We Need To Pay Elected Officials More  —  Is Gov. Bob McDonnell's (R-Va.) fall from grace really so surprising?  —  Alex Burns of Politico expresses incredulity that McDonnell has apparently tossed away his presidential ambitions by accepting gifts …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Bearing Drift
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Bob McDonnell's stunning fall from grace
KETK NBC:
Jars of urine, feces confiscated at TX capitol as abortion bill voting takes place  —  AUSTIN, TEXAS (DPS) — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) today received information that individuals planned to use a variety of items or props to disrupt legislative proceedings at the Texas Capitol.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Concerning “Libertarian Populism”  —  Like any political tradition associated with the defense of privilege, American conservatism has been the object of many efforts to give it a popularizing makeover.  There was the “Modern Republicanism” of the Eisenhower era, which was a useful device …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Ahmed Wali Mujeeb / BBC:
Pakistan Taliban ‘sets up a base in Syria’  —  The Pakistani Taliban sees itself as being ideologically opposed to President Assad's rule  —  The Pakistani Taliban have visited Syria to set up a base and to assess “the needs of the jihad”, a Taliban official has told the BBC.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Reuters:   New front opens in Syria as rebels say al Qaeda attack means war
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Phonyism  —  On Thursday the New York Times published a front-page, 1,400-word story on the political ambitions of a 26-year-old man who grew up in Ohio, graduated from Brown, married rich, and moved to New York City.  And then moved to Garrison, New York, in the Hudson River Valley.
BuzzFeed:
9 Harsh Political Realities Of Sharknado  —  1. Sharknados are caused by global warming.  —  “Global warming IS the reason...” says a reporter in the film before being eaten live on camera.  —  2. Sharknados are terrible for small business.  —  Multiple small business establishments were destroyed in the tragic film.
Discussion: Mediaite and The PJ Tatler
 
 
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
KTVU Apparently Pranked
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Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
KTVU Reports Asiana Air Pilots Were “Sum Ting Wong” and “Ho Lee Fuk”
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rep. Stockman: Texas Dems want to ‘shred late-term babies alive’
Discussion: CNN
Josh Hicks / Federal Eye:
Democrats offer new evidence that IRS targeted progressive groups
Discussion: The Raw Story
Janet Conner-Knox / WilsonTimes.com:
McCrory threatens abortion bill veto
Discussion: @NCCapitol and Balloon Juice
 Earlier Items: 
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Zimmerman Lawyers Were Once Supporters Of Judge Who Has Knocked Them About Florida Courtroom
Alan Suderman / The Center for Public Integrity …:
Clinton supporter suspected of illegal donations
Discussion: Politico and America Rising
John Markoff / New York Times:
Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of ‘Robo Sapiens’
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
Walter Shapiro / American Prospect:
Coming to Do Good, Staying to Do Well
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Another IRS Scandal Waiting to Happen
Discussion: Hot Air, Betsy's Page and TheBlaze.com
 

 
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Financial Times:
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