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NikRichie / The Dirty:
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Weiner Is A Sexual Predator Luring His Victims  —  My source is solid.  She really thought Anthony Weiner and her were in love, they spoke on the phone daily multiple times a day for 6 months.  Anthony Weiner played with her emotions and mind.  Most calls were phone sex.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
No Comment From Weiner Camp On New Alleged Sex Chats  —  The Dirty posts explicit Facebook and Formspring exchanges.  “I'm deeply flawed.”  UPDATE: Weiner has released a statement acknowledging that at least some of the messages are authentic.  —  Source: thedirty.com
The Dirty:
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Weiner Hasn't Changed Poor Huma Abedin, New Image Of His Penis  —  Anthony Weiner is up to his old tricks again.  I've been in contact with a young female girl who wishes to remain Anonymous.  She was lured by Anthony Weiner post scandal via Facebook.
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Anthony Weiner Confirms Authenticity Of New Sex Chats  —  New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner confirmed the authenticity of new lewd, sexually charged online chats that were posted by a nightlife website over the past day.  —  Nightlife site “The Dirty” posted images of conversations …
David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Obama's job approval plunges; Congress, especially GOP, still unpopular  —  WASHINGTON — Stung by Americans' persistent worries about the economy and a capital gripped by controversy and gridlock, President Barack Obama is suffering his lowest job approval numbers in nearly two years, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
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Scott Clement / The Fix:
Moderate Democrats are quitting on Obamacare  —  The landmark health-reform law passed in 2010 has never been very popular and always highly partisan, but a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a group of once loyal Democrats has been steadily turning against Obamacare: Democrats who are ideologically moderate or conservative.
Washington Post:
July 2013 Washington Post-ABC News poll: Obama, GOP, immigration and health care  —  Poll Questions
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Policy Divisions Challenge Obama, But GOP Battles Its Own Discontent  —  Credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo  —  Challenges across the policy spectrum are keeping Barack Obama in political peril, with the public divided on initiatives ranging from Senate-supported immigration reform to Obama's signature health care law.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Government shutdown looms over ObamaCare  —  ObamaCare is at the center of a rapidly escalating fight that threatens to shut the government down this fall.  [WATCH VIDEO]  —  Senate Republicans, including two members of the leadership, are coalescing around a proposal to block …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Are Republicans fooling themselves about Obamacare?  —  When Washington conservatives gather to talk among themselves, and the discussion turns to Obamacare — it happens pretty frequently — it's not unusual to hear predictions that the president's health care law will “collapse of its own weight.”
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
The House will not pass the Senate immigration bill.  Here's why.  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) isn't backing down from his position that the House will deal with the immigration issue piece-by-piece and won't vote on the Senate-passed bill.  —  And he's got good reason.
Discussion: Power Line
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
North Carolina On Cusp Of Passing Worst Voter Suppression Bill In The Nation  —  Voting in North Carolina may soon change, much in the same way a wrecking ball changes a building.  —  The highly-conservative North Carolina legislature just released a new voter suppression bill that would enact …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Ray Kelly / Wall Street Journal:
The NYPD: Guilty of Saving 7,383 Lives  —  Accusations of racial profiling ignore the fact that violent crime overwhelmingly occurs in minority neighborhoods.  —  Since 2002, the New York Police Department has taken tens of thousands of weapons off the street through proactive policing strategies.
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Alex Pareene / Salon:
Kelly's creative writing: Stop-and-frisk and Muslim surveillance are wonderful!
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Dish and Guardian
Doug Denison / delawareonline:
Republicans wait as O'Donnell weighs another campaign  —  In the three years since her unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign nearly caused a schism in the state Republican Party, little has changed for Christine O'Donnell as she considers another race.  —  O'Donnell continues to be regarded …
Philip Caulfield / NY Daily News:
Pro-Zimmerman, Pro-Trayvon Martin groups meet in tense standoff in Houston  —  ‘Justice for Trayvon’ marchers came face-to-face with a group supporting George Zimmerman and Florida's Stand Your Ground law in an upscale neighborhood in Houston on Sunday.  —  The dueling groups converged …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cheney Senate bid looks like an uphill battle  —  PPP's new Wyoming poll finds that most voters in the state see Liz Cheney as an outsider...and as a result she starts out at a significant deficit in a primary contest with Mike Enzi.  —  Overall only 31% of Wyoming voters consider Cheney to be a ‘Wyomingite’ to 50% who do not.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McCain drops threat to hold up joint chiefs chairman confirmation  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday dropped his threat to place a hold on President Obama's nominee to lead the joint chiefs of staff.  —  McCain told reporters that he would not block Gen. Martin Dempsey's confirmation …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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John Byrne / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago alderman gets White House award, admits talking to FBI … Clout Street  —  In a case of only-in-Chicago political timing, the White House announced Monday it would honor Ald.  Joe Moore as a “pioneer for political reform,” the same day the veteran City Council member revealed …
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Both Parties Need to Keep an Eye on Older Voters for 2014 Elections  —  The electorate has changed since the 2010 midterms, and this segment - which voted Republican in the last two elections - appears to be shifting in recent surveys.  —  This week, I had the opportunity to listen …
La Opinión:
Cruel and Indecent  —  Family values are a pillar of traditional Republican discourse.  But as soon as it comes time to address immigration issues, all of their emphasis on family unity goes out the window, replaced by advocacy for division.  —  This is the logical conclusion that follows …
Lizbeth Mateo / The Huffington Post:
The Fight to Keep Families Together Does Not End at Deportation  —  On Monday, I walked into a port of entry in Nogales, Mexico with seven other Dreamers and asked the Obama administration to use its discretion to allow us to return to the United States.  As you read this, I may be in a detention center.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and NBC Latino
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Sacha Baron Cohen Exits Freddie Mercury Biopic Over Creative Differences With Queen  —  BREAKING... EXCLUSIVE... Sacha Baron Cohen is just not seeing eye to eye with the remaining members of Queen who have script and director approval over that biopic on iconic lead singer Freddie Mercury.
TIME:
The Meaning of al-Qaeda's Alarming Baghdad Jailbreak  —  Why Iraq could become Obama's next big foreign policy crisis  —  By Michael Crowley @CrowleyTIMEJuly 23, 2013  —  The Middle East has presented Barack Obama with many nasty surprises.  But Iraq has not been among them.
New York Times:
Getting Detroit Back on Its Feet  —  After suffering through decades of economic decline and official mismanagement, the city of Detroit sought bankruptcy protection last week, becoming the largest American municipality to take that extreme step.  The city's debts total a staggering $18 billion …
 
 
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
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