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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:
Anthony Weiner Faces New Sex Chat Allegations — 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 and photos that were posted by a nightlife website over the past day. — Nightlife site “The Dirty” …
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Power Line, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com, Mediaite and National Review
Jill Colvin / Politicker:
Anthony Weiner Responds Vaguely to New Illicit Message Revelations — Anthony Weiner. (Photo: Getty) — Anthony Weiner today responded to new explicit messages and images the gossip website The Dirty alleges were sent to an anonymous tipster by the former congressman after he was forced …
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“The Lid”, National Review and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NikRichie / The Dirty:
EXCLUSIVE IMAGE: Anthony Weiner Penis Picture And Timeline — Here is another exclusive image that Anthony Weiner sent to my source. Letting it all hang out. Huma Abedin don't tell me you don't recognize those feet and mushroom head. Time to leave this Weiner already.
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Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and Gawker
CNN:
Weiner comments on new sexually charged messages — (CNN) - Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress amid a sexting scandal, confirmed Tuesday that some newly emerged, sexually-tinged exchanges he had with an unnamed woman are real. — “As I have said in the past …
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Politico
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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Politico, msnbc.com, Washington Monthly, Weasel Zippers, PostPartisan, americanthinker.com, Wonkblog, The Week, The Dish, The Gavel and Booman Tribune
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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.”
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line, New Republic, The Maddow Blog, Betsy's Page, Ed Driscoll and Conservatives4Palin
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
The House will not pass the Senate immigration bill. Here's why.
The House will not pass the Senate immigration bill. Here's why.
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Yahoo! News, Hot Air, Washington Post and Power Line
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.
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Weekly Standard, Hot Air, Real Clear Politics, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
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Washington Post:
July 2013 Washington Post-ABC News poll: Obama, GOP, immigration and health care
July 2013 Washington Post-ABC News poll: Obama, GOP, immigration and health care
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Goppers, Washington Monthly, The Fix, Via Meadia, The Hill, Daily Kos and CNN
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Boehner comments on immigration are ‘laughable’
White House: Boehner comments on immigration are ‘laughable’
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Politico
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 …
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Hullabaloo and Shakesville
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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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ABC News, CBS DC, Hot Air, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Business Insider, Right Turn, Power Line, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Greenroom
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Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Poll: Most Americans Don't Want Congress to Repeal Obamacare
Poll: Most Americans Don't Want Congress to Repeal Obamacare
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National Review, ThinkProgress, PoliticusUSA, Yahoo! News, First Read, Daily Kos and New York Times
Sandra Lilley / NBC Latino:
Iowa's Rep. King: For every valedictorian Dreamer, 100 are “hauling marijuana” — Iowa conservative Republican Congressman Steve King said in an interview with Newsmax that for every valedictorian DREAMer who has been brought to this country by his or her family, “...there's another 100 out there who …
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Daily Kos and Taegan Goddard's …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Rep. Joe Garcia: Rep. Steve King comments ‘offensive’
Rep. Joe Garcia: Rep. Steve King comments ‘offensive’
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CNN, Yahoo! News, Washington Wire, Mediaite and PostPartisan
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 …
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Post Politics
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Jim Avila / ABC News:
DREAMers Tell Republican House: That's Not Our Dream
DREAMers Tell Republican House: That's Not Our Dream
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The Plum Line, National Review and ABC News
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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Mediaite, msnbc.com, Firedoglake, Politico, Hullabaloo and The Hinterland Gazette
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AHA / American Historical Association:
American Historical Association Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations — In their June 2013 meeting, the AHA Council drafted a statement on policies regarding best practices for embargoing completed history PhD dissertations.
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Crooked Timber, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Outside the Beltway
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Right now, Larry Summers is the front-runner for Fed chair — The word among Federal Reserve watchers right now is that the choice is down to Janet Yellen or Larry Summers as Ben Bernanke's replacement. I can't find anyone who really thinks it'll be Roger Ferguson, Tim Geithner, Alan Blinder, or some other dark horse.
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Business Insider, Marginal Revolution, Brad DeLong and naked capitalism
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 …
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TBogg, Outside the Beltway, addictinginfo.org and Ballot Box
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.
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Reuters, The Week, The Dish, The Long War Journal, Weasel Zippers and BBC
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Reuters:
Palestinians, Israelis play down chances of imminent talks — (Reuters) - Israelis and Palestinians played down on Monday the prospects of their envoys meeting in Washington any time soon, and the White House said getting the two sides to agree a peace deal remained an “enormous challenge”.
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Via Meadia, Foreign Policy and Washington Wire
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The Atlantic Online:
It's the Racism, Stupid — National Review's Victor Davis Hanson takes on the president's comments with predictable results. Here Hansen counters The Talk that African-American parents give their children about the police with his own version of The Talk: … I really, really hope not.
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ThinkProgress and National Review
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
CONFIRMED: Left Wing Plant at Houston Pro-Zimmerman Rally Is Far Left Activist — LEFTIST PLANT INFILTRATES HOUSTON PRO-ZIMMERMAN RALLY- — Liberal Media runs with it — A photo from the Houston pro-Zimmerman counter-rally of the NBPP anti-Zimmerman rally picked up by the AP shows …
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BREITBART.COM, Daily Mail, National Review and The Jawa Report
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