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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Meet President Obama's new economic message. Same as his old economic message. — You could be forgiven if you thought you had heard President Obama's speech on the economy today before. Because you have. For most of the 2012 campaign. (Don't trust us, read Obama's 2012 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.)
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Amanda Cochran / CBS News:
CBS News poll finds more Americans than ever want Obamacare repealed — (CBS News) A new CBS News poll finds more Americans than ever want the Affordable Care Act repealed. — According to the poll, 36 percent of Americans want Congress to expand or keep the health care law while 39 percent …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House G.O.P. Sets New Offensive on Obama Goals — WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama's top priorities with the sharpest spending cuts in a generation and a new push to hold government financing hostage unless the president's signature health care law is stripped of money this fall.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama hits GOP for ‘phony scandals’ — President Obama accused congressional Republicans of focusing on “phony scandals” instead of the pressing issues facing the country during an economic speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill. [WATCH VIDEO] — “With an endless parade of distractions …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A warmed-over jobs message
A warmed-over jobs message
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Older, But Not Wiser — “As a country, we're older and we're wiser …
Older, But Not Wiser — “As a country, we're older and we're wiser …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Boehner rips Obama speech
Boehner rips Obama speech
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama ‘Pivots’ for 19th Time
Obama ‘Pivots’ for 19th Time
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Daily Mail:
REVEALED: The Obama election campaigner, 23, who ‘received illicit messages and had phone sex with Anthony Weiner’ a year after humiliated wife forgave him — Sydney Leathers, a liberal activist from Illinois, is allegedly the woman who revealed explicit images she received from Weiner
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New York Times:
Account of Weiner's Conversation Fits Pattern of Online Exchanges — The racy online conversations now convulsing Anthony D. Weiner's campaign for mayor began with an angry Facebook message, according to the editor of a blog that has communicated with the young woman involved.
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New York Times:
Mr. Weiner and the Elusive Truth — At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told. In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Anthony Weiner Show
The Anthony Weiner Show
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Obama's Economic Speech In Illinois As Prepared For Delivery — Eight years ago, I came here to deliver the commencement address for the class of 2005. Things were a little different back then. I didn't have any gray hair, for example. Or a motorcade. I didn't even have a teleprompter.
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Obama Blasts Republicans In Major Economic Speech: 'You Can't Just Be Against' Everything I Propose
Obama Blasts Republicans In Major Economic Speech: 'You Can't Just Be Against' Everything I Propose
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New York Times:
Obama Focuses on Economy, Vowing to Help Middle Class
Obama Focuses on Economy, Vowing to Help Middle Class
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
What's the Matter With North Carolina? — The state went from beacon of tolerance to bastion of voter suppression in a month. — North Carolina is proving itself to be the poster child for all that is wrong with modern American democracy and—with thanks to Moral Mondays—also highlighting all that may someday save it.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Desperately Move To Shut Down Government Over Obamacare — Running out of time and options, conservatives are exploring new ways to corner Congress into shutting down the government this fall unless Obamacare is defunded. But they aren't likely to achieve much more than giving Republican leaders heartburn.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP senator: Don't hold debt limit ‘hostage’ over ObamaCare funds
GOP senator: Don't hold debt limit ‘hostage’ over ObamaCare funds
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Conservative challenger takes on top Senate Republican
Conservative challenger takes on top Senate Republican
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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans for Snowden — A left-right House coalition rushes to stop metadata collection. — Few things are more dangerous than Congress in heat, and so it is this week as a libertarian-left wing coalition in the House of Representatives is rushing to neuter one of the National Security Agency's antiterror surveillance programs.
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Americans turn against Edward Snowden — The American people, who once defended Edward Snowden's leaks of sensitive intelligence information gathered by the U.S. government, are starting to turn against him. — A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that a majority of Americans …
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Pennsylvania police chief: F*ck all you libtards out there, you take it in the a** — The mayor of Gilberton, Pennsylvania is standing by her city's police chief despite a series of profanity-laced and threatening videos. — In a video that has received wide attention …
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Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama to nominate Caroline Kennedy as ambassador to Japan — (CNN) - Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy and a prominent Democratic backer, was nominated by President Barack Obama Wednesday to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
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David Glovin / Bloomberg:
Mother of Golf Prodigy in Hazing Death Defied by FratPAC — Harrison Kowiak was 19 years old when he died after schoolmates pummeled him on a pitch-black field in Hickory, North Carolina. It was part of a fraternity hazing. — Determined to protect other students, Kowiak's mother Lianne devoted herself to fighting hazing.
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Marist Poll:
7/24: A Look at the 2016 Presidential Contest — If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to announce a candidacy for the Presidency, she would be the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Clinton outdistances her closest potential opponent, Vice President Joe Biden …
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Geetika Rudra / Yahoo! Good Morning America:
Judge Orders $1 Million Returned to Exotic Dancer — A federal judge has ruled that Nebraska cops must return over $1 million confiscated at a traffic stop from a woman who saved the money $1 at a time during her 15 year career as an exotic dancer. — The money belongs to Tara Mishra …
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Jennifer Liberto / CNNMoney.com:
Postal Service looks to end at-your-door mail — If you're moving to a newly built house, say goodbye to mail delivery at your door. — And if some House Republicans get their way, all door-to-door mail delivery will go away. — The U.S. Postal Service is marching towards a more …
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