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11:25 PM ET, July 26, 2013

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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Drop the Disastrous Plan to Defund Obamacare  —  Conservatives on Capitol Hill think they have a chance to strike a mortal blow against President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul this fall.  If their plan goes forward, however, it will backfire.  —  The plan is to oppose any bill to fund …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Tom Coburn: Campaign to defund Obamacare ‘dishonest,’ ‘hype’  —  ANALYSIS CONGRESS BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Tensions inside the Republican Party about a proposal to defund Obamacare reached a new level Friday when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a lawmaker with unsurpassed credibility in the field …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Fiscal Armageddon could remake Hill in 2014 elections
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
What the Chris Christie-Rand Paul Ruckus Really Means  —  The political press is abuzz over what sure looks like one of the first clashes of the Republican Party's 2016 primary season.  At a Republican governors forum in Aspen, Colo., New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Chris Christie: Rand Paul ‘dangerous’
Washington Times:
Rand Paul to Chris Christie: You need to talk to more real Americans
Joey Fishkin / Balkinization:
And the Shenanigans Begin  —  After Shelby County v. Holder, the big question was how different things would really be.  After all, plenty of places, including states with highly contentious fights about election procedures and redistricting such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, have never been covered anyway.
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Wayne Slater / Trail Blazers Blog:
Greg Abbott's pledge to fight Obama on voting rights a political win with Texas GOP primary voters
Discussion: New Republic
Culture Desk:
Cover Story: John Cuneo's “Carlos Danger”  —  “With a topic like Anthony Weiner, how can you find anything broad or funny that he hasn't already personally breached?” says John Cuneo, the artist who painted next week's cover.  He continues: “Free association made me think of the Empire State Building …
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Weiner girl confidant: Pol's brother grilled sext partner ‘to see if she was going to be a problem’ 2 days after comeback interview published  —  Anthony Weiner's chef brother turned up the heat on the mayoral wannabe's secret online paramour just weeks before the sexting pol announced his mayoral bid …
Discussion: Politicker and Weasel Zippers
KPBS San Diego:
Four More Women Accuse Filner … Four prominent San Diego women came forth today accusing Mayor Bob Filner of unwanted sexual advances.  They related specific incidents in an exclusive interview with KPBS News.  —  The latest accusers —a retired Navy rear-admiral, a dean at San Diego State University …
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Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Democratic Party officials ask San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to quit
Discussion: Post Politics and ThinkProgress
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
San Diego mayor to seek therapy for ‘inexcusable’ behavior
Discussion: CNN
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Senate Dems push White House to appoint Janet Yellen (and not Larry Summers) to the Fed  —  The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that roughly a third of Senate Democrats have signed on to a letter urging Barack Obama to appoint Janet Yellen as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Tricky Obstacles Ahead to Averting Shutdown
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Bank Reposseses Wrong House, Refuses To Compensate Victim  —  Katie Barnett, a resident of MacArthur, OH, claims that a bank she doesn't belong to  —  Barnett says she has since presented the president of the bank with an $18,000 estimate to compensate her for the loss, but he has refused to pay her.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Balloon Juice
Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Paul Ryan lays out immigration proposals in Racine town hall meeting  —  By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel  —  Racine — Coming face-to-face with activists, immigrants and the children of undocumented immigrants, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan on Friday laid out his proposals to achieve a consensus …
Discussion: Politico, The PJ Tatler and Goppers
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Uh Ho: Obama Says Vietnamese Dictator Inspired by Founding Fathers  —  “...we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”  —  It may come as some unwelcome news to the families …
New York Times:
U.S. Letter Says Leaker Won't Face Death Penalty  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a letter sent to the Russian minister of justice this week that the United States would not seek the death penalty against Edward J. Snowden, and would issue him a passport immediately …
Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
Weiner & Spitzer — Now More Than Ever!  —  “Progressivism leads inevitably to utter irrationality and eventually political, as well as moral, chaos.”  —  So writes editor R.V. Young in the summer issue of Modern Age, the journal of which Russell Kirk was founding editor.
Politico:
House ethics panel investigating four members  —  The House Ethics Committee is reviewing cases against four members of Congress, including Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and one member of GOP leadership, the panel announced Friday.  —  The Ethics Committee is probing Rep. John Tierney …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and CNN
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Taiwan trip center of Peter Roskam investigation
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Fed-up Silda Spitzer plans to divorce Eliot after election  —  Silda Spitzer is privately telling friends she plans to divorce her hooker-loving husband, Eliot Spitzer, Page Six can exclusively reveal.  —  Multiple sources tell us long-suffering Silda — who, he last night admitted …
WITN:
McCrory Signs State Budget, Says He Will Sign Abortion Bill & Voter ID Law  —  Governor Pat McCrory on Friday signed the new state budget, two days after state lawmakers approved the $20.6 billion spending plan.  —  Lawmakers finished their session this morning, passing a flurry of bills.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Slain Youth's Mother Criticizes Defense Law  —  PHILADELPHIA — The mother of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager whose fatal shooting by a neighborhood watch volunteer has provoked a national debate over racial profiling and gun laws, appealed to a crowd of African-American advocates here Friday to …
Discussion: Althouse
Associated Press:
Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Students At Occupy Protest Wants Worker's Compensation For ‘Psychiatric Injury’  —  DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is appealing for worker's compensation …
Regina Garcia Cano / Associated Press:
Ohio Group Raises $12K To Buy Zimmerman Guns  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio firearms group has raised more than $12,000 to be spent on guns or a security system for George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.
Discussion: Gawker
 
 
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Reuters:
Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn to be tried for pimping
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
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Discussion: Mediaite
Lauren-Brooke Eisen / Judicial:
Overcriminalization Task Force should focus on reducing prison populations
David De Jong / Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg's Wealth Soars $3.8 Billion as Facebook Surges
Discussion: The College Fix
CNN:
Scarlett Johansson, Lena Dunham to help out Spitzer's opponent
Discussion: Politico
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Pro-marijuana ad to appear outside big NASCAR race
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