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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Bill and Hillary Clinton are ‘livid’ at comparisons to Weiner's sexcapades and Huma's forgiveness — Bill and Hillary Clinton are angry with efforts by mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner and his campaign to compare his Internet sexcapades — and his wife Huma Abedin's incredible forgiveness …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Time to Hard-Delete Carlos Danger — WASHINGTON — WHEN you puzzle over why the elegant Huma Abedin is propping up the eel-like Anthony Weiner, you must remember one thing: Huma was raised in Saudi Arabia, where women are treated worse by men than anywhere else on the planet.
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Pope Francis Says He Will Not Judge Gay Priests — ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRCRAFT (AP) — Pope Francis reached out to gays on Monday, saying he wouldn't judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference as he returned from his first foreign trip.
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, ‘Who Am I to Judge?’ — Behind the Pope's Surprising Shift: The Times's Ian Fisher, a former Rome bureau chief, on the pope's statement on gay priests and how it differentiates Francis from previous leaders of the Catholic Church.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
What the Pope Did and Didn't Say on the Plane
What the Pope Did and Didn't Say on the Plane
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Stephen Carter / Bloomberg:
How to Get Obama Out of His Bubble — During Bill Clinton's …
How to Get Obama Out of His Bubble — During Bill Clinton's …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Are Republicans too divided to have a civil war? — A nasty fight is brewing among Republicans over a proposal to defund Obamacare. Another intra-party fight is flaring over national security and the war on terror. And yet another is well under way over immigration reform.
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Associated Press:
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul hits critics for ‘gimme, gimme’ attitude toward federal Sandy relief — FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul hit back at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the two Republicans' ongoing spat over national security. — Christie last week criticized Paul's opposition …
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Jed Lewison / Daily Kos:
Rand Paul explains why both sides are losing the GOP civil war
Rand Paul explains why both sides are losing the GOP civil war
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Howard Dean / Wall Street Journal:
The Affordable Care Act's Rate-Setting Won't Work — Experience tells me the Independent Payment Advisory Board will fail. — Continuing efforts by congressional Republicans to “defund” further implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, even if it takes shutting …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Howard Dean, Concerned American and Non-Shill — Pope Francis on Gay Priests: ‘Who Am I to Judge?’ — If you are old enough to remember when Howard Dean was running for president in 2004, excoriating fellow Democrats like John Kerry as a “handmaiden of special interests,” …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Stranded by Sprawl — Detroit is a symbol of the old economy's decline. It's not just the derelict center; the metropolitan area as a whole lost population between 2000 and 2010, the worst performance among major cities. Atlanta, by contrast, epitomizes the rise of the Sun Belt …
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NBC's Kasie Hunt / First Read:
Cruz: Republicans not willing to ‘stand up’ to defund Obamacare — The conservative plan to use the resolution that funds the government to cripple the president's health-care law has a problem, according to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz: other Republicans. — “The problem right now is we don't have …
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Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Cory Booker Visiting Iowa In August — Is Cory Booker already running for President in 2016? … The Newark mayor who is heavily favored in New Jersey's special election to replace Frank Lautenberg in the U.S. Senate has already scheduled a major speaking engagement in Iowa in August.
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Matt Friedman / New Jersey Online:
Lautenberg and Booker's tortured history shows up in campaign
Lautenberg and Booker's tortured history shows up in campaign
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Anthea Butler / Guardian:
Conservatives bashed me for speaking out about the Zimmerman verdict — America may be a nation of ‘free speech’, but be prepared to be bullied and harassed for speaking up, especially on race — Hours after the George Zimmerman verdict, I found myself at my computer, calling to mind a text I had first read in seminary.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In U.S., 52% Back Law to Legalize Gay Marriage in 50 States — Americans would legalize gay marriage nationwide, favor equal rights for such unions — PRINCETON, NJ — If given the opportunity to vote on a law legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states, the slight majority of Americans …
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National Review:
Mitch Daniels Was Right — Mitch Daniels, whom some Republicans would like to see president of something more than Purdue University, is under attack because as governor of Indiana he objected to the use of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in public-school curricula.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Obama Vineyard vacation at $7.6m private resort, over 75 rooms booked for staff — MASSACHUSETTS WASHINGTON SECRETS WHITE HOUSE — The Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, the exclusive playground for presidents and their families, is about to get its annual summer infusion of cash …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters blogs:
Peggy Noonan: Obama Got To Point Where People Stopped Listening To Him Faster Than Most Presidents — “I think every president in the intense media environment we have now, certainly every two-term president, gets to a point where the American people stop listening, stop leaning forward hungrily for information.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Mitt Romney's Incredible 47-Percent Denial: “Actually, I Didn't Say That” — Poor Mitt Romney. He seems unable to come to terms with one of the most significant episodes in his public life: the 47 percent video that undercut his chance of becoming president of the United States.
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Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Fast food strikes intensify in seven cities — The biggest walkout yet begins this morning — and the strikes could have far-reaching implications for labor — This morning marks the start of what will likely be the largest fast food worker mobilization in U.S. history …
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
105 kids rescued from prostitution rings; 150 arrested — WASHINGTON — The FBI announced Monday the arrests of 150 people and recovery of 105 children involved in child prostitution rings across the country. — The 76-city sweep, conducted in the past three days, represents the largest …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus planning to drop Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity — In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.
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