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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: Okay, I'll Renounce My Canadian Citizenship! — This is getting to be more fun than I thought it would be. Ted Cruz is a natural born American citizen blah blah blah. But because he was born in Canada he's actually a Canadian citizen too. He's a dual citizen.
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, The Political Carnival, Booman Tribune and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Washington Post:
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches — If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue …
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Firedoglake, Techdirt, Scared Monkeys, Jammie Wearing Fools, Weasel Zippers, Betsy's Page and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Mike Dennison / Missoulian:
Scalia to Federalist Society: Court shouldn't ‘invent new minorities’
Scalia to Federalist Society: Court shouldn't ‘invent new minorities’
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Raw Story
Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Scalia: High court shouldn't ‘invent new minorities that get special protections’
Scalia: High court shouldn't ‘invent new minorities that get special protections’
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Taylor Marsh, LGBTQ Nation and Good As You
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt — The White House has quietly placed military aid to Egypt on hold, despite not saying publicly whether the Egyptian military takeover was a coup, Josh Rogin reports exclusively. — The U.S. government has decided privately …
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
A Policy on Egypt—Support Al Sisi — In a zero-sum game, the U.S. should hold its nose and back the military. — On the subject of Egypt: Is it the U.S. government's purpose merely to cop an attitude? Or does it also intend to have a policy? — An attitude “deplores the violence” …
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Right Turn and Israel Matzav
Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face — As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …
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BBC:
David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 ‘kept abreast of operation’
David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 ‘kept abreast of operation’
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Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan Watts / Guardian:
David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate'
David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate'
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The Clinton dramas: Here we go again — Tabloid headlines. Personal dramas. Organizational disarray. Score-settling between rival factions documented in news accounts like a soap opera. — Does this have a familiar ring? — No one - or mostly no one - truly believes the swirl …
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Bloomberg, Daily Kos, The PJ Tatler and First Read
Eric Russell / Portland Press-Herald:
LePage is heard to say Obama ‘hates white people’ — Two Republican lawmakers confirm that the governor made the remark at a fundraiser last week. — Gov. Paul LePage last week told a group of Republicans that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two state lawmakers who heard the remark directly.
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Walker: GOP Leaders In Washington Need To ‘Lay Out A Plan’ (VIDEO) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Monday that Republicans in Congress need to develop a concrete agenda that isn't defined by just opposing Democrats, as well as be able to articulate that agenda to voters in terms they understand.
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Crooks and Liars
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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Scott Walker: Christie, Paul 2016 talk is ‘a disservice’ to the GOP
Scott Walker: Christie, Paul 2016 talk is ‘a disservice’ to the GOP
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Politico
Hannah August / White House.gov Blog:
Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy — Today the Obamas welcomed the newest member of their family - a little girl (puppy) named Sunny! — Sunny, the new Obama family dog, on the South Lawn of the White House, Aug. 19, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) — Pin
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Great Emo-Prog vs. O-Bot Debate — Atrios today: … Translation: If you express anything short of absolute condemnation of everything the NSA has done, your Twitter feed quickly fills up with hysterical proclamations from the emo-progs that you're a right-wing shill, a government lackey …
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p m carpenter's commentary, Smartypants, NewsBusters and Eschaton
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Mother Jones's Kevin Drum Notices the Obamacult
Mother Jones's Kevin Drum Notices the Obamacult
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Weasel Zippers and Ed Driscoll
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander / Tennessean.com:
Lamar Alexander: I stay true to my conservative ideals — Last week, some well-meaning Tennesseans wrote a letter suggesting that I “retire with dignity” from the United States Senate because of a record of “compromise and bipartisanship, two traits for which you have become famous.”
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Yahoo! News, Conservative Intelligence … and Post Politics
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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Kerry Reinstates Benghazi Officials Clinton Punished — Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the four State Department officials placed on administrative leave by Hillary Clinton after the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi do not deserve any formal disciplinary action …
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The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin
Megan Ruyle / The Hill:
Issa tops The Hill's 50 Wealthiest — The chief inquisitor of President Obama's White House is now Congress's richest man. — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) saw his fortune rise to at least $355 million in 2012, enough to take the crown on The Hill's 50 Wealthiest list.
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Yahoo! News and Washington Post
Groklaw:
Forced Exposure ~pj — The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. — There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. — What to do? — What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.
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Guardian, The Verge, Business Insider, Techdirt and Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Kinsley / The New Republic:
A Q&A With Jill Abramson — The Times' top editor on mean bosses, liberal biases, and the demise of the Washington Post — For generations, the publishers of the great American newspapers were accidents of birth—sons and daughters (and assorted other relatives) who inherited their positions atop the masthead.
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Mediaite, TheBlaze.com, Weasel Zippers and JIMROMENESKO.COM, more at Mediagazer »
Albert Hunt / Bloomberg:
North Carolina Takes Perilous Lurch to the Right — North Carolina is channeling Alabama and South Carolina when it comes to the best economic, social and political model for a U.S. Southern state. — For more than half a century, North Carolina has been progressive on education and public investments …
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Washington Monthly and Washington Wire
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Lee Daniels to Piers Morgan: Americans Are ‘Angry’ That Obama's President, Showing ‘True Colors’ — Oprah Winfrey has been facing sharp criticism for her comments on race in recent weeks, but tonight on CNN, the director of her new film The Butler sat down with Piers Morgan and was faced …
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The Hinterland Gazette and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Alex Pareene / Salon:
NYC's frisking twins beg: Please let us profile! — Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly appeal to their base of national elites, to salvage their legacies and reputations — New York City's two biggest boosters of the practice of humiliating and alienating young people of color took their arguments …
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Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Bloomberg and Right Turn
Ed Payne / CNN:
Tsarnaev's injuries detailed — The backlash over Rolling Stone's cover photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev led to the release of new photos by Sgt. Sean Murphy on Thursday, July 18, of his capture. The images show Tsarnaev as he emerges from the boat where he hid …
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Gawker, The Jawa Report and NBCNews
Wall Street Journal:
James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley: Why Shouldn't Princeton Pay Taxes? — Money-making ‘nonprofit’ universities don't pay a fair share of the costs of local public services. — By - JAMES PIERESON - AND NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY — For the latest evidence of the town-gown divide …