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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP debt limit extortion is dead — So House Republican leaders are bowing to the inevitable and are going to allow a vote on a clean debt limit hike. In a statement moments ago, Nancy Pelosi said she'd provide Democratic votes to help it pass, which seems very likely.
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Politico:
The GOP's debt ceiling surrender — Less than three years ago, House Speaker John Boehner boldly demanded “trillions” in spending cuts in exchange for raising the national borrowing limit. — “Let me be as clear as I can be,” Boehner told the Economic Club of New York in May 2011.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
House passes clean debt ceiling bill — Democrats, again, saved John Boehner. — After a frantic few days, the House voted 221-201 to lift the debt ceiling until March 2015, removing the threat of a default until well after the November midterm election. The bill was supported by 193 Democrats and just 28 Republicans.
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House approves clean debt hike
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Why the Tea Party Is Folding on the Debt Limit
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The Dish, Booman Tribune and Hullabaloo
Ken Ward Jr / Charleston Gazette:
‘Significant’ coal slurry spill blackens Kanawha County creek — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State officials were trying this morning to contain a “significant spill” of coal slurry from a Patriot Coal processing facility in eastern Kanawha County. — Emergency officials said that the spill …
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Clarence Thomas: Society is overly sensitive about race — Americans today are too sensitive about race, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told a gathering of college students in Florida on Tuesday. — Speaking at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thomas …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Democrats, Media Slam President Romney Over Health Care Law Changes — Washington D. C. — In a move certain to please his conservative supporters and infuriate his critics, President Romney announced this afternoon that his administration would make yet another change to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Left Fights Back — This weekend's massive protest in North Carolina shows that the GOP doesn't own morality. — I spent most of this past weekend answering two questions: “Why are you so interested in what happens in North Carolina?” (Posed mainly by people not from North Carolina.)
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Bevin, McConnell and TARP — Matt Bevin, who is challenging Sen. Mitch McConnell in a Republican primary, calls the 2008 federal bailout of banks and Wall Street giants “irresponsible” and says he would have opposed it as a senator. — Yet back in 2008, as an investment fund president …
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Joe Klein / TIME:
The Hillary Clinton Papers: Not Much There — In February of 1998, in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I interviewed Diane Blair about her dear friend Hillary Clinton. — Blair was ill then, suffering from cancer, but she was vehement about two things: that Hillary was a dynamite friend-smart …
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New York Times:
Michael Sam's Troubled Upbringing in Texas — COLUMBIA, Mo. — Michael Sam was the loud country boy who wore a tank top and a cowboy hat. He was the smooth-singing baritone who could irritate his coaches and crack up his teammates with his improvised songs.
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Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
The Rising Cost of Not Going to College — Overview — For those who question the value of college in this era of soaring student debt and high unemployment, the attitudes and experiences of today's young adults—members of the so-called Millennial generation—provide a compelling answer.
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Economix, Los Angeles Times and Real Time Economics
Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Torch-Carrying Environmentalists Protest at Oil Exec's Home — Masked protesters carrying torches and threatening organized violence protested outside the home of an executive at a major oil pipeline company last week. — Eight environmental activists gathered on the lawn of Mark Maki …
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Will Demographics Really Destroy GOP? — Last week, Peter Wehner wrote a piece in Commentary magazine laying out a collection of data regarding recent elections and demographic trends. He was mostly content to let the data speak for themselves, save for a codicil to the piece arguing …
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NBC News:
Tom Brokaw Diagnosed with Cancer, Prognosis Encouraging - NBC News — In a personal note, NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer and said he and his physicians are very encouraged w...
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Why I'm Getting Sick of Defending Obamacare — Incompetence, politics, and delays frustrate advocates of health care reform. — It's getting difficult and slinking toward impossible to defend the Affordable Care Act. The latest blow to Democratic candidates, liberal activists …
Valerie J. Nelson / Los Angeles Times:
Shirley Temple Black, iconic child star, dies at 85 — Shirley Temple Black, who as the most popular child movie star of all time lifted a filmgoing nation's spirits during the Depression and then grew up to be a diplomat, has died. She was 85. — Black died late Monday at her home in Woodside …
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Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
Shirley Temple Black, Screen Darling, Dies at 85
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Eric M. Johnson / Reuters:
Shirley Temple Black, child star who became diplomat, dies at 85
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Jennifer Sullivan / The Seattle Times:
Inslee halts executions in state while he is governor — Gov. Jay Inslee this morning announced a moratorium on executions while he is in office: “During my term we will not be executing people.” — Gov. Jay Inslee is calling a moratorium on executions while he is governor.
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