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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Quiz: How Dumb Does Obama Think We Are? — The Veterans Affairs policy fiasco is magnified by an insulting-public relations strategy. — News quiz: President Obama and his communications team hope that Americans are: 1) Dumb; 2) Distracted; 3) Numb to government inefficiency; 4) All of above.
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CNN, Washington Post, Hot Air, ABC News, The Daily Caller, National Review and Washington Free Beacon
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The Scandal at the VA Is Real, and Obama Is Ducking It
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and National Review
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
ABC, National Journal: White House fumbling VA scandal
ABC, National Journal: White House fumbling VA scandal
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JustOneMinute, Washington Post, ABC News and Washington Times
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Same-Sex Marriage Ban — “We now join the twelve federal district courts across the country [that] ... have concluded that all couples deserve equal dignity in the realm of civil marriage.” — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett delivers an address …
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Washington Post, Hit & Run, Freedom to Marry Blog and Patterico's Pontifications
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Bush-Appointed Judge Cites Scalia In Axing Pennsylania Gay Marriage Ban — Upon striking down Pennsylvania's gay marriage ban Tuesday, a federal judge cited Justice Antonin Scalia's “cogen[t]” argument that the Supreme Court had essentially paved the way for nationwide marriage equality last year.
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Rick Santorum Endorsed the Judge Who Just Legalized Gay Marriage in Pennsylvania
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Philly.com, Outside the Beltway and SCOTUSblog
Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Pennsylvania Gay Marriage Ban Overturned By Judge
Pennsylvania Gay Marriage Ban Overturned By Judge
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Talking Points Memo and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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D'Souza pleads guilty to U.S. campaign finance law violation — (Reuters) - The conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a campaign finance law violation, averting a trial that had been expected to begin the same day in Manhattan federal court.
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Dinesh D'Souza pleads guilty
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Slate, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Independent Journal Review and Roger Ailes
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
D'Souza Expected to Plead Guilty to Charge
D'Souza Expected to Plead Guilty to Charge
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Talking Points Memo, Gothamist and Mediaite
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Jeff Zucker talks CNN's post-plane plans — Last night, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker gave a hint of where the network will go next now thats its two-plus-month coverage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is subsiding. — “I don't think there's any question about our commitment …
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and The Daily Banter
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CNN President: We Won't Be ‘Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi — CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker on Monday said that the network probably won't be covering the House select committee to investigate Benghazi. — “We're not going to be shamed into it by others who have political beliefs …
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Pat Dollard and Mediaite
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Wife, attorney say blogger was pawn — It's still unclear how a political blogger gained access to the bedridden wife of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in her nursing home, but the man's wife and his attorney said he didn't sneak into the facility, and that he appears to be a pawn in a big political game.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Jackson Jambalaya and blog.gulflive.com
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NPR To End ‘Tell Me More,’ Eliminate 28 Positions — NPR announced Wednesday that it would cease broadcast of the weekday program Tell Me More on Aug. 1 and eliminate 28 positions as part of a larger effort to end the company's persistent budget deficits. — “These times require …
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Politico, The Huffington Post, Poynter and FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »
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Reid Hints at ‘Nuclear’ Summer Over Debate Time — On the morning of his Republican counterpart's primary back home in Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would not change the chamber's rules in his absence. — But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell might well be advised …
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Booman Tribune
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Comey: FBI ‘Grappling’ With Hiring Policy Concerning Marijuana — Monday was a big day for the nation's cyber police. The Justice Department charged five Chinese military officials with hacking, and brought charges against the creators of powerful hacking software.
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Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice, TalkLeft and The Verge
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Arthur Sulzberger's First Interview About the Turmoil at The New York Times: “I Would Have Done It Differently” — A week after the firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times, the newspaper's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., sat down with V.F.'s Sarah Ellison for an exclusive interview about the controversy.
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Capital New York, Smartertimes.com, Althouse, Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story, Poynter, Politico and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
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Exclusive: Al Qaeda's American Fighters Are Coming Home—And U.S. Intelligence Can't Find Them — The number of American extremists who have flocked to Syria is higher than previously understood, American intelligence sources say. And some of the fighters are coming home.
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CANNONFIRE and Washington Post
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School district apologizes over yearbook quote incident — Sponsored Links — CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE: Paris Gray and her family met with the school's principal and the area superintendent on Tuesday. They apologized for the miscommunication and said they would not deny her giving a speech at graduation.
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The Atlantic Online, Gawker, The Raw Story, KFOR-TV, WGN-TV and Mashable
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The Sequel To Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster Is Happening Tomorrow — On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, will filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of David Barron to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Paul first threatened to filibuster Barron last week.
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Booman Tribune
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No prison time for Indiana man convicted of drugging, raping wife — Nation Now — The nation's news, events, people and culture
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Mashable, Shakesville, The Week, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Reuters
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
As Candidate For Congress, Ted Yoho Suggested Limiting The Right To Vote To Property Owners — Recently unearthed footage of Rep. Ted Yoho speaking at Berean Baptist Church in Ocala, Florida, during his candidacy for Congress in the 2012 election cycle shows the Republican politician suggesting …
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Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story
CNN:
Hillary Clinton to sit down with Diane Sawyer for first interview on her new book — (CNN) - Promotion of Hillary Rodham Clinton's book “Hard Choices” will begin in earnest on Monday when ABC's Diane Sawyer interviews her in a one-hour prime time special. — The prime time hour was announced …
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Politico, Washington Post and OnPolitics
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Convicted former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.: Presidential pardons for all ex-offenders — Former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who is serving the end of his federal prison term in a Montgomery federal prison. — ctoner@al.com By Casey Toner | ctoner@al.com
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Talking Points Memo and Taegan Goddard's …
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Businesses Turn Out Workers' Votes to Stomp Tea Party — Photographer: Joe Jaszewski/The Idaho Statesman/AP Photo — Ben Tarbutton has never worked so hard in a primary election to urge his company's employees to vote early or educate them on a candidate's record.
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Washington Post
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How El Niño Might Alter the Political Climate — A rise in sea surface temperatures could presage a season of weather extremes, as it did in 2002 when tuna crabs washed ashore north of their usual habitat. That may make more people believe in global warming. — A SURVEY SAYS |
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NewsBusters and AEIdeas
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The next big fight over the safety net — Word has it that Democrats are set to take a shellacking in the 2014 elections, in part because midterm electorates tends to be older and whiter. So what if Dems campaigned on expanding Social Security, rather than allowing themselves to get drawn …
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Washington Monthly and Eschaton