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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Inside the vast liberal conspiracy — Picture this: millionaires and billionaires gathering under tight security in fancy hotels with powerful politicians and operatives to plot how their network of secret-money groups can engineer a permanent realignment of American politics. — Only, it's not the Koch brothers.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth — Never mind that it's 92 degrees and nearing the end of the day: Jenny Beth Martin has started jogging between houses. — “I've gotta get my steps,” she calls back to the rented Suburban with the Florida license plates …
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New York Times:
Conservatives Plan to Use Poll Watchers in Mississippi — WASHINGTON — As Senator Thad Cochran, the veteran Republican, fights for his political life in Mississippi by taking the unexpected step of courting black Democrats, conservative organizations working to defeat him are planning …
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
QUESTIONS MOUNT ABOUT EFFORT TO DRIVE DEMOCRAT VOTES FOR COCHRAN
QUESTIONS MOUNT ABOUT EFFORT TO DRIVE DEMOCRAT VOTES FOR COCHRAN
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Washington Post:
Iraqi military facing ‘psychological collapse’ after losses, desertions — Iraqis prepare to fight militants — After militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took Mosul and other Iraqi cities, the government issued a call for volunteers to join the army. Many Iraqis answered.
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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
CHOICES AT THE TOP — President Obama won the White House in part by promising to end the war in Iraq, and since then he placed his faith in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to help him do so. It was Maliki who would hold together the state that the Americans had helped build.
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Jedediah Purdy / The Daily Beast:
God Save the United States From This Anti-Democratic Court — Operating on elitism and mystique, America's highest court is increasingly a threat to our ideal of self-government—leading to an important debate about how to fix it. — Should a self-respecting democracy have a Supreme Court like ours …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court: EPA can regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with some limits — The Supreme Court on Monday mostly validated the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate power plant and factory emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, while imposing some limits on the agency's reach.
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Ferdous Al-Faruque / The Hill:
Send back troops to Iraq, Cheney says — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he wants U.S. troops back in Iraq to halt Sunni militants now conquering large parts of the country and support resistance fighters in Syria. — “When we're arguing over 300 advisors, when the request …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Conservatives and Climate Change — On Sunday Henry Paulson, the former Treasury secretary and a lifelong Republican, had an Op-Ed article about climate policy in The New York Times. In the article, he declared that man-made climate change is “the challenge of our time,” …
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Obama Flips on Immunity for U.S. Troops in Iraq — American forces could be prosecuted by Iraq's famously compromised courts as they defend Baghdad. No wonder the Pentagon is so reluctant to send 'em. — President Obama pulled U.S. forces out of Iraq in 2011 because he couldn't get Iraq's parliament …
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Kerry in Baghdad to Urge Iraqis to Form New, Inclusive Government
Kerry in Baghdad to Urge Iraqis to Form New, Inclusive Government
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Kerry in Iraq to rally factions
Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany — More than 20 firefighters free exchange student from the artwork Chacán-Pi (Making Love) by Fernando de la Jara in Tübingen — In the space of 24 hours last week, two spectacular rescue operations were carried out in southern Germany.
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CBS News:
Poll: Many Americans wary of U.S. role in Iraq — Shares - — NEW YORK — Fifty percent of Americans think the U.S. doesn't have a responsibility to do something about the recent violence in Iraq, while fewer - 42 percent — think the U.S. does, a CBS News/New York Times poll reveals.
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Fox News:
Sudanese mom sentenced to die for Christian faith is freed — Meriam Ibrahim and Daniel Wani married in a formal church ceremony in 2011. — Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity …
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Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
The Consequences of Syria — The Syrian civil war is no longer the Syrian civil war. It's a regional war that started in Syria, has expanded into Lebanon and Iraq, and has drawn in the Iranians and to a lesser extent the Kurds and the Israelis. — Wars in North Africa tend to stay local …
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Elliott Abrams / Politico:
The Man Who Broke the Middle East
The Man Who Broke the Middle East
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
THE ABSOLUTIST … - ARCHIVE - WORLD CUP - DAILY COMMENT - AMY DAVIDSON - ANDY BOROWITZ - JOHN CASSIDY - MARIA KONNIKOVA - RICHARD BRODY - SHOP
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Barack Obama / The Huffington Post:
Family-Friendly Workplace Policies Are Not Frills — They're Basic Needs — As President, my top priority is rebuilding an economy where everybody who works hard has the chance to get ahead. — That's the subject of the first White House Summit on Working Families, which is taking place today.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama Encouraging Family-Friendly Work Policies
Abby W. Schachter / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Your bedroom instead of a dorm room — President Obama gets points for properly assessing the problem with student loan debt. He acknowledges that too many students earning a bachelor's degree (71 percent) graduate with debt that is so burdensome (averaging $29,400) that many delay important milestones …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egyptian Court Convicts 3 Al Jazeera Journalists — CAIRO — A judge on Monday convicted three journalists of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood to broadcast false reports of civil strife in Egypt. — Two of the journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison, and the third was given 10 years …
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David Denney / Chism Strategies:
Newly Released MEMO: Final Track of the US Senate MS GOP Primary Runoff … Re: US Senate MS GOP Primary Runoff — Last night we conducted the final track of our MS Senate GOP runoff surveys. We surveyed 697 voters statewide. The MOE (margin of error) was +/- 3.8%.
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