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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Hobby Lobby Is Already Creating New Religious Demands on Obama — This week, in the Hobby Lobby case, the Supreme Court ruled that a religious employer could not be required to provide employees with certain types of contraception. That decision is beginning to reverberate …
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Steve Coll / News Desk:
When the Taliban Meets Hobby Lobby
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Mother Jones:
Hobby Lobby Funded Disgraced Fundamentalist Christian Leader Accused of Harassing Dozens of Women
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
CNN Rips Hobby Lobby For Investing In Birth Control: ‘Hypocrisy At Its Finest’
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Floodgates — A lot of us gabbers suggested yesterday …
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Post-Hobby Lobby, Religious Orgs Want Exemption From LGBT Hiring Order
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Liberals' Hobby Lobby Doublethink
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Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:
Cochran presser: Most entertaining conference call ever — A conference call set up by the campaign for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran devolved into a shouting match and then ended, after which time supporters of GOP primary challenger Chris McDaniel chatted for a bit.
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Alexis Levinson / Roll Call:
Thad Cochran Conference Call Descends Into Chaos — Thad Cochran, above, won the GOP runoff for Senate. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo) — A conference call held by Sen. Thad Cochran's campaign quickly devolved into chaos and ended Wednesday after one of the participants repeatedly asked racially charged questions.
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Lawmaker fuming after HHS immigrant facility denies him entry — Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) issued a scathing press release Wednesday after he was denied access to a facility in his state housing more than 1,000 children who crossed the border illegally.
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Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
Don't Put Much Stock in That Poll Calling Obama the Worst President — Bush was the “worst,” too — There's a new Quinnipiac poll shooting around the Internet this morning that has a shocking headline: Americans think Barack Obama is the worst modern-day president.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Q-poll: Obama worst president since WWII
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Denver Post:
DEMOCRATS DECRY BEAUPREZ'S “47 PERCENT” COMMENTS RECORDED ON VIDEO — On Wednesday, as Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez toured Colorado to “build unity,” a video surfaced that Democrats say shows his divisiveness. — The video shows Beauprez in a speech to the Denver Rotary Club …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
The Two Events That Turned Putin Against the U.S. — Former ambassador Michael McFaul on what really motivated Russia to invade Ukraine — ASPEN, Colo.—One major divide in international relations, as well as in other social sciences, is between those who believe in structure and those who believe in agency.
Detroit Free Press:
Point-blank shooting of Inkster toddler violated ‘the code of the streets’ — In the hard-bitten city of Inkster, a little girl's killing appears to have crossed a line. — The triple shooting Tuesday night that ended the life of 2-year-old Kamiya French and left two of her relatives wounded violated the …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
WH: No change to immigrant surge strategy ‘at this point’ — The White House is not planning to reassess its strategy for handling thousands of unaccompanied minors streaming across the border amid mass protests. — White House press secretary Josh Earnest said he had not spoken …
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Los Angeles Times
Marketplace.org:
Obama: Middle-class issues drive my agenda — Marketplace host and senior editor Kai Ryssdal sat down for an Oval Office interview with President Barack Obama on July 2, 2014. — Kai Ryssdal: Mr. President, good to have you with us. — President Barack Obama: Great to be here.
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Added 288,000 Jobs in June; Unemployment Rate 6.1% — The economy accelerated in June, with employers adding 288,000 jobs, well above the rate of hiring recorded in the first five months of 2014 and another sign that growth is finally rebounding.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Rand Paul to visit Iowa in August; fried Twinkies ahead? — As promised, Republican Rand Paul is returning to the presidential testing grounds of Iowa in August. — The first confirmed event of Paul's upcoming trip is to speak at a special meeting of the Westside Conservative Club at 7:15 a.m. on Aug. 6 …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama's annoyance with Congress boils over — President Obama's displeasure with gridlock in Washington — and with the Republicans he blames for it — has been rising for months. This week it has boiled over. — From the Rose Garden to the Cabinet Room to near Key Bridge in Georgetown …
Reuters:
US Teen Allegedly Falls in Love Online, Tries to Join ISIS Fighters in Syria … A suburban Denver teen fell in love with an ISIS fighter online, then was arrested at an airport after vowing to aid his cause in Syria, federal authorities said. — Shannon Maureen Conley, 19, of Arvada …
Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits — Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight — Thousands of Facebook Inc. users received an unsettling message two years ago: They were being locked out of the social network because Facebook believed they were robots or using fake names.
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Robert Peston / BBC:
Why has Google cast me into oblivion? — This morning the BBC received the following notification from Google: — Notice of removal from Google Search: we regret to inform you that we are no longer able to show the following pages from your website in response to certain searches on European versions of Google:
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Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
A Period Is Questioned in the Declaration of Independence — Every Fourth of July, some Americans sit down to read the Declaration of Independence, reacquainting themselves with the nation's founding charter exactly as it was signed by the Second Continental Congress in 1776. — Or almost exactly?
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Max Fisher / Vox:
How Israel is punishing ordinary Palestinians for three murdered Israeli students — Twenty days after three Israeli high school students were kidnapped in the West Bank merely for being there, two days after they were found murdered in an apparent execution by Hamas members …
Michelle Moons / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE—LEADER OF MURRIETA PROTESTS: ‘REPATRIATE THE ALIENS’ — Busloads full of illegal aliens, many of them children, from overcrowded detention facilities in Texas were flown into San Diego Tuesday morning before being driven north to Murrieta for processing, but plans changed …
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Keith Bradford Hennessey / Keith Hennessey:
Kill export subsidies. Kill the Ex-Im Bank. — Imagine the Chinese government decides to help the people of Kenya. To do this the Chinese government buys 5,000 wheeled loaders and excavators from Liugong Machinery and gives them for free to the Kenyan government, Kenyan construction firms …
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