Top Items:
Washington Post:
In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are — Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net — Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners …
RELATED:
Little Green Footballs:
Civil Liberties Hero Edward Snowden Commits Massive Civil Liberties Violation — Hands over 160,000 private emails to journalists and Glenn Greenwald — Charles Johnson — I can't help noticing that the most important and troubling aspect of Barton Gellman's new NSA story for the Washington Post …
Discussion:
Business Insider and Balloon Juice
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Deportation data won't dispel rumors drawing migrant minors to U.S. — President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.
Discussion:
American Power, protein wisdom and Hot Air
RELATED:
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Who Do We Think We Are? — WASHINGTON — AMERICA'S infatuation with the World Cup came at the perfect moment, illuminating the principle that you can lose and still advance. — Once our nation saw itself as the undefeatable cowboy John Wayne. Now we bask in the prowess …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly
John Boehner / CNN:
Why we must now sue the President — Editor's note: Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, is speaker of the House of Representatives. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. — (CNN) — Every member of Congress swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Discussion:
RedState, Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo, JONATHAN TURLEY, ImmigrationProf Blog and Washington Monthly
Mara Klecker / Lincoln Journal Star:
Obama float at Norfolk parade sparks controversy — It was the parade float that elicited the loudest cheers Friday at Norfolk's Fourth of July parade. The crowd lining the streets clapped and laughed as the flatbed truck went by. — But one loud voice rose above the rest: “This is not OK,” Glory Kathurima said.
Edward Klein / New York Post:
This means Warren: Obama backs challenger to Hillary — President Obama has bypassed Hillary Clinton, offering his support to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren if she runs for president. — President Obama has quietly promised Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren complete support if she runs …
Kristin Tate / BREITBART.COM:
SOURCE: FEDS TO BRING IN RIOT SQUAD AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROTESTERS — HOUSTON, Texas—As illegal immigrants continue to spill across the U.S.-Mexico border, federal authorities are attempting to relocate the migrants from South Texas to housing facilities in states across the nation.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Liberaland, American Power, The Gateway Pundit and The Lonely Conservative
New York Post:
Eric Holder's long losing record before the Supreme Court — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. — If Eric Holder were a baseball player, he'd have been benched long ago — if not kicked off the team. His batting average before the Supreme Court is abysmal, losing again and again in his efforts to undermine the Constitution.
Discussion:
RedState
Geoff Ziezulewicz / Chicago Tribune:
Authorities: Military member with concealed carry permit shoots attacker — Gresham man injured, charged after firing on group leaving party, prosecutors said … A Gresham man is charged with attempted murder after he fired on a group of people leaving a party Friday night …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller
New York Times:
The Real Internal Revenue Scandal — There is a scandal going on at the Internal Revenue Service, but it has nothing to do with Lois Lerner or her missing emails. House Republicans have not given up on their noisy crusade to tie Ms. Lerner to what they imagine to be widespread political corruption within …
Discussion:
Liberaland
Jacob Heilbrunn / New York Times:
Are Neocons Getting Ready to Ally With Hillary Clinton? — WASHINGTON — AFTER nearly a decade in the political wilderness, the neoconservative movement is back, using the turmoil in Iraq and Ukraine to claim that it is President Obama, not the movement's interventionist foreign policy …
Discussion:
Power Line