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RGK / Hercules and the umpire:
Remembering Alexander Bickel's passive virtues and the Hobby Lobby cases — In the Hobby Lobby cases, five male Justices of the Supreme Court, who are all members of the Catholic faith and who each were appointed by a President who hailed from the Republican party, decided that a huge corporation …
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Federal Judge Blasts Hobby Lobby Decision: Supreme Court Should ‘STFU’ — Judge Richard George Kopf, a George H.W. Bush appointee to the federal bench who maintains his own personal blog, has some harsh words for the Supreme Court in the wake of their birth control decision …
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Philip J. Victor / Al Jazeera America:
Gitmo detainees' lawyers invoke Hobby Lobby decision in court filing — Attorneys say clients have religious rights afforded by same law cited by SCOTUS in controversial Hobby Lobby ruling — Lawyers for two Guantanamo Bay detainees have filed motions asking a U.S. court to block officials …
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
John Walsh Takes on NRA, Vows to Continue Piers Morgan's Gun-Control Campaign on CNN — “The Hunt” host says Vice President Joe Biden agreed with him that politicians are “scared s—less” of the NRA — Piers Morgan is gone from CNN, but new host John Walsh plans to continue his campaign for gun control.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
John Walsh, CNN's new anti-NRA advocate — John Walsh, the host of CNN's new primetime series “The Hunt,” looks set to replace Piers Morgan as the cable network's in-house gun control advocate. — “We have a serious problem with guns in this country, and we refuse to address it,” Walsh …
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Jonathan Chait Follow / New York Magazine:
The Republican Party After the Apocalypse — Chill pills for the crazy party. — Last week, Marco Rubio delivered a speech outlining his economic agenda, and it was widely hailed as the cutting-edge statement of “reform conservatism,” an intra-Republican movement that is also the subject …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obamacare's next threat: A September surprise
Obamacare's next threat: A September surprise
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Can ‘Reformicons’ Save the Republican Party?
Can ‘Reformicons’ Save the Republican Party?
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Sarah Palin On Hillary Clinton, Advice for ‘The View’ and Her Latest TV Show (Exclusive) — As Sportsman Channel orders a second season of her “Amazing America,” the GOP star offers her thoughts on the firings at daytime talker, Clinton's new book and our “incorrigibly disastrous” political system.
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
THE STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN TEXAS IS NOW THE CRAZIEST IN AMERICA — It seems almost pointless to mention this but there is simply no state Democratic party in any of the 50 states that is so clearly, obviously demented. … Getty Images — If you want to see the clearest symptoms …
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Kimberly Hefling / ABC News:
NEA Wants Duncan's Resignation — The nation's largest teachers' union wants Education Secretary Arne Duncan to quit. — Delegates of the National Education Association adopted a business item July 4 at its annual convention in Denver that called for his resignation.
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Chris Mooney / Mother Jones:
Forget Red State, Blue State: Is Your State “Tight” or “Loose”? — A new theory about the cultures of different regions could go a long way toward explaining why the United States is so polarized. — It is obvious to anyone who has traveled around the United States that cultural assumptions, behaviors, and norms vary widely.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No one is reading ‘Hard Choices,’ either. — By now, the poor sales of Hillary Clinton's new book “Hard Choices” are well-documented. (Relatively poor, we will add, given the complex topography of bookselling.) — But another metric came to our attention this weekend which allows us …
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Washington Post:
It's time for progressives to reclaim the Constitution — You cannot talk for very long to a conservative these days without hearing the words “constitutional” and “constitutionalist.” — Formulations such as “I am a constitutional conservative” or “I am a constitutionalist” are tea party habits …
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Peter Nickeas / Chicago Tribune:
Fourth of July weekend toll: 82 shot, 14 of them fatally, in Chicago — For 10 minutes, it seemed like the shooting was everywhere in the South Chicago neighborhood. — It started when someone shot and wounded a couple, then two people fired at the shooter, then there was a chase …
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Michelle Obama Employs Only 2 Men; Pays Men 46% More Than Women On Staff — At the same time the Obama administration once again renewed its Equal Pay push, the White House released salary figures for White House staff. Upon analysis, the Washington Post, among others, concluded that the gender pay gap …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
White House Counsel: Boehner Lawsuit Will Be Quickly Thrown Out
White House Counsel: Boehner Lawsuit Will Be Quickly Thrown Out
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ThinkProgress:
To Improve Accuracy, BBC Tells Its Reporters To Stop Giving Air Time To Climate Deniers — Celebrity scientist Bill Nye and CNN Crossfire host S.E. Cupp debate whether climate change exists. These kinds of debates will be few and far between on the BBC under a new policy announced Thursday.
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Lindsay Abrams / Salon:
BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal air time to climate deniers
BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal air time to climate deniers
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John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Put Spotlight on Companies Moving Overseas — New data from the Congressional Research Service shed light on a hot tax question: How many corporations have exited the U.S. for tax purposes in recent years? — A summary released Monday by House Democrats says that 47 U.S. corporations …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Conservative Delusions About Inflation — On Sunday The Times published an article by the political scientist Brendan Nyhan about a troubling aspect of the current American scene — the stark partisan divide over issues that should be simply factual, like whether the planet is warming or evolution happened.
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ThinkProgress:
2,500 Oklahoma Earthquakes Linked To Fracking, Scientists Say — In this Nov, 6, 2011 photo, Chad Devereaux examines bricks that fell from three sides of his in-laws home in Sparks, Okla., following two earthquakes that hit the area in less than 24 hours. A study published Thursday …
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Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
New Anti-Obamacare Stunt: A Creepy Carnival On The National Mall — Generation Opportunity, a Koch-funded group targeting youths, will be hosting a giant carnival on the National Mall. — Generation Opportunity, the conservative nonprofit group who created the Creepy Uncle Sam anti-Obamacare campaign …
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
McDaniel's Lawyer: We've Found ‘Thousands’ Of Ineligible Voters — State Sen. Chris McDaniel's (R) lawyer said McDaniel's campaign and supporters have found “thousands” of examples of ineligible voters who cast their vote for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the runoff election for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
Bob Price / BREITBART.COM:
BREITBART TEXAS WITNESSES 4-YEAR-OLD WHO CROSSED BORDER — MISSION, Texas—Breitbart Texas witnessed the apprehension of 11 unaccompanied minors in the past 24-hours. The apprehensions occurred near ground zero of the current border crisis, as the minors turned themselves …
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Politico:
Eric Cantor seeks help to repay donors — Eric Cantor's stunning primary defeat is leaving his campaign in a financial bind. — The Virginia Republican's political operation has asked his House GOP colleagues to cut checks so he can refund his donors. — Cantor spent funds meant …
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Chris Meyers / JournalGazette.net:
MLK Jr. bridge defaced — 2nd occurrence has racial theme — For the second time in as many weeks and just a few days after the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge in Fort Wayne has been vandalized. — This time, the vandalism came in the form of racist writings on two benches.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders — The agency collected and stored intimate chats, photos, and emails belonging to innocent Americans—and secured them so poorly that reporters can now browse them at will. — Consider the latest leak sourced to Edward Snowden from the perspective of his detractors.
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