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Paul Singer / Associated Press:
House Benghazi panel may cost $3 million this year — WASHINGTON — House Republicans are planning to spend as much as $3.3 million for this year's operations of the special committee they created in May to investigate the September 2012 Benghazi attacks, a bigger budget than the House Veterans Affairs …
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Lauren French / Politico:
Benghazi panel ramps up — There are no Benghazi hearings on the House calendar but the silence doesn't mean the investigation is fading away. — Rep. Trey Gowdy is launching a special committee to wrangle a probe that's sprawled across the jurisdictions of multiple headline-hungry committee chairmen.
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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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
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Associated Press:
AP Sources: Border Policy Requests to Come Later — President Barack Obama is holding off for now on seeking new legal authority to send unaccompanied migrant kids back home faster from the Southern border, following criticism that the administration's planned changes were too harsh.
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Michelle Obama Employs Only 2 Men; Pays Men 46% More Than Women On Staff
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obamacare's next threat: A September surprise
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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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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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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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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Behind Harry Reid's war against the Koch brothers — At first, it seemed like just another example of Harry Reid being Harry Reid. — The Senate majority leader, whose unscripted attacks can veer into bellicosity and take liberties with facts, spoke on the Senate floor last October …
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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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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Mistrust in North Carolina Over Plan to Reduce Precincts — SHELBY, N.C. — When Alan Langley, a Republican member of the local elections board here, explains a new proposal to consolidate five voting precincts into two, it sounds procedural and well-meaning: He speaks of convenient parking …
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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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Holly Fisher: Public Enemy Number 310,345,204 — This image — which features an American woman named Holly Fisher and an international terrorist named Sherafiyah Lewthwaite — has been doing the rounds on Lefty Twitter: — “Explain the difference”? With pleasure.
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Washington Post:
Sen. Robert Menendez seeks probe of alleged Cuban plot to smear him — Sen. Robert Menendez is asking the Justice Department to pursue evidence obtained by U.S. investigators that the Cuban government concocted an elaborate plot to smear him with allegations that he cavorted with underage prostitutes …
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Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast:
ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq — Iraqi antiquities officials are calling on the Obama administration to save Nineveh and other sites around jihadist-occupied Mosul. But are drone strikes really the answer? — PARIS — More than two and a half millennia ago …
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Rush Limbaugh:
Every Day is an All-Out Assault — RUSH: Where you been, Snerdley? Snerdley walks in here, brings me his Stack of show prep that he wanted me to see today, and he's outraged. Have you not been listening to this program? “More than half of privately insured women are getting free birth …
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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.
ThinkProgress:
Fox News Advises Women To Ditch Feminism, Offers Tips To ‘Keep Your Husband Happy’ — “When did it happen when men and husbands became doormats?” Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy asked a guest on Monday morning in a segment Fox News called, “Husband Appreciation: Sage Advice For Wives.”
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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
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Ned Resnikoff / msnbc.com:
Exclusive: California truck drivers go on strike — California truck drivers at three major transportation companies went on strike Monday morning, demanding an end to purported labor law violations such as misclassification and intimidation. This is the fourth strike initiated by the drivers …
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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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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 …
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Politico:
Eric Cantor seeks financial help — 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 wind down his once-powerful campaign committee …
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Jordan Michael Smith / New York Times:
The Letters That Warren G. Harding's Family Didn't Want You to See — Warren G. Harding, right, perhaps the worst chief executive in U.S. history, and Carrie Fulton Phillips, his longtime mistress and sexy pen pal. — Left: the Calvin H. Topliff family. Right: the Ohio History Connection.
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Alan Long / City of Murrieta:
Murrieta City Council — The City Council consists of five members elected at large and they constitute the legislative body of the City. The City Council is responsible for formulating the policies for the City and approving the major actions through which the municipal functions are conducted.
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