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Sarah Palin / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE—SARAH PALIN: 'IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH' PRESIDENT OBAMA — Enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president. His unsecured border crisis is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, “no mas.” — Without borders, there is no nation. Obama knows this.
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Meredith Shiner / Yahoo! News:
Joni Ernst: ‘Impeachment’ of Obama should be on the table Yahoo News 29 mins ago — Sarah Palin might have called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama Tuesday, but Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst actually beat her to the punch by six months.
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Taylor Marsh, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and ThinkProgress
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sarah Palin just joined the ‘impeach Obama’ crowd. That's bad news for the GOP. — Sarah Palin on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the impeachment of President Obama, writing in a Breitbart op-ed that the influx of young illegal immigrants over the southern border …
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Bloomberg View and Hot Air
Sarah Smith / Politico:
Sarah Palin: 'It's time to impeach' Barack Obama — Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin called for President Barack Obama's impeachment in her most direct language yet in a column Tuesday morning. — “It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds …
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Washington Monthly and Mediaite
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Dems Ready To Unveil Bill Reversing Hobby Lobby Ruling — Senate Democrats are poised to introduce legislation as early as Tuesday to reverse the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling which exempted for-profit corporations with religious owners from the Obamacare mandate to cover emergency contraceptives in their insurance plans.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democrats Push Bill to Reverse Supreme Court Ruling on Contraceptives — WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress said Tuesday that they had developed legislation to override the Supreme Court decision on contraceptives. The bill would ensure that women have access to insurance coverage …
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Rea Carey / Advocate:
Op-ed: Why One of the Biggest LGBT Orgs Has Stopped Supporting ENDA — The morning the sun rose after the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, we all woke up in a changed and intensified landscape of religious exemptions being used as an excuse to discriminate.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Ready ‘Religious Freedom’ Bills In Hobby Lobby's Wake
Conservatives Ready ‘Religious Freedom’ Bills In Hobby Lobby's Wake
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Daily Kos and Religion Dispatches
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Dems plot legislative offensive on high court's birth control decision
Dems plot legislative offensive on high court's birth control decision
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Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Shakesville, Washington Post and CNN
NationalJournal.com:
Why Isn't Obama Going to the Border? — The president will be raising money in Texas, but doesn't plan to see the migrant crisis for himself. His critics will have a field day. — President Obama evidently has decided not to put a human face on the crisis unfolding at the southern U.S. border—not even his own.
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Rick Perry Admirably Refuses To Shake Obama's Hand At Airport
Rick Perry Admirably Refuses To Shake Obama's Hand At Airport
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Politico and Power Line
New York Times:
Obama Asks for $3.7 Billion to Aid Border
Obama Asks for $3.7 Billion to Aid Border
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ImmigrationProf Blog and Colorlines
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking
Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking
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Bloomberg View, Patterico's Pontifications and Los Angeles Times
Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Rick Perry Wants Meeting With Obama, Not Handshake
Rick Perry Wants Meeting With Obama, Not Handshake
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Austin American-Statesman and Hot Air
Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Obama's ‘Katrina moment’? White House shrugs off drumbeat for border visit
Obama's ‘Katrina moment’? White House shrugs off drumbeat for border visit
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The PJ Tatler, Slate and The Daily Caller
Meredith Colias / Rapid City Journal:
Man dies in Custer hot dog eating contest — What should have been a fun way to kick off the Fourth of July weekend quickly turned tragic for a Custer man who choked to death while trying to speedily eat hot dogs during a competitive eating contest. — The crowd at Way Park in Custer …
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Cleveland to hold 2016 Republican convention — Washington (CNN) - The Republican National Committee announced Tuesday that their Site Selection Committee has picked Cleveland to host the 2016 Republican National Convention. — The full membership of the RNC is expected to ratify …
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New York Times:
Republicans Pick Cleveland Over Dallas for Convention
Republicans Pick Cleveland Over Dallas for Convention
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Ashton Davis / GOP.com:
RNC Site Selection Committee Recommends Cleveland for 2016
RNC Site Selection Committee Recommends Cleveland for 2016
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Businessweek, Washington Monthly and FishbowlDC
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Senator's Cuban Spy Claims Put Several Conservative Journalists On Defense — The explosive allegations that the Cuban government was behind claims that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) had sex with underage prostitutes may be most directly tied to the Daily Caller, but the saga touches a handful …
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
MENENDEZ ACCUSES CUBANS OF PEDDLING SCANDAL AS FBI CLOSES IN
MENENDEZ ACCUSES CUBANS OF PEDDLING SCANDAL AS FBI CLOSES IN
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Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post:
Raju The Elephant Cries After Being Rescued Following 50 Years Of Abuse, Chains — For 50 years, Raju the elephant was abused, held shackled in spiked chains and forced to live off scraps from passing tourists. All that changed when he was rescued last weekend by wildlife conservationists …
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Joshua Green / Washington Monthly:
True Lies — The best recent memoir from Republican Washington is a hoax. That should tell you something. — I Am Martin Eisenstadt: — One Man's (Wildly — Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans — The 2008 presidential election will be remembered for a lot of things …
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Talking Points Memo
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Hometown Editorial: McDaniel Isn't A Racist Because He Played Basketball — A newspaper editorial in Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel's (R) home county argued that McDaniel couldn't possibly be a racist since he played basketball in college. — The editorial by the Laurel Leader-Call …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Violent MS-13 Gang Members Leave Graffiti on Bathroom Walls of Nogales Border Patrol Processing Center — 4.6K — SHARES — An internal Border Patrol executive summary obtained by Townhall confirms that at least 16 unaccompanied illegal minors (those under the age of 18 …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Window Opens Onto the Left-Wing Conspiracy — The Democracy Alliance is not a famous organization, but it deserves to be. The Alliance consists of approximately 100 rich liberals who have taken upon themselves the task of coordinating America's many left-wing organizations to promote a single radical agenda.
Billy House / NationalJournal.com:
The Boehner Lawsuit Against Obama Is Beginning to Take Shape — A vote on the resolution to authorize the legal action is set for the week before August break. — Starting next week, House Republicans will launch a highly visible—and likely tumultuous—three-week process of bringing …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Booman Tribune
Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:
Cochran camp says it ‘screwed up’ cash accounting — Facing allegations of vote buying and a challenge to a GOP primary runoff win, the Thad Cochran campaign on Tuesday said it made a mistake with its accounting of nearly $53,000 in get-out-the-vote cash and will have to amend its reporting to the Federal Election Commission.
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Talking Points Memo, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Tom K. Wong / Center for American Progress:
Statistical Analysis Shows that Violence, Not Deferred Action, Is Behind the Surge of Unaccompanied Children Crossing the Border — A humanitarian refugee situation at the U.S. southern border has been unfolding over the past few years and dramatically intensifying over the past several months …