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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner To Sue Obama For Unilateral Delay Of Obamacare Employer Mandate — House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Thursday revealed that he plans to sue President Barack Obama for his unilateral delay of the Obamacare employer mandate, ratcheting up the tension between the White House …
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Hinterland Gazette, The Moderate Voice and his vorpal sword
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Barack Obama on impeachment: ‘Really?’ — Go ahead, President Barack Obama told House Republicans Thursday. Impeach him. — “You hear some of them: ‘Sue him! Impeach him!’” Obama said in a relaxed, sniping campaign-style speech in Austin, Texas, recounting the resistance he's run into for signing executive actions.
Lauren French / Politico:
GOP's Obama lawsuit to focus on employer mandate — House Republicans will base their lawsuit against President Barack Obama on the administration's “unilateral” decision to delay the employer mandate provision in Obamacare, Speaker John Boehner said Thursday.
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ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
Speaker.gov:
Boehner: This Is About Protecting the Constitution — WASHINGTON, DC - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement announcing that the House would initiate legal action over President Obama's unilateral actions on the health care law's employer mandate in 2013:
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Vox, Guardian, BuzzFeed, Daily Kos and National Review
Sarah Mimms / NationalJournal.com:
Boehner Goes Off On Obama Over Immigration Crisis
Boehner Goes Off On Obama Over Immigration Crisis
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Shakesville
Michael Wilner / Jerusalem Post:
Obama speaks with Netanyahu, offering to broker ceasefire with Hamas — US President reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself against attacks; Congress prepares resolution supporting Israel; State Department points finger at Hamas as perpetrator of crisis.
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Roger L. Simon and Israel Matzav
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William Saletan / Slate:
The Gaza Rules — Israel, unlike Hamas, isn't trying to kill civilians.
The Gaza Rules — Israel, unlike Hamas, isn't trying to kill civilians.
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Elder Of Ziyon, The Raw Story, NewsBusters, American Thinker and Israpundit
Elliott Abrams / Pressure Points:
Israel Under Attack, Obama Remains Silent
Israel Under Attack, Obama Remains Silent
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Washington Times, Israel Matzav and Power Line
Jenna Levy / Gallup:
In U.S., Uninsured Rate Sinks to 13.4% in Second Quarter — Significant decline in uninsured rate across age groups since the end of 2013 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate in the U.S. fell 2.2 percentage points to 13.4% in the second quarter of 2014.
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hrms.urban.org, Politico, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, US News and The New Republic
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Congressman Steve Stockman:
Stockman files motion ordering the arrest of Lois Lerner — Democrats endorse arrest powers: “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day” Pelosi said just days ago — > CNN, New York Times also endorse the House's power to arrest — WASHINGTON — Congressman Steve Stockman Thursday filed …
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NewsBusters, Twitchy, Mediaite and The PJ Tatler
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Pundits Collectively Lose It Over A Quote Obama Didn't Even Say — Many pundits on Thursday were shocked by the gall of President Obama to say that he doesn't “do photo-ops,” a mere day after glossy, White House-sanctioned shots surfaced of him sipping beer and shooting pool with the Colorado governor.
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Townhall.com and Daily Kos
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Gov. Perry: The face of GOP opposition
Gov. Perry: The face of GOP opposition
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CNN, Politico, Washington Monthly and Talking Points Memo
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Crisis on the Border — No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping. — What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown. They feature images of children …
Sarah Desprat / Twitchy:
‘WHAT A FREAKIN’ LIE'! Reuters, Yahoo busted for bogus headline about Obama at border [pics]; Update: Headline changed, still wrong — President Obama really gets around. After all, those funds aren't gonna raise themselves! In a short span of time this week, the president has spent time in Denver …
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Rush Limbaugh, Mediaite and NewsBusters
John Hanna / Associated Press:
Kansas Senator's Longevity Gives GOP Foe Opening — Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts stoked the political brushfire he was hoping to smother during a recent Kansas City-area radio morning show. — “Every time I get an opponent — uh, I mean, every time I get a chance — I'm home,” Roberts said during the KCMO interview.
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Fox News:
Federal judge orders IRS to explain lost Lerner emails ‘under oath’ — A federal judge has ordered the IRS to explain “under oath” how the agency lost a trove of emails from the official at the heart of the Tea Party targeting scandal. — U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave …
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Red Alert Politics
New York Times:
Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on Immigration Reform — AMERICAN citizens are paying 535 people to take care of the legislative needs of the country. We are getting shortchanged. Here's an example: On June 10, an incumbent congressman in Virginia lost a primary election …
Associated Press:
First marijuana customer in Spokane says he was fired — SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A man who waited in line overnight to be the first customer at Spokane's first legal marijuana shop says he was fired for his efforts. — But the company says his story doesn't make sense.
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Spokesman.com, Talking Points Memo and Vocativ
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Sasha Goldstein / NY Daily News:
Washington man first to buy legal weed in Spokane is fired after spotted on news
Washington man first to buy legal weed in Spokane is fired after spotted on news
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Liberaland, Mashable and The Raw Story
Niam Yaraghi / Brookings Institute:
Have the Anti-Obamacare Ads Backfired? — According to the recent report of nonpartisan analysts Kantar Media CMAG, ACA opponents have spent 450 million dollars on anti-Obamacare ads so far. Spending on negative ads outpaced positive ones by more than 15 to 1. This map shows the spending on negative ads in each state.
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Bloomberg View, The Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Mediaite
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Valerie Richardson / The Colorado Observer:
Bloomberg: Colorado Gun Recall Towns So Rural, They Don't Have Roads — DENVER — In what may come as a surprise to residents of Colorado Springs and Pueblo, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't think those cities have roads. — Bloomberg told Rolling Stone that he was …
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Twitchy, Politico and The Daily Caller
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Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:
Bloomberg dismisses Colo. Springs, Pueblo as roadless, rural backwaters
Bloomberg dismisses Colo. Springs, Pueblo as roadless, rural backwaters
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National Review
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
IRS worker campaigned on help line — An IRS help line worker has been suspended for 100 days without pay for urging callers to reelect President Barack Obama in 2012, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel announced on Thursday. — The employee, who was not named, “acknowledged that he had used …
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The Daily Caller and CNN