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The Hill:
House GOP group to recommend changes to immigration law — Fresh off a trip to Guatemala and Honduras, a House GOP working group on immigration will recommend Tuesday that the conference change a 2008 trafficking law to stop the thousands of immigrant children flooding across the border.
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Roger Simon / Politico:
More gray hairs for Obama — No matter how much you love your children, if you were a parent in Honduras, you might be tempted to ship them to the United States. — According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Honduras has the highest homicide rate in the world.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Obama won't take strong action in border crisis — IMMIGRATION BARACK OBAMA BORDER SECURITY — Does President Obama want to solve the border crisis? It depends on what the meaning of “solve” is. — The president says a majority of the tens of thousands of families …
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Power Line
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Immigrant children facing danger will ‘likely’ stay in US
White House: Immigrant children facing danger will ‘likely’ stay in US
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Politico, CNN and The Democratic Daily
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Farce of Dick Cheney Giving Foreign-Policy Advice — The former veep's record is marked by false claims, erroneous predictions, and catastrophic results. Now he's urging more wars. Has his audience learned its lesson? — Former Vice President Dick Cheney failed to anticipate …
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Reuters:
Bodies found north of Baghdad as Sunni insurgents turn on each other
Bodies found north of Baghdad as Sunni insurgents turn on each other
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Hullabaloo and Blazing Cat Fur
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Cheney family sounds off after Iraq protests
Cheney family sounds off after Iraq protests
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Fox News, Informed Comment, NewsBusters, Washington Post, Hit & Run and Wall Street Journal
Jeff Dunetz / “The Lid”:
Egyptian Deal a 100% Israel Victory, Israel Acceptance Puts Hamas in a Box — Israel's security cabinet met Tuesday morning and accepted the Egyptian peace deal despite the fact that Hamas had said no hours earlier. Within an hour after the Israeli acceptance, Hamas fired three rockets toward Israel.
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Washington Post:
Israel accepts truce plan; Hamas balks — GAZA CITY — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to escalate Israel's operations in Gaza after Hamas balked at an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire, saying it had not been consulted on its terms.
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AEIdeas, New York Times, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Mondoweiss, Hot Air and +972 Magazine
MJ Lee / Politico:
Meet the anti-Elizabeth Warren — Rep. Shelley Moore Capito's friends and colleagues in Washington are so certain she's headed for a promotion this year, they're already addressing her as “senator.” — Capito looks poised for a swift victory in the West Virginia Senate race this fall …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Progressives turn from Obama to embrace Warren
Progressives turn from Obama to embrace Warren
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Salon:
Far right's secret SCOTUS strategy: What Boehner's lawsuit is really about — When a fringe party can no longer win legislative elections, boosting the impact of judges is its best last resort — If you hadn't thought the House GOP had gone completely around the bend before …
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Hullabaloo
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Watch CNBC's Tea Partier Get Told How Wrong He's Been (VIDEO) — Rick Santelli, the CNBC personality who's been credited with giving rise to the tea party movement, was told on-air Monday that he's been wrong about pretty much everything. — The always-wired Santelli …
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
CNBC Reporter Torches Rick Santelli: Nothing You've Predicted Has Ever Come True
CNBC Reporter Torches Rick Santelli: Nothing You've Predicted Has Ever Come True
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New York Times, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Conservative judicial group to hammer Chris Christie — A conservative judicial group is planning to run $75,000 in digital ads during New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's trip to Iowa later this week, bracketing him at a time when he's reemerging from the “Bridgegate” scandal.
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CNN, Wall Street Journal and RedState
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Ariz. School Requires Students To Read Books By Glenn Beck's Tea Party Hero — An Arizona charter high school allegedly required its students to read a conservative author beloved by pundit Glenn Beck and considered one of the philosophical forebears of the tea party, according to a complaint filed …
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Arizona Republic and The Raw Story
Lenore Skenazy / Hit & Run:
Mom Jailed Because She Let Her 9-Year-Old Daughter Play in the Park Unsupervised — Just in case you thought you could parent whatever way you see fit in 2014 America: … Hours at a time? At a park? In the summer? Gosh! That certainly sounds normal and fun like a reason to throw a mom in jail …
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Judd Gregg / The Hill:
When the GOP takes the Senate — Conventional wisdom is clear that the next Congress has a considerable likelihood of being a Republican Congress. — That same consensus also holds that if the GOP does indeed take control, the next two years will be marked by confrontation with the White House …
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Washington Monthly and CNN
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Helping Big Companies Compete — Last week, Standard & Poor's issued a short report about Boeing. “Boeing Co. Faces Long-Term Credit Risks If The U.S. Export-Import Bank Isn't Reauthorized,” read the alarming heading. — In dollar volume, Boeing is America's single largest exporter.
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CEPR
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
It's official: Americans say Mitt Romney was pretty much right about Russia — Back in March, when Vladimir Putin's Russia was rearing its increasingly antagonistic head, supporters of Mitt Romney saw a measure of vindication. Russia, it seemed, had become the United States' No. 1 geopolitical foe …
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Hot Air
Peter Moore / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
One third of Americans want to impeach Obama — Americans tend to think that Obama has exceeded his constitutional powers, but support for impeachment is no higher than it was for Bush seven years ago — Last week former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin called …
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Wall Street Journal, Independent Journal Review and American Thinker
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Republican Senate candidates distance themselves from ‘impeach Obama’
Republican Senate candidates distance themselves from ‘impeach Obama’
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Daily Kos, Capitol Report and RealClearPolitics Video Log
Saul Elbein / The New Republic:
Guatemalans Aren't Just Fleeing Gangs — The media narrative misses what life there is really like — As Central Americans have begun streaming across our border seeking asylum, I've followed press accounts with an increasing sense of queasiness. There are, in the opinion pieces …
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