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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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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
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Republican Senate candidates distance themselves from ‘impeach Obama’
Republican Senate candidates distance themselves from ‘impeach Obama’
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Capitol Report and RealClearPolitics Video Log
Julian Zelizer / CNN:
The World Cup of U.S. politics
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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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Cheney family sounds off after Iraq protests
Cheney family sounds off after Iraq protests
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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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Washington Monthly, Business Insider and The BRAD BLOG
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
CNBC Reporter Torches Rick Santelli: Nothing You've Predicted Has Ever Come True — If you're at all familiar with CNBC's Rick Santelli, you know he almost never appears on the network without a shoutfest ensuing. — The financial commentator — long considered the godfather …
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New York Times, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story
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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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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Washington Post, The PJ Tatler, Independent Journal Review, protein wisdom and Joanne Jacobs
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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The Mahablog, Booman Tribune, The Dish and Washington Monthly
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Immigrant children facing danger will ‘likely’ stay in US — The White House said Monday it was “likely” that immigrant children facing mortal danger in their home countries would be allowed to stay in the United States. — The comments come amid a growing debate over a 2008 law …
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Ynetnews:
Netanyahu: Israel sees truce as opportunity to demilitarize Gaza — Cabinet announces it accepts Egyptian cease-fire offer, while Bennett and Lieberman vote against. Hamas rejects proposal, as rocket fire from Gaza continues with sirens sounding Ashkelon area.
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The Times of Israel and Elder Of Ziyon
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Uber's Search for Key Comms Hire Shows Just How Serious It Is About Fighting “A**hole” Taxi — In an interview with me at the Code Conference in May, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was pretty clear that one of his key goals for the year was to hire a big-gun communications and public relations strategy person …
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MacRumors, Mediaite and Business Insider
The Mike Report:
Shocking anti-Semitic hatefest in downtown Seattle — JEWS DEPICTED AS EATING GENTILE BABIES AND DRINKING THEIR BLOOD. — As Hamas Rockets continued to rain down on Israeli population centers, a large anti-Israel rally took place in Seattle's Westlake Center this Saturday, July 12.
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Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
Neo-Nazis, Islamists declare ‘You Jews are beasts’ during protest of Israeli operation — A demonstration in Frankfurt against Operation Protective Edge erupted into violence, with protesters tossing stones at the police. — BERLIN - A demonstration in Frankfurt against Operation Protective Edge erupted …
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Weasel Zippers, Elder Of Ziyon, protein wisdom and Power Line
Jeff Patch / The Iowa Republican:
Braley threatened litigation over chickens at Holiday Lake vacation home — The Holiday Lake home of Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo. — BROOKLYN, Iowa—Is Bruce Braley chicken? — That question is on the minds of many residents of Brooklyn and Holiday Lake, a 755-acre community of 300 families just north of town.
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Julian E. Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Bowe Bergdahl Has Refused to Speak to Parents — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl hasn't spoken to his family since he was released from captivity in Pakistan, according to an Army official. — Sgt. Bergdahl has refused to see his parents or speak to them on the phone, the official said.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Report: SMALL LIFELESS, DEAD CHILDREN Found “Washed Up Along Riverbank” of Rio Grande — Mexican emigrants crossing the Rio Grande near El Paso, Texas. (Danny Lehman/Corbis) — A Fox News exclusive reported this morning by Jana Winter inexplicably buried the lede.
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
Endless wave of illegal immigrants floods Rio Grande valley
Endless wave of illegal immigrants floods Rio Grande valley
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Power Line
Helen T. Verongos / New York Times:
Nadine Gordimer, Novelist Who Took On Apartheid, Is Dead at 90 — Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer whose literary ambitions led her into the heart of apartheid to create a body of fiction that brought her a Nobel Prize in 1991, died on Sunday in Johannesburg. She was 90.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg View:
Buffett, Gates and Adelson Don't Get Immigration — A trio of billionaires — Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates — say they want to “End the Immigration Impasse,” to quote the headline of their recent New York Times op-ed article. — The article will do nothing to end that impasse …
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