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The White House:
Statement by the President on the Situation in Ukraine and Gaza — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. I want to make a brief statement about the tragedy in Ukraine. Before I do, though, I want to note that Secretary Kerry has departed for the Middle East.
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — And it's more of a problem than you think. — Did you know Malaysia Air Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason …
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Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, The Dish, The Lead with Jake Tapper and National Review
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia's Message on Jet: Conciliation and Bluster
Russia's Message on Jet: Conciliation and Bluster
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Reuters, kyivpost.com, Daily Kos, The Dish, Balloon Juice and ThinkProgress
Christy Hoppe / Trail Blazers Blog:
Perry says troops will be “force multiplier” to battle crime; sheriffs say they need deputies, not military — Update at 2:45 p.m.: Gov. Rick Perry and several other state leaders have announced the National Guard deployment. Perry called the troops a “force multiplier” …
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Jacob Fischler / Monitor:
Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV
Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV
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Politico, Business Insider, neo-neocon, nepr.net, Townhall.com, Mediaite and Hot Air
Leigh Ann Caldwell / CNN:
Perry sending National Guard troops to border
Perry sending National Guard troops to border
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Daily Signal, Washington Post, ThinkProgress and The Lonely Conservative
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Castro: Rick Perry ‘militarizing’ border
Castro: Rick Perry ‘militarizing’ border
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Weasel Zippers, BarbWire.com, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh and The Right Scoop
Peggy Fikac / MySanAntonio.com:
Perry to send 1,000 Texas Guard troops to South Texas border
Perry to send 1,000 Texas Guard troops to South Texas border
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Des Moines Register, BizPac Review and Fox News
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
MSNBC Contributor Slams Network For Pro-Israel Coverage: ‘We Are Ridiculous!’ — An MSNBC contributor used her appearance on the cable news channel Monday to sharply criticize its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. — During an interview on “Ronan Farrow Daily,” Palestinian journalist …
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Mediaite and The Other McCain
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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
MSNBC Contributor Criticizes MSNBC On MSNBC For Air Time Given To Palestinian Voices — MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal criticizes the network and Andrea Mitchell by name. — View Video › — Monday's edition of MSNBC's Ronan Farrow Daily featured criticism of the network's coverage …
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The Huffington Post and Washington Free Beacon
Noah Pollak / Weekly Standard:
All The News Hamas Sees Fit to Print
All The News Hamas Sees Fit to Print
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Algemeiner.com, New York Times, Ed Driscoll, The Other McCain, Israel Matzav, The Huffington Post, NewsBusters, Jihad Watch, RedState and Mashable
ThinkProgress:
Luxury Apartment Building Will Have Separate Door For Poor Residents — A luxury condo building on New York City's Upper West Side has gotten clearance from the city to have a separate entrance, or a “poor door,” for low-income tenants, according to the New York Post.
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Patterico's Pontifications
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Kate Briquelet / New York Post:
City OKs UWS development with ‘poor door’ for residents
City OKs UWS development with ‘poor door’ for residents
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Business Insider, Talking Points Memo and susiemadrak.com
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
New England Journal Of Medicine: 20 Million Covered Under Obamacare — A report published last week in the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine provided an overview of Obamacare's first year, its successes and the challenges ahead. It also offered a yet another estimate of the number of people covered by the law: 20 million.
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The Moderate Voice
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Biden Agenda — Reckoning with Ukraine and Iraq, and keeping an eye on 2016. … “No pressure, but I do have another couple who are very interested.” — BUY AS PRINT» … “In closing, I would like to remind the jury that he says he didn't do it.” — BUY AS PRINT»
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inSourceCode / Committee on Oversight & …:
New Testimony: IRS May Still Have Missing Lois Lerner E-mails Backed Up — Official in charge of document production also raises possibility of new e-mail losses from ‘less than 20’ officials — During a transcribed interview with congressional investigators on Thursday, July 17 …
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.
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Hot Air, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers and “The Lid”
James Hohmann / Politico:
DSCC going up on Iowa airwaves — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will launch a half-million-dollar television-ad campaign in Iowa on Tuesday against GOP nominee Joni Ernst, hitting her on entitlements. — “She's proposed privatizing Social Security — gambling our savings in the stock market …
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The PJ Tatler
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Elizabeth Warren Would Be the Most Liberal Democratic Nominee Since 1972 — Elizabeth Warren probably isn't going to run for or win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, but that hasn't stopped progressives from trying to get her to run. And it's no wonder: Warren would be among …
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Hullabaloo, Hot Air and Ed Driscoll
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
It's virtually impossible to be a successful modern president — Being president is the most powerful job in the world. At which you will almost certainly fail. — Why? For lots of reasons up to and including: — * The decline of the bully pulpit as a persuasion mechanism
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Power Line
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Is the White House Lying or Just Bad at Crisis Communications? — Ordering a cheeseburger with fries while a downed airline smolders may not have been a great decision. — President Obama walks into the Charcoal Pit restaurant to eat lunch with a single mother in Wilmington, Del.(Getty Images)
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Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and JustOneMinute
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama signs LGBT executive order — President Barack Obama on Monday signed an executive order aimed at protecting workers at federal contractors and in the federal government from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. — “I firmly believe that it's …
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NewsBusters and Washington Post