memeorandum: CNN Poll: Border crisis impacting public opinion on immigration (Paul Steinhauser/CNN)

12:30 PM ET, July 25, 2014

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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:

Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Admit in 2012 That Subsidies Were Limited to State-Run Exchanges — Earlier this week, a three-judge panel in the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that, contrary to the Obama administration's implementation and an Internal Revenue Service rule …

Discussion: Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, JustOneMinute, National Review, ACASignups.net, Althouse, The PJ Tatler and RedState

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:

Did Jonathan Gruber Just Endorse the Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit? — Obamacare architect offers an explanation for his 2012 quote — Did the people who designed Obamacare intend to deprive millions of people of health insurance, just because officials in their states decided not to operate their own insurance marketplaces?

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, The Incidental Economist, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, The Moderate Voice, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Dish

Michael F. Cannon / Forbes:

ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber: “If You're A State And You Don't Set Up An Exchange, That Means Your Citizens Don't Get Their Tax Credits” — Halbig v. Burwell and King v. Burwell are the most important and hotly contested legal challenges involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NewsBusters, The Federalist, National Review and Power Line

Ryan Radia / Competitive Enterprise Institute:

Obamacare Architect Admitted in 2012 States without Exchanges Lose Subsidies — This week, an unprecedented circuit split emerged in Halbig v. Burwell and King v. Burwell over whether health insurance premium assistance is available in states that didn't set up health insurance exchanges.

Discussion: Bloomberg View, Patterico's Pontifications, Fox News, National Review, Washington Post and ACS Blog

Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:

The ObamaCare-IRS Nexus — The supposedly independent agency harassed the administration's political opponents and saved its health-care law.

Discussion: Fox News, National Review and Power Line

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:

CNN/ORC Poll: Majority say no to impeachment and lawsuit — Washington (CNN) - There's not a lot of public appetite for a Republican push to sue President Barack Obama, or for calls by some conservatives to impeach him, according to a new national survey. — A CNN/ORC International poll …

Discussion: Politico, Outside the Beltway and The Hill

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:

CNN Poll: Border crisis impacting public opinion on immigration — Washington (CNN) - The current crisis on the nation's southern border appears to be fueling a notable shift in American attitudes toward immigration policy with border security growing in importance, according to a new national survey.

Discussion: Hot Air, Real Clear Politics, National Review and Politico

Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Joining fundraising spree, first lady asks for ‘biggest, fattest’ checks

Discussion: Politico, The PJ Tatler, RedState, Sister Toldjah and Washington Post

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Left Coast Rising — The states, Justice Brandeis famously pointed out, are the laboratories of democracy. And it's still true. For example, one reason we knew or should have known that Obamacare was workable was the post-2006 success of Romneycare in Massachusetts.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

John Fund / National Review:

The Moment of Truth on Corporate Welfare — It seems like decades since Republicans have been able to permanently zero out a government program of any size. The tea-party base often doesn't take seriously the GOP's commitment to shrinking government and has accused the GOP of ladling out benefits to the elite and well connected.

Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:

Ben Carson Sold More Books Than Hillary Clinton Last Week — For many book buyers last week, choosing whether to buy Ben Carson's new book or Hillary Clinton's new memoir was not a hard choice. — According to Nielsen Bookscan numbers provided to The Daily Caller, Carson's ""One Nation" …

Discussion: Mediaite and Truth Revolt

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The Worrying Vacuity Of Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

Paul Ryan and the Party of Ideas — I will probably have more to say about Congressman Paul Ryan's latest policy proposals on poverty and mobility — both their substance and their possible implications — very soon; either tomorrow or in Sunday's column, mostly likely.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, The Dish, Vox, Marginal REVOLUTION, Washington Post, National Review and Reihan Salam

Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast: Paul Ryan's Plan: Rebooting Compassionate Conservatism

Blupman / Our Bad Media:

More Plagiarism From “One Of The Web's Deeply Original Writers” — Yesterday, this blog posted an article about serial plagiarism by Buzzfeed's Benny Johnson that came after said reporter called out another publication for plagiarizing his own work. Gawker's J.K. Trotter eventually managed …

Discussion: Politico and Capital New York, more at Mediagazer »

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed Editor Caught Lifting Text From Yahoo! Answers

Discussion: Our Bad Media, Politico and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:

Kerry Proposes Weeklong Halt to Fighting in Gaza Strip — CAIRO — Secretary of State John Kerry has proposed a two-stage plan to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip that would first impose a weeklong truce starting Sunday, an official involved in the negotiations said on Friday.

Discussion: Associated Press, Haaretz, Israel Matzav, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post, Mediaite, Hot Air, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Just Security and Gawker

New York Times:
Blasts Kill 16 Seeking Haven at Gaza School

Discussion: Guardian, Mondoweiss, IDF Blog and The Dish

Associated Press:

Rejected atheist booth in city hall draws lawsuit — WARREN, Mich. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan and two other groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking an injunction against a Michigan city's ban on an atheist booth in a municipal building.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and The Raw Story

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo: Michigan GOP Mayor Compares Atheists To Nazis, KKK

Benjamin Goad / The Hill:

Issa asks Holder to turn over docs on mortgage fraud settlements — The chairman of the House Oversight Committee asked Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday to turn over documents related to the Justice Department's decisions to settle mortgage fraud accusations against two of the nation's biggest banks.

Discussion: Hinterland Gazette

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Americans' Reaction to Middle East Situation Similar to Past — Divided on whether Israel's actions against Hamas justified — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are divided in their views of whether Israel's actions against the Palestinian group Hamas is “mostly justified” or “mostly unjustified …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Algemeiner.com, Mondoweiss, Hot Air and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Burgess Everett / Politico:

John McCain: Arizona execution ‘torture’ — A botched execution in Arizona on Wednesday amounted to “torture,” said the state's senior senator John McCain. — The longtime Republican lawmaker, who experienced years of torture while being held in captivity by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War …

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and ThinkProgress

Michael Kiefer / Arizona Republic:
Reporter describes Arizona execution: 2 hours, 640 gasps

Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Times, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Hit & Run, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Online, Associated Press and Hot Air

Washington Post:

Iran confirms arrest of Post correspondent — Iran confirmed Friday that The Washington Post's correspondent in Tehran has been arrested on unspecified charges. — Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, director general of the Tehran Province Justice Department, told reporters that the …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Carol Kerr / KECI:

Army War College to investigate plagiarism claims against Walsh — GALLATIN COUNTY — BOZEMAN, Mont. - — In a written statement to NBC Montana Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Army War College said it will convene an Academic Review Board to look into allegations of plagiarism against democratic U.S. Senator John Walsh.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo