memeorandum: Simas Ignores Subpoena Again as White House Defies Issa (Updated) (Video) (Tom Williams/Roll Call)

3:06 AM ET, July 26, 2014

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Freshman Congressman Mistakes Senior Government Officials for Foreigners

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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

U.S. Congressman Mistakes U.S. Gov't Officials For Indian Officials (VIDEO) — In an extraordinary — and extraordinarily awkward — failure of basic situational awareness, a U.S. congressman apparently mistook American government officials for Indian government officials during a congressional hearing.

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?

John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:

Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Once Again Ties Subsidies to State-Based Exchanges — Did Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber make the same mistake twice? A new audio clip finds him once again explaining that Obamacare subsidies are tied to state health exchanges.

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Adam Serwer / msnbc.com:
Adviser's past remarks could give Obamacare a headache

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Adrianna McIntyre / Vox:
Has a key Obamacare architect given the lawsuit against it a boost?

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Doug Sosnik / Politico:

Blue Crush — How the left took over the Democratic Party. — From 2000 to 2008, no one did more to unite the Democratic Party than George W. Bush. But Democrats haven't fallen apart in the years since Bush exited the political stage. Instead, President Barack Obama has maintained …

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CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for July 25, 2014

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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
Obama's immigration flip flop

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

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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Majority say no to impeachment and lawsuit

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Editor's Note: An Apology To Our Readers — What we're doing about an episode of plagiarism. — Starting this Wednesday, Twitter users began pointing out instances in which a BuzzFeed writer, Benny Johnson, had lifted phrases and sentences from other websites.

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Blupman / Our Bad Media:
More Plagiarism From “One Of The Web's Deeply Original Writers”

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Tom Williams / Roll Call:

Simas Ignores Subpoena Again as White House Defies Issa (Updated) (Video) — Top White House political adviser David Simas refused again Friday to honor a congressional subpoena, prompting Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to vote to rebuke the administration.

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TMZ.com:

Joan Rivers — GOES OFF on Epic Israel/Palestine Rant — GOES OFF ON EPIC — Israel/Palestine Rant — EXCLUSIVE — Joan Rivers jettisoned comedy for politics ... unleashing an impassioned defense of Israel that included an awesome New York/New Jersey analogy.

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Joe Miller / BBC:

Wikipedia blocks ‘disruptive’ page edits from US Congress — Computers on Capitol Hill have been banned from making edits to Wikipedia in the past — Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following “persistent disruptive editing”.

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Who's banned from editing Wikipedia this week? Congress

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Lawrence A. Franklin / Gatestone Institute:

Hamas Mega-Attack Planned through Gaza Terror Tunnels … Hamas had apparently been preparing a murderous assault on Israeli civilian targets for the coming Jewish New Year Holiday, Rosh Hashanah, which begins on September 24, according anonymous sources in the Israeli security services, as reported today by the Israeli daily Maariv.

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ABC News:

Inside the Furious, Close-Range Gun Battle at Pennsylvania Hospital … A doctor with a semi-automatic gun and a caseworker who was “nothing short of heroic” were able to wound and then subdue an armed psychiatric patient after he had killed another caseworker and appeared intent of reloading …

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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Lawmaker to Push Bill Requiring Dinesh D'Souza's ‘America’ Be Shown in Schools — Florida GOP state senator Alan Hays said he'll propose a bill mandating that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.

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Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:

McDaniel lawyer: legal challenge ‘slightly delayed’ — Mitch Tyner, attorney for Chris McDaniel, says an expected legal challenge by McDaniel of the June 24 GOP primary runoff won't be filed today. — Tyner last week had said he expected to file a challenge of McDaniel's loss to incumbent …

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Reuters:

Israel cabinet rejects Kerry cease-fire proposal in Gaza — Diplomatic-security cabinet “flatly rejects” American proposals for a week-long humanitarian halt to fighting, seeks changes to terms. — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's security cabinet has rejected proposals for a cease-fire …

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