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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP internal debate: Is party repeating mistakes of 1998? — BARACK OBAMA BILL CLINTON JOHN BOEHNER 2014 ELECTIONS — For anyone who was around, it's hard to compare 1998 — the year of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Starr Report, and Bill Clinton's impeachment — with any other year.
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Politico:
Politicking off impeachment chatter — Something very strange is happening on Capitol Hill. Democrats can't talk enough about impeaching a president of their own party. And Republicans keep saying that there isn't a chance they'll give it a try. — With just three days left until Congress recesses …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner: Impeachment Talk Is A ‘Scam’ By Democrats To Raise Money — House Speaker John Boehner torched Democrats on Tuesday over talk of impeaching President Barack Obama, insisting that Republicans have no such plans and that Democrats are using the issue to gin up their base.
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Washington Monthly, Mediaite and BuzzFeed
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Obama Mulls Massive Move on Immigration — WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as they grapple with an immigration crisis at the border, White House officials are making plans to act before November's mid-term elections to grant work permits to potentially millions of immigrants who are in this country illegally …
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Boehner: Impeachment a Dem ‘scam’
Boehner: Impeachment a Dem ‘scam’
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Firedoglake, Washington Post and Politico
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
DCCC chairman: GOP impeachment talk ‘moving our base’
DCCC chairman: GOP impeachment talk ‘moving our base’
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Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Red State Democrats Ditch Obama
Red State Democrats Ditch Obama
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Politico, National Review and OnPolitics
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
One of the most anti-Obama ads of the election is being run by a Democrat in West Virginia
One of the most anti-Obama ads of the election is being run by a Democrat in West Virginia
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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Speculation on a House GOP bid to impeach Obama boosts Democrats' fundraising
Speculation on a House GOP bid to impeach Obama boosts Democrats' fundraising
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Associated Press:
LAWMAKERS TRY TO SEAL $225M AID PACKAGE FOR ISRAEL — WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic and Republican members of Congress scrambled Tuesday to seal a $225 million boost to Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system before they break this week for a month-long recess.
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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Kerry-Israel Meltdown — The secretary of state has been furiously working on a Mideast ceasefire, but his ad hoc efforts were dealt another blow Monday when Israel rejected his latest peacemaking plan. — On Monday, Secretary of State Kerry took to the podium at the State Department …
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Seriously, What Is John Kerry Doing? — Let's concede for a moment that most of us do not want the United States refereeing conflicts between nations or warring factions abroad. Even so, most Americans would probably agree that at a minimum our diplomatic efforts should not cause unnecessary harm.
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Power Line, The Lonely Conservative, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, The Times of Israel, Associated Press and The Dish
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
John Kerry's big blunder in seeking an Israel-Gaza cease-fire — Secretary of State John Kerry has made a significant mistake in how he's pursuing a Gaza cease-fire — and it's not surprising that he has upset both the Israelis and some moderate Palestinians.
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CNN, Rush Limbaugh, Adam Garfinkle, National Review, Hot Air and VodkaPundit
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron Dome’ Missile Defense System
Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron Dome’ Missile Defense System
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Guardian, The Times of Israel, Business Insider and RT
Associated Press:
Obama administration officials were fuming Monday over a torrent …
Obama administration officials were fuming Monday over a torrent …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The PJ Tatler
Jerusalem Post:
Hamas denies agreeing to 72-hour cease-fire
Hamas denies agreeing to 72-hour cease-fire
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Truth Revolt, Elder Of Ziyon, Washington Free Beacon, The Times of Israel, Israel Matzav, Hot Air and Algemeiner.com
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
White House: Israel has ‘no stronger defender’ than John Kerry
Michael Lind / Salon:
Break up the states! The case for the United Statelets of America — Here's how Wyoming, Vermont and North Dakota are exercising tyranny over the rest of us — and how to stop them — A ballot initiative that would support breaking California into six smaller and more coherent states …
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Washington Monthly
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Downscale — I recently had a conversation with an intensely conservative businessman whose first foray into politics was fighting for a tax hike on his business and others like it. The little town where he lived as a young man had no paved roads, waterworks, or sewage facilities …
clickorlando.com:
George Zimmerman ‘patrolling’ Central Florida shop after gun theft — Owner of Pompano Pat's in DeLand says Zimmerman not working for him — DeLAND, Fla. - — Although he's not a hired security officer, George Zimmerman has been “patrolling” outside a Volusia County gun shop …
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Mashable, Mediaite and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Simon Maloy / Salon:
No Labels, no respect: The bipartisan “solutions” group embodies the worst of D.C. — No Labels is raising money largely for itself, and its attempts to break gridlock are silly and self-defeating — No Labels was once the embodiment of a dream. It was the dream of a bunch of wealthy …
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Anna Mulrine / Christian Science Monitor:
US is no safer after 13 years of war, a top Pentagon official says — The nation is no safer after 13 years of war, warns a top US military official who leads one of the nation's largest intelligence organizations. — “We have a whole gang of new actors out there that are far more extreme than Al Qaeda …
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Outside the Beltway, Weekly Standard and The Long War Journal
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Julian E. Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
The Iraq Enigma: Urgency Subsides, But Danger Persists
James R. Carroll / Courier-Journal:
Rand Paul planning 2015 book. Mean anything? — WASHINGTON - Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is working on a new book that will come out early next year - about the same time he will decide whether to run for president. — “Just coincidence, probably just coincidence, yeah,” the Republican said …
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Ray Stern / Valley Fever:
Peter Nathan Steinmetz, Barrow Brain Scientist, Arrested at Airport With AR-15 — Dr. Peter Nathan Steinmetz, a brain scientist with Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, was arrested on Friday for mishandling his AR-15 in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
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