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2:15 PM ET, July 30, 2014

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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
House Republican Insists He's Not Considering Impeaching Obama, Then Admits He Is, All In Less Than 60 Seconds  —  Since Sarah Palin called for impeaching President Obama earlier this month, most Republican lawmakers have distanced themselves from her comments and blamed Democrats for seizing on the issue to grow their campaign coffers.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama to GOP: Stop hating  —  President Obama asked Republicans to stop “hating” and “being mad all the time” during a Wednesday speech in Kansas City, Mo., focused on the economy.  —  The president accused GOP lawmakers of needlessly suing him, instead of doing their jobs.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Senate votes to start debate on emergency border bill  —  Washington (CNN) - The Senate voted on Wednesday to take up a $2.7 billion Democratic spending bill to address the southern border crisis.  —  Lawmakers voted 63-33 on a procedural vote to begin debate on the emergency measure prompted …
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Politico
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: No to Obama lawsuit
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Boehner rules out impeachment, but Democrats cash in on the threat
Lisa Desjardins / CNN:
Surprise Senate highway vote near deadline
David Wasserman / Washington Post:
The most frightening candidate I've met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls  —  As a House analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, I've personally interviewed over 300 congressional candidates over the course of seven years, both to get to know them and evaluate their chances of winning.
David Frum / The Atlantic Online:
An Apology: On Images From Gaza  —  I questioned the authenticity of a photo from Khan Younis hospital.  It was a mistake.  —  I made a mistake earlier this week in a series of Twitter posts.  It's not a mistake to which Atlantic editors were party in any way.
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Evan Thomas / The Atlantic Online:
The Untapped Secrets of the Nixon Tapes  —  Forty years after Watergate, it's easy to imagine we know all there is to know about Tricky Dick.  Two new books show how wrong that is.  —  Richard Nixon taped roughly 3,700 hours of his conversations as president.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Sofia Resnick / RH Reality Check:
Hobby Lobby Allegedly Fired Employee Due to Pregnancy  —  When a very pregnant Felicia Allen applied for medical leave from her job at Hobby Lobby three years ago, one might think that the company best known for denying its employees insurance coverage of certain contraceptives …
Jordan Schachtel / BREITBART.COM:
THIRD ROCKET ARSENAL FOUND AT UN SCHOOL IN GAZA  —  The United Nations Relief & Works Agency For Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Tuesday that another rocket stockpile has been found at one of its schools in Gaza.  This instance marks the third time since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge …
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Lexington Herald-Leader:
NATIONAL VIDEOS  —  Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes kicked off a bus tour to this weekend's annual Fancy Farm picnic by opening her Fayette County headquarters with a few hundred cheering supporters.  —  A day after the Bluegrass Poll showed U.S. Senate Minority …
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and National Review
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Federal review stalled after finding forensic errors by FBI lab unit spanned two decades  —  Nearly every criminal case reviewed by the FBI and the Justice Department as part of a massive investigation started in 2012 of problems at the FBI lab has included flawed forensic testimony from the agency, government officials said.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Booman Tribune
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan: I'll Consider Presidential Run After 2014 Elections  —  Rep. Paul Ryan says he'll consider a presidential run after the 2014 elections.  —  The Wisconsin Republican and House budget chief said he hasn't given much thought to the idea yet and will discuss it with his wife after the Nov. 4 midterm elections.
waysandmeans.house.gov:
Camp Sends More Evidence of Criminal Wrongdoing to DOJ  —  f t # e  —  Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) sent additional evidence to the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the April 9, 2014 criminal referral letter which laid out evidence …
Los Angeles Times:
DWP defends response to UCLA flood, says crews had to find valve  —  A top Los Angeles utility official faced tough questions Tuesday night about the response to a massive pipe break that flooded UCLA and surrounding areas with millions of gallons of water and threatened the near-term use of Pauley Pavilion.
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Will Speaker move bill on the pope?  —  A popular piece of legislation that seeks to honor Pope Francis is stuck in Congress.  —  With time running out on the Capitol Hill calendar, the lawmakers who crafted the bipartisan measure are getting impatient with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Wichita Eagle:
3-year-old boy dies after apparent accidental shooting (VIDEO)  —  A 3-year-old boy has died after what apparently was an accidental shooting in a home in the 500 block of East Lincoln on Tuesday afternoon, Wichita police said.  —  Police said they believe the mother and her boyfriend …
Emma Green / The Atlantic Online:
Satanists Troll Hobby Lobby  —  Sometimes American religious liberty gets weird.  An Amish person can be sent to prison for shearing the beard of another Amish person.  A gentile can discover a love for kosher food in prison.  And the same laws that protect the religious freedom …
Discussion: ACS Blog
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Ruling Says McDonald's Is Liable for Workers  —  The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Tuesday that McDonald's could be held jointly liable for labor and wage violations by its franchise operators — a decision that, if upheld, would disrupt longtime practices …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ex-First Couple's Defense in Virginia: The State of Their Union  —  RICHMOND, Va. — Former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, on trial for conspiring to use his office for personal enrichment, outlined an unexpected defense on Tuesday: Their marriage was so broken …
Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
The West Has Cornered Putin—and That's When He's Most Dangerous  —  Today is not a good day to be Vladimir Putin.  A game that the Russian president was winning so deftly in the spring has turned on him in summer: The Ukrainian military is bearing down on the pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine …
Emily Orley / BuzzFeed:
Paramount Deletes Controversial 9/11 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Poster  —  Intentional or unintentional, the Australian poster juxtaposes an exploding building and a Sept. 11 release date.  UPDATE: Paramount Pictures Australia has issued an apology to BuzzFeed.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Raw Story
 
 
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Dionne Searcey / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Grew at 4% Rate in Second Quarter, Beating Expectations
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Damon Linker / The Week:
What religious traditionalists can teach us about sex
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN Overtakes MSNBC in July as Ratings Take a Hit
Justin Wolfers / New York Times:
What Debate? Economists Agree the Stimulus Lifted the Economy
Discussion: TheMoneyIllusion and EconLog
kff.org:
Where are California's Uninsured Now?  Wave 2 of the Kaiser Family Foundation California Longitudinal Panel Survey
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg View:
Why Being a Part-Time Worker Is Miserable
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Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
Is Washington in the midst of a post-shutdown baby boom?
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Associated Press:
US, EUROPE IMPOSE TOUGH NEW SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Zionism and Israel's War with Hamas in Gaza
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This Is What Tech's Ugly Gender Problem Really Looks Like
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Tony Lee / BREITBART.COM:
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