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House GOP in border-crisis chaos — House Republicans will vote to rein in the Obama administration's power to halt deportation for undocumented immigrants — a surprise move that comes as they struggle to attract support for their bill to address the crisis at the border.
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Joe Klein / TIME:
Begging for Impeachment — To improve its standing with voters, the White House tries to drum up some trouble for itself — At 10:02 on Friday evening, July 25, I received the following personal message from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: “THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA IS NOW A REAL POSSIBILITY.”
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to sue Obama
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American Prospect, Guardian, Politico, Real Clear Politics, The PJ Tatler and Talking Points Memo
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Note to the House GOP: Kill the Bill
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CNN:
Top House Democrat: 'You bet we're going to run' on impeachment
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Hot Air, The Huffington Post, OnPolitics, Associated Press and New York Times
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Vote To Sue Obama
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Daily Kos, Hinterland Gazette, The Hill and Associated Press
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cruz whipping tonight against Boehner border bill
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent — CAIRO — Battling Palestinian militants in Gaza two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting. — Not this time. — After the military ouster of the Islamist government …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Joe Scarborough turns on Israel — Joe Scarborough on Thursday had harsh words for Israel's actions in Gaza, saying the country was engaging in “indiscriminate” killing. — “This is asinine,” said the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman. “This continued killing of women …
Paul Rolly / Salt Lake Tribune:
Blogger fired from language school over ‘homophonia’ — Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
We Never Tried To Impeach Bush, Says Democratic Lawmaker Who Co-Sponsored Bush Impeachment Bill — “We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority.” — View Video › — Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee argued Wednesday …
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BizPac Review, Mediaite and Independent Journal Review
Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
Exclusive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby Dissent Yahoo News with Katie Couric 17 hrs ago — Katie Couric — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, fresh off a bruising loss in the Hobby Lobby birth control case last month, told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric in an exclusive interview …
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New Yorker, Gawker, SCOTUSblog and Politico
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
John Kerry is right — Robert Kennedy, speaking of John Kennedy, using words they would both probably use to praise John Kerry, said that JFK's favorite quote was this: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Immigration is now President Obama's worst issue — Immigration has emerged as perhaps President Obama's worst issue — definitely for today, and maybe of his entire presidency — when it comes to public perception. — A new poll from AP-GfK shows more than two-thirds of Americans …
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National Review
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
In Gaza, 11 members of a Palestinian family are killed in a single strike — JABALYA, Gaza Strip — The Balatas, like many Palestinian families, disliked Israel but also sought to distance themselves from Hamas. — For more than three weeks, as the conflict has stretched on …
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Roger Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Yes, It Could Happen Again — Pessimism is a useful prism through which to view the affairs of states. Their ambition to gain, retain, and project power is never sated. Optimism, toward which Americans are generally inclined, leads to rash predictions of history's ending in global consensus and the banishment of war.
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Heritage Action Issues New Call to Arms — Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, spent last year's August recess banging the drum for Congress to defund the 2010 health law, barnstorming the country to fuel conservatives' discontent with GOP leaders in Washington.
Nathan Schacht / Media Trackers:
Secretive Leftwing Network Discovered through WI Records Law — A low-profile Google Group used by over 1,000 state and national leftwing leaders and activists has been discovered thanks to Wisconsin's open records law. A Media Trackers inquiry into the actions of a University …
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The Mahablog, RedState and Vox Popoli
David Dayen / Salon:
Rick Perlstein: “Ronald Reagan absolved America almost in a priestly role not to have to contend with sin. The consequences are all around us today" — From climate change to foreign affairs, Reagan pushed America toward easy lies, just as reckoning seemed possible
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CANNONFIRE, FIRST DRAFT and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Journal, Scripps deal announced — Newspaper firm to be based in Milwaukee; broadcast company in Cincinnati — By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — Two storied media firms, Journal Communications Inc. of Milwaukee and E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati, announced Wednesday evening …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter and ABC News, more at Mediagazer »
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Michele Bachmann Claims President Obama Wants To Use Unaccompanied Children For Medical Experiments — Rep. Michelle Bachmann has a new theory about the unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America who have come in large numbers to the southern U.S. border: they are future victims …
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