memeorandum: Tyler Cowen's Solution to Poverty (Erik Loomis/Lawyers, Guns & Money)

10:35 AM ET, July 31, 2014

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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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Capitol Report, Washington Post and CNN

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.”

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:

Note to the House GOP: Kill the Bill — The House Republican leadership is having trouble getting 218 votes for its immigration bill. The policy objections to the bill seem convincing to me—among them that it seems to appropriate more money, on a pro-rated monthly basis …

Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show

Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to sue Obama

Discussion: American Prospect, Guardian, Politico, Real Clear Politics, The PJ Tatler and Talking Points Memo

David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
21 Emails From the Democratic Party About Impeachment

Discussion: Slate, Hot Air, Mediaite, Townhall.com, New York Times and RedState

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Are Way More Obsessed With Impeachment Than Republicans

Discussion: CNN, Right Wing News, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, Capitol Words, Bloomberg View, The New Republic, PJ Media, National Review, Liberal Values, dccc.org and Los Angeles Times

CNN:
GOP-led House authorizes lawsuit against Obama

Discussion: Washington Monthly and New Day

Lauren French / Politico:
House votes to sue Obama

Discussion: Little Green Footballs and The Hill

Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Vote To Sue Obama

Discussion: Daily Kos, Hinterland Gazette, The Hill and Associated Press

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Lawsuit first step down ‘road to impeachment’

Discussion: Roll Call and Politico

Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cruz whipping tonight against Boehner border bill

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Politico, Political Capital, Hot Air, CNN, Talking Points Memo and The Lonely Conservative

Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill: Dems fear a debacle on turnout

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 …

Discussion: Israel Matzav, Booman Tribune, Guardian, Belmont Club and Prairie Weather

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Raw Story, Joe. My. God., Prairie Weather and Althouse

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 …

Discussion: New Yorker, Gawker, SCOTUSblog and Politico

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 …

Discussion: National Review

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.

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 …

Discussion: BizPac Review, Mediaite and Independent Journal Review

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.”

Neel Kashkari / Wall Street Journal:

Brother, Can You Spare a Job? — I spent a week as a homeless person, looking for work.The ‘California Comeback’ has a long way to go.

Discussion: Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Business Insider and Washington Free Beacon

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 …

Discussion: The Mahablog, RedState and Vox Popoli

Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:

Tyler Cowen's Solution to Poverty — Tyler Cowen's solutions to poverty would not have been original in 1890: … Cowen would fit in the Gilded Age quite well. Between his gender stereotypes and his telling the poor to live morally upright religious lives to succeed …

Discussion: Balloon Juice

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 …

Discussion: Power Line, Here & Now and Wall Street Journal

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

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter and ABC News, more at Mediagazer »