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Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping — The Justice Department released two decade-old memos Friday night, offering the fullest public airing to date of the Bush administration's legal justification for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans' phone calls and e-mails …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Hullabaloo


Obama Delays Immigration Action, Yielding to Democratic Concerns — WASHINGTON — President Obama has bowed to the concerns of Senate Democrats up for election this fall and will delay until late this year executive action that would reshape the nation's immigration system without congressional approval …
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Associated Press, Daily Kos and Business Insider


Obama Enlists 9 Allies to Help in the Battle Against ISIS — NEWPORT, Wales — President Obama escalated the American response to the marauding Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Friday, recruiting at least nine allies to help crush the organization and offering the outlines …
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The Moderate Voice, defense.gov and Washington Post
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Alan Keyes: Obama Is Funding ISIS To Wage ‘War On The People Of The United States’ — Alan Keyes has joined a growing chorus of far-right activists who claim that President Obama is secretly supporting ISIS, writing today in WorldNetDaily that Obama administration officials believe …

IRS SAYS IT HAS LOST EMAILS FROM 5 MORE EMPLOYEES … WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it has lost emails from five more workers who are part of congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax exempt status. — The tax agency said in June …
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The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
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More IRS employees lost emails — The IRS on Friday told Congress that five of the 82 people being questioned about the agency's tea party targeting scandal lost emails as a result of computer crashes, including one official who worked closely with former IRS official Lois Lerner.
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Hot Air, Hit & Run, Patterico's Pontifications and Wall Street Journal

Joan Rivers: The Entertainer — There was nobody like her. Some people are knockoffs or imitations of other, stronger, more vivid figures, but there was never another Joan Rivers before her or while she lived. She was a seriously wonderful, self-invented woman. — She was completely open and immediately accessible.
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neo-neocon, Booman Tribune, Ed Driscoll and Roger L. Simon


Dana Perino Bashes Obama For Being Shown Walking Alone At Stonehenge — Were you, concerned American citizen, dismayed by those pictures of President Obama touring Stonehenge on Friday? Did it bother you that many of the photos showed Obama taking in the prehistoric structure by himself?
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Balloon Juice

Whatever Happened to Global Warming? — Now come climate scientists' implausible explanations for why the ‘hiatus’ has passed the 15-year mark.
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Instapundit and AEIdeas


For Bob McDonnell, a Miscalculation at the Scene of a Blunder — WASHINGTON — On Aug. 15, 2013, Bob McDonnell visited the site of one of Virginia's great tactical blunders. — As part of his final official tour of the state as its governor, Mr. McDonnell went to Ball's Bluff State Park in Leesburg …
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his vorpal sword
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Bob McDonnell's ‘family values’ fall short
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Washington Post and Washington Monthly

The 2,128 Native American Mascots People Aren't Talking About — When Samuel Henry was a kid growing up in D.C. in the late 1950s, he and his friends were devoted Washington Redskins fans — they had the jerseys and knew the lore. And as the lore had it, the “reddish-brown tint” …
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Althouse

Remarks by President Obama at NATO Summit Press Conference — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking my great friend, Prime Minister Cameron — and his entire team — for hosting this NATO Summit and making it such a success. And I want to thank the people of Newport …
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Power Line, Washington Post, White House.gov Blog, Lawfare and New York Times