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Obama: Supreme Court shouldn't have heard Obamacare challenge — President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, questioning why justices even took up a case that imperils his signature health insurance reform plan. — The high court is set to issue …
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Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare — The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court for the second time in three years, but the public has rendered a judgment ahead of the court's ruling. By a margin of 55 percent to 38 percent, more people say the court …
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Guardian, Daily Kos and Bloomberg Business


GOP Swiftly Rejects Obama's ‘One-Sentence Fix’ to Obamacare if Supreme Court Voids Subsidies
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Washington Monthly and Politico

Opinion analysis: Walking on a tightrope on Mideast policy
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Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ImmigrationProf Blog and Bloomberg View

Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
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Daily Kos

Obama says Supreme Court should never have taken up health law case, in blunt challenge
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American Spectator and BizPac Review

Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute
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Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway

New doubts on Second Amendment rights
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89.3 KPCC, NPR and Outside the Beltway

Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her — A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …
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The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon — Two years ago, The New York Times published a front-page story about Michael Goldfarb and the Washington Free Beacon, a website that, per the Times, was “gaining prominence as a conservative clarion.” — At Free Beacon, Goldfarb …


NYT runs to Politico for comment on embarrassing Free Beacon story ... again
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Washington Free Beacon and Betsy's Page

Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08
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The Daily Caller and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

Kalief Browder, 1993-2015 — Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
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Kalief Browder, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide

The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
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Common Dreams


Cheney: I don't know what makes Obama tick — Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) said on Sunday that he has not figured out what motivates President Obama. — “I've tried for a long time, John, to understand what makes him tick, and frankly, I don't know,” Cheney told host John Catsimatidis on AM 970's …
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Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS
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Politico and Balloon Juice

Obama, sounding like his critics, admits no ‘complete strategy’ for Iraq
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Daily Kos


Why the most informed voters are often the most badly misled — The case for Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is simple: it will make it easier for people to vote. — The case against Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is also simple …
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The Moderate Voice, Bloomberg View and New York Times


Danny Diaz to Be Jeb Bush's Campaign Manager — Danny Diaz, a 39-year-old Washington, D.C., native who has worked for the last three Republican presidential nominees, will serve as campaign manager of Jeb Bush's anticipated presidential campaign. — The job of running day-to-day campaign operations …
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Politico, Bloomberg Business, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Week and Political Wire


Video Emerges of Violence at ‘Innocent Pool Party’ in McKinney, Texas — Left media is ablaze with articles condemning the police response to a pool party at a McKinney, Texas, subdivision. Now a video is emerging showing why police were called to the scene to begin with - violence.
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Little Green Footballs, The Daily Caller, Vox, Washington Post, Crime Blog, TPNN and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools — A woman swims in a pool in Tampa, Florida. (Shaun Best / AP) — On Friday, a large group of teens gathered for a pool party in the city of McKinney, Texas. Shortly thereafter, someone called the police.


Ted Cruz: First Thing I'll Do As President Is Send Flowers And Condolences To Reporters Checking Into Therapy — He said the second thing he'll do is start planning a pig roast on the South Lawn of the White House. — Scott Olson / Getty Images — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz poked fun at reporters …
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Mediaite


On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves — Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.” He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.
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Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music. All in One Place. — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music — all in one place. Apple Music is a revolutionary streaming music service …
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What's Happening To Players At The Women's World Cup, Where The Artificial Turf Is 120 Degrees — Rupali Srivastava is an intern with ThinkProgress at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. — The Women's World Cup is being played on artificial turf instead of natural grass.
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Washington Post


Apple To Launch New Flipboard-Like App, While Newsstand Goes Away — Apple plans to announce a free, Flipboard-like product that will show consumers samplings of content from big media partners including ESPN, the New York Times, Conde Nast and Hearst, sources say.
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Washington Post, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Poynter., VentureBeat, The Verge and Capital New York, more at Mediagazer »


Box Office: FIFA Movie ‘United Passions’ Bombs in U.S. — Even bad publicity is usually good publicity — except in the case of the FIFA-financed film United Passions, which was quickly red-carded at the U.S. box office this weekend. — Writer-director Frederic Auburtin's film beyond bombed …
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