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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Hooray for Obamacare — Was I on the edge of my seat, waiting for the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare subsidies? No — I was pacing the room, too nervous to sit, worried that the court would use one sloppily worded sentence to deprive millions of health insurance …
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New York Magazine, Politico, Daily Kos, Washington Post and Bloomberg View
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Roberts Court's Reality Check — Sometimes the Supreme Court moves in mysterious ways. The health care decision was not one of those times. — A case that six months ago seemed to offer the court's conservatives a low-risk opportunity to accomplish what they almost did in 2012 …
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Washington Monthly, Democratic Strategist and Prairie Weather
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Doom for a Cynical Assault on Obamacare — Supporters of the Affordable Care Act, starting with President Barack Obama, have generally taken the high road in response to Thursday's decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the heart of the law. Graciousness in victory is, perhaps, its own reward.
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The Huffington Post, SCOTUSblog, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Prairie Weather and ThinkProgress
George F. Will / Washington Post:
On Obamacare, John Roberts helps overthrow the Constitution — Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (Larry Downing/Reuters) — Conservatives are dismayed about the Supreme Court's complicity in rewriting the Affordable Care Act — its ratification of the IRS's disregard of the statute's plain and purposeful language.
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SCOTUSblog, Cafe Hayek, Hit & Run, RH Reality Check and New York Times
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
House bill would force the Supreme Court to enroll in ObamaCare — A House Republican on Thursday proposed forcing the Supreme Court justices and their staff to enroll in ObamaCare. — Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) said that his SCOTUScare Act would make all nine justices and their employees join …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Conservatives steamed at Chief Justice Roberts' betrayal — They begrudgingly gave him a pass for the first Obamacare ruling. Not this time. — Conservatives were left baffled after Chief Justice John Roberts saved Obamacare three years ago. On Thursday, as the George W. Bush appointee …
Wayne Root / TheBlaze.com:
Was Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Blackmailed? — Wayne is the author of the newly released national bestseller: “The Murder of the Middle Class”. Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, successful entrepreneur, small business defender, business speaker …
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Washington Post, The Last Tradition, alicublog, Guardian, The Week, The PJ Tatler and US News
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Yet Again, A Scalia Dissent Is Used Against Him
Yet Again, A Scalia Dissent Is Used Against Him
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Election Law Blog and Balkinization
Matt K. Lewis / The Week:
How John Roberts abandoned conservatives
How John Roberts abandoned conservatives
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Hit & Run, The Federalist, The Daily Caller and Advocate
Erin Mershon / Politico:
Republican lawmaker introduces ‘SCOTUScare Act’
Republican lawmaker introduces ‘SCOTUScare Act’
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The New Republic, ACASignups.net and The PJ Tatler
The Federalist:
‘We Should Start Calling This Law SCOTUScare’ And 20 Other Epic Scalia Burns
‘We Should Start Calling This Law SCOTUScare’ And 20 Other Epic Scalia Burns
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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Obamacare appears to be about as established as a law can be in divided U.S.
Analysis Obamacare appears to be about as established as a law can be in divided U.S.
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Reuters, Bloomberg View, The Hill, USA Today, NBC News, Bloomberg Business and National Journal
Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
Hollande: 1 dead in France terror attack, severed head found with message — Story highlights — London (CNN)[Latest developments] — • French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the suspect arrested had been under surveillance but was not previously involved in terrorist activities.
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New York Times, Defense One, CANNONFIRE, Hinterland Gazette, Hot Air, NBC News, Scared Monkeys, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and France 24
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Politico:
Hollande calls assault terrorism — A decapitated body found on the site of French gas plant explosion, and a suspect has been arrested. — President François Hollande called an assault Friday on a French gas canister factory a terrorist attack, resulting the arrest of a man …
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Daily Mail:
France terrorist attack leaves 1 dead as ISIS linked Yassine Salhi is caught … Emergency personnel work at the scene of a suspected Islamist attack, outside a factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in southern France — Police officers search for the second terrorist, who is believed …
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Vox Popoli and The PJ Tatler
Bristol Palin:
Big News — I wanted you guys to be the first to know that I am pregnant. — Honestly, I've been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one. — At the end of the day there's nothing I can't do with God by my side, and I know I am fully capable of handling anything that is put in front of me with dignity and grace.
Politico:
Trump bump terrifies GOP — Insiders worry the mogul will damage the eventual nominee and hurt a party struggling to connect with women and minorities. — Getty — All jokes aside, the Republican Party is officially afraid of Donald Trump. — He has virtually zero chance of winning the presidential nomination.
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The Reaction and Business Insider
James Hibberd / EW.com:
NBC scolds Donald Trump: ‘We do not agree’ — NBC is scolding Donald Trump. In a rare rebuke of their longtime content partner, NBC released this statement late Thursday: “Donald Trump's opinions do not represent those of NBC, and we do not agree with his positions on a number of issues, including his recent comments on immigration.”
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Mediaite, Hinterland Gazette, CBS DC, FishbowlDC, Talking Points Memo and Fusion
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Miss USA host quits, calls Trump a ‘clown’
Miss USA host quits, calls Trump a ‘clown’
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TMZ.com and The Gateway Pundit
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
State Dept. Gets Libya Emails That Hillary Clinton Didn't Hand Over — WASHINGTON — Despite claims by Hillary Rodham Clinton that she provided the State Department with all of her work-related emails from the personal account she used exclusively when she was in office …
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The Week and Daily Mail
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Associated Press:
THE LATEST: UK crisis team meets on Tunisia, France attacks — TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The latest news from an attack on a beach resort in Tunisia (all times local): — British Prime Minister David Cameron says the government's crisis committee, COBRA, will meet later Friday in response to the attacks in France and Tunisia.
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Sky News, The Atlantic, New York Times, Guardian, Common Dreams, CNN and The Week
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush and His Favorite Strategist Try to Win Without Speaking — The singular failure of Jeb Bush's political career was his 1994 loss in the Florida governor's race by less than two percentage points. The defeat cast Bush, a rising Republican star, into the political wilderness …
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US Census / News Releases:
Millennials Outnumber Baby Boomers and Are Far More Diverse, Census Bureau Reports — JUNE 25, 2015 — Millennials, or America's youth born between 1982 and 2000, now number 83.1 million and represent more than one quarter of the nation's population. Their size exceeds that of the 75.4 …
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National Journal, Outside the Beltway, Vox, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, American Renaissance and CBS DC
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fox News drops Bob Beckel — Fox News has officially dropped “The Five” co-host Bob Beckel from the network, saying the show could no longer be held “hostage” to his personal issues. — “We tried to work with Bob for months, but we couldn't hold The Five hostage to one man's personal issues …
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Mediaite and Instapundit
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Fox News Parts Ways with Bob Beckel
Fox News Parts Ways with Bob Beckel
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