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12:45 PM ET, July 11, 2015

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Obamacare Resistance Regroups  —  Three Congressional votes, two Supreme Court lawsuits, and an election have slowed them down but not stopped them.  —  Shares … The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the federal income tax, was ratified in 1913.
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Michael F. Cannon / Washington Examiner:
The ACA is dead — long live Obamacare  —  Obamacare supporters are mistaken if they think the Supreme Court's King v. Burwell ruling settles the issue.  Even in defeat, King threatens Obamacare's survival, because it exposes Obamacare as an illegitimate law.  —  Say what you will about the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: Salon and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Nick Gillespie / The Daily Beast:
Hillary's Strategy Is Actually Brilliant  —  Why, from a strategic standpoint, Clinton is right to stay as low profile as possible.  —  Has any future president been more misunderstood than Hillary Clinton?  —  As someone who cannot imagine any possible scenario in which I would cast …
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John Fund / National Review:
History Shows That Trump Is Perfectly Willing to Play the Spoiler
Discussion: New York Times and Hot Air
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Appeal—and Its Limits
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Blame John Boehner for the House GOP's Confederate flag fiasco  —  The Confederates launched a surprise attack, under cover of darkness.  —  It was 8:30 Wednesday night, and the House was plodding toward its 20th hour of debate on a little-watched appropriations bill, when Rep. Ken Calvert …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump rides momentum to Arizona  —  After weeks of criticism — and rising poll numbers — in the wake of controversial remarks on immigration, Donald Trump brings his spotlight to Arizona, a longtime hotbed of border security debate.  —  The Republican presidential candidate be joining forces …
Discussion: Arizona Republic
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Brewer On Trump's ‘Rapists’ Remark: He's ‘Telling It Like It Really, Truly Is’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Surapan Boonthanom / Reuters:
Six killed and 11 injured in Thailand's violence-hit south  —  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Six people were killed and 11 injured in Thailand's three southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla in a string of bomb and arson attacks by suspected separatist militants, the army said on Saturday.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Class or Ideology?  My Conversation With Bernie Sanders  —  “Everything I'm telling you may end up being wrong,” Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking the Democratic nomination for president, said early in our conversation on Thursday.  —  I had written concluding he had slim chances …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Promise and Peril of “Hidden Majority” Theories
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Reckon with this  —  After Dylann Roof murdered nine pastors and churchgoers in the course of Bible study in Charleston, President Obama couldn't wait to use the occasion for his narrow political purposes.  “Let's be clear,” he said with urgency in his voice.
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New York Times:
It's Silicon Valley 2, Ellen Pao 0: Fighter of Sexism Is Out at Reddit  —  Ellen Pao became a hero to many when she took on the entrenched sexist culture of Silicon Valley.  But sentiment is a fickle thing.  Late Friday she fell victim to a crowd demanding her ouster as chief executive of the popular social media site Reddit.
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Luke O'Brien / Politico:
The Mayor vs. the Mogul  —  Michael Bloomberg's $9 billion identity crisis.  —  Piotr Lesniak.  —  On November 5, 2014, Mike Bloomberg settled in front of a Bloomberg terminal, logged on with his “B-unit” biometric identity card and prepared to send an email to his employees.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Web Chief Joshua Topolsky to Leave Bloomberg as Staff Tensions Surface
Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Once Ex-Im Foe, Tea Party Congressman Leads Fight to Save It  —  Tennessee Congressman Stephen Fincher voted against renewing the U.S. Export-Import Bank three years ago.  Today he is the chief Republican sponsor of U.S. House legislation to keep it alive.  —  Elected in 2010 …
New York Times:
Psychologists and ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation  —  A 542-page report concludes that prominent psychologists worked closely with the C.I.A. to blunt dissent inside the agency over an interrogation program that is now known to have included torture.  It also finds that officials …
Discussion: Guardian, Fox News, Raw Story and NPR
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Whoops!  Scott Walker's Twitter account jumps the gun, announces his run for president.  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Twitter account got ahead of him on Friday evening, blasting his nearly 150,000 followers with an announcement that he is running for president.
Discussion: Business Insider
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Review: Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side  —  We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel's moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a lawyer to defend …
KUSA-TV:
Bear no longer stuck in CU-Boulder tree  —  BOULDER - A bear that was stuck in a tree Friday morning on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus has been rescued.  —  The bear was in a tree in the middle of campus, just west of the Engineering Center.  —  A tranquilizer dart was shot …
Candace Barnette / WTOK-TV:
New Details in Stonewall Death Investigation … Headlines List  —  Stonewall, Miss.  —  The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is stepping in to investigate an incident in Clarke County where a man died after an altercation with a police officer.  —  Clarke Co. coroner Greg Fairchild …
Fox News:
OPM director Katherine Archuleta resigns in wake of data breach  —  DEVELOPING: WASHINGTON — U.S. personnel chief Katherine Archuleta resigned Friday in the wake of massive data breach that allowed hackers to steal the records of more than 21 million people under her watch, Fox News confirmed.
Discussion: Mediaite and New York Times
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Day Before Hack Announced, OPM Released ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination’ Guide
 
 
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Mark Prigg For / Daily Mail:
Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? …
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Patrick J. Buchanan / WND:
The coming era of civil disobedience
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Suzannah Gonzales / Reuters:
Court upholds former Virginia governor's corruption conviction
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Woman reveals comment allegedly from ‘Subway Guy’ Jared Fogle that led to raid
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Want to Punish Sanctuary Cities
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Ginsburg: Liberal Justices Make A Point To Speak With One Voice
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HarperCollins Refutes New York Times Claim That Ted Cruz Tried To Game Bestseller List
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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