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Tim Alberta / National Journal:
Can Scott Walker Have It Both Ways? — The biggest question hanging over Walker's presidential campaign is whether the political strategy that got him this far can work at the next level. — “I'm pro-life,” Scott Walker said, looking directly into the camera.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Scott Walker: 'I'm in' — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is running for president. — In a video shared by his campaign on Monday, Walker touted his experience as a conservative governor in a blue state against his GOP rivals in Washington, D.C. — Story Continued Below
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Scott Walker Declares Presidential Candidacy, Looking to Regain Momentum — WAUKESHA, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who built a national conservative following by crippling public employee unions and then defeating a forceful effort to recall him, announced on Monday that he is running …
Politico:
Tales from Scott Walker's graveyard — Since 1990, the Wisconsin governor has won 12 elections and lost just two. The foes he defeated don't have very nice things to say about him, but they agree that he's constantly underestimated. — Scott Walker's path to the 2016 presidential race …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Listening to Donald Trump swear and talk politics on his private plane — SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST — It was Saturday night aboard Donald Trump's gleaming Boeing 757. An hour earlier, he had finished the most high-profile speech of his nearly month-old presidential campaign …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP strategists to Jeb: Treat Trump with kid gloves — Jeb Bush needs to walk a fine line in responding to Donald Trump's attacks, Republican strategists say, and avoid going toe-to-toe with the brash New Yorker. — They say getting into a “food fight” with Trump would diminish Bush …
Will Dunham / Reuters:
Key Republicans run from ‘demagogue’ Trump over immigration
Key Republicans run from ‘demagogue’ Trump over immigration
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Killing the European Project — Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro. — Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
First DHS chief: Obama needs to put on ‘commander in chief hat’ — The first secretary of Homeland Security said on Sunday that President Obama is bungling the fight against global terrorism. — Tom Ridge added that Obama is not working hard enough to stop the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Perry slams Obama for not cracking down on ‘sanctuary cities’
Perry slams Obama for not cracking down on ‘sanctuary cities’
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Instapundit and Red Alert Politics
Dan Hyde / Telegraph:
Earth heading for ‘mini ice age’ within 15 years — River Thames could freeze over in 2030s when Northern Hemisphere faces bitterly cold winters, scientists say — The earth is 15 years from a “mini ice-age” that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted.
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New York Times:
Deal on Greek Debt Crisis Is Reached, but Long Road Remains — BRUSSELS — Greece and its European creditors announced an agreement here on Monday that aims to resolve the country's debt crisis and keep it in the eurozone, but that will require further budgetary belt-tightening …
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Political Wire, Wall Street Journal and The Week
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Guardian:
Greek debt crisis: deal reached after marathon all-night summit - as it happened
Greek debt crisis: deal reached after marathon all-night summit - as it happened
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Washington Monthly, Foreign Policy, The Week, Agence France-Presse and Firedoglake
Matt O'Brien / Washington Post:
Germany doesn't want to save Greece. It seems to want to humiliate Greece.
Germany doesn't want to save Greece. It seems to want to humiliate Greece.
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CANNONFIRE, Consortiumnews.com, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Financial Times and ParaPundit
New York Times:
Lost in the Immigration Frenzy — Kathryn Steinle was killed on a pier in San Francisco on July 1, allegedly by a troubled immigrant who had a stolen gun and a long criminal history and had been deported five times. The shooting was inexplicable, yet Ms. Steinle's family and friends …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Memo to Hillary: 'You're Still the Problem' — Old friends wonder what happened to the Clinton “we once knew.” … To: Hillary — From: A few of us — The last time we wrote as a group, you were deciding whether to run for president. Conventional wisdom pegged you as a dead-certain candidate; we knew better.
Bill Sanderson / New York Post:
New book reveals John Gotti's role in ‘Goodfellas’ murder — It was time for Tommy DeSimone to die. — The mobster — famously portrayed by Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas” — killed two made men, tried to rape the wife of his gangster pal Henry Hill and stupidly lifted his ski mask during 1978's historic $6 million Lufthansa heist.
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Daily Mail and The Interrobang