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11:10 AM ET, July 1, 2009

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Palin story sparks GOP family feud  —  A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year's GOP ticket - tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
And The Story The MSM Still Won't Touch  —  Todd recounts it:  —  But there were ominous signs—indications of an erratic nature.  This is the third thing McCain could have discovered about Palin—a woman, after all, who kept a pregnancy secret for seven months, flew all the way home …
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
‘Questions that any sane person would ask’  —  Dr. Andrew Sullivan, M.D., OBY-GYN, is an expert on these questions, you know.  —  Utterly lacking self-awareness, but yet still an expert on the care and treatment of pregnant Republicans.  He is genuinely concerned about the health …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: How Franken Won  —  Senator-elect Al Franken's (D) victory over former senator Norm Coleman (R) in the Minnesota Senate race was among the closest (a 312 vote margin) and longest (it ended 238 days after election day) contests in modern political history.  —  How did Franken manage to wind up on top?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and CNN
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The Politico:
Why Coleman lost  —  The Republican Party put an inordinate amount of faith in Norm Coleman's long-shot legal challenge, spending a million bucks on the idea that he'd catch a break in court.  —  But like dominoes, each Coleman legal challenge failed, one after another, ruling after ruling …
Abigail Thernstrom / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Says No To Quotas
Discussion: Commentary
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Decisions Indicate Supreme Court Moved Rightward This Term
George Newman / Wall Street Journal:
Parsing the Health Reform Arguments  —  Some of the shibboleths we've heard in recent weeks don't make much sense.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  The health-care debate continues.  We have now heard from nearly all the politicians, experts and interested parties: doctors, drug makers …
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Wall Street Journal:
Wal-Mart Backs Insurance ‘Mandate’  —  WASHINGTON — In a major break with most other large companies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Tuesday told the White House that it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance to workers, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's effort to provide near-universal coverage to Americans.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WAL-MART THROWS A CURVEBALL.... Three powerful entities announced their support yesterday for including an employer mandate provision in health care reform, a major point of contention in the larger debate.  The first two — the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) …
Nicholas Kralev / Washington Times:
Clinton urged Obama to talk tough on Iran  —  Shift was a ‘surprise’  —  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged President Obama for two days to toughen his language on Iran before he did so, and then was surprised when he condemned Iran's crackdown on demonstrators last week, administration officials say.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Lieberman: I Stand With The Small Minority Of Americans Who Oppose Public Option  —  The surfeit of polling data showing broad public support for the public option hasn't swayed Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who's joining conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans in staunch opposition.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Redhot
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Paul Bass / New Haven Independent:
Joe: No Go On “Public Option”
Glenn Garvin / MiamiHerald.com:
Nothing so shocking about this coup  —  The greatest tourist attraction in Central America has always been politics.  Diplomats stop by every few years, take a couple of snapshots of what's going on at the presidential palace, and then profoundly declare their opinions, devoid of context or history.
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Sabina Amidi / Jerusalem Post:
6 Mousavi supporters reportedly hanged  —  Article's topics: Iran, Iran Elections, Mir Hossein Mousavi  —  As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings …
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Panel Recommends Ban on 2 Popular Painkillers  —  ADELPHI, Md. — A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Americans See Democratic Party as “Too Liberal”  —  More believe Democratic Party's, rather than Republican Party's, views are about right  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A Gallup Poll finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe …
Washington Post:
After Call From Senator Inouye's Office, Small Hawaii Bank Got U.S. Aid  —  Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth.
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
Insured, but Bankrupted by Health Crises  —  Health insurance is supposed to offer protection — both medically and financially.  But as it turns out, an estimated three-quarters of people who are pushed into personal bankruptcy by medical problems actually had insurance when they got sick or were injured.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Forecast With Hope Built In  —  In the weeks just before President Obama took office, his economic advisers made a mistake.  They got a little carried away with hope.  —  To make the case for a big stimulus package, they released their economic forecast for the next few years.
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Another vote for card-check bill  —  Sixty senators will now caucus with the Dems in the upper chamber.  That is a much larger majority than when the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) first moved in June 2007 and failed to earn cloture, grabbing 51 votes out of the 60 needed.
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Joe the Plumber won't run for office: “You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”  —  Last year at the height of his “fame,” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — aka “Joe the Plumber” — said that he was considering a run for public office.  “I'd be up for it,” he said.
Discussion: WorldNetDaily and News-Gazette
CNN:
Israel navy intercepts boat with ex-U.S. Rep. McKinney  —  JERUSALEM (CNN) — The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Just Do It  —  There is much in the House cap-and-trade energy bill …
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USA Today:
Population numbers bounce back in cities
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Los Angeles Times:
11th-hour votes on state budget fail
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Ronald Bailey / Reason:
Energy Leninism  —  “The worse, the better,” Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed.
Discussion: BitsBlog
Ben Casnocha / AMERICAN.COM:
RSSted Development  —  Tyler Cowen has written one of the most …
Discussion: EconLog
Financial Times:
Citi raises card rates on millions
Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times:
Bank Woes Deepening in Europe
John M. Broder / New York Times:
With Something for Everyone, Climate Bill Passed
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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
The cautious approach to fixing banks will not work
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