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1:40 PM ET, July 2, 2009

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
WaPo cancels lobbyist event amid uproar  —  Washington Post Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where, for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Post Publisher Cancels Plans for Off-the-Record ‘Salons’  —  Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that marketing fliers offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress …
Discussion: The Politico
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WASH. POST SELLING ACCESS?.... It's hardly a secret that newspapers, including the major dailies, have run into serious financial problems in recent years, and are frantically looking for new revenue streams.  But if this report from Mike Allen is accurate, it seems the Washington Post's financial concerns …
Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
WaPo responds to flier controversy
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
WashPost offers off-rec access to admin figures, journos for lobbyists
Discussion: TalkLeft
John R. Bolton / Washington Post:
Time for an Israeli Strike?  —  With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.  —  Iran's nuclear threat was never …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran  —  Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday.
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:   WHEN IS IT NOT TIME TO BOMB IRAN?
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Job Losses Rise in June as Unemployment Reaches 9.5%  —  The pace of job losses quickened in June after slowing just a month earlier, casting a shadow over the Obama administration's attempts to stanch months of declines in the labor market.  —  The American economy shed 467,000 jobs last month …
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CNSNews:
Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama  —  (CNSNews.com) - Following a testy exchange during today's briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control …
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David Espo / Associated Press:
New Dem health plan has public option, lower cost  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on a key Senate Committee outlined a revised and far less costly health care plan Wednesday night that includes a government-run insurance option and an annual fee on employers who do not offer coverage to their workers.
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Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Here We Go Again: How to Read Those HELP Numbers  —  Is it possible that everybody is misinterpretating the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of the Senate HELP bill...again?  —  Yup.  —  So far I've seen two different set of interpretations.  One, the most common …
Caitlin Taylor / The Note:
Health Care Reform: Now Half the Price?
Discussion: The Politico
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:   New Budget Estimate Of Public Plan Proves It Lowers Cost And Covers More Americans
Washington Post:
U.S.: American Soldier Captured in Afghanistan  —  A U.S. soldier missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan since Tuesday is believed to have been captured by Taliban militants, the military said Thursday.  —  In a statement issued from U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, officials said …
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CNN:
Taliban capture U.S. soldier  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — A U.S. soldier has been captured by militants in Afghanistan, the U.S. military and the Taliban said Thursday.  —  The unidentified soldier has been missing since Tuesday.  U.S. forces are exhausting all resources to find the soldier, the military said.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
U.S. Marines Launch Major Operation in Afghanistan
John_Merritt / CBS News:
Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff  —  Exclusive: Spat Over Todd Palin's Membership In Secessionist Party Was Major Distraction On Critical Day In '08 Campaign … Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: A Sarah Palin Rebound?
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
U.S. Nuns Facing Vatican Scrutiny  —  The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition.  —  Nuns were the often-unsung workers who helped build …
Clif LeBlanc / The State:
39 trips for Sanford with no security in '09  —  EXCLUSIVE: Governor's secret trip prompts scrutiny  —  Gov. Mark Sanford left the Governor's Mansion without a security escort, 38 times in 2008.  In the first six months of this year, he left the mansion without security, 39 times.
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David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Blubbering Love Gov. Mark Sanford tears up again over ‘soul mate’ Maria Belen Chapur
Discussion: The Politico
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Barney Frank: Let's spend TARP profits before taxpayers can get them  —  When President Obama announced on June 9 that some financial institutions would be allowed to repay Troubled Asset Relief Program dollars, he said the massively expensive TARP bailout had made money for the federal government.
Discussion: Power Line, AmSpecBlog and Betsy's Page
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Black Reporters on the Beat of Michelle Obama  —  While Michelle Obama was meeting with doctors and patients at the Upper Cardozo Health Center, nearly two dozen journalists stood behind a white rope in a small room upstairs, most finally growing so tired during the hour-long wait that they sat on the floor.
Sara A. Carter / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Taliban buying children for suicide bombers  —  Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Hot Air
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Quinnipiac University:
Cracks In Obama Facade As Disapproval Grows, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Voter Outlook On Economy, Nation Improve  —  President Barack Obama's first five months in office have seen his job approval remain stable overall - currently at a politically healthy 57 - 33 percent …
SPLCenter.org:
Terror from the Right  —  75 plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since Oklahoma City … What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Congress's Overseas Travel Tab Swells  —  Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos  —  WASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows …
 
 
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Firefighter Case Shows Seamy Side of Racial Politics
Discussion: Townhall.com, Hot Air and Power Line
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN AN ONLINE TOWN HALL ON HEALTH CARE
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
SEC Investigator Raised Madoff Concerns Years Ago, Was Asked to Look Elsewhere
Discussion: DailyFinance
Kristina Davis / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Camp Pendleton sailor found dead on base
Discussion: Think Progress and Raw Story
Reuters:
North Korea raises tension with missile launch
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Finding Debt a Bigger Hurdle Than Bar Exam
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Senators Sessions and Kyl Demand Answers on Obama's Negotiations …
Discussion: Washington Times and Power Line
Michael Falcone / The Politico:
House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
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Runnin' Scared:
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Discussion: JammieWearingFool