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3:40 AM ET, July 13, 2009

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New York Times:
Palin's Route to Resignation: Missteps and Ignored Advice  —  This article was reported by Jim Rutenberg from New York and Serge F. Kovaleski from Wasilla and Anchorage, Alaska.  Jo Becker reported from New York and Kim Severson and William Yardley from Wasilla and Anchorage.
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:   Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John McCain says he was surprised Palin left, she didn't quit …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Blogs and Stories
Associated Press:
Palin: I'm Not Leaving Politics
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
FOLKS: O, FOR SHAME!  —  'GIRL'S NO SEX SYMBOL!'  —  The Secret Service might want to put a new threat on its watch list: the mad-as-hell mama of the 17-year-old Brazilian beauty ogled by President Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit last week.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Obama Faces a New Push to Look Back  —  President Obama is facing new pressure to reverse himself and to ramp up investigations into the Bush-era security programs, despite the political risks.  —  Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program …
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CNN:   Obama orders review of alleged mass killings
Foreign Affairs:
How to Win in Afghanistan
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Future of Conservative Ideas  —  Drake Bennett profiles four up-and-coming right-of-center thinkers: Luigi Zingales, Bradford Wilcox, Reihan Salam, and Megan McArdle.  I've never heard of Wilcox, but his ideas (family is good!) don't sound very interesting.
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Drake Bennett / Boston Globe:
The next conservative thinkers  —  Many Republicans fret that the party of ideas has gotten stuck.  Here are four who might help unstick it.  —  By definition, conservatism prefers the past to the present - in William F. Buckley's famous formulation, history was something to be stood athwart …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and Macsmind
Foster Kamer / Gawker:
Hate Speech Against Malia Obama On Conservative Blogs Reported By Hate Speech Planting Journalist  —  We should've seen this coming: conservative blog Free Republic fired hate speech off at Malia Obama after this photo of her appeared, letting their commenters go to town.
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Plan  —  Initiative at Heart of Spat With Congress Examined Ways to Seize, Kill Terror Chiefs  —  WASHINGTON — A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture …
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New York Times:
Goldman Sachs Likely to Post Huge Profits, Analysts Say  —  Most of Wall Street, and America, is still waiting for an economic recovery.  Then there is Goldman Sachs.  —  Up and down Wall Street, analysts and traders are buzzing that Goldman, which only recently paid back its government bailout money …
Discussion: The Confluence and The Big Picture
Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Responding to the President's op-ed  —  I would like to respond to the President's Washington Post op-ed, “Rebuilding Something Better.”  All quotes in this post are from the President. … The President and his team use this language to lower the bar against which they are measured.
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Moneyrunner / The Virginian:
CNN's Don Lemon Gets His “Unprecedented Obama Welcome” Shot Down  —  It appears to be the The end of Obamania  —  And in the real world Sarah Palin has moved herself from the periphery to the center of power in the Republican party.  The Party just doesn't seem to know it yet.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Moe_Lane's blog
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Fiscal Policy: The Obama Administration Is Not Making Much Sense These Days  —  Tim Geithner is not making sense: … Let's review the bidding:  —  Last December the Obama administration to be decided on a fiscal stimulus package which they believed would have minor effects on the economy …
A Siegel / Firedoglake:
Republicans Reject Science; Scientists Reject Republicans  —  The Republican Party has a serious infection of anti-science syndrome.  And, scientists have noted the The Republican War on Science.  The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press came out, last week …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and INSTAPUTZ
Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
McNamara Apologized.  Will Rumsfeld?  —  Late in his life, Robert McNamara became a sad study in what can happen when a Pentagon leader eventually regrets taking a country into a disastrous war and attempts to atone.  His belated acknowledgment of doubts and error in managing the Vietnam War came …
Jack Kim / Reuters:
North Korea leader Kim has pancreatic cancer: report  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer and the illness is life-threatening, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday based on information gathered by Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.
John Avlon / Blogs and Stories:
Bullying Behind GOP “Racist” Win  —  Blogs and Stories  —  Audra Shay, accused of endorsing racial slurs and hate, was elected to lead the Young Republicans yesterday.  More shocking, reveals John Avlon, were the tactics: sexual innuendos, voter intimidation, near-fisticuffs.
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The Daily Beast / Blogs and Stories:
Young GOP Chooses Hate
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Will ObamaCare threaten medical innovation?  —  Glenn Reynolds argues that the wait lines for treatments in a single-payer system are not the biggest concern.  In a Washington Examiner column, Glenn relates personal stories of how his family members have benefited from innovation in medical treatments …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Glenn Reynolds on the hidden cost of national health care
 
 
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CNN:
2 murder arrests in slaying of Florida couple
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Associated Press:
Obama Orders Review of Alleged Afghan Mass Grave
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David Alexander / Reuters:
Lawmakers reject tax to pay for health reform
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