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The Huffington Post:
Obama Calls On Bloggers To Keep Health Care Pressure On Congress  —  In a reflection of a legislative strategy that has left no stone unturned, President Barack Obama on Monday called on like-minded bloggers to help his administration keep the heat on lawmakers to pass health care reform.
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Barack Obama's gaffe: seeking greater inefficiencies  —  Would health care reform bring “greater inefficiencies” to the country's health care system?  —  That's exactly what Obama said Monday when he spoke about health care reform at the Childrens National Medical Center in Washington.
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
White House putting off release of budget update
Tracy Jan / Boston Globe:
Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home  —  Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in.  The incident raised concerns among …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
D-Day for DeMint  —  Amy Kremer of the National Tea Party Patriots sends on the full audio recording of a conference call I wrote about Friday, on which Sen. Jim DeMint said health care reform could be Obama's “Waterloo.”  The comments have attracted attention, and an attack from President Obama today.
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WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON HEALTH CARE
Liv Osby / Greenville News:
More South Carolina residents losing health insurance
Discussion: Firedoglake
Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Some Good News from Olympia Snowe?
Discussion: TPMDC, Ezra Klein and MoJo Blog Posts
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
AHIP Ad Buy Supports ‘Bipartisan Solution’ For Health Care
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: Kill It, and Start Over  —  With Obamacare on the ropes, there will be a temptation for opponents to let up on their criticism, and to try to appear constructive, or at least responsible.  There will be a tendency to want to let the Democrats' plans sink of their own weight …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Rumors of the Demise of ObamaCare Have Been Greatly Exaggerated  —  The beltway consesnsus seems to be that the Democrats' prospects of passing meaningful health insurance reform this year have become much slimmer, if they haven't already entirely evaporated.  Like Ezra Klein, however, I'm not really sure what everyone was expecting.
Robert Reich / TPMCafe:
Obamacare Is At War With Itself Over Future Costs
Discussion: Hullabaloo, D-Day and Economist's View
Rasmussen Reports:
2012 Match-ups: Obama, Romney Tied at 45%; Obama 48%, Palin 42%  —  If the 2012 presidential election were held today, President Obama and possible Republican nominee Mitt Romney would be all tied up at 45% each, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama continues to drop
Eamon Javers / The Politico:
Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 trillion  —  A series of bailouts, bank rescues and other economic lifelines could end up costing the federal government as much as $23 trillion, the U.S. government's watchdog over the effort says - a staggering amount that is nearly double the nation's entire economic output for a year.
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Matthew Jaffe / ABCNEWS:
Whoa: Bailout Could Top $23 TRILLION
Discussion: Hot Air and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Obama's Gitmo Task Force Blows Its Deadline  —  Exclusive: why a key report on closing the facility has been delayed until the fall.  —  Brennan Linsley / Reuters-Landov  —  A U.S. journalist walks past sleeping quaters at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, July 14, 2009.
David Boies / Wall Street Journal:
Gay Marriage and the Constitution  —  Why Ted Olson and I are working to overturn California's Proposition 8.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  When I got married in California in 1959 there were almost 20 states where marriage was limited to two people of different sexes and the same race.
CNN:
Maloney apologizes for using N word  —  (CNN) - New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, apologized Monday for using the N word in a recent interview while recounting a phone call she had received.  —  “I apologize for having repeated a word I find disgusting,” Maloney said in a statement.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Rep. Mike Castle Fends Off the Birthers  —  I got a little friendly fire from my friend and colleague Matt Welch over last week's article on the Obama birth certificate conspiracy.  He took issue with my “contention that the movement ‘dogs Republicans’ (there being so very many other issues that have more bite than a few barkers).”
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
‘New York Times’ Defends Palin Story that Quotes Hairdresser  —  NEW YORK A story on The Huffington Post Monday reporting that Sarah Palin's hairdresser was upset about being inaccurately cited in a New York Times piece drew a response from a Times spokeswoman today claiming the hairdresser had praised the story.
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Whoopi Goldberg Entertains Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories  —  Whoopi Goldberg questioned the original moon landing on today's edition of “The View.”  Goldberg, a co-host, wondered who shot the footage and why the flag was “rippling” if there was no wind.
Discussion: IMAO, Pajamas Media, Salon and Macsmind
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Less faith in Obama's economic abilities  —  WASHINGTON — The public's confidence in President Obama's ability to handle the economy is eroding amid concern about higher federal spending and expanding government power, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds — a development that could complicate …
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Fox News Guest Ralph Peters Suggests Taliban Should Kill U.S. Soldier If He Deserted  —  Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who has been captured by the Taliban and appears in a video released this weekend by his captors, “went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan on June 30.”
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Los Angeles Times:
Budget accord reached  —  Calling for deep cuts and avoiding broad tax hikes, Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agree on ways to close California's $26.3-billion deficit.  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders announced today that they have reached a deal …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Calitics and D-Day
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Senate Dems outraise GOP counterparts  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) raised $6.2 million in June, outraising the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) by nearly $3 million.  —  The DSCC banked $7.9 million and had $3.7 million in debt.
Discussion: RedState
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Lauren W. Whittington / Roll Call:
House Democrats Raise $7 Million in June
Discussion: Daily Kos
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Democrats Want to Teach You to Die With Dignity  —  H.R. 3200 is the Democrat healthcare bill.  —  Let's back up for a minute.  I noted some time ago Jay Rockefeller went on record to say that at some point the government has to decide whether or not you are allowed to receive …
Discussion: QandO, Say Anything and The Daley Gator
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
2008 voting rate down as older whites stayed home … WASHINGTON (AP) - For all the attention generated by last year's presidential race, census figures show the share of eligible voters who actually went to the polls in November declined from 2004.  —  Census figures released Monday show …
Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Health Care Bill Directs HHS Secretary to Develop ‘Standards for Measuring Gender’—As Opposed to ‘Male’ and ‘Female’  —  (CNSNews.com) - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee's health care legislation will give the Health and Human Services secretary the authority to develop …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Lawyer Leads an Immigration Fight  —  DALLAS — On a recent morning, Kris W. Kobach, a conservative law professor, rushed late into a federal courtroom here with his suit slightly rumpled and little more than a laptop under his arm.  His mission was to persuade the judge to uphold …
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Obama Loves Mayo, But Mayo Does Not Love Him (Update: Gibbs Responds, Badly)  —  Throughout his push for health-care reform, President Obama has held up the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota as an example of great medicine at lower prices—something that could and should be emulated all over the country …
Senate Judiciary Committee:
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Sonia Sotomayor - Questions for the Record  —  Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee submit questions for the record to nominees following confirmation hearings.  Judge Sotomayor's responses to questions for the record follow.
 
 
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New York Times:
Suspect Stirs Mumbai Court by Confessing
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Obama Against the Odds  —  FP's Laura Rozen had a must-read …
Discussion: neo-neocon and The Right Coast
Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
US car dealer offers free Kalashnikov with every purchase
Discussion: Firedoglake and Think Progress
Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Affair admission leads to cancellation of bash
Malcolm Gladwell / New Yorker:
COCKSURE  —  Banks, battles, and the psychology of overconfidence.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The Opinionator
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Hate crimes amendments pass easily
Nina Owcharenko / The Foundry:
Obamacare: You Will Lose Your Current Insurance.  Period.  End of Story.
Associated Press:
Gates Says U.S. Army Will Grow by 22,000
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