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Washington Post:
Obama Heads to the Front to Do Battle on Health-Care Reform  —  Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.  —  With skepticism about the president's …
New York Times:
Governors Fear Medicaid Costs in Health Plan  —  BILOXI, Miss. — The nation's governors, Democrats as well as Republicans, voiced deep concern Sunday about the shape of the health care plan emerging from Congress, fearing that Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them.
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
The Chris Matthews Show: On Health Care Reform, Won't Someone Think About Us Rich People???  —  You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player!  —  DOWNLOADS: (789)  —  PLAYS: (2505)  —  (h/t Heather)  —  Clearly, the Beltway Bubble operates …
Discussion: The Confluence
The Politico:
Whiteboard Archives  —  Health care, health care, health care: It is a make-or-break week for Obama when it comes to health care - a new poll shows his approval rating on the issue has dropped below 50 percent.  While there's plenty going on behind the scenes, Obama has just one health care-related event …
Discussion: The Swamp and New York Times
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
White House putting off release of budget update  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape.  —  The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama feels the heat, changes the play  —  Finally, we're starting to see him sweat.  —  President Barack Obama made his personal icy cool the trademark of his campaign, the tenor of his White House and the hallmark of an early run of successes at home and abroad.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Don Surber
Fox News:
Deficits, Taxes and Time Appear to Doom Health Care Reforms
Ginger Adams Otis / New York Post:
GOV'T SPENDING SHATTERS POSTWAR RECORDS
Discussion: Instapundit and Don Surber
William Grimes / New York Times:
Frank McCourt, Whose Irish Childhood Illuminated His Prose, Is Dead at 78  —  Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela's Ashes,” died in Manhattan on Sunday.
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Rinker Buck / Baltimore Sun:
Frank McCourt, Author Of Angela's Ashes, Dies At 78
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Tim Lindell / Conservatives4Palin.com:
Palin Hairdresser: NYT Was Lying About “Hair Thinning” Claim  —  Chalk this up as Stupid Palin Meme of the Week:  —  In a July 12th hit piece published on the front page of the New York Times, reporters Jim Rutenberg and Serge Kovaleski (assisted by Kim Severson and William Yardley in Alaska) made the following claim:
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers  —  LOS ANGELES — From the ninth floor of a downtown office building on Wilshire Boulevard, Jack Soussana delivered staggering numbers of mortgages to homeowners during the real estate boom, amassing a fortune.  —  By Mr. Soussana's own account, his customers fared less happily.
Discussion: Economist's View and Eschaton
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
After bashing K Street, Dodd mingles with lobbyists  —  After distancing himself from lobbyists in campaign ads, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) was on Martha's Vineyard this weekend meeting with some of the most well known names on K Street.  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Moe Lane
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God, Guns, Guts, and CNN's Idiot Reporters  —  Greetings, Instapundit readers!  —  “You don't have a problem with God, do ya?”  —  This is a question posed to CNN reporter Carol Costello during a recent interview with Mark Muller, a Missouri car dealer whose company is offering an unusual incentive …
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette and AmSpecBlog
Michael D. Griffin / Washington Post:
Let's Reach for The Stars Again  —  What is most striking about this 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon is that we can no longer do what we're celebrating.  Not “do not choose to,” but “can't.”  —  By the 40th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Oregon Trail was carrying settlers to the West.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Race in 2028  —  During last week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Republican senators kept bringing the conversation back to 2001 — the year when Sonia Sotomayor delivered the most famous version of her line about how a “wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences” might outshine a white male judge.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
TWO MILLION VISITORS!  —  About 3 p.m. today, The Other McCain recorded its 2 millionth visitor.  It took slightly more than 11 months to hit the 1-million mark on Feb. 13, and barely five months to knock down the next million.  —  We must therefore begin by thanking Carrie Prejean nude.
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Bobby Jindal / The Politico:
‘A trillion here, a trillion there’  —  Things in Louisiana are looking up.  We are announcing major economic development wins and private capital investment and reducing government spending in order to live within our means.  We just completed a grueling legislative session …
Discussion: GOP 12
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Pentagon Seeks Prison Overhaul in Afghanistan  —  BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — A sweeping United States military review calls for overhauling the troubled American-run prison here as well as the entire Afghan jail and judicial systems, a reaction to worries that abuses and militant recruiting within …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
The Shuffle President  —  Like romantic comedies and superhero blockbusters, the modern presidency has evolved into a reliable form of dramatic narrative.  A candidate comes into office brandishing a broad theme — a vow to clean up government, perhaps, or to fearlessly prune it back …
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