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11:50 PM ET, June 30, 2010

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Think Progress:
Klobuchar Hits Coburn For Saying America Was More Free When There Were No Women On The Supreme Court  —  As confirmation hearings on Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court proceed, Senate Republicans continue blustering through their arguments — even going as far as to lambast Kagan's …
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The Note:
Sen. Coburn: Kagan ‘Ignorant’ of Constitutional Principles; 'I Wouldn't Rule Out a Filibuster'  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has provided some of the most contentious exchanges of the rather tame Elena Kagan confirmation hearings.
David Ingram / The BLT:
Specter Unhappy With Kagan's Answers  —  Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), a perennial wildcard in Supreme Court confirmation hearings, cut short a line of questioning to nominee Elena Kagan today after he said she was not giving him substantive answers.  —  Specter warned that he was struggling to find a reason not to vote against her.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Slick Elena?  Kagan evades questions on abortion memo  —  Before the Senate Judiciary Committee a short time ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan appeared reluctant to admit that she wrote a 1996 Clinton White House memo aimed at altering a key medical group's opinion of whether partial birth abortion is medically necessary.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:   Gun rights concerns mean Kagan's nomination may be scored as a ‘key vote’
jta.org:
Kagan explains Barak remarks
Andrew Breitbart / Big Journalism:
Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Andrew Sullivan  —  Leave it to Andrew Sullivan.  It's been 24 hours since I offered $100,000 for the full list and contents of the Ezra Klein's four-year experiment in political-journalist editorial collusion — the on line progressive jazz fusion station known as JournoList.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Politics As Total War  —  When Andrew Breitbart offers $100,000 for a private email list-serv archive, essentially all bets are off.  Every blogger or writer who has ever offered an opinion is now on warning: your opponents will not just argue against you, they will do all they can to ransack …
Sen. Russ Feingold / The Huffington Post:
Standing Up to the Unholy Alliance Between Washington and Wall Street  —  Wall Street and its allies have been calling the shots in Congress for decades, so they must be glad to see how things are shaping up on financial regulatory reform.  Congress is about to vote on a final bill that fails …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama blasts GOP leader's ‘ant’ comment as ‘out of touch’  —  President Barack Obama has attacked House GOP Leader John Boehner for comparing the financial crisis to an ant.  —  Obama struck out at Boehner (R-Ohio) during a town hall meeting in Racine, Wis., for saying the Wall Street reform bill …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate vote on Wall Street reform delayed; Collins inclined to vote yes
Discussion: Reuters, Open Left and The Daily Caller
The Politico:
Bank bill clears House, Senate looms
Discussion: Pat Dollard, CNN and MyDD
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Eric Cantor and John Boehner Don't Really Want to Repeal Obamacare  —  Well, it is official.  —  Eric Cantor and John Boehner — particularly Eric Cantor — have decided they don't need or want conservatives and, more troubling, do not have any intention of trying to win at the polls by forcing Democrat hands on Obamacare.
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Ezra Klein:
Is Eric Cantor a policy wonk?
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Financial Overhaul Wins Final Approval in House
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Boehner defends criticism of financial overhaul as excessive
Reliable Source:
Christopher Hitchens diagnosed with cancer, cuts short his book tour  —  Christopher Hitchens is being treated for cancer, forcing the D.C. writer to cut short his latest book tour.  In a statement released through his publisher Twelve, the British-born provocateur, 61, said that he has …
Oregonian:
Portland police will investigate accusations that Al Gore groped woman  —  Portland police announced today that it will re-open and investigate a Portland massage therapist's allegations that former Vice President Al Gore sexually assaulted her at a downtown hotel in October 2006.
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National Enquirer:
NEW EVIDENCE REVEALED: GORE SEX SCANDAL VICTIM TELLS ALL!!!
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
New study documents media's servitude to government  —  A newly released study from students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
When Is Torture Not Torture?  —  When journalistic conventions …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Defining Values —  if a Democrat votes against exstending unemployment insurance, on what possible basis can they identify as Democrats?  —  Who Are These People?  —  Not all Democrats are alike, obviously.  There are corporate Democrats and populist Democrats and ACLU Democrats …
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Jed Lewison / Daily Kos:
NV-Sen: Sharron Angle hits a grand slam for right-wing extremism
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Obama: Our first female president  —  If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president.  —  Phew.  That was fun.  Now, if you'll just keep those hatchets holstered and hear me out.  —  No, I'm not calling Obama a girlie president.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Why Couldn't He Just be A Wimp?  —  Kathleen Parker tries …
Discussion: Mediaite and TigerHawk
CNN:
VA hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV  —  (CNN) — A Missouri VA hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to dangerous viruses like hepatitis and HIV.  —  John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has recently mailed letters …
CNN:
DNC names four cities as finalists to host 2012 convention  —  DNC chairman Tim Kaine named four cities on Wednesday that could host the 2012 Democratic National Convention.  —  Washington (CNN) - The Democratic National Committee has named four cities as finalists to host the 2012 Democratic convention.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
Makeover for Wonder Woman at 69  —  Wednesday is a good day for Wonder Woman.  This 69-year-old superheroine, published by DC Comics, will don a new — and less revealing — costume and enjoy the publication of Issue No. 600 of her monthly series.  —  The costume ties into an alternative history …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right Wing News vs. David Frum, Little Green Footballs, Media Matters, & Excitable Andy!  —  « Daily Kos & Research 2000: A Marriage Made In Bias Heaven |  Where's the aftermath report?:  Housing Scandal Falling by Wayside While others See Continuous Daylight »
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Obama Travels to Wisconsin to Tote Disastrous Stimulus Bill... Tea Party Breaks Out (Video)  —  President Obama, the worst jobs president in American history, traveled to Racine, Wisconsin today to tote his disastrous economic policies that have tripled the national deficit and nearly doubled the US unemployment rate.
Discussion: USA Today
Ed Whelan / National Review:
My Testimony on Kagan Nomination and on Democrats' Attack on Roberts Court  —  Within the broad range of responsible commentary, there's plenty of room for reasonable criticism of decisions of the Roberts Court.  I wouldn't think it controversial that such criticism, at a minimum …
Discussion: Beltway Confidential
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Oil spill visits get partisan  —  Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP's gigantic oil spill first hand.  —  House Democrats said no.  —  Scalise's trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons …
 
 
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