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9:30 AM ET, July 6, 2010

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John / Power Line:
Had Enough “Hope and Change”?  —  One of my daughters drove up north with some friends to stay overnight at a lake cabin earlier this weekend.  Somewhere northeast of Minneapolis they passed a billboard that said, “Had enough ‘HOPE AND CHANGE’?”  The billboard depicted a pair of hands feeding the Constitution into a shredder.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Tea Party time across the pond  —  This past weekend Americans celebrated a revolution that began with a tea party in Boston Harbor — and today's Tea Party movement takes its inspiration from those early protests against the economic despotism of George III.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Democrats hope Obama 2008 model will help stem midterm losses  —  To become the nation's first black president, Barack Obama not only won heavy percentages of the black and Hispanic vote but also managed to trim the Democratic Party's traditional deficit among white voters.
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Obama and Supreme Court may be on collision course  —  The president's agenda on healthcare and financial regulations sets the stage for a clash with the Supreme Court's conservative majority.  —  Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court wrapped up its term last week …
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Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Bad news for Obama: Conservative Justice Kennedy tells pals he's in no rush to leave Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON - President Obama may get liberal Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, but conservative swing-voter Anthony Kennedy says he's not going anywhere anytime soon.
National Review:
The End of an Idea  —  Progressive constitutionalism is a dead end
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Washington Post:
Democratic campaign committees losing big Wall Street donors  —  A revolt among big donors on Wall Street is hurting fundraising for the Democrats' two congressional campaign committees, with contributions from the world's financial capital down 65 percent from two years ago.
Discussion: Washington Wire and The Eye
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Ben White / The Politico:
Wall St. plans payback for reg reform  —  With the financial reform bill likely to hit President Barack Obama's desk in coming weeks, Wall Street's top political players are warning Democrats to brace themselves for the next phase of the fight: the fundraising blowback.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Wall Street Journal:
Banks Redefine Jobs of ‘Prop’ Traders
Discussion: naked capitalism and DealBook
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
As Netanyahu visits, White House insists ‘no rift’ between Israel, U.S.  —  Senior White House officials say there is “absolutely no rift” between the United States and Israel as President Barack Obama prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday.
Discussion: The Politico and Townhall.com
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Brian Duggan / Carson City Nevada:
Angle sends cease and desist letter to Reid over website  —  Sharron Angle's campaign sent a cease and desist letter to Sen. Harry Reid's campaign last week after a copy of her pre-primary election website was relaunched as www.therealsharronangle.com, which was later taken down.
Discussion: The Page
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Angle Sends Cease-And-Desist To Reid — For Reposting Her Own Website  —  Sharron Angle has resorted to an unusual maneuver to counter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's attacks on her past quotes and positions, the Reid campaign has announced: A cease-and-desist letter …
Los Angeles Times:
Tar balls reach Texas as stormy weather hampers cleanup  —  Weather prevents skimming for an eighth day in the gulf and delays the test deployment of a “super skimmer.”  —  A new “floatel” with 300 beds is headed from Venice, La., to the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico to house cleanup workers.
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Kimberly Kindy / Washington Post:
Recovery effort falls vastly short of BP's promises  —  In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day.
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. expected to sue Ariz. on immigration, citing ‘preemption’ grounds  —  The Justice Department has decided to file suit against Arizona on the grounds that the state's new immigration law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, law enforcement sources said Monday.
Fox News:
NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World  —  Shown here is NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.  (YouTube)  —  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
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Fox News:
Arizona Candidate: Cut Off Power to Illegal Immigrants  —  Ratcheting up the debate over immigration in his state, a candidate for the Arizona utilities commission is threatening to cut off power and gas to illegal immigrants if he's elected.  —  “It is not a right.
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Pundit and Don Surber
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Rasmussen Reports:
64% in Arizona Say Children of Illegal Immigrants Should Not …
Associated Press:
Expert: Lockerbie Bomber Could Live Much Longer  —  Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya.  —  LONDON — A cancer expert whose medical assessment …
Discussion: Right Pundits
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Jack Doyle / Daily Mail:   Fury as doctor who said Lockerbie bomber would die in three months …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
AP owes China an apology  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  From an Associated Press article today on the conviction in China of an American citizen accused of spying and collecting “state secrets”: … A few cigarette stubs into a forearm for a handful of days?  That's it?  That's “torture”?
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Education cuts show party debate over Obama school reform  —  The war and education spending bill passed by the House is exposing the raging debate within the Democratic Party over the Obama administration's school reforms.  —  The House Democrats' package that passed Thursday cuts President …
Allen McDuffee / Raw Story:
Environmentalist faces jail for hanging banner in Senate office building  —  A 60 year-old environmental activist who hung two banners in a government building will be sentenced Tuesday — and faces up to three years in prison.  —  Bloomfield, NJ resident Ted Glick will be sentenced Tuesday …
Ryan Brown / Salon:
“Losing Our Cool”: The high price of staying cool  —  How air conditioning changed the American landscape, transformed our politics, and is endangering our health  —  In the last half century, air conditioning has joined fireworks, swimming pools and charred hamburgers as a ubiquitous ingredient of an American summer.
 
 
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New York Times:
Are Profits Hurting Capitalism?
Discussion: EconLog and naked capitalism
Mail&Guardian:
‘Somalia is in the hands of al-Qaeda’
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Susan Page / USA Today:
Independents gain favor in governors' races
David Carr / New York Times:
Outspoken Is Great, Till It's Not
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Hullabaloo
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Little Economic Realism
Discussion: Washington Monthly and CEPR
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Hitting a Tiny Bull's-Eye Miles Under the Gulf
Discussion: The Daily Beast
BBC:
Government discloses app costs
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
Holiday week but no vacation from politics
Discussion: The Politico
Robin Shepherd / Jerusalem Post:
The banality of Methodist evil
Discussion: cifwatch.com, Wizbang and Atlas Shrugs
DailyTelegraph:
Ponytail for men gets the chop in Iran
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Janis Mara / Mercury News:
Flag mural on Sunol Grade restored to Old Glory
Discussion: Moonbattery and Don Surber
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Senate bill to repeal health reform lacks backing from Republican leaders
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Clyburn says Greene's candidacy in South Carolina designed to stir trouble
Discussion: Moe Lane and Weasel Zippers