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2:40 PM ET, July 28, 2010

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Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Key Parts of Immigration Law in Arizona  —  PHOENIX — A federal judge, ruling on a clash between the federal government and a state over immigration policy, has blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration enforcement law from going into effect.
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Arizona Republic:
Arizona immigration law: Key parts struck down by judge  —  U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton has issued a preliminary injunction preventing several sections of Arizona's new immigration law from becoming law, at least until the courts have a chance to hear the full case.
Associated Press:
Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law  —  PHOENIX - A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown.  —  The overall law will still take effect Thursday …
Mallory Simon / This Just In:
Judge blocks part of controversial Arizona immigration law  —  A federal judge has blocked one of the most controversial sections of a tough Arizona immigration law, granting a preliminary injunction Wednesday that prevents police from questioning people about their immigration status.
CNN:
Federal judge blocks part of Arizona immigration law
Discussion: Daily Kos and ImmigrationProf Blog
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Arizona Law Upheld In Part …
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Watching Arizona: Immigration Law Set to Take Effect, but Will It?
Discussion: The Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Filibuster reform is short of needed votes  —  Senate Democrats do not have the votes to lower the 60-vote threshold to cut off filibusters.  —  The lack of support among a handful of Senate Democratic incumbents is a major blow to the effort to change the upper chamber's rules.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Filibuster Fans  —  There's a growing level of interest …
Wall Street Journal:
Our Divisive President  —  Barack Obama promised a new era of post-partisanship.  In office, he's played racial politics and further split the country along class and party lines.  —  During the election campaign, Barack Obama sought to appeal to the best instincts of the electorate …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Journolist veers out of bounds  —  This may be the most embarrassing thing I have ever written — and looking back on my writing, there is a lot of competition for that dubious distinction — but when I became a reporter, it was almost a holy calling.  —  We really believed we were doing good.
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Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Brent Bozell's Open Letter to the Washington Post: 20 Questions About the JournoList
Discussion: National Review
The Hill:
50 Most Beautiful People 2010  —  Who made the cut this year?  Take a look at the most beautiful people on Capitol Hill.
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The Hill:
50 Most Beautiful People 2010 HTML Top 10
Discussion: Lynn Sweet
Dunstan Prial / FOXBusiness.com:
SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure  —  So much for transparency.  —  Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases …
Tucker Reals / CBS News:
WikiLeaks Reportedly Outs 100s of Afghan Informants  —  Hundreds of Afghan civilians who worked as informants for the U.S. military have been put at risk by WikiLeaks' publication of more than 90,000 classified intelligence reports which name and in many cases locate the individuals, The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
An Absolutely Abysmal Poll for Sharron Angle  —  Harry Reid now leads in the Rasmussen poll, 45 percent to 43 percent.  —  The firm now classifies the seat as “Leans Democrat.”  —  I've talked to Nevada Republicans who aren't giving up.  Some of them say that Angle is getting a bit better …
New York Times:
On the Surface, Gulf Oil Spill Is Vanishing Fast; Concerns Stay  —  The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected, a piece of good news that raises tricky new questions about how fast the government should scale back its response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner on National …:
Do You Trust Your Government to Be Competent to Run This?  — By: Kathryn Jean Lopez  —  A portrait of Obamacare, courtesy of the minority in the Joint Economic Committee:  —  PDF here, for a closer look.  Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady says in a release that committee analysts actually …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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Joint Economic Committee Republicans:
AMERICA'S NEW HEALTH CARE SYSTEM REVEALED
Discussion: Cato @ Liberty
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers  —  How much do your kindergarten teacher and classmates affect the rest of your life?  —  Economists have generally thought that the answer was not much.  Great teachers and early childhood programs can have a big short-term effect.  But the impact tends to fade.
Barry Rubin / Pajamas Media:
In Speech to Turkey, PM David Cameron Goes Full Idiot  —  Cameron gives a begging, blubbering pander of a speech to the Islamist goons in Turkey.  (Also read Claudia Rosett: “Prime Minister, It's Not a ‘Prison Camp’”  —  British Prime Minister David Cameron's July 27 speech in Turkey will not live on in history.
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
John Callahan, Cartoonist, Dies at 59  —  John Callahan, a quadriplegic, alcoholic cartoonist whose work in newspapers and magazines made irreverent, impolitic sport of people with disabilities and diseases and those who would pity and condescend to them, died Saturday in Portland, Ore. He was 59 and lived in Portland.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Not-So-Scammy Interchange Fee Scam  —  When the great Credit Card Interchange Fee Debate began, I said I was generally skeptical of the idea of purely economic regulation (as opposed to regulation aimed at public safety or environmental hazards).  Kevin Drum followed up yesterday with a post on …
Garry Wills / New York Review of Books:
Obama's Legacy: Afghanistan  —  A US soldier at a base in the Dand district of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, July 23, 2010  —  Most presidents start wondering—or, more often, worrying—about their “legacy” well into their first term.  Or, if they have a second term …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Newsdesk / Blagojevich on Trial:
Blago jurors by the numbers: Who they are  —  Making the final jury cut is a little like succeeding at golf.  The lowest numbers win.  —  The final jury panel that will decide the fate of Rod Blagojevich includes a legal assistant, a public school math teacher, an avid marathon runner …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Michael Barone / Associated Press:
House Democrats head for a thumping at the polls  —  Democratic spin doctors have set out how their side is going to hold onto a majority in the House.  They'll capture four at-risk Republican seats, hold half of the next 30 or so Democratic at-risk seats, and avoid significant losses on target seats lower on the list.
The Politico:
Two women to face off in Oklahoma  —  Republican Rep. Mary Fallin and Democratic Lt. Gov. Jari Askins won their gubernatorial primaries Tuesday evening, ensuring that Oklahoma will elect its first female governor in November.  —  Fallin enters the fall campaign as the favorite …
GOP.com:
The President Wears Prada  —  Glitzy Fundraisers, Posh Vacations, And Celebrity Concerts Show Obama's Elitist Disconnect From The American People “President Obama is coming to New York on July 28 for Democratic National Committee fundraising, but apparently he has two events planned on the day …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Riehl World View
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
John Podesta, UFO Guy  —  John Podesta is a distinguished Washington insider.  He is currently the president of the liberal Center for American Progress, and previously served as co-chair of Barack Obama's presidential transition team (2008-2009) and White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Joseph Sohm / Newsweek:
Why Some Republicans Want to ‘Restore’ the 13th Amendment  —  No, it's not about slavery; like so much of our politics these days, it's about Barack Obama.  —  If there is an aspect of the human condition that is unaddressed by the platform of the Republican Party of Iowa …
Curtis Dubay / The Foundry:
New Calculator Shows How Much More Taxes Will You Pay Next Year  —  We are on the precipice of the largest tax increase in United States history.  On January 1, 2011, the 2001/2003 tax relief will expire.  All Americans who earn income will see their taxes go up as a result …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sherrod Critic: She Used ‘Lynching’ To Gin Up Democratic Voters  —  On Monday, former Reagan administration official Jeffrey Lord astonished the left and the right by penning an article in the conservative American Spectator attacking former-USDA official Shirley Sherrod for using the term …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
GM Volt's price induces some sticker shock  —  The long-anticipated Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' electric car, will cost $41,000, the company announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above that of similarly sized conventional autos.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Lawyer: Blago's not ‘sharpest knife’  —  Rod Blagojevich's own lawyer said Tuesday that his client is “foolish” and not the “sharpest knife in the drawer,” but said that is no reason to convict the former Democratic governor of Illinois of corruption.  —  In his closing argument …
Dan Savage / Slog:
O'Reilly to Obama: Stop Enforcing DADT  —  Bill O'Reilly talking with Jay Leno...  Okay, okay: no one in his or her right mind would subject themselves to five seconds of this, much less five minutes.  Let's call it “non-required viewing.”  All you need to know is that on Leno …
New York Times:
Democrats Split as House Backs War Funds  —  WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday to provide $37 billion to continue financing America's two wars, but the vote showed deepening divisions and anxiety among Democrats over the course of the nearly nine-year-old conflict in Afghanistan.
 
 
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Megan L. Thomas / msnbc.com:
Gen Y: No jobs, lots of loans, grim future
Donovan Slack / Boston Globe:
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Mark Pazniokas / ctmirror.org:
Simmons at debate: ‘I am running’
Discussion: Washington Wire, msnbc.com and TPMDC
Nicholas Confessore / City Room:
Ex-Judge Recommends No Charges Against Paterson
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Accused of Stalling on MOVE Act for Voters in Military
Discussion: Townhall.com and Hot Air
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Fools Gold: Inside the Glenn Beck Goldline Scheme
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Updated Governor and Senate ratings!
Discussion: Capitol Alert
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dear Dems: Stop reading from Rove's playbook on Afghanistan
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
New York Post:
Rangel in a sleaze squeeze
Karen Travers / ABCNEWS:
Image Boost: What Is The President Doing On Daytime Talk Show?
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Michelle Obama Asks Me to Sign President Obama's Birthday Card
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Democrats Confirm More House Seats in Play
Paul Krugman:
How Did We Know The Stimulus Was Too Small?
Discussion: Grasping Reality … and Eschaton
Martin Finucane / Boston Globe:
Mass. Legislature approves plan to bypass Electoral College