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6:00 PM ET, June 20, 2011

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CNN:
Supreme Court rules for Wal-Mart in massive job discrimination lawsuit  —  The Supreme Court put the brakes on a massive job discrimination lawsuit against mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., saying sweeping class-action status that could potentially involve hundreds of thousands of current …
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Associated Press:
Court won't hear ACORN lawsuit over gov't funding
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Fox Nation
The Hill:
Supreme Court blocks gender-bias lawsuit against Wal-Mart
Olivia Katrandjian / ABCNEWS:
John McCain's Illegal Immigrants Started Arizona Wildfires Disputed by Forest Service  —  A U.S. Forest Service official said today there is no evidence that illegal immigrants started some of the wildfires in Arizona, as Sen. John McCain had claimed.  —  Tom Berglund, spokesman …
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The Note:
McCain In a Firestorm Over Comments on Illegal Immigrants & Wildfires  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller (@sunlenmiller) reports:  —  In comments made over the weekend, Senator John McCain R-AZ., blamed illegal immigrants for the some wildfires that have raged across his state of Arizona.
TMZ.com:
Porn Star — I Was Hillary Clinton's Intern!  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton inspired a former intern to do big things ... really BIG things ... because that young woman is now a hardcore porn star ... TMZ has learned.  —  Adult film star Sammie Spades tells TMZ she was going to community college …
Daily Mail:
‘You are insane!’  The moment comedian Jon Stewart lost his cool with Fox News host Chris Wallace  —  It was pitched as a classic grudge match between the left and right of network television.  —  And when Daily Show host Jon Stewart entered the ‘lions den’ of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, the results did not disappoint.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST
Matt Bai / New York Times:
‘Is It Always Like This?’  —  'I'm not sure there's any way to be prepared for something like this," Jon Huntsman told me last month.  He was reflecting on his debut a few days earlier as a prospective presidential candidate: a gorgeous Thursday evening in New Hampshire when his chartered plane touched …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Operative boosted Jon Huntsman at Republican Leadership Conference
Cathy Lynn Grossman / USA Today:
Miss USA contest evolves: ‘Huge science geek’ wins  —  Score one for Charles Darwin.  The newly crowned Miss USA, Alyssa Campanella, 21, of Los Angeles, who calls herself “a huge science geek,” says evolution should be taught in public schools.  —  No, it didn't happen on air in a replay …
Terry Frieden / CNN:
Acting ATF director to resign  —  Washington (CNN) — Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, in the wake of the controversy over Operation Fast and Furious, two senior federal law enforcement sources said Monday.
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Cheryl Contee / Jack & Jill Politics:
INCOGNEGRO: Undercover as a Black Conservative at Right Online During Netroots Nation (Part 1)  —  This is the story of how Elon James White of This Week in Blackness and Blacking It Up and I infiltrated the Right Online conference masquerading as black conservatives.
McKinsey & Company:
Employer Survey on US Healthcare Reform  —  Details regarding the survey methodology  —  In February 2011, McKinsey & Company commissioned a survey of 1,329 U.S. private sector employers to measure their attitudes about healthcare reform.  The opinion survey was paid for entirely by McKinsey …
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
National security experts blast attorney general's claim that lawyers are America's ‘most effective terror-fighting weapon’  —  Centrist and right-of-center national security experts reacted with contempt to Attorney General Eric Holder's claim at a legal convention that the courts are the nation's …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In U.S., 22% Are Hesitant to Support a Mormon in 2012  —  Anti-Mormon sentiment hasn't eased since it was first measured in 1967  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Though the vast majority of Americans say they would vote for their party's nominee for president in 2012 if that person happens to be a Mormon …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
How states are rigging the 2012 election  —  An attack on the right to vote is underway across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot.  If this were happening in an emerging democracy, we'd condemn it as election-rigging.  But it's happening here, so there's barely a whimper.
Julie Mason / The Politico:
Obama no-show miffs Hispanics  —  Leaders of a national Hispanic organization are criticizing President Barack Obama for skipping their annual conference for the third consecutive year after he promised as a candidate in 2008 that he would return as president.
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Yet Another Conservative Economist Thinks Barack Obama Can Travel Through Time  —  Gary Becker explains that the left-wing policies of Barack Obama and the 111th Congress slowed business investment: … Admittedly, I don't have a Nobel Prize.  But I can look up the trajectory of private investment in the United States:
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Learning From The Mall Of American  —  I went to the Mall of America yesterday, and it's an interesting sight from an urbanist perspective.  The first thing that struck me was that it's so big that it actually lacks the main virtue of a shopping mall, which I think of as being that you have a whole bunch …
Discussion: Eschaton
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Former Bush ambassador chides Huntsman for stint in Obama administration  —  Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton (R) chided GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman on Monday for having agreed to serve as an ambassador in the Obama administration.  —  Bolton, the hard-charging former diplomat …
Discussion: CNN, National Review, The Note and GOP 12
John Edwards / The Daily Beast:
Edwards' Life in Exile  —  In John Edwards' hometown, residents are disgusted by the fallen former presidential candidate's cheating on Elizabeth Edwards.  Michelle Cottle visits Chapel Hill, where people snicker about his nightlife and his visits to his wife and son's graves as tour buses drive by.
Discussion: Mediaite
NBC Philadelphia:
“Jackass” Star Ryan Dunn Dies in Car Accident  —  “Jackass” star Ryan Dunn was killed early Monday morning when his Porsche flew over a guardrail in West Goshen, Pa., slammed into a tree and burst into flames, according to local police.  —  Dunn's passenger — who police have not identified — was also killed.
Thomas Geoghegan / Wall Street Journal:
Boeing's Threat to American Enterprise  —  When major firms move to the South, it's usually a harbinger of quality decline.  Why let that happen?  —  Conservatives are in an uproar that the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has filed an unfair labor charge against Boeing.
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House: Libya defunding vote would ‘send a bad message’  —  A vote to defund the military mission in Libya would send a “bad message” to NATO allies and dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the White House said Monday.  —  “I would just say that at a time when Col. Gadhafi is under great pressure …
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs  —  WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones …
Todd A. Heywood / Michigan Messenger:
Appeals court says gay panic is not self defense  —  A Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a man who attacked another man for unwanted sexual advances was rightly denied the use of “gay panic” as a defense strategy.  —  In the case People of the State of Michigan v. Dale Edward Cutler …
The Politico:
GOP magic trick: Making George W. Bush vanish  —  NEW ORLEANS — Republicans head into 2012 united in their disdain for an unpopular, big government-loving, internationalist president.  —  The name of that president: George W. Bush.  —  From Capitol Hill to the statehouses to the presidential primary …
Scottmaxwell / Orlando Sentinel:
Rick Scott cares!  He really does care!  —  For a guy who claims not read newspapers — or care what the polls say or the public thinks — Rick Scott sure is putting a lot of effort into trying to score some good publicity.  —  In fact, if regular old rank-and-file Floridians won't write nice things …
Warren Kozak / Wall Street Journal:
What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path?  —  Postwar Jewish refugees left everything they had in Europe—no ‘right of return’ requested.  —  It is doubtful that there has ever been a more miserable human refuse than Jewish survivors after World War II.
Discussion: Israel Matzav and National Review
The Atlantic Online:
Sarah Palin® Trademarks Her Name  —  A few months ago, an attorney for Sarah and Bristol Palin put in an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark their names.  (One of many things that suggests that profit, and not the presidency, is what's motivating Palin.)
Discussion: The Note
Thomas Geoghegan / New York Times:
Get Radical: Raise Social Security  —  AS a labor lawyer I cringe when Democrats talk of “saving” Social Security.  We should not “save” it but raise it.  Right now Social Security pays out 39 percent of the average worker's preretirement earnings.  While jaws may drop inside the Beltway, we could raise that to 50 percent.
Discussion: The Enterprise Blog
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
CNN's Ed Henry Jumps To Fox News To Become Chief White House Correspondent  —  EXCLUSIVE: CNN's Senior White House correspondent Ed Henry is jumping ship.  Fox News Channel is expected to announce later today that they have signed Henry as their Chief White House correspondent.
 
 
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Mother Jones:
All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup
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Fiona Harvey / Guardian:
Artificial meat could slice emissions, say scientists
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and National Review
IMF:
Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission on Euro-Area Policies
Doug Heye / US News:
Offensive Obama Impersonator Isn't Face GOP Should Put Forward
University of Rochester:
Is Coming Out Always A Good Thing?
Discussion: ThinkProgress
The Strip Podcast / Las Vegas Blog:
Wait . . . Steve Wynn Voted For Obama?!?
Discussion: Daily Kos and Ben Smith's Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Toronto Sun:
And they don't want to hear about oilsands development
Discussion: RedState
Michelle Miller / CBS News:
African-American unemployment at 16 percent
New York Post:
Hold it! Weiner not gone