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7:20 PM ET, June 20, 2011

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Rule for Wal-Mart in Class-Action Bias Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday threw out the largest employment discrimination case in the nation's history.  The suit, against Wal-Mart Stores, had sought to consolidate the claims of as many as 1.5 million women on the theory …
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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 …
Associated Press:
Court won't hear ACORN lawsuit over gov't funding
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Fox Nation
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.
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 …
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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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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: The Politico and CNN
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
White House Press Secretary Challenged On Obama's 1996 Gay Marriage Questionnaire
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
N.Y. senator a-Twitter over gay marriage vote  —  An undecided New York state senator has turned to Twitter and Facebook to ask social media users if he should cast the deciding vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage.  —  Just days after Rep. Anthony Weiner imploded in a sexting scandal …
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Stephen Metcalf / Slate Magazine:
The Liberty Scam  —  Why even Robert Nozick, the philosophical father of libertarianism, gave up on the movement he inspired.  —  1.  —  Recently, I overheard a fellow Amtraker back off a conversation on politics.  “You know, it's because I'm a libertarian,” he said, sounding like a vegetarian politely declining offal.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Report: Bachmann ordered Ed Rollins to apologize to Palin's team  —  When you've got a puppy with a habit of crapping on the carpet, you may need to rub his face in it to set him right.  —  Serious candidates require serious message discipline, and as of last Monday's debate, she's most definitely a serious candidate:
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 …
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.
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.
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: Flap's Blog and The Note
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
The Note:
Weiner Wrap: Besieged Lawmaker Finally Submits Letter of Resignation  —  ABC News' John R. Parkinson (@JRPabcDC) reports:  —  Today, more than three weeks after Weinergate began, Rep. Anthony Weiner formally transmitted his letter of resignation to the New York Secretary of State …
Discussion: The Page
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.
Newsweek:
It's Still the Economy, Stupid  —  Fourteen million Americans remain out of work, a waste of our greatest resource.  The 42nd president has more than a dozen ideas on how to attack the jobs crisis.  —  14 WAYS TO PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK  —  Next week in Chicago, the Clinton Global Initiative …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Washington Monthly
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.
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 …
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:
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
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.
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
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
 
 
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Sophia Hollander / Wall Street Journal:
Private School Tuition Bill Tops $40,000
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Taking a hatchet to presidential power
Paul Krugman:
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Discussion: The Wire and AMERICAblog News
Mother Jones:
All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Mother Jones
Thomas Geoghegan / New York Times:
Get Radical: Raise Social Security
Discussion: The Enterprise Blog
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Happy Donor's Day!  —  The New York Times celebrates fatherhood …
Doug Heye / US News:
Offensive Obama Impersonator Isn't Face GOP Should Put Forward
Discussion: FishbowlDC
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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
The Politico:
GOP magic trick: Making George W. Bush vanish
New York Times:
War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs
Michelle Miller / CBS News:
African-American unemployment at 16 percent
New York Post:
Hold it! Weiner not gone
 

 
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