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2:40 AM ET, June 21, 2011

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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.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Obama to announce Afghan plans Wednesday  —  President Obama is in the final phase of determining how many U.S. troops he will withdraw from Afghanistan next month and plans to announce his decision Wednesday, administration officials said.  —  The announcement is also expected to lay …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:   Report: Obama to announce troop drawdown
Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:
Jon Stewart: “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? ...  Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.”  —  “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? ...  Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.”  —  “President Obama and liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine's $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs.”
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.
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Donor meeting at White House drawing fire  —  A meeting President Barack Obama hosted in the White House for his key political backers from Wall Street is under fire from good government advocates and a Bush administration ethics official who say the session appeared to bring activity related …
Discussion: CNN
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
CNN's Ed Henry Jumps To Fox News To Become Chief White House Correspondent
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House: Libya defunding vote would ‘send a bad message’
Discussion: The Politico, ABCNEWS and CNN
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 …
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Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Clinton voters still skeptical of Obama for 2012
Eli Lehrer / FrumForum:
What Huntsman Brings to the Table  —  I was one of 36 people to cast a straw poll ballot for Jon Huntsman at this year's Conservative Policy Action Conference and, like a lot of other reform-minded Republicans, I admire his concern about the environment and his modern views on social issues (although I'm glad he's pro-life).
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Former Bush ambassador chides Huntsman for stint in Obama administration
Discussion: The Politico, The Note and CNN
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Poll Finds a Shift Toward More Libertarian Views  —  Libertarianism has been touted as the wave of America's political future for many years, generally with more enthusiasm than evidence.  But there are some tangible signs that Americans' attitudes are in fact moving in that direction.
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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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Report: ATF head to resign over botched gun program
Discussion: This Just In and Nice Deb
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.)
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.
The Hill:
Supreme Court rejects climate lawsuit against power companies  —  The Supreme Court rejected a climate change lawsuit against major power companies Monday, ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency, not the courts, should impose curbs on greenhouse gas emissions.
Wall Street Journal:
Feds Sue Bankers Over Fall in Bonds  —  Credit-Union Group Sues J.P. Morgan, RBS Over Mortgage-Backed Securities  —  Federal regulators accused J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC of duping five large credit unions into buying more than $3 billion in mortgage bonds that were …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Firedoglake
Paul Krugman:
Our Lost Decade Relationship  —  Clive Crook argues that we're flirting with the possibility of a lost decade.  I disagree — the flirting took place three years ago.  The lost decade question now isn't whether our flirtation with a lost decade will turn into something serious …
Discussion: The Wire and AMERICAblog News
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.
Reuters:
Singapore asks China to clarify claims on S.China Sea  —  Singapore said on Monday that China should clarify its claims to disputed islands in the South China Sea and urged all parties to act with restraint amid the biggest flare-up in regional tension in years over competing maritime sovereignty claims.
Discussion: Blogcritics
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
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Taking a hatchet to presidential power  —  In addition to the far-right policy agenda pursued by congressional Republicans, it's worth noting that these same GOP lawmakers intend to take away as much of President Obama's powers as they can.  —  The Constitution, for example …
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.
Bruce Japsen / Chicago Tribune:
AMA affirms support of health insurance requirement  —  The American Medical Association will continue to support a key tenet of the health care law that requires Americans to buy health insurance.  —  By a margin of 2 to 1, the AMA's policy-making House of Delegates said the organization …
Discussion: Newsalert
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:
 
 
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Young Professionals / Foreign Policy Initiative:
Foreign Policy Experts Urge House Republicans to Support U.S. Operations in Libya
Noam Levey / Los Angeles Times:
New ad campaign touts preventive care benefits of health reform law
Discussion: Hot Air
The Politico:
Grahams sell $10M in Post stock
Sophia Hollander / Wall Street Journal:
Private School Tuition Bill Tops $40,000
Mother Jones:
All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup
Discussion: Mother Jones and ThinkProgress
Fiona Harvey / Guardian:
Artificial meat could slice emissions, say scientists
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and National Review
 Earlier Items: 
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Happy Donor's Day!  —  The New York Times celebrates fatherhood …
Discussion: Althouse and New York Times
Todd A. Heywood / Michigan Messenger:
Appeals court says gay panic is not self defense
Warren Kozak / Wall Street Journal:
What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path?
Discussion: Israel Matzav and National Review
The Strip Podcast / Las Vegas Blog:
Wait . . . Steve Wynn Voted For Obama?!?
Discussion: Daily Kos and Ben Smith's Blog
John Edwards / The Daily Beast:
Edwards' Life in Exile
Discussion: Mediaite
Julie Mason / The Politico:
Obama no-show miffs Hispanics
Discussion: Don Surber