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2:45 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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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court limits Wal-Mart sex bias case  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of female employees in a decision that makes it harder to mount large-scale bias claims against the nation's biggest companies.
The Hill:
Supreme Court blocks gender-bias lawsuit against Wal-Mart
Discussion: The Politico and ABCNEWS
Associated Press:
Court won't hear ACORN lawsuit over gov't funding
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Fox Nation
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.
The Huffington Post:
John McCain: Illegal Immigrants Caused Arizona Wildfires … John McCain (R-AZ) says illegal immigrants are to blame for the massive wildfires that have ravaged Arizona.  —  “There is substantial evidence that some of these fires are caused by people who have crossed our border illegally …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
McCain attempts to fan the flames  —  There are massive wildfires sweeping Arizona, causing considerable damage in recent weeks to over 500,000 acres.  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) toured some of the most affected areas over the weekend, and decided it's time to start pointing fingers.
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 …
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:
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Gary Becker / The Becker-Posner Blog:
The Slow Economic Recovery-Becker
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Poll: Time for Senator Orrin Hatch to go  —  SALT LAKE CITY — A majority of Utah voters believe Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has been in office too long and should be replaced, a new Deseret News/KSL-TV poll shows.  —  The poll by Dan Jones & Associates found only 38 percent of registered voters agree …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Romney under GOP fire on Afghanistan, abortion
Jason Clayworth / Iowa Caucuses:
Gingrich campaign has yet to replace Iowa staff
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, TPMDC and GOP 12
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 …
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 …
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The Politico:
GOP magic trick: Making George W. Bush vanish
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 …
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 …
New York Post:
OK for gay marriage is ‘rite’ around the corner  —  ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo and Senate Republican boss Dean Skelos could say, “I do” as soon as today on a historic gay-marriage bill that includes strengthened exemptions for religious groups.  —  Negotiators for the Republican-run Senate privately admitted …
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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Times
Feifei Sun / The Page:
The Bush Brand  —  First on The Page: Blue-chip C. Boyden Gray backs Utahan's bid, poised to become chair of policy team.  —  HALPERIN'S TAKE  —  This is the first, but by no means the last, of eye-catching endorsements Huntsman will get from the GOP Establishment, including many with ties to Ronald Reagan and Bushes 41 and 43.
Paul Singer / Roll Call:
Bachmann Playing With House Money  —  Bachmann's Congressional Spending Shows Close Links to Political Activity  —  On Nov. 5, 2009, at the behest of Rep. Michele Bachmann, thousands of tea party activists descended on the Capitol to vent their rage over the health care overhaul bill pending before Congress.
Discussion: Salon, msnbc.com and Daily Kos
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.
New York Post:
Hold it!  Weiner not gone  —  By S.A. MILLER in DC and ALEXIS JEFFRIES in NY  —  Congress waited for Anthony Weiner to say he's leaving — and now it's waiting for him to clean out his desk.  —  Although the randy rep. announced Thursday that he was quitting after seven terms …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Majority says military involved in too many places  —  An overwhelming number of voters believe the United States is involved in too many foreign conflicts and should pull back its troops, according to a new poll conducted for The Hill.  —  Seventy-two percent of those polled …
Michelle Miller / CBS News:
African-American unemployment at 16 percent  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  The economy and jobs will be big issues in Washington again this coming week.  —  While unemployment among the general population is about 9.1 percent, it's at 16.2 percent African Americans, and a bit higher still for African American males.
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.
Discussion: Pajamas Media and National Review
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 …
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.
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
DNC announces $10.5 million haul in May  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) raised $10.5 million last month, more than half of which came from joint fundraising efforts with President Obama's campaign.  —  The DNC reported the haul, which included $6.5 million in donations …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In U.S., 22% Are Hesitant to Support a Mormon in 2012
Discussion: GOP 12 and Flap's Blog
The Daily Caller:
Obama is flouting the War Powers Resolution
Fox News:
U.K. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Leaves Friends $160G for Las Vegas Party
Discussion: The Jawa Report and msnbc.com
NBC Philadelphia:
“Jackass” Star Ryan Dunn Dies in Car Accident
Discussion: Hit & Run, TMZ.com and Guardian
A.Killough / CNN:
DeMint explains early support for ‘Romneycare’
Discussion: GOP 12
New York Post:
A ‘Fast and Furious’ border fiasco
Discussion: National Review
Toronto Sun:
And they don't want to hear about oilsands development
Discussion: RedState
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Dad fires rifle at teen thugs: cops
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Wall Street Journal:
The Accountable Care Fiasco
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
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BBC:
Singapore urges China to clarify South China Seas claim
Discussion: The Agonist
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
The greatest gift to the Greeks might be to let them go it alone
 

 
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