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11:50 AM ET, July 7, 2011

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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts  —  President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue.
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New York Times:
Obama to Push for Wider Deal With G.O.P. on Deficit Cuts  —  WASHINGTON — Heading into a crucial negotiating session on a budget deal on Thursday, President Obama has raised his sights and wants to strike a far-reaching agreement on cutting the federal deficit as Speaker John A. Boehner …
John T. Bennett / The Hill:
Defense faces $700B spending cut  —  National security spending could be cut by as much as $700 billion in a deal to raise the debt limit, defense sources said.  —  That's almost twice the amount President Obama originally proposed.  —  Obama directed the Defense Department …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
The Big Break? Taxes Remain Major Unknown In Potential Grand Deficit Bargain
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Obama move on Social Security puts him at odds with Dem leaders Reid, Pelosi
Discussion: Swampland
Wall Street Journal:
Movement in Budget Impasse
Discussion: The Page and Washington Post
Sally Jacobs / Boston Globe:
Father spoke of having Obama adopted  —  US immigration files from '61 reveal Kenyan student's plan  —  President Obama as a young boy, with his father, who left when his son was 2.  (Obama for America via Associated Press)  —  In the spring of 1961, President Obama's father revealed …
Wall Street Journal:
The Only Reform That Will Restrain Spending  —  All 47 Senate Republicans now support changing the Constitution to balance the federal budget.  —  Whatever happens when President Obama meets with congressional leaders of both parties at the White House today, no long-term solution is on the table …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Jim DeMint, Olympia Snowe: Amend Constitution
Discussion: FrumForum
New York Post:
‘Fast & Furious’ gets hotter for Holder  —  Don't look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn't the parti san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something — literally — even more incendiary: Operation Fast and Furious, which seems about to explode right in the face …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Treasury secretly weighs options to avert default  —  (Reuters) - A small team of Treasury officials is discussing options to stave off default if Congress fails to raise the debt limit by the August 2 deadline, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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ABCNEWS:
Casey Anthony Juror: ‘Sick to Our Stomachs’ Over Not Guilty Verdict  —  Casey Anthony juror Jennifer Ford said today that she and the other jurors cried and were “sick to our stomachs” after voting to acquit Casey Anthony of charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
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Telegraph:
Phone hacking: families of war dead ‘targeted’ by News of the World  —  The bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked by a private investigator working for the News of the World.  —  The bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked
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David Brody / The Brody File:
Brody File Exclusive: GOP Presidential Candidates Will be Asked To Sign A Marriage Vow  —  The Brody File has learned that The Family Leader, an influential pro-family group in Iowa will ask each of the 2012 presidential candidates to sign a marriage pledge that professes everything …
Joseph E. Stiglitz / Slate Magazine:
The Great Recession, Part II  —  The world could be headed for another economic disaster if we continue to listen to free-market ideologues.  —  Just a few years ago, a powerful ideology—the belief in free and unfettered markets—brought the world to the brink of ruin.
Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:
Unemployment Rate Won't Hobble Obama's Re-Election, White House Aide Says  —  The White House's top political adviser, downplaying the significance of the unemployment rate in the 2012 election, said the Republican candidates are offering the same policies that caused the economic crisis …
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RushLimbaugh.com:
Mitt Runnin' Against the Tea Party?
Discussion: GOP 12
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Ruthless People  —  Libs to Ginsburg: Drop dead.  —  Some legal observers would like to be rid of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Associated Press reported over the weekend.  These aren't conservatives who find her too activist but liberals who find her too old and worry that if she doesn't get out soon …
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann on Iowa TV: ‘Waterloo’  —  Michele Bachmann is going up in Iowa with the first television ad of her presidential campaign, a 30-second spot titled “Waterloo” that Bachmann's team says will start running statewide today.  —  The bio spot, produced by Strategy Group Media …
Paul Broun / National Review:
Thinking Outside the Box: Let's Lower the Debt Ceiling  —  In the midst of our economic emergency, which is beginning to resemble a full-on Greece-style meltdown, every politician in America has taken to the soap box to say the exact same thing: We need to reduce our national debt and cut spending to get America back on track.
Caitlin Dickson / The Atlantic Wire:
Richard Dawkins Gets into a Comments War with Feminists  —  Players: Famed evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins; Rebecca Watson, female activist.  —  Opening Serve: Richard Dawkins made an unexpected appearance in the comments section of biologist PZ Myers' post at Scienceblogs.com last week.
Peter Oborne / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
David Cameron is in the sewer because of his News International friends  —  In the careers of all prime ministers there comes a turning point.  He or she makes a fatal mistake from which there is no ultimate recovery.  With Tony Blair it was the Iraq war and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction.
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Guardian:
The day the prime minister was forced to act on phone hacking
View from Geneva:
Timeline: Falk's reaction  —  Reaction: UN's Falk Denies, Then Deletes Anti-Semitic Cartoon  —  After UN Watch today exposed his publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon, the UN Human Rights Council's Richard Falk first denied publishing the cartoon—and then deleted it.  See his blog here.
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Richard Falk / richardfalk.wordpress.com:
Apology for Unintentionally Posting Anti-Semitic Cartoon in Qaddafi Arrest Warrant Blog
Discussion: YID With LID and View from Geneva
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
GOP bill weakens light bulb efficiency law  —  House Republicans plan to bring to the floor next week legislation that would water down a provision in a 2007 energy law that requires light bulbs to be more energy efficient.  —  House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Right Wing News
Julian Pecquet / Healthwatch:
Federal government to review rate increases in 10 states  —  Federal regulators will review health insurance rate increases in 10 states under authority granted by the healthcare reform law, according to the Medicare agency's Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO).
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hit & Run
 
 
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Sarah Eddington / The News Star:
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Detroit Free Press:
Feds unseal indictment against ex-Dearborn resident in alleged terror plot
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Great Falls Tribune:
Exxon claimed failed pipeline was buried deep below Yellowstone River
Discussion: The Reaction
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Mark Foley has prostate cancer
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Calorie counts don't change most people's dining-out habits, experts say
Discussion: Hit & Run, Healthwatch and AmSpecBlog
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