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3:15 PM ET, July 12, 2011

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CBS News:
Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3  —  President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.
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Zeke Miller / Politics:
Boehner Says The Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem  —  Speaker of the House John Boehner introduced a new argument to the debt ceiling and deficit reduction talks Tuesday, saying raising the borrowing limit is Republicans' concession in the negotiations.  —  “This debt limit increase is [Obama's] problem,” he said.
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Darrell Issa questions White House's 2012 actions  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is probing what he sees as signs of an unseemly overlap between President Barack Obama's official and political activities.  —  In what could be considered the committee's sharpest probe …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Boehner: avoidable economic crash isn't my problem
Discussion: TPMDC, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama warns Social Security checks might not be sent Aug. 3
Discussion: CNN
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
470 Business Leaders Urge Congress, White House to Act on Debt
Discussion: Politics and Washington Monthly
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Why liberals should thank Eric Cantor  —  (KAREN BLEIER - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) I knew the White House wanted a compromise on the debt ceiling.  I just didn't expect them to do quite so much, well, compromising.  —  Here's what appears to have been in the $4 trillion deal they offered …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Magic Lever  —  The world economy is a complex, unknowable organism.  Most of us try to diversify our investments and balance risk and security to protect against the unexpected.  —  But a few years ago a group of bankers thought they had the magic tool to help them master financial trends and predict the future.
Erik Wasson / Healthwatch:
Cantor outlines $353B in Medicare, Medicaid savings during debt talks  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Monday proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid he said would save $353 billion over the next decade.  —  Cantor made the proposal in talks at the White House.
John Tompkins / Brazosport Facts:
Ron Paul won't seek congressional term in 2012  —  LAKE JACKSON — After serving almost 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul told The Facts this morning he will not be seeking another term for the District 14 seat.  —  Paul, 75, will instead focus on his quest for the presidency in 2012.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rep. Ron Paul won't seek reelection  —  Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Tuesday that he won't seek reelection in 2012.  —  Paul posted to his official Twitter account a message had he had “decided not to seek re-election to Congress,” along with a link to a website, The Facts, on which he explained his decision.
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Mirwais Khan / Associated Press:
Afghan president's half brother killed in south
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Fresh doubt cast on Obama's health care story  —  During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother's struggle with cancer.  Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Police reports show different side of Michele Bachmann  —  From complaining about her house being egged to filing a report that she was being held “against my will” in a public restroom, Michele Bachmann has left a trail of police reports showing a seldom-seen side of a presidential candidate.
blue cheddar:
“Right to Life” robocalls from D.C. tell Wisconsin recall voters to stay home  —  If you get a robocall informing you that you should not vote in a recall election in Wisconsin today, please know you've been lied to.  You need to go to the polls between the hours of 7AM and 8PM and vote in person as usual.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:   Wisconsin recall elections underway
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann: I'm ‘Very Proud’ Of Husband's Ex-Gay Therapy Clinics  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) refused to comment on her husband's Christian counseling clinics, dodging a question from a local ABC News reporter in Iowa about new video evidence showing one counselor telling a gay patient …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Proud Of Being Ignorant  —  This is the dumbest story ever written in all of human history. … Note that this was under “Politics and Policy.”  It's as if the purveyors of Beltway-ism and fen-fen joined forces and hatched a diabolical plot.  —  Adam expounds: … The worst part is there no actual hypocrisy.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Thinks We're Still in the Bush Era  —  Another day, another chart from the “non-partisan” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on what “accounts” for the public debt.  At some level, these exercises are silly: all prior legislation could be equally said to …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Obama: Job Losses Prove Stimulus Worked  —  (CNSNews.com) - Three days after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the national unemployment rate had ticked up from 9.1 percent in May to 9.2 percent in June, President Barack Obama said that the loss of jobs in the public sector is …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich Leaps On The Court Stripping Bandwagon, Claiming ‘There Is No Supreme Court In The American Constitution’  —  ThinkProgress filed this report from Pella, Iowa.  —  At an Iowa campaign stop, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) offered a truly bizarre explanation …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Future Deficit Can Inherently Exists In The Future  —  Kicking the can down the road is generally understood to be a bad thing.  But it's crucial to note that in the context of discussion of America's long-term structural deficit, the can in question inherently exists in the future.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Eschaton
Mike Waterhouse / WEWS-TV:
Unruly passenger on flight diverted to Cleveland faces federal charges  —  Passenger helps flight crew restrain suspect  —  Last Updated: 14 hours and 16 minutes ago  —  CLEVELAND - The unruly passenger who caused a commercial jet flying from Chicago to Germany to divert to Cleveland Friday is facing federal charges.
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Blow against O in Weiner race  —  In “a shot across President Obama's bow,” Democratic former Mayor Ed Koch yesterday urged voters in Queens and Brooklyn to make “history” by voting for the Republican candidate to replace randy ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner in the Sept. 13 special election …
Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:
2nd Living Recipient Awarded Medal of Honor  —  At a White House ceremony later today, Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry, an Army Ranger, will become only the second living recipient of the Medal of Honor for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Petry lost his right hand while throwing a live grenade away from his fellow soldiers.
John Leland / New York Times:
Returning Jeter's Big Hit: No Good Deed Goes Untaxed (Perhaps)  —  Here is the fan's fantasy: You go to the ballpark and under a picture-perfect sky not only do the Yankees win, but in recognition of your exemplary behavior, the team also showers you with free season tickets …
Jim Davenport / The Post and Courier, Charleston SC:
Utah's Huntsman passes on S.C. senator's pledge  —  GREER — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who would like to be the Republican nominee in the White House race, said Tuesday he's not about to sign the spending limit pledge that a South Carolina senator has turned into a threshold test for 2012 presidential hopefuls seeking his support.
David Cay Johnston / Reuters:
RPT-COLUMN-It pays to be Murdoch.  Just ask US gov't: DCJohnston  —  David Cay Johnston is a Reuters columnist.  The opinions expressed here are his own.  (Repeating for wider distribution)  —  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch may not garner as much attention for his financial savvy as he does …
New York Times:
Gordon Brown Says Newspaper Hired ‘Known Criminals’  —  LONDON — Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought new and alarming charges on Tuesday to the broadening scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain, accusing one of the most prestigious newspapers in the group of employing …
Jonathon M. Seidl / Breaking news and opinion …:
Education Omaha Schools Spend $130,000 in Stimulus Money to Buy 8,000 ‘Social Justice’ Diversity Manuals  —  If I told you that your tax dollars (130,000 of them) went to buying a “diversity” manual that asserts the government and other institutions create advantages that …
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Not over 'til ex-first lady sings  —  Michelle Paterson, former governor David Paterson's wife, is writing a book.  —  “It's about getting thrown into being first lady.  How the press treated us.  About those who served David and who didn't.  All from my own perspective.  I don't include anyone else's thinking.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Polygamist, Under Scrutiny in Utah, Plans Suit to Challenge Law  —  Kody Brown is a proud polygamist, and a relatively famous one.  Now Mr. Brown, his four wives and 16 children and stepchildren are going to court to keep from being punished for it.  —  The family is the focus of a reality TV show …
 
 
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Joe Scarborough / The Politico:
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Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
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Discussion: Hit & Run and Hot Air
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Bill Maher To Piers Morgan: I Hope Sarah Palin And Michele Bachmann ‘Split the MILF Vote’
Discussion: National Review
Alan S. Blinder / Wall Street Journal:
Our National Jobs Emergency
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Half Sigma
Lawrence Hurley / New York Times:
Supreme Court Picks One EPA Enforcement Case Over Another and Attorneys Ask Why
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP looks for special-election upset
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, CNN and msnbc.com
The Hill:
Six months in, handful of House freshmen haven't offered a bill
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