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5:45 PM ET, July 13, 2011

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
On Deficit, Americans Prefer Spending Cuts; Open to Tax Hikes  —  Twenty percent favor deficit reduction by cutting spending only  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' preferences for deficit reduction clearly favor spending cuts to tax increases, but most Americans favor a mix of the two approaches.
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Wall Street Journal:
Debt-Limit Harakiri  —  Mitch McConnell isn't selling out Republicans.  —  Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he's concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him?
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
McConnell Warns of Risk to Party, and Country, of Default
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
McConnell: GOP won't take ‘co-ownership of a bad economy’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McConnell Debt Ceiling Strategy: ‘I Refuse To Help Obama Reelection’
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House on debt deal: ‘Bigger is better’
Discussion: The Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate conservatives withhold support from McConnell debt plan
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
McConnell's backup plan
Discussion: Fox News, Hot Air and Big Government
The Politico:
No yelling at Obama today  —  Carney reminded journalists, “I used to be where you are, and I used to ask questions.”  —  AP Photo  —  A long-running tiff between the White House press corps and the West Wing over presidential access flared anew today when press secretary Jay Carney faced off …
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The Note:
Boehner: Dealing With the White House ‘Has Been Like Dealing With Jell-o’  —  In a meeting with a small group of reporters in his Capitol Hill office this morning, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized President Obama and White House officials for their lack of resolve in negotiations.
Eric Roper / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
One by one, bars get tapped out  —  Hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Minnesota are running out of beer and alcohol and others may soon run out of cigarettes — a subtle and largely unforeseen consequence of a state government shutdown.  —  In the days leading up to the shutdown …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Now It's Getting Serious!  —  Mark Dayton's shutdown of Minnesota's state government is now in its third week, and so far I've seen no sign of it.  I mean that literally: if I hadn't read about the shutdown in the newspapers, I would have no reason to be aware of it.
Discussion: Say Anything
Eric Roper Updated / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves
Discussion: The Consumerist
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Pawlenty says no to marriage pledge  —  (CNN) - Add Tim Pawlenty to the list of Republican presidential candidates who will not sign the controversial marriage pledge from The Family Leader, a socially conservative group in Iowa.  —  The former Minnesota governor said he is a strong advocate …
Discussion: The Politico
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Romney says he won't sign controversial marriage pledge
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
When there's no method to the madness  —  The New York Times' Ross Douthat argued this week that the congressional Republicans' debt-ceiling hostage strategy only seems crazy. … There's a fair amount to Douthat's pitch, but to summarize, GOP officials are really just shrewd negotiators, pushing for the best possible deal.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
DNC chairwoman: Republicans acting almost like ‘spoiled children’ on debt ceiling
Discussion: Mediaite and Jack & Jill Politics
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Mitch McConnell: We Must Rewrite The Constitution Because ‘Elections’ Haven't ‘Worked’  —  Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) offered what may be the most concise summary of conservative constitutionalism ever spoken …
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
GOPer wants FBI probe of Rupert Murdoch  —  New York Republican Pete King is calling on the FBI to investigate whether Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation hacked into the voicemail accounts of Sept. 11 victims, calling the allegations of the scandal “disgraceful.”
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NY Daily News:
Body of Leiby Kletzky, missing 8-year-old boy, found dismembered; pieces in Dumpster, refrigerator  —  The body parts of a missing 8-year-old Brooklyn boy were found Wednesday in a Dumpster and the refrigerator of a man suspected in his disappearance, police said.
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BBC:
Austrian driver's religious headgear strains credulity  —  Having received his driving licence, Niko Alm now wants to get pastafarianism officially recognised  —  An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as “religious headgear”.
New York Post:
Palin nemesis goes nude  —  GOP presidential hopeful Sarah Palin and her family are the subjects of a profile by George Gurley in the September issue of Playboy, according to sources.  Insiders say the story will run next to a four-page nude pictorial of Mercede Johnston, the sister of Bristol Palin's estranged baby daddy, Levi.
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Washington gets $200 billion a month, Social Security costs $50 billion a month, and Obama is threatening to starve Grandma?  —  President Obama told CBS News today that he “cannot guarantee that those [Social Security] checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Can President Obama keep paying Social Security benefits even if the debt ceiling is reached?
Tennessean.com:
Police charge mother in Nashville airport altercation  —  Woman refused to let officers screen daughter  —  A 41-year-old Clarksville woman was arrested after Nashville airport authorities say she was belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers, refusing for her daughter to be patted down at a security checkpoint.
Adam Serwer / Washington Post:
Laughably bogus poll tries to ‘prove’ Obama is losing Jewish support  —  Republicans are touting yet another poll that purports to predict the end of the Jewish allegiance to the Democratic Party.  Citing a new poll by Republican John McLaughlin and Pat Caddell, the GOP's favorite “Democrat …
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Rick Perry's Confederate past  —  Rick Perry made national headlines in 2009 when, during a speech to a Tea Party group, he floated the possibility that Texas could secede from the union.  But the governor's substantive ties to the neo-Confederate movement may be deeper than previously known.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Other McCain
Eliot Spitzer / Slate Magazine:
Prosecute News Corp.  —  The U.S. government should go after Murdoch's media company for its corrupt practices and revoke its TV licenses if it's found guilty.  —  Bribery, illegal wiretapping, interference in a murder investigation, political blackmail, and rampant disregard for both the truth and basic decency.
Adam Serwer:
Arabs Not So Hot On Obama, U.S.  —  James Zogby's Arab American Institute has some bad news for the Obama administration regarding its outreach to the Muslim world, finding that the U.S.' approval is “ lower than at the end of the Bush Administration, and lower than Iran's favorable ratings.”
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Pessimism deepens as economic concerns rise: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  (Reuters) - Americans are deeply pessimistic about the future as economic concerns rise and White House talks on raising the U.S. debt limit sputter, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
BBC:
Mumbai: Explosions shake India's financial hub  —  Police told local media that eight people had been killed and more than 100 wounded.  —  One explosion was reported in the Zaveri Bazaar, another in the Opera House business district and a third in Dadar district.
Craig Pittman / St. Petersburg Times:
Tea party members tackle a new issue: manatees  —  Everybody knows what the tea party members oppose.  High taxes.  Big government.  Obama's health care plan.  High-speed rail.  —  Now, for at least some local tea party members, there's one more to add: manatee protection.
JSOnline:
6 fake Democrats fall, setting stage for GOP recalls  —  Six fake Democratic candidates put up by the Republican Party to buy time for Republican state senators subject to recalls accomplished that job Tuesday, but none of them did the unexpected and knocked off a real Democrat.
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Katie Pavlich Operation Fast and Furious: Designed to Promote Gun Control  —  “Internal ATF emails seem to suggest that ATF agents were counseled to highlight a link between criminals and certain semi-automatic weapons in order to bolster a case for a rule like the one the DOJ announced yesterday [Monday].”
 
 
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Start-Up of You  —  The rise in the unemployment rate …
Kimberly Miller / Palm Beach Post:
Foreclosure fraud investigators forced out at attorney general's office
Jeanette Rundquist / New Jersey Online:
N.J. to release 9/11 curriculum to help educators teach about terror
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Let's Ban Books, or at Least Stop Writing Them
Matthew Chapman / The Huffington Post:
Bill Donohue Gets on The Ledge
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Associated Press:
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Discussion: ThinkProgress and Jezebel
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
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Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Yes, having a dog or a cat really is good for you
Discussion: Shakesville
Wall Street Journal:
A Stadium's Costly Legacy Throws Taxpayers for a Loss
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