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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Stress-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged  —  In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann's then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman.  —  Dziok had worked for Bachmann …
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The Note:
The Note: Straw Poll Shake Up?: Bachmann Under Scrutiny, Rick Perry Backtracks
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
Michele Bachmann's Migraines and the History of Presidential Ailments
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Road Not Taken  —  Over the past months, Republicans enjoyed enormous advantages.  Opinion polls showed that voters are eager to reduce the federal debt, and they want to do it mostly but not entirely through spending cuts.  —  There was a Democratic president eager to move to the center.
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The Politico:
GOP has no backup plan after vote  —  There's a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they've gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal.  —  But if that's the case, the conservatives aren't in on the plan.
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The Hill:
House Republican leaders seeking alternative debt-ceiling proposal
Discussion: The Politico
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   The next step for Republicans in the debt fight
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Warren Buffett: Debt ceiling should be removed
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Split Evenly on Urgency of Debt Limit Debate  —  OVERVIEW  —  While administration officials project an economic catastrophe if the debt limit is not raised by Aug. 2, many Americans do not see this deadline as a major problem.  Four-in-ten (40%) say that, from what they've read and heard …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bachmann Nation: For Republicans and Tea Partyers, there is no imminent crisis
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
Discussion: Hot Air, CBS News and The Monkey Cage
Guardian:
Phone-hacking: Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - live  —  • Rupert and James Murdoch at select committee  —  • ‘This is the most humble day of my life,’ says Rupert Murdoch  —  • News Corp chair was ‘asked to enter No 10 by back door’  —  • Rupert ‘had no knowledge at all of Taylor settlement’
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Bloomberg:
News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO
Joe Conason / National Memo:
Exclusive Bill Clinton Interview: I Would Use Constitutional Option To Raise Debt Ceiling And “Force The Courts To Stop Me”  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that he would invoke the so-called constitutional option to raise the nation's debt ceiling “without hesitation …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton: I'd use 14th Amendment  —  Former President Bill Clinton would invoke the 14th Amendment - “without hesitation, and force the courts to stop me,” he says - to raise the debt ceiling if he were in President Barack Obama's shoes, with the deadline to raise the limit just two weeks away.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bachmann continues to surge  —  Michele Bachmann's momentum continues to build and she's taken first place by the smallest of margins on PPP's newest national Presidential poll.  21% of Republican primary voters say she's their top choice to 20% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Rick Perry …
Discussion: GOP 12, TPMDC and The New Republic
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Martina Stewart / CNN:
From Clinton to Palin to Bachmann: Why some Dems now support GOP women
Discussion: Victory Film Group
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial  —  MIAMI — Assertions by the prosecution that Casey Anthony conducted extensive computer searches on the word “chloroform” were based on inaccurate data, a software designer who testified at the trial said Monday.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
FAMiLY LEADER's Bob Vander Plaats Erupts In Laughter At Faggot Joke: 'That's Pretty Good'  —  The FAMiLY LEADER's 14-point marriage fidelity pledge has divided the GOP's 2012 presidential field and raised concerns among GOP operatives that the group and its president — three …
Joe Weisenthal / Politics:
Wynn CEO Goes On Epic Anti-Obama Rant On Company Conference Call  —  Who doesn't love a good rant?  —  We certainly do, and as usual, Steve Wynn, the CEO of casino company Wynn Resorts, delivered on his company's quarterly conference call today.  —  Via Seeking Alpha, here's the crux of it:
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Justice Department lawyers contradict FBI findings in anthrax case  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has called into question a key pillar of the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and terrorized Congress a decade ago.
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected ‘Anonymous’ Hackers  —  The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned.  —  More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y. …
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Balancing Act  —  A balanced budget amendment is the wrong debt solution.  —  Republicans this week plan to force votes in the House and Senate on a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  The last time Congress voted on a BBA was in 1997.  It failed.  The first unsuccessful BBA was proposed in 1936.
Wall Street Journal:
Borders Forced to Liquidate, Close All Stores  —  Above, the exterior of a closed store in San Rafael, Calif.  —  Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it.  —  Borders, which employs about 10,700 people …
Howard Portnoy / The Greenroom:
What if the President Told a Joke and Nobody Laughed?  —  Not possible, you say—not for the funniest person alive.  But it's true.  President Obama was on the White House lawn today, introducing former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordary as the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
City to Hold Lottery for Gay Marriage Sunday … Fearing demand for same-sex weddings will be too great for the City Clerk's Office to handle this Sunday, city officials have announced a lottery for weddings on the first day that gay couples can legally wed in the state.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Conservative groups threaten GOP lawmakers who vote for McConnell's last-ditch plan - @OMBPress - Panetta's spokespair: George Little and Capt. John Kirby - NYC moguls entreat Christie to run  —  FIRST LOOK — Jason Furman, deputy director of the White House's National Economic Council, on …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: New Montana oil spill went unreported for a month, EPA looking at sanctions  —  HELENA, Mont. — A newly discovered oil spill in northwestern Montana went unreported for a month before a neighboring landowner complained to the Blackfeet Indian Tribe, federal regulators said Monday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Coburn is back, rejoins Gang of Six  —  Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has rejoined the Senate's Gang of Six, a move that could revive the struggling group and give it a chance to shape the debt ceiling debate.  —  Coburn told a room of 43 senators Tuesday morning that he was “back,” and the crowd erupted in applause.
Discussion: Politics
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name  —  This time of year it is worth remembering Mein Kampf, the turgid and unreadable Bible of the Nazi movement that was published back in July of 1925.  The last time I looked, you could still buy it at the international airport newstand in the Malaysian capital …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Marcia Dunn / Bellingham Herald:
Space shuttle leaves space station for last time … CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. A space shuttle left the International Space Station for the very last time Tuesday, heading home to end the 30-year run of a vessel that kept U.S. astronauts flying to and from orbit longer than any other rocketship.
Discussion: The Reaction
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Al Qaeda Seen Aiming at Targets Outside U.S.
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Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Some federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs
Discussion: National Review
Jason Furman / White House.gov Blog:
Unbalanced Approach to Deficit Reduction
PR Newswire:
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Rick Santorum Responds to Dan Savage Wanting to Perform Violent Hate Sex on Him
John R. Talbott / The Huffington Post:
Why Facebook Is Undervalued  —  Facebook shares are currently trading …
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
The Challenge of Attaining a Sustainable Federal Budget
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and EconLog
Associated Press:
Ex-Bush spokesman considering Senate race in WA
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In a ‘quiet moment,’ gay judge makes history
Daily Mail:
Climate change sceptics should get less BBC coverage and be challenged ‘more vigorously’, says report on science output
Haaretz:
Israel Navy intercepts sole remnant of flotilla heading for Gaza
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
The scramble for South Carolina
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses, msnbc.com and The Page
New York Post:
Uncle Sam, sugar daddy