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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
Discussion: GOP 12, Prairie Weather and Politics
The Hill:
Coburn rejoins Gang of Six, backs $3.7T deficit-reduction plan  —  Democratic and Republican senators are rallying behind a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan announced Tuesday morning by the five remaining members of the Gang of Six.  —  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who pulled out of the Gang …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Gang of Six back from the brink  —  The once moribund Senate “Gang of Six” gained new life Tuesday after Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn unexpectedly rejoined the group and President Barack Obama praised a new effort to cut the debt by as much as $3.7 trillion over the next decade.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama praises ‘Gang of Six’ plan  —  President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the proposal put forward earlier in the day by “Gang of Six,” a group of Republican and Democratic senators, is “a very significant step” that represents “the potential for bipartisan consensus” …
Discussion: The Note, The Hill and FT Alphaville
Jamie Dupree / Jamie Dupree Washington Insider:
Gang Of Six Details
Tim Fernholz / NationalJournal.com:
DOCUMENT: Gang of Six Deficit Plan Executive Summary
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
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.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   The next step for Republicans in the debt fight
Guardian:
Phone-hacking: Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - live  —  • Rupert Murdoch attacked at select committee  —  • ‘This is the most humble day of my life,’ Murdoch tells MPs  —  • 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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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 …
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Martina Stewart / CNN:
From Clinton to Palin to Bachmann: Why some Dems now support GOP women
Discussion: Victory Film Group
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Obama Endorses Feinstein's Bill To Repeal The Defense Of Marriage Act  —  A day before the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to hold hearing on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration has endorsed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) legislation to repeal it.
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National / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Supports Repeal of Gay-Marriage Ban
Eric Marrapodi / CNN:   Sen. Feinstein announces plan to repeal federal marriage statute
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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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Majority says not raising debt ceiling would be problematic  —  A majority of Americans say that Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling would be a real and serious problem, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.  —  Fifty-five percent of all respondents …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Americans Take Debt Ceiling Seriously
Discussion: ThinkProgress
James Pethokoukis:   Explaining Obama's tax-hike obsession
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.
Susanna Kim / ABCNEWS:
Man Attempts Attack on Murdoch During Hearing; Murdoch's Wife Lunges at Attacker  —  A Parliament hearing into hacking by News Corp. journalists erupted into chaos Tuesday as CEO Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man with what appeared to be a pie.  —  Wendi Deng Murdoch, his wife …
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James Kirkup / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Rupert Murdoch attacked: an eyewitness account
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft  —  Updated Added links to documents and comment from United States Attorney's office in Boston.  —  Updated Changed headline and post to remove reference to Mr. Swartz being a co-founder of Reddit, as this is disputed.  Added comment from Demand Progress.
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 …
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.
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. …
Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:
Rick Perry Says He Has No Interest In VP Slot  —  Keywords:  —  Enlargephoto by: Bob Daemmrich  —  Gov. Rick Perry talks to the media about his possible presidential plans after a meeting of the Cash Management Commitee on July 19, 2011.  —  John Nance Garner, the colorful West Texas politician known as …
Discussion: The Note and GOP 12
Paul Krugman:
Scribblers and Madmen  —  Ezra Klein has a good column on the dangers of being wrong about Keynes.  As he says, it's very difficult to respond rationally to an economic crisis when politicians like Eric Cantor completely fail to understand what Keynesianism is all about:
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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.
Adam Serwer:
Harry Potter's Shylocky Goblins  —  I'm not a Harry Potter fan myself, but I did see the last movie this weekend and I was struck by how much J.K. Rowling's Goblins appear to be modeled after anti-Semitic stereotypes.  Aside from being small, miserly, and gifted with large schnozes, Goblins …
 
 
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Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
Mitt Romney asks for correction of climate quote
Discussion: ThinkProgress and AmSpecBlog
Margery A. Beck / Associated Press:
Bachmann criticizes black farmer settlement
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Liberals see opportunity for big cuts in defense
Bloomberg:
Congress Bickers as Bond Markets Brace for Total Panic: William D. Cohan
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
For Cuomo, Hairstyling and Makeup Fit for a Star
Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
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 Earlier Items: 
The Note:
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Advantage on Aiding the Middle Class Helps Keep Obama's Approval Afloat
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Coburn Proposes Eliminating The Dollar Bill To Reduce The Deficit
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Some federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs
Discussion: National Review
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Rick Santorum Responds to Dan Savage Wanting to Perform Violent Hate Sex on Him
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Conservative groups threaten GOP lawmakers who vote for McConnell's last-ditch plan …
Discussion: The Note
Howard Portnoy / The Greenroom:
What if the President Told a Joke and Nobody Laughed?