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11:00 AM ET, June 25, 2012

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New York Post:
Slapping a friend  —  For the past couple of months, Democrats and their pundit allies — apparently expecting to lose on ObamaCare in the Supreme Court — have been engaged in a campaign to delegitimize the high court in the eyes of the public.  In a related development …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics  —  (Midnight update: This item went up three hours ago with a more blunt-instrument headline than it should ever have had: “5 Signs the United States is Undergoing a Coup.”  I used the word “coup” in a particular way in the longer item this was drawn from.
Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law  —  The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona's tough immigration law but struck down others as intrusions on federal sovereignty, in a ruling that gave both sides something to cheer in advance of November elections where immigration is a major issue.
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: All eyes on the Supreme Court  —  By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower  —  The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, DC, June 18, 2012.  The highest court in the US is set to rule within days on the constitutionality of US President Barack Obama's health care reforms.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking Fast and Furious docs  —  A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for The Hill.
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Politico:   ‘A hugely consequential week’
Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz Getting Booted  —  Back in April, the Shark Tank floated the likelihood that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz was perhaps on her way out as DNC Chairwoman.  We now have learned that Wasserman Schultz will not be back as DNC Chairwoman after the November elections.
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
The Muslim B'Hood takeover in Egypt shows Arab Spring is radical Islamic nightmare.  —  A year ago there were those of us who warned the Obama Administration of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt.  We were castigated as alarmists and loose cannons.  Today our predictions have come …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
White House offers praise of Egypt's election of Muslim Brotherhood president
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Hispanic Voters Put Other Issues Before Immigration  —  Healthcare, unemployment are tops among six issues tested  —  PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. Hispanics prioritize immigration, healthcare, and unemployment to equal degrees, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll asking about the importance of six national policy issues.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Latinos strongly backing Obama
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Great Abdication  —  Among economists who know their history, the mere mention of certain years evokes shivers.  For example, three years ago Christina Romer, then the head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, warned politicians not to re-enact 1937 — the year F.D.R. shifted …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Business Insider
Jimmy Carter / New York Times:
A Cruel and Unusual Record  —  THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.  —  Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation's violation of human rights has extended.
Washington Post:
Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials  —  In January 2008, President George W. Bush was scrambling to bolster the American economy.  The subprime mortgage industry was collapsing, and the Dow Jones industrial average had lost more than 2,000 points in less than three months.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Obama's Reversals on Executive Power  —  New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has an interesting column describing some of President Obama's evolving positions on executive power.  He now engages in many of the same practices that he and numerous other liberal Democrats denounced …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
All the President's Privileges  —  WHEN George W. Bush …
Kathleen Geier / Washington Monthly:
Concern troll of the day: Campbell Brown  —  Question: does the New York Times op ed page have any quality control mechanisms?  At all?  —  Okay, we all know that there are major problems with some of their op ed columnists.  First off, there's David Brooks, that shallow …
Hal Libby / The Daily Caller:
Shop owners recall more teen Romney pranks: fake stickup, impersonating firefighter  —  On a Friday evening in 1962, or perhaps 1963, Ben Shaw and his sales employees at the Princeton Prep Shoppe in Birmingham, Mich., were watching traffic roll by as an ordinary work day wound down.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Rise of Popularism  —  TRAVELING in Europe last week …
Rasmussen Reports:
22% Believe Government Has Consent of Governed
Jill Reilly / Daily Mail:
‘Gentlemen, take tips’: Obama reveals how he romanced Michelle on first date in toe-curling interview …
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Chris Francescani / Reuters:
Sandusky lawyers may use NBC tape error in appeal
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Poll: Hatch maintains lead over Liljenquist
Discussion: CNN, Ballot Box and Outside the Beltway
Seth / GLAAD:
Photos: TV icon George Takei joins Jennifer Tyrrell, local Boy Scouts at #NYCPride
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
25% Fewer Men Than Women Graduate College; Obama: It's ‘A Great Accomplishment ... For America’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
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Discussion: Mashable!, msnbc.com and VentureBeat
Romaric Ollo Hien / Agence France Presse:
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Shadid said to blame NYT for death
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Koch: I helped change Obama
New York Times:
Ex-Governor of New York Reluctantly Accepts Portrait
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
10 Things You Would Miss About Obamacare