memeorandum: Mitt Romney's summer vacation full of competitive sports and family meetings (Philip Rucker/Washington Post)

11:30 AM ET, July 1, 2012

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Obama's In-Flight Cash Plea — In an anxious conference call from Air Force One, Obama asked campaign donors to send more money. Lloyd Grove obtained the tape and describes the presidential pitch. — President Obama sounded weary and maybe a tad worried late Friday during …

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

McConnell: Healthcare ruling clears way for Senate to repeal law — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the Supreme Court ruling upholding the president's healthcare reforms cleared the way for the Senate to vote on repealing the law.

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CNN:

Obama chief of staff: Time to get over debate — (CNN) - Jack Lew, the White House chief of staff, said Sunday the Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama's health care measure should put to rest the national debate over the law's practicality.

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New York Times:

Bain Attacks Make Inroads for President — Propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements, President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital to raise questions about Mr. Romney's commitment to the middle class, strategists in both parties say …

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CNN:

TRENDING: Rupert Murdoch's advice to Romney: Get some pros on your team — (CNN) - Rupert Murdoch offered presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney some unsolicited advice on Twitter Sunday: Lose your friends and hire professionals. — “Met Romney last week,” the 81-year-old chairman of News Corp. wrote.

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Washington Post:

Power outages could last for days — Daybreak Sunday found 789,358 in the Washington region still without power, facing another sweltering day and the prospect of returning to work Monday before electricity is restored to their homes. — Many roads made impassable by fallen trees …

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Washington Post:
D.C. thunderstorms knock out power across region, leaving at least 5 dead

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CNN:
Storms cut power to millions

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John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:

Chief Justice Roberts and His Apologists — Some conservatives see a silver lining in the ObamaCare ruling. But it's exactly the big-government disaster it appears to be. — White House judge-pickers sometimes ask prospective nominees about their favorite Supreme Court justice.

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Gary Fineout / NBC 6 Miami:

Gov. Scott Says Fla. Won't Comply with Health Care Law — The governor announced Friday night the state would not expand the Medicaid program to lower number of uninsured residents — South Florida health care experts and politicians were quick to react Thursday to the to Supreme Court's decision …

Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:

GOP lawmakers: Romney needs to distance himself from Bush — Republican lawmakers say Mitt Romney should distance himself from former President George W. Bush. — Such a move, they say, would take away a key political advantage from President Obama, who has repeatedly suggested Romney …

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Gary Taubes / New York Times:

What Really Makes Us Fat — A CALORIE is a calorie. This truism has been the foundation of nutritional wisdom and our beliefs about obesity since the 1960s. — What it means is that a calorie of protein will generate the same energy when metabolized in a living organism as a calorie of fat or carbohydrate.

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Mitt Romney's summer vacation full of competitive sports and family meetings — WOLFEBORO, N.H. — This weekend, Mitt Romney is starting his annual summer vacation on his lakefront compound here — a week of fun and family, though not entirely carefree. — The Romneys, 30 in all these days …

Discussion: Althouse

Bill Scher / New York Times:

How Liberals Win — PRESIDENT OBAMA has endured much criticism of his legislative skills from his fellow progressives. His conciliatory approach has been compared unfavorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt's gleeful pugnacity and Lyndon B. Johnson's relentless arm-twisting.

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Jo Becker / New York Times:

E-Mails Indicate Paterno Role in '01 Silence About Sandusky — Joe Paterno appears to have played a greater role than previously known in Penn State's handling of a 2001 report that Jerry Sandusky had sexually assaulted a boy in a university shower, according to a person with knowledge …