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9:55 AM ET, July 3, 2012

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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
A Tax Is a Tax Is a Tax  —  One of the few bright spots in last week's Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care overhaul was a political one: The opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts argues that Obamacare is constitutional under the taxing powers of Congress.
Discussion: National Review
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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
Roll Call - The Newspaper of Capitol Hill Since 1955 At the Races  —  Democrats won a victory with last week's Supreme Court ruling, but that doesn't mean the law will become more popular for the party politically.  (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)  —  The Supreme Court's decision upholding …
Discussion: 2012 Decoded
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Early Reaction to Supreme Court Decision on the ACA  —  This poll fielded following the Supreme Court's decision upholding the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) finds a majority of Americans (56 percent) now say they would like to see the law's detractors stop …
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
CONSERVATIVES TO MITT: QUIT NOW IF YOU WON'T FIGHT OBAMATAX!  —  The Obama campaign has seized on remarks made by Romney adviser Eric “Etch-A-Sketch” Fehrnstrom this morning on MSNBC, to the effect that the individual mandate in Obamacare (and Romneycare) is not a tax.
CNN:
New Obama TV ad goes after Romney over outsourcing
Discussion: Washington Wire, GOP 12 and msnbc.com
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Obama campaign touts economic record ahead of first 2012 bus tour
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Sean Higgins / Washington Examiner:
Washington Post Fact Checker: I Don't Fact Check Our Own Writers
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Now Leads Romney, 48% to 43%
Josh Kraushaar / 2012 Decoded:
Romney Campaign Declaring Cease Fire on Health Care
CNN:
CNN Poll: Health care ruling changes views of Supreme Court
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Psychiatrist: Obamacare ‘Absolutely Infantilizes Americans’
Discussion: The Reaction
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House to prohibit IRS from implementing healthcare law  —  The House as early as next week will pass legislation prohibiting the IRS from receiving any money from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the 2010 healthcare reform law.  —  Passage of the financial …
Discussion: RedState
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Fifteen governors reject or leaning against expanded Medicaid program  —  At least 15 governors have indicated they will not participate in the expansion of Medicaid under the healthcare law, striking a blow to President Obama's promise of broader insurance coverage.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Obama braces for June jobs data  —  Weak June manufacturing numbers released Monday intensified concern about the fragility of the economic recovery and turned election-watchers' attention toward unemployment numbers due out at the end of this week.  —  The reports, just four months …
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
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Financial Times:
US factory output at three-year low
Discussion: Felix Salmon and NO QUARTER
Nicholas Shaxson / Vanity Fair:
Where the Money Lives  —  For all Mitt Romney's touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is remarkably shy about disclosing numbers and investments.  Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow …
Discussion: Business Insider
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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Eric Holder says Republicans have made him a ‘proxy’ to attack President Obama  —  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply criticized lawmakers Monday for voting to hold him in contempt of Congress last week, saying Republicans have made him a “proxy” to attack President Obama in an election year.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep Suggests Arresting Attorney General Eric Holder
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:
Twitter complied with 75 percent of US requests for user info  —  Twitter received 679 requests for user information from the U.S. government in the last year, according to a report released by the company Monday.  —  The requests from the United States exceeded that of any other country …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Brian Moylan / Guardian:
I don't regret outing Anderson Cooper |  Brian Moylan  —  Given the struggles that gay men and women deal with in this country every day, Cooper's silence on the issue was a problem  —  • Emma Keller: Anderson Cooper was bullied into coming out  —  Congratulations, Anderson Cooper, on finally coming out of the closet.
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Sharon Udasin / Jerusalem Post:
Israelis, Palestinians: 2 states in 5 years unlikely  —  Joint poll finds that the majority of both sides view the chances of establishing Palestinian state within next 5 years low.  —  Most Israelis and Palestinians view the chances of establishing an independent Palestinian state within …
Discussion: Israpundit
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Division, Uncertainty over Court's Health Care Ruling  —  Top One-Word Reactions — ‘Disappointed,’ ‘Surprised’  —  OVERVIEW  —  The public has long been divided in its opinions about the 2010 health care law.  There is now a similar division of opinion over last week's Supreme Court decision …
Discussion: Politico
David Frum / CNN:
Want to keep AC on?  Bury power lines  —  Workers repair power lines in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Sunday.  David Frum says buried power lines would help. … (CNN) — Congratulations: If you're reading this, you have electricity.  Unfortunately, more than 3 million Americans this weekend couldn't join you.
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte To Join Romney In New Hampshire On July 4  —  Chris Fitzgerald/Candidate Photos/Newscom  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone reports:  —  New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte plans to march with Mitt Romney in Wednesday's Fourth of July parade in Wolfeboro, N.H., GOP sources tell ABC News.
Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS, GOP 12 and Wonkette
Jim Sanders / Sacramento Bee:
California bill would allow a child to have more than two parents  —  Beaver had June and Ward.  —  Ricky had Ozzie and Harriet.  —  Mom and Dad, same-sex couples or blended families, California law is clear: No more than two legal parents per child.  —  When adults fight over parenthood …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
ProPublica:
Columnist Clarence Page Spoke at Rally for Iranian Militant Group  —  Late last month, syndicated columnist Clarence Page appeared at a rally in Paris in support of the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian group that has been lobbying Washington to be removed from the U.S. government's list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and ThinkProgress
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Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Here's the Video of Newt Gingrich Bowing to the Leader of an Iranian Terrorist Group
New York Times:
Rigged Rates, Rigged Markets  —  Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, resigned on Monday, saying “the buck stops with me.”  His was the first departure since the British bank agreed last week to pay $450 million to settle findings that, from 2005 to 2009, it had tried to rig benchmark interest rates to benefit its own bottom line.
 
 
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
U.S. Adds Forces in Persian Gulf, a Signal to Iran
Discussion: Reuters and Guardian
Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Slow Count and Rival's Doubts Cloud Rangel's Primary Victory
Oliver Smith / Telegraph:
Hotel offers guests electronic Bibles
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Rand Paul puts forward measure that would force the Senate to read bills
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nbcnewyork.com:
Judge: Twitter Must Turn Over Occupy Wall Street Protester's Tweets
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WRAL-TV:
Perdue vetoes controversial fracking bill
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