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9:50 AM ET, July 7, 2012

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Representative Thaddeus McCotter / Facebook:
“Strike Another Match, Go Start Anew”  —  Cites the totality of this past ‘nightmarish’ month and a half's effect on his family  —  LIVONIA, MI - Today, U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter made the following statement:  —  “Today I have resigned from the office of United States Representative …
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Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
McCotter resigns after ‘nightmarish month’  —  Capping a very rough month of bad publicity stemming from his failure to make the ballot after a nominating petition snafu, Michigan GOP Rep. Thad McCotter announced his resignation Friday afternoon.  —  From his statement:
Discussion: Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
Chris Moody / Associated Press:
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter resigns from Congress  —  Michigan Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, who launched a short-lived White House bid in 2011, announced Friday that he was resigning from Congress, citing personal family issues.  —  “After nearly 26 years in elected office …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rep. McCotter resigns after ‘nightmarish’ month and a half
Discussion: Mediaite, Outside the Beltway and CNN
Akron Beacon Journal:
Akron restaurant owner dies hours after meeting Obama  —  The owner of an Akron restaurant where President Barack Obama stopped for breakfast this morning died, apparently of a heart attack, shortly after meeting him.  —  Josephine “Ann” Harris, 70, of Copley Township …
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Akron Beacon Journal:
Akron restaurant owner dies hours after meeting President Obama  —  The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his son have stopped at Ann's Place.  So have several professional football players.  —  For Josephine “Ann” Harris, however, none came close to President Barack Obama visiting her West Akron restaurant.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Hours After Meeting Obama, Ohio Restaurant Owner Dies (Updated: White House Responds)
Discussion: Riehl World View and Ed Driscoll
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Federal Judge Richard Posner: The GOP Has Made Me Less Conservative  —  Judge Richard Posner, a conservative on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, has long been one of the nation's most respected and admired legal thinkers on the right.  But in an interview with NPR …
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William Bergstrom / Reuters:
Judge Posner: GOP has gone ‘goofy’  —  A conservative federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan said in an interview published Thursday that the Republican Party has gone “goofy” and that “these right-wingers who are blasting [Chief Justice John] Roberts are making a very serious mistake.”
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Yglesias Award Nominee  —  “I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,” - Richard Posner.  —  One of the less observed features of the last few years has, in fact, been the intellectual honesty of conservatives like Posner or Greenspan or Bartlett or Frum.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and driftglass
Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
White House declares Afghanistan a ‘major non-NATO ally’  —  President Barack Obama officially designated Afghanistan a “major non-NATO ally” on Friday, putting the country on par with some of the United States' closest international partners.  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …
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BBC:
Afghanistan made ‘major US ally’
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Newsy
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
There's Battle Lines Being Drawn  —  This year's presidential election is shaping up as the starkest choice since 1980, a year with which 2012 has much in common.  (OK, 1984 was a stark contrast too, but with a foregone conclusion.)  The Obama administration tells voters that 8% unemployment and 15% underemployment is the new normal.
Discussion: hogewash
Kayla J Adams / The Times of Israel:
Jordanian MP pulls a gun on his critic during live TV debate  —  After trading insults with activist, parliamentarian first throws a shoe and then points a gun at adversary.  Host tries to break up brawl.  No shots fired  —  A Jordanian member of parliament pulled a gun on a political activist during …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Mixed Message as Republicans Claim Health Law Cuts Medicare  —  WASHINGTON — For much of the past year, Republicans assailed President Obama for resisting the Medicare spending reductions they say are needed to both preserve health benefits for older Americans and avert a Greek-style debt crisis.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
California Senate Narrowly Approves Rail Project  —  LOS ANGELES — Despite deepening doubts about the cost and feasibility of a $70 billion high-speed rail proposed to cross California, the State Senate on Friday narrowly approved legislation to spend $8 billion in federal and state money …
Discussion: Via Meadia
Bloomberg:
Some Health Care For All, but not Too Much  —  Tyler Cowen caught a lot of flak recently for saying something that is clearly correct.  A lot of the flak has come from people who have misunderstood the implications of what he wrote.  —  Here's the relevant passage: … Cowen is right.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
LaHood: Golly, I envy the Chinese government  —  It's bad enough to have a columnist at one of America's most prominent newspapers regularly singing the praises of Chinese authoritarianism.  It's worse when high-ranking members of the American government do it.
Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. : Just Imagine The Mess Obama Will Inherit If He's Reelected!  —  When the June jobs report came out, showing 80,000 net new jobs and the unemployment rate stuck at 8.2%, Washington Post wunderkind Ezra Klein sarcastically responded:
Discussion: Whiskey Fire and UrbanGrounds
TMZ.com:
Gov. Chris Christie — Fightin' Words On the Jersey Shore [VIDEO]  —  GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE  —  FIGHTIN' WORDS  —  On the Jersey Shore  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Things got downright HOSTILE on the Jersey Shore last night — with NJ Governor Chris Christie getting into a heated verbal altercation right …
Ted Nugent / Washington Times:
Turncoat Roberts  —  Chief justice's surprise ruling means limited government is dead  —  Yogi Berra said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it.  When supposed-conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. came to a judicial conservative-liberal fork in the road, he veered left.
Twitter Blog:
Simpler search  —  We're constantly working to make Twitter search the simplest way to discover what's happening in real time.  To that end, today we're introducing search autocomplete and ‘People you follow’ search results to twitter.com.  In addition to recent improvements like related query suggestions …
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
The Escalating Campaign Against Anita Sarkeesian And The Long-Term Weakness of Sexist Trolls  —  I can't even bring myself to embed it here: some trogolodytes have created a game that lets players beat up Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist video blogger who's been subject to an unremitting campaign …
Discussion: New Statesman and The Other McCain
Ernest Luning / Colorado Statesman:
Dutch lawmaker brings his crusade against Islam to conservative confab  —  Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders brought his crusade against the Islamic religion to Denver last weekend, warning an audience at the Western Conservative Summit that Europe and the United States are vulnerable …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Patrick from Popehat / The Agitator:
So.  It Has Come To This.  —  The scene is a security screening station at Los Angeles International Airport, August 2012.  —  Screening Officer Jules: Greetings, prospective passengers!  Looking to travel through the public airways?  Now don't be distressed!  You know who we are?
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Howard Portnoy / The Greenroom:   Now TSA wants to test passengers' beverages at the gate?
Paul Davidson / USA Today:
8.2% unemployment rate unchanged in June  —  WASHINGTON - The employment market remained in a spring slump in June as employers added 80,000 jobs.  —  The nation's unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2% for the second consecutive month, the Labor Department said Friday.
Discussion: The Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Natalie Wood Death Certificate Changed — Cause of Death Now “Undetermined”  —  Death Certificate Changed  —  “UNDETERMINED”  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Natalie Wood's death certificate has been changed from “Accident” to “Undetermined” ... TMZ has learned.  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
Discussion: LAist
 
 
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