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5:25 PM ET, July 8, 2012

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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
We're getting wildly differing assessments  —  The announcement of the Supreme Court's decision largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday, June 28 precipitated a genuine media drama.  Millions tuned in to get the result in real time, and were rewarded …
Brian Vastag / Washington Post:
U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren't there  —  Michelle Amaral wanted to be a brain scientist to help cure diseases.  She planned a traditional academic science career: PhD, university professorship and, eventually, her own lab.  —  But three years after earning a doctorate …
Byron Tau / Politico:
Gibbs: ‘Nobody knows’ if Romney is a tax dodge  —  Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs said Sunday that Americans simply don't know enough about Mitt Romney's finances to determine if he's doing anything illegal.  —  “We don't know.  Nobody knows,” the former White House press secretary …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
DNC chairwoman presses Romney to release additional tax returns  —  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, called on Mitt Romney to release more than one year of tax returns, following a report that detailed the presumptive GOP nominee's use of offshore accounts.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Robert Gibbs / CNN:
Gibbs blasts Romney for overseas accounts
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Krohn / Salon:
I was a right-wing child star  —  At 13, I gave a speech at CPAC.  Four years later, I renounced conservatives — and they attacked me for it  —  Four years ago, at the age of 13, I gave a speech at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference).  To be honest, I had no idea how big …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Impolitic
Ben Geman / The Hill:
McConnell sees 50-50 chance of GOP winning back Senate majority  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that Republicans have even odds of winning back the Senate majority in this fall's elections.  —  “Fifty-fifty.  I think it is going to be a very close, competitive election,” McConnell said on CNN.
Discussion: CNN, The PJ Tatler and Politico
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Siobhan Hughes / Washington Wire:
Fight Renewed Over Bush Tax Cuts
Discussion: ThinkProgress
David Singleton / The Times-Tribune:
Scranton moves ahead with minimum wage pay for city workers despite injunction  —  In defiance of an injunction issued in Lackawanna County Court, hundreds of city employees will open their checks today to find they were paid only minimum wage for their work.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Barney Frank Weds Jim Ready  —  IT was perhaps fitting that Representative Barney Frank met his future husband, Jim Ready, at a political fund-raiser in 2005.  —  “I told him I had a crush on him for 20 years,” said Mr. Ready, recalling that meeting.  —  And what did Mr. Frank make of that?
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Tim McLaughlin / Reuters:
Congressman Barney Frank weds in same-sex marriage
Discussion: New York Magazine
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Barney Frank marries longtime partner
Barney Frank / CNN:
Barney Frank marries longtime partner
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math  —  This is your brain on shopping, and it's not very smart  —  You walk into a Starbucks and see two deals for a cup of coffee.  The first deal offers 33% extra coffee.  The second takes 33% off the regular price.  What's the better deal?
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Jeremiah Wright: We need control  —  President Barack Obama's former spiritual adviser spoke just a few miles from the White House on Sunday, and politics and controversy weren't far from what Rev. Jeremiah Wright had to say.  —  “As we celebrate the foundations of our future …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Maggie Habermanand Alexander Burns / Reuters:
The Gary Johnson factor  —  Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson's chances of becoming president haven't changed much over the course of the 2012 cycle, during which he ran for the Republican presidential nomination, participated in two national debates, dropped out of the primaries and reentered …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Allen West: Social Security Benefits Are ‘A Form Of Modern 21st Century Slavery’  —  During an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) compared social programs like Social Security to slavery, arguing that President Obama's failed economic policies are creating a culture of …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
The Caucus:
Romney Donors Out in Force in Hamptons  —  EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney, “Is there a V.I.P. entrance.  We are V.I.P.”  —  No such entrance existed.
Discussion: odd time signatures
 
 
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
DNC chairwoman: Romney ‘most extreme’ on immigration
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Byron Tau / Politico:
McCain: How many more have to die in Syria?
Discussion: CNN
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
A Bruised Iceland Heals Amid Europe's Malaise
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Organic Food Purists Worry About Big Companies' Influence
David Boaz / The Huffington Post:
Obama's Accomplishments … Afghanistan , Barack Obama …
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Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
Political Memo: Obama and Romney Gamble on Wealth Divide
New York Times:
Tax-Exempt Groups Shield Political Gifts of Businesses
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Mark Shields: Republicans Haven't Raised Taxes in 21 Years ‘And That Is Irresponsible’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
ABOUT ME … I am a professor of economics at Harvard University …
Steve Mistler / Portland Press-Herald:
LePage says IRS ‘new Gestapo’ in radio address